rivendellrose: (stars)
Astronomy Picture of the Day to the rescue! (Link gacked from [livejournal.com profile] galeni)

WATCH THIS RIGHT NOW. You will not regret it.

From their explanation: What would it look like to approach Saturn in a spaceship? One doesn't have to just imagine -- the Cassini spacecraft did just this in 2004, recording thousands of images along the way, and thousands more since entering orbit. Recently, some of these images have been digitally tweaked, cropped, and compiled into the above inspiring video which is part of a larger developing IMAX movie project named Outside In.

♥♥♥

It's a big universe out there, and we're just tiny. I don't know about you, but that makes me feel a hell of a lot better about a lot of things.
rivendellrose: (try science)
Okay, guys! I don't have cable, but if you do (and you happen to, you know, live in the US or another area that somehow gets the Discovery Channel), you should totally watch the premiere of "Bad Universe", Phil Plait's new show about the awesome science of astronomy.

It looks like Carl Sagan meets "Mythbusters" (and, keep in mind, I have a passionate love for both those things, so I don't say that lightly), and Phil is an all-around fantastic awesome guy (see his blog for way more proof of that than I could ever give you). Also, I really really really want this show to do well enough to go to DVD. Please. I'm begging. Go watch it, so that, someday, I can watch it. (Hush, I mean legally.) So, go. Check your listings. And then tell me about how awesome it is, so that I can squee and go try to find clips on YouTube or something. It'll be fantastic. ♥

fantastic!

Jul. 6th, 2009 11:00 pm
rivendellrose: (he's waiting)
Want to know what Earth TV broadcasts various extrasolar systems have received by now?

With bonus fun commentary.

"40 Eridani, the system containing the planet Vulcan, has not yet seen the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (and have no idea what JJ Abrams has planned for them).

Aldebaran will not learn of its own part in Ursula LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven for over forty years.

Regulus is the site of the Earth Alliance's first extrasolar colony, but it will be well over sixty years before they receive Babylon 5 and find that out."


Check it out, it's awesome. ♥

...Also, blast, I just had my first heart-flippy-thing in almost a year. I'd forgotten how uncomfortable those things are. I haven't even had any caffeine today, damn it, and I'm not stressing at all! Poo. I'm going to go have some water, take my baby aspirin, and go to bed.
rivendellrose: (Attention Plz)
There's a full lunar eclipse tonight, peaking between 7 and 7:52 PST tonight, and for once it looks like it might be clear enough that we'll see it in Seattle.

I'll be trying to sneak a glimpse while going to my discussion group... I'm hoping it'll be visible above the trees out in Wedgewood. ♥ I haven't seen one since the Blood Moon several years ago, and that was way too amazing for me not to give it my best go at seeing this one. It's not supposed to be quite as spectacular, I don't think, but... still, definitely worth checking out if you have the opportunity. ;)

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