Milky Way at Beverley, Western Australia
Nikon d5500 - 50mm - ISO 4000 - f/2.5 - Sky: 91 x 30s - Foreground: 18 x 10s - iOptron SkyTracker - Hoya Red Intensifier filter
Milky Way at Beverley, Western Australia
Nikon d5500 - 50mm - ISO 4000 - f/2.5 - Sky: 91 x 30s - Foreground: 18 x 10s - iOptron SkyTracker - Hoya Red Intensifier filter
Just look at this landscape shot from within a canyon with galaxy and rock painting. Just look at it.
At the risk of sounding ignorant, I wanna talk about this because I want to.
This is what modern US schooling does to children. There’s more to the Internet than Facebook, pornography, and captioned cat pictures you know.
Now, you ever notice how when astronauts go onto other planets the sky (universe) is always black? So, if there were life on other planets, for example, their sky would always be black .
The reason for that is because in space there isn’t enough gas for light scattering to occur. [Source] [NASA] [And a third]
Also, when astronauts “went” onto the moon, some placed a flag into the surface of the moon.
- How can you place a stick, whether it be plastic, metal or steel, into a huge, hard rock?
The moon isn’t a solid rock: From The University of Tennessee website: The Moon is coverered with a gently rolling layer of powdery soil with scattered rocks that is called the regolith; it is made from debris blasted out of the Lunar craters by the meteor impacts that created them. Each well-preserved Lunar crater is surrounded by a sheet of ejected material called the ejecta blanket.
- Wouldn’t the lack of gravity cause the flag to float away?
The moon has enough mass to have its own gravity well, roughly 1/6th that of Earth.
Just wondering.
Wondering is nice, but eventually you have to do research like I did.
Solar Eclipse and Milky Way seen from ISS (International Space Station)
Waitomo Glowworm Caves are a famous tourist attraction because of the large population of fireflies that live in caves. Fireflies, or Arachnocampa luminosa - tiny bioluminescent creatures that produce blue and green light live exclusively in New Zealand.
I saw a similar cave in Te Anau. It was like the night sky had sagged in on us, and stars were drooping all around.
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse is getting ready to go supernova, and when it does Earth will have a front-row seat. The explosion will be so bright that Earth will briefly seem to have two suns in the sky.
Just hope it happens in my lifetime. What’s the odds it’ll happen on 20/12/2012?
Who else’d like to visit Mars?
Be honest with yourself: the floating sky cities of Venus sound much more glamorous than coldly clinging to the dead rock of Mars. Think how restricted scientists are when living in Antarctica — any tin can bolted to the face of Mars will be lucky to give its residents anything like that much freedom. On Venus, we could conceivably build larger, faster, and further — and we could use our experience in the Venusian clouds to colonise the gas giants of the Solar System. In the long run, starting nearer to Earth could take us further.
My hometown is occluded by space hardware.
by joe stylus
If you walk through it at the right time you arrive in the other dimension.

All aboard the snekbus
