Alex sent me this on Facebook and I loooove it! By John Martz, it is a poster of almost every Star Trek character in pixel form. Little Locutus! Little Morn! Even little Spot!
Via NASA:
In a clear sky from a dark location at the right time, a faint band of light is visible across the sky. This band is the disk of our spiral galaxy. Since we are inside this disk, the band appears to encircle the Earth. The above spectacular picture of the Milky Way arch, however, goes where the unaided eye cannot. The image is actually a deep digital fusion of nine photos that create a panorama fully 360 across. Taken recently in Teide National Park in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, the image includes the Teide volcano, visible near the image center, behind a volcanic landscape that includes many large rocks. Far behind these Earthly structures are many sky wonders that are visible to the unaided eye, such as the band of the Milky Way, the bright waxing Moon inside the arch, and the Pleiades open star cluster.
See an annotated panorama here.
Google has a great animated logo in honor of the scientist – check it out! A single frame:
Everything is better set to the ‘Inception’ score.
via Tiffany
Seriously everyone – I know I’ve harassed a lot of you in person, but you have to check out the Tobolowsky Files. It is an AMAZING podcast. You can subscribe on iTunes, but you have to download the first episode from the website.
be sure to rollover ‘notes’ to see photo captions!
Megan and I headed up to the Observatory on a chilly Saturday night to see the Super Perigee Moon – a full moon that appears to be 14% larger than normal due to it occuring when the moon is at the point in its orbit when it is closest to Earth. It was breathtaking, and my only regret was that I didn’t have a faster lens or a rock to brace my camera upon.
No CGI, no 3D models. A proposal for an IMAX film using only images taken by satellites:
More at Outside In.
via io9