jtotheizzoe: The Atlantic has a stunning gallery of the year...
The Atlantic has a stunning gallery of the year 2012 in volcanic activity that you really want to check out.
Ever since our planet formed from a cloud of condensed stellar dust, the dense heat of our interior has created a molten core surrounded by a thin candy shell of solid rock. That shell continues to evolve, leaking magma via cracks in its moving surface, via events both quiet and violent.
Such is the continual evolution of our planet. It's a beautiful process, assuming you're looking at it in a photograph, rather than while running in fear from the bottom of the mountain where it's occurring.
astronemma: WR 22 and Eta Carinae regions of the Carina...
WR 22 and Eta Carinae regions of the Carina Nebula
Credit: ESO
veinesnoires: Carina Nebula Rosette Nebula Heart Nebula Fairy...
Carina Nebula
Rosette Nebula
Heart Nebula
Fairy Pillar Nebula
Orion Nebula
Eagle Nebula
Flame Vista Nebula
Crab Nebula
fyeahtrains: Clapham Junction on Flickr. Via Flickr: A First...
Clapham Junction on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
A First Great Western High Speed Train stands outside Clapham Junction, stabled there during the diversions due to the Reading Blockade.
invaderxan: You big, beautiful gas ball, you! In Japanese, the...
You big, beautiful gas ball, you!
In Japanese, the name for Jupiter is 木星, pronounced "mokusei", which literally translates as "wooden star". In images like these, you can kinda see where they were coming from.
(The name uses the same characters in Chinese too, but I don't know the pronounciation.)
stellar-indulgence: Solar System in Mass Effect
space-pics: 10 Years & Top 10 Discoveries from Marvellous...
10 Years & Top 10 Discoveries from Marvellous Mars Express
http://space-pics.tumblr.com/
dnsralugerri-mirrorhere: thescienceofreality: Planetary...
Planetary Resources infographic about high value materials in asteroids that they wish to exploit to bring the dreams of the 1950's and 1960's into being.
Want to be involved? Donate to the Kickstarter appeal for the Arkyd 100 Space Telescope, controllable by YOU.http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0
Space mining…helpful tool for colonizing the solar system
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niknak79: challenge accepted
challenge accepted
lmichaelweeks: Nasa launch vehicles Figure from NASA SP-4206
Nasa launch vehicles
Figure from NASA SP-4206
srozansky: Sunset on Mars
Sunset on Mars
likeaphysicist: scinerds: kenobi-wan-obi: Cosmic Dance:...
Cosmic Dance: Creation of Supermassive Black Holes
Evolution of two equal sized galaxies colliding and forming a massive cloud of gas that will collapse into black hole.
Credit: Ohio State University
n-a-s-a: Messier 20, the Trifid Nebula Credit: ESA/Hubble &...
Messier 20, the Trifid Nebula
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Bruno Conti
peteuplink: ScienceCasts: An Early Start for Noctilucent Clouds...
ScienceCasts: An Early Start for Noctilucent Clouds (by ScienceAtNASA)
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for breaking science news.
Glowing electric-blue at the edge of space, noctilucent clouds have surprised researchers by appearing early this year. The unexpected apparition hints at a change in the "teleconnections" of Earth's atmosphere.
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heythereuniverse: Needle playing a record | Victrola Coffee...
Needle playing a record | Victrola Coffee Roasters
Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the needle (stylus) of a record player in a groove on a record. A record is used to store sound. It is produced by a machine with a head which vibrates in time to the sound being recorded. This cuts a groove in the record which varies according to the vibrations. A needle can then reproduce these vibrations as it runs along the groove and these, when amplified, produce the original sound.
kenobi-wan-obi: NGC 602 A young, bright open cluster of...
A young, bright open cluster of stars located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way.
Image Processing by Steven Marx
Radiation and shock waves from the stars have pushed away much of the lighter surrounding gas and dust that compose the nebula known as N90, and this in turn has triggered new star formation in the ridges (or "elephant trunks") of the nebula. [**]
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA)
space-pics: Rockets of the Worldhttp://space-pics.tumblr.com/
Rockets of the World
http://space-pics.tumblr.com/
kenobi-wan-obi: NGC 602 A young, bright open cluster of stars...
A young, bright open cluster of stars located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way.
Image Processing by Steven Marx
Radiation and shock waves from the stars have pushed away much of the lighter surrounding gas and dust that compose the nebula known as N90, and this in turn has triggered new star formation in the ridges (or "elephant trunks") of the nebula. [**]
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA)
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