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Window on Infinity; Pictures from Space

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Friday, August 3, 2012 08:19
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Friday, August 3, 2012 7:14 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Neat shit!

This Van Gogh-like rendering produced by satellite images shows the whorls and cycles of the Kuroshio ocean current off Japan, from June 2005 through December 2007.

Orbiting Saturn at a distance of 621,000 mi. (999,000 km), the Cassini spacecraft captured this image of the planet partly shadowed by its gaudy rings.

Billions of people are seeing London through many different filters and lenses during the 2012 Olympic Games. None of those views will look quite like this one from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite.

Magnetic field lines make their connections on July 23 and 24, 2012. The magnetically powerful areas were rotating into view as the image was captured, providing a wonderful profile of their activity.

U Cam, is a star 1,500 light years away, nearing the end of its life. As it begins to run low on fuel, it is becoming unstable. Every few thousand years, it coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse.More at http://science.time.com/2012/08/02/window-on-infinity-pictures-from-sp
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Gawd, space is beautiful!

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Friday, August 3, 2012 7:43 AM

REDREAD

The poster formerly known as yinyang.

Really awe-inspiring pictures. Reminds me of when I had NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day as my home page. I could spend all day on this site looking at photos: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod.

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Friday, August 3, 2012 8:19 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Impressive, huh? Always blows my mind, how beautiful and awe-inspiring the universe is. Your choice of home pages is spectacular tho', and probably better than mine, which is Google. I look so many things up every day that Google works for me, but I think I might have a better perspective on everything if I looked at yours first thing every day!

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