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My home page used to be Astrology Photo of the Day but changed at some point.

That's like calling a pawn a prawn! :)

Mystic Meg predicts that you will now be ostracised forever:

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Luckily/inevitably though, her ability to predict is no better than random chance. Wicked nebula.

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Something about him being able to let go of the microphone and continue on normally still blows my mind.

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Are the city lights really that bright or was this photo edited?

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Excellent question! The NASA website doesn't mention anything about it being doctored and they're usually pretty good with mentioning how they've altered images. The brightest patch on the right would be New York, by the way. To say that it'd actually look like this to the human eye, I'm not sure because I don't know what the exposure time of the camera was. I'm gonna go with: Cities really are that bright, or close to that brightness. There's actually been a bunch of night time photography just like this, including amazing time-lapse photography from the ISS. Allow me to amaze your eyeballs and heart:

Every frame in this video is a photograph taken from the International Space Station. All credit goes to the crews on board the ISS.

I removed noise and edited some shots in photoshop. Compiled and arranged in Sony Vegas.

That's our home!! Space, man.

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And while we're at it, here's the APOD of the day for February 4th.

Explanation: Namibia has some of the darkest nights visible from any continent. It is therefore home to some of the more spectacular skyscapes, a few of which have been captured in the above time-lapse video. Visible at the movie start are unusual quiver trees perched before a deep starfield highlighted by the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. This bright band of stars and gas appears to pivot around the celestial south pole as our Earth rotates. The remains of camel thorn trees are then seen against a sky that includes a fuzzy patch on the far right that is the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. A bright sunlight-reflecting satellite passes quickly overhead. Quiver trees appear again, now showing their unusual trunks, while the Small Magellanic Cloud becomes clearly visible in the background. Artificial lights illuminate a mist that surround camel thorn trees in Deadvlei. In the final sequence, natural Namibian stone arches are captured against the advancing shadows of the setting moon. This video incorporates over 16,000 images shot over two years, and won top honors among the 2012 Travel Photographer of the Year awards.

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Cool! It just looks like they put comic-eyes on one of the ISS-arm-things, no? (at around 0:22, staring back)

I've been to our local planetarium a week ago and it was a very nice trip - into space and back to a time when East Germany was called the GDR (...old socialist-style building). And it has a funny website.

I want to go there more often, even fake-space is exciting.

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My favorite part of the Russian meteor story, is that the Russian military is trying to claim they fired a missile at it.

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Hahaha, how'd that work out for them?

That other unrelated giant rock that's coming past earth NASA will have a livestream all about it. They'll have near real-time imagery of the asteroid's fly-by. I think the stream will start at 19:00 UTC, 14:00 EST. The asteroid is set to pass 25 minutes after that.

Edit: The live stream is on.

It'll pass by at a distance of about 27.000 kilometers (17,200 miles), traveling by at an estimated speed of around 7.8 kilometers/second (17,400 miles/hour, 11,900 km/hour). It's size is estimated to be at around 45 meters in diameter, which is about half the estimated size of the Tunguska event asteroid. That one burst apart in the air, flattening an area of about 2150 km².

It's safe to say we can be glad that DA14 passing by without hitting!

After the fact radar observations!

If you click the link, there is totally a video of this gif!

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Weightlessness continues to be cool.

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I watched the BBC program Stargazing a little while back and it made me really angry at all the light pollution here, as well as hate Johnathan Ross even more.  then I watched this and hated light pollution even more.  0:53 and 5:07 especially are awesome.

 

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Yea, really. Few years back I was on vacation in Maine, out in the middle of nowhere by a lake. If it wasn't for those aggressive asshole mosquito's I would've just slept out on the docks watching the milky way. Beeaaauutiful!

 

Cities should start thinking about dimming the streetlights portions of the night, or something. Save energy and maybe ruin the night sky a little less.

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I prefer well-lit cities of light that have people feeling safe walking the streets at night, awestruck by the beauty of millions of light reflected in the water, and then everyone is free to leave the city whenever they please to breathe the clean air and stargaze and buy crisp, sweet apples straight from the trees.

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I watched a good bit of it. There was some mild excitement when one of the the connector cables wasn't long enough, as it was ribbon tied to the antenna-like device, so one of the 2 had to go get some wirecutters to cut it loose and give it a bit more length.

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I watched the BBC program Stargazing a little while back and it made me really angry at all the light pollution here, as well as hate Johnathan Ross even more.  then I watched this and hated light pollution even more.  0:53 and 5:07 especially are awesome.

 

 

Stargazing in Yosemite? I've done that! Been up to the right spot and everything, love it. I just wish I had a proper camera to nail that. I've got a decent one and a tripod, but I've yet to be able to nail night photography. Having a $10,000 f 0.95 lens would be a big help, but first I'd need to get into a position in life where I can spend $10,000 a friggen camera lens.

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I don't need to read the article to know it will be about the glory of the first cock and balls drawn on the sands of Mars. Truly, humanity has reached its crescendo.

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There's still other planets that we could go to that we haven't marked with giant cock and balls yet. There's plenty left to do in our Solar system and after that... The universe! THE MULTIVERSE! INFINITE INFINITIES UNDISCOVERED!

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