Our Strange Sky: The Plains Milky Way of South Dakota
Plains Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo. Notes on experiencing this video to the fullest: 1) Wait until the dark of night. 2) Find the darkest corner of your house/apartment/cave hole. 3) Set...
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Our Strange Sky: NASA’s Bird’s Eye View of Hurricane Irene
We’ve had our eyes to the skies even though our blog has been silent. Here we have @Astro_Ron‘s tweeted photo of Irene from the ISS. Below the jump, NASA video of Irene from space and a live blog of...
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Astronomers Locate Geidi Prime, House Atredies Put on Alert
The Jupiter-sized gas giant named TrES-2b was found using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, which has the capacity to measure light, even in extremely distant objects. However, TrES-2b reflects less than one...
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Juno Photographs Earth and the Moon from 6 Million Miles Away, Puts Life in...
The Juno spacecraft took the new photo on Aug. 26 as part of a test of its camera imaging system called JunoCam. The result: a parting shot of the Earth-moon system as the probe sails on its five-year...
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Today in Star Wars: Comparing the ISS against a Star Destroyer
One can view the International Space Station ISS from the ground. It’s a fairly large piece of orbiting human engineering. But what of the interstaller ships of fiction. The ones so large they block...
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ISS Crew Greets Puny Earthlings 2012 New Year with a Video…FROM SPACE
Six space station astronauts ushered in 2012 together: European astronaut Andre Kuipers, American Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, American Dan Burbank, and cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko...
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NASA’s Astounding Photo of Earth as It Hangs in Space, See the Earth as it...
This photo of the world as stitched together from NASA’s weather satellite Suomi NPP is the very definition of amazing. We can’t stress enough how much you need to follow this link to the high...
View ArticleOur Strange Sky: Father, Son Space Balloon Launch REMIXED
In October 2010, a father and son launched an iphone and HD camera into space to film low earth orbit. We talked it up back then. A Space Balloon Remix video set to a cut from Brian Eno’s 28 DAYS...
View ArticleOur Strange Sky: Canadians Launch a Lego Man Into Space, Films it All....
They claim to have more video on how they did it and extended footage in the works. We’ll keep an eye on their Facebook page for these bits. Official site http://www.facebook.com/legomaninspace
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