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The International Space Station passed over Hurricane Irene at roughly 3:15pm ET Wednesday.

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garethlynch:

Atlantis on [last] last approach to the ISS.

Amazing. To be there…

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@Astro_Ron:

Long Island to Nova Scotia #FromSpace Taken 6/27/11@ 8:12pm GMT from the #ISS

Watching the launch of space shuttle Endeavour. This is Endeavour’s 25th and final launch, and the second to last shuttle launch ever.

The Cassini spacecraft reached Saturn in 2004, sending the clearest images of the most striking planet in the Solar System. Working at home, Stephen Van Vuuren used those photos to create the most hypnotizing space film I’ve seen. There is no CGI and no 3D models in these images. Just images from NASA.

Stephen took the approach and orbit photos, painstakingly cropping, scaling, and putting them together in an IMAX-quality film. Tens of thousands 5,600,000-pixel video frames in full 32-bit natural color. He is still working on it. When he’s done, I want to see this big.

(via Gizmodo)

The moon passing between the sun and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on October 7th, 2010. 

Today marks 41 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon.

Hubble IMAX 3D

Saw this trailer during the previews before Avatar. NASA streams live footage of the missions on their website and I watched a lot of what this movie is about live for days on end. I can say that I’ve never been more excited to see a movie then I am for this.

adamgotterer:thedailywhat:

Space Photo of the Day: On Novermber 14, 1984, NASA astronaut Dale Gardner strapped on his Manned Maneuvering Unit, stepped off the Space Shuttle Discovery, and proceeded to float fifty meters away, untethered, through the vast emptiness of space, to retrieve a wayward satellite which needed to be hauled back to earth.

Like a space-boss.

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jstn:

Cassini photo of the sun reflecting off a methane lake on Titan, first ever specular reflection observed on another world.

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

Prepared to have your mind blown, yet again. This video will make you feel insanely small and insignificant in relation to how infinitely big the universe is.

fuckyeahspace:

In late 2003 the Hubble telescope pointed at a small region in the sky (about the size of a 1mm by 1mm piece of paper held a meter away from you) which appeared to have no stars or galaxies in it. For four months it continued to take super-low exposure glimpses of this blank area of the universe. The myriad of images was compiled carefully and in the early months of 2004 this menagerie of the distant universe resulted. An estimated 10,000 galaxies are pictured here.

This image is so utterly mind-blowing, yet we’re inclined to regard it benignly, or at least more benignly than beautiful yet not uncommon occurrences such as the Pillars of Creation. littleFluffyKitty over at reddit does an excellent job of putting the magnificence of this photo into perspective. Click through for a RAM-busting 6200x6200 pixel, 18.19 MB version.

“Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends. The best meteor shower of 2009 is about to fall over North America on a long, cold December night.

A new Moon will keep skies dark for a display that Cooke and others say could top 140 meteors per hour. According to the International Meteor Organization, maximum activity should occur around 12:10 a.m. EST (0510 UT) on Dec. 14th. The peak is broad, however, and the night sky will be rich with Geminids for many hours and perhaps even days around the maximum.”

(via NASA)

YES!

“This music was recorded by Voyager I and II as they crossed paths with Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. They weren’t captured with a microphone: Audible sound can’t travel through space, so Voyager was listening to the electromagnetic waves around the planets and moons. Waves produced by space phenomena, like the planet’s magnetospheres interacting with the Sun’s radiation.”

(via Gizmodo)

This is definitely the creepiest but most amazing piece of audio I’ve ever heard.