Great software about exoplanets in our galaxy, about our planet and our solar system http://eyes.nasa.gov/exoplanets/download.html Orbiter is a free and realistic space flight simulation program for the Windows PC. http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ http://orbiter.dansteph.com/ KSP is a game where the players create and manage their own space program. Build spacecraft, fly them, and try to help the Kerbals to fulfill their ultimate mission of conquering space. https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/
I think I'm going to be addicted to these as well! Maybe I could design something that looks like the Millenium Falcon. (Am a gal with simple tastes.)
Wallflower, here is why YOU need a ruggedize umbrella.... This video is really impressive ! Let's hope they find it some day !
White Dwarf Star Acts Like Magnifying Glass http://www.nature.com/news/white-dwarf-acts-as-cosmic-magnifying-glass-1.15072
Jupiter's "Great Red Spot" Shrinking http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sc...inking-hubble-images-show-20140516-zret0.html
Beautiful pictures ! http://pictogalerie.com/gallery/ciel-et-espace-photos http://pictogalerie.com/gallery/pna
Real-time streaming HD videos from ISS with current position above the earth. That's beautiful and amazing ! http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/ http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/H...tion/Where_is_the_International_Space_Station http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload You can also watch the video on your cellphone or tablet through the Ustream app.
So says the guy up there : ...here comes the Sun. And a tear to my eye. He says that even after such a long time up there in the ISS watching so many sunrises and sunsets, he still has tears in his eyes when he sees a new sunrise.... Does Jesus feel the same when he sees it too, even two thousands years after his stay on earth ? Only someone who has lived as a human on earth and who knows that which the Sun means to us all can understand what it means to see it rise again.... Everything that we take for granted down here must seem so fragile from up there.... Says he : I will never forget the golden reflection of the rising sun on the hull of our ship.
these are always stunning . I used to visit Astronomy Picture of the Day pretty regularly I was just putting up the piece "Law" over on Google + , hopped over here and you were putting these up ...enjoyed em , yes ideedy . http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html I would love to use some of that photography for my pieces , seriously I have considered emailing them and asking for use for the pieces I do publicly ..beautiful again Utoo ...
Do you remember the picture I posted on the thread "Quotes", the one with the painter who drops all of his tools at his feet on the ground in front of the breathtakingly beautiful starry vault above him. I know what the guy up there feels when he says that he has tears in his eyes when he sees a sunrise because I feel the same, why ! even while seeing a picture of it. It's so awe-inspiring that I happen to have the feeling that I'm a kid in front of them. I'm glad that you like those pictures. I'll tell you where you can find some more of 'em ! About 6 months ago, I was out in service with a friend and he was in a return visit to someone who's become a friend over the years. He takes the magazines and reads them but we talk about every kind of topic possible when we are with him, from the Bible to economics or the latest movies. That day, his wife was there and we started talking about astronomy. When she learned that it was one of my passions, she was bouncing off the walls, she started showing me the apps on her ipad but couldn't much because the battery was dying. I showed her mine on my smartphone. She was very happy and I was happy too because it is soooo rare to meet someone who really likes astronomy, rockets and space stations too....
That one may ring some bells on your side of the pond !! Says he : The two halves of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Which one is the natural color?
snicker snicker ..there's hardly anything in the cosmos that has been given us that I don't like (cept maybe spiders and mosquitoes and maybe ants when they're invading) or else you know I would not be able to cover the subjects in poetry that I have found to be fascinating ..I look forward to when Uncle David comes and stays as we can talk into the dead of night about astronomy to archaeology to zoology ..and everything in between ... interesting , I haven't been there tho my kidlets have an auntie who migrates between Provo and Fish Creek when she's not teaching ...I would suspect the water to look like water ...because the color of Crater Lake is stunning and my pictures of it are the true color..but I've not seen lakes in such a desert area as much of Utah is . Uncle David hikes there regularly ...
As we say in France : Une dernière, pour la route ! Many celestial objects are beautiful, but some of the most striking scenes are created during the death throes of stars, forming planetary nebulas like NGC 6302, seen here in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. See http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/10/Butterfly_death_throes
nice , I haven't visited the Hubble site in awhile ..I spend entirely too much on this piece of equipment ....buuttttt , it's hard not to want to see all that we will never get to see in the few miles we spend "our time" in ...while I wrote the piece "Inspiration" because there are times the accomplishments of men just astound me to no end ..the works of creation are far more compelling to study and the shear joy of it's vastness and complexity with a "never ending" possibility to enjoy , learn about and "see" ..