“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars” - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Just when you thought that Dr. Tyson’s video exploration of everything that makes us special in our world and beyond couldn’t get any better, it gets the GIF treatment. Nice work.
Watch it again, and then again.
M8 Nebulosa Laguna
by: Omar Mnagini (nebula1), Bueno Aires Argentina, June 20 2012
AAPOD 26 Oct 2012
Reflection Nebula vdB1
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, University of ArizonaExplanation: Every book has a first page and every catalog a first entry. And so this lovely blue cosmic cloud begins the van den Bergh Catalog (vdB) of stars surrounded by reflection nebulae. Interstellar dust clouds reflecting the light of the nearby stars, the nebulae usually appear blue because scattering by the dust grains is more effective at shorter (bluer) wavelengths. The same type of scattering gives planet Earth its blue daytime skies. Van den Bergh’s 1966 list contains a total of 158 entries more easily visible from the northern hemisphere, including bright Pleiades cluster stars and other popular targets for astroimagers. Less than 5 light-years across, VdB1 lies about 1,600 light-years distant in the constellation Cassiopeia. Also on this scene, two intriguing nebulae at the right show loops and outflow features associated with the energetic process of star formation. Within are extremely young variable stars V633 Cas (top) and V376 Cas.
NASA APOD 26 Oct 2012
What’s wrong in this pic? XD
The ovary of an anglerfish visualized with an hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stain at four-times magnification.
Image by James Hayden, The Wistar Institute.
dvdp:
Visualization of Dark Matter Streams
credit: Oliver Hahn, Tom Abel, Ralf Käehler
more videos/images:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~kaehler/homepage/visualizations/dark-matter.html//via socinematic.net
