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"Measuring a summer's day, I only finds it slips away to grey. The hours, they bring me pain."

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  1. valpdesk:

    This is what i want from several month now…  just me and my boyfriend, making camp-site with my telescope and gazing at the stars in the wide, wide sky to take the measure of the univers! cant’ wait the summer to realise that dream! :D

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    Sources:

    http://www.blog.michelle-edmonds.com/personal-photography/escalante-national-monument/

    http://zestzealot.tumblr.com/post/14992325872

    http://photography.siddharthasaha.net/keyword/perseids%20meteor%20shower#!i=971861832&k=Qdnjj

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  3. sagansense:

    ESA Turns On The JUICE For New Jupiter Mission

    The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for an exciting mission to explore the icy moons of Jupiter, as well as the giant planet itself.

    JUICE — JUpiter ICy moons Explorer — will consist of a solar-powered spacecraft that will spend 3.5 years within the Jovian system, investigating Ganymede, Europa and the upper atmosphere of Jupiter. Anticipated to launch in June 2022, JUICE would arrive at Jupiter in early 2030.

    As its name implies, JUICE’s main targets are Jupiter’s largest icy moons — Ganymede and Europa — which are thought to have liquid oceans concealed beneath their frozen surfaces.

    The largest moon in the Solar System, Ganymede is also thought to have a molten iron core generating a magnetic field much like Earth’s. The internal heat from this core may help keep Ganymede’s underground ocean liquid, but the dynamics of how it all works are not quite understood.

    JUICE will also study the ice-coated Europa, whose cueball-smooth surface lined with cracks and jumbled mounds of frozen material seem to be sure indicators of a subsurface ocean, although how deep and how extensive is might be are still unknown — not to mention its composition and whether or not it could be hospitable to life.

    “JUICE will give us better insight into how gas giants and their orbiting worlds form, and their potential for hosting life,” said Professor Alvaro Giménez Cañete, ESA’s Director of Science and Robotic Exploration.

    The JUICE spacecraft was originally supposed to join a NASA mission dedicated to the investigation of Europa, but NASA deemed their proposed mission too costly and it was cancelled. According to Robert Pappalardo, study scientist for the Europa mission based at JPL, NASA may still supply some instruments for the spacecraft “assuming that the funding situation in the United States can bear it.”

    JUICE will also capture images of Jupiter’s moon Callisto and search for aurorae in the gas giant’s upper atmosphere, as well as measure the planet’s powerful magnetic field. Once arriving in 2030, it will spend at least three years exploring the Jovian worlds.

    Read more in today’s news release from Nature, and stay tuned to ESA’s JUICE mission page here.

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  4. ex0skeletal: (via 500px / Photo “Sword of Orion” by Levin Dieterle)

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    (via 500px / Photo “Sword of Orion” by Levin Dieterle)

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  6. photojojo:

    Check out our guide to catching stars with your camera!

    We cover what you need and how to get the best star photos out of what you have.

    How to Shoot Star Trails & Out of This World Night Sky Photos

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  7. rayax: “We are a way for the cosmos to understand itself” -Carl Sagan  “The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.” Lawrence Krauss  I find it absolutely baffling that a rapid expansion of an infinitely dense point of space eventually gave rise to a phenomenally intricate organ that can actually contemplate on it. I think thats an advantage that being passionate about both astronomy and neuroscience can give you. It makes you realize how rare we are on a cosmological scale and how extraordinary it is that we can actually ask existential questions. Moreover, it also makes you conscious of the value that our brains hold in the Universe. I mean, here you have a structure constituting of about a hundred billion neurons that evolved in fourteen billion years to such complexity that it can fathom and unravel what created it. Its made of the same elements as everything else in the cosmos, just combined in different ways.  I think that’s what gives me goosebumps about Carl Sagan and Lawrence krauss’s quotes. Since we and our brains are made of stardust, then technically, we are the universe. And since we can contemplate on the universe then we are universe contemplating on itself. Now what could possibly be more poetic about that? And the best part of it all is that its true. 

    rayax:

    “We are a way for the cosmos to understand itself” -Carl Sagan 

    “The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.” Lawrence Krauss 

    I find it absolutely baffling that a rapid expansion of an infinitely dense point of space eventually gave rise to a phenomenally intricate organ that can actually contemplate on it. I think thats an advantage that being passionate about both astronomy and neuroscience can give you. It makes you realize how rare we are on a cosmological scale and how extraordinary it is that we can actually ask existential questions. Moreover, it also makes you conscious of the value that our brains hold in the Universe.

    I mean, here you have a structure constituting of about a hundred billion neurons that evolved in fourteen billion years to such complexity that it can fathom and unravel what created it. Its made of the same elements as everything else in the cosmos, just combined in different ways. 

    I think that’s what gives me goosebumps about Carl Sagan and Lawrence krauss’s quotes. Since we and our brains are made of stardust, then technically, we are the universe. And since we can contemplate on the universe then we are universe contemplating on itself. Now what could possibly be more poetic about that? And the best part of it all is that its true. 

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  9. the-star-stuff: Solar System’s Death Glimpsed in White Dwarf Stars Four dead planetary systems, each lit by the burned-out core of a star that once resembled the sun, provide a harrowing forecast for Earth’s eventual demise. Astronomers used the space-based Hubble telescope to probe the chemical signatures of dusty disks encircling the four star systems. In each they found a surprising abundance of elements that make up about 93 percent of Earth’s mass. “What we are seeing today in these white dwarfs several hundred light years away could well be a snapshot of the very distant future of the Earth,” said Boris Gänsicke, an astrophysicist at the University of Warwick, in a press release. Images: Three panels illustrate the death sequence of a planetary system. Four terrestrial planets orbit a sun-like star (top); the host star turns into a red giant and mixes up planetary orbits, causing them to collide (middle); dusty debris and asteroid-like objects are all that remains around the star, now a white dwarf (bottom). (Copyright of Mark A. Garlick/University of Warwick) [high resolution]

    the-star-stuff:

    Solar System’s Death Glimpsed in White Dwarf Stars

    Four dead planetary systems, each lit by the burned-out core of a star that once resembled the sun, provide a harrowing forecast for Earth’s eventual demise.

    Astronomers used the space-based Hubble telescope to probe the chemical signatures of dusty disks encircling the four star systems. In each they found a surprising abundance of elements that make up about 93 percent of Earth’s mass.

    “What we are seeing today in these white dwarfs several hundred light years away could well be a snapshot of the very distant future of the Earth,” said Boris Gänsicke, an astrophysicist at the University of Warwick, in a press release.

    Images: Three panels illustrate the death sequence of a planetary system. Four terrestrial planets orbit a sun-like star (top); the host star turns into a red giant and mixes up planetary orbits, causing them to collide (middle); dusty debris and asteroid-like objects are all that remains around the star, now a white dwarf (bottom). (Copyright of Mark A. Garlick/University of Warwick) [high resolution]

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