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This Is A Real Hubble Image, Not An Artist Rendition


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Posted by vinny9 on February 2, 2010. Tagged with
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Predator Telescope
Herschel Space Observatory has started calibration

Looks great!
Posted by vinny9 on June 20, 2009. Tagged with
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Sometimes People Are Smart
I like this idea.

The gist is that self-organized molecules (ie: life) will build themselves in a single chirality (organic molecules can exist in two mirror images, chirality is the term to distinguish them; think your right and left hands). Light that reflects from organics will contain a tell-tale signature (polarization) depending on the chirality. This could be used to detect evidence of "life" on other planets. Clever.
Posted by vinny9 on April 24, 2009. Tagged with
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Humans.... In.... Spaaaaace


Colossal waste of money? Maybe. Good idea? Maybe. Impressive? Gotta be.

Big version here
Posted by vinny9 on March 30, 2009. Tagged with
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I Shoot Them (into my mouth)
Space Invader cookies
Posted by vinny9 on February 19, 2009. Tagged with
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There's Plenty of Space Up in Space!
Garbage in low earth orbit: Kessler Syndrome
Posted by vinny9 on February 19, 2009. Tagged with
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Whither Cast Our Eyes?
To visit Europa or Titan?
Posted by vinny9 on February 11, 2009. Tagged with
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Break It Down
Demographics of some big social media sites
Posted by vinny9 on February 7, 2009. Tagged with
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ISS Tour


This is part one of four.
Posted by vinny9 on January 24, 2009. Tagged with
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Mars Science Lab uses a Sky Crane
NASA is using some awesome mind-altering substances these days
Posted by vinny9 on October 20, 2008. Tagged with
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Last Set of Specs
Pictures of Shuttle preparation for the final Hubble service mission

It's scheduled for this October.
Posted by vinny9 on September 2, 2008. Tagged with
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You Take A Block From the Bottom
Animation of the International Space Station being assembled
Posted by vinny9 on August 6, 2008. Tagged with
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Nothing on the Schedule Today
NASA is paying people to not move (well, as little as possible) for 90 days in a controlled environment so they can study the effect of long-term immobilization on the human body.

One of them is blogging the experience.
Posted by vinny9 on July 31, 2008. Tagged with
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Now That's Super
Supernova caught in real-time

Normally, people only catch these things quite a while after the fact but this one happened right in a spot that was under surveillance for another project. With so many eyes on the sky these days, I suppose it was inevitable but it's still great news.
Posted by vinny9 on May 21, 2008. Tagged with
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Defragmented Drive
Data recovered from a hard drive that was on Space Shuttle Columbia.

It had data from an experiment on Xenon viscosity in microgravity. There are pictures of the drive in its current state here.
Posted by vinny9 on May 8, 2008. Tagged with
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