Oh, and one more treat to celebrate the end of the Cmdr. Hadfield era on the ISS as he readies for his return tomorrow.
Here he is singing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”, in space.
Your head now has permission to explode.
Guitar. Singing. About space. IN space. as;dlifja;woif;lkajfds
NASA Johnson Style
I know you’re all pretty tired of Gangnam Style parodies by now, but these folks put people and machines in SPACE, so cut ‘em some slack. Plus it’s pretty damn good, and features a spacesuited NASA gal and a real astronaut doing the horsey dance, which is notable as it will never happen again.
Here’s a biology Gangnam parody, if this isn’t enough for you. And a Bill Nye Gangnam. And a robot doing Gangnam.
Why can’t I stop?!?
I couldn’t help myself. It called to me.
Europe - André Kuipers
I - ISS Over Europe
II - Wolgograd
III - London
IV - Amsterdam
V - Naples
VI - Paris
(Original Photo credit to NASA)
Because this is so a;sdlfkja;woeijoa;we cool and I haven’t posted anything science-y lately.
ISS long exposure photography
These images are part of a series photographed by NASA astronaut and Expedition 31 flight engineer Don Pettit using a mounted camera on the International Space Station. He used a special long exposure technique to create star trails as well as city light trails. Lightning storms are also featured prominently in the images.
ISS long exposure photography
These images are part of a series photographed by NASA astronaut and Expedition 31 flight engineer Don Pettit using a mounted camera on the International Space Station. He used a special long exposure technique to create star trails as well as city light trails. Lightning storms are also featured prominently in the images.
Holy star-trails, Spaceman! O.O
Solar Eclipse Casts Shadow on Earth
Looking at Earth during the Annular Solar Eclipse of May 20, 2012, photographed by Don Pettit from the International Space Station at 23:36 GMT.
O this is COOL
Epic Time-Lapse Escape: The Stars From Orbit
We’ve seen plenty of GIFs and time-lapses of stars and #starporn, but none precisely like this. It seems like Earth is often the star, instead of the stars themselves.
Nice to see that change. Full screen, HD, enjoy :)
I could’ve done without the lounge music, but there’s some amazingly fresh perspectives here.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit already demonstrated his awesomeness with a candy-corn experiment in space. This time, he makes droplets orbit a charged knitting needle. It’s the first in the “Science off the Sphere” video series, a collaboration between NASA and the American Physical Society. Videos in the series are shot on the International Space Station.
Via Geeks are Sexy
Science, even in space, doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive to be amazing and informative.
Sprucing up my tumblr with some fun space and science stuff!
The Earth by night and the Orion constellation
Another astonishing shot from ESA astronaut, Andre Kuipers, onboard the International Space Station. The Orion constellation can be seen rising in the centre of this image, above the Earth at night.
I grew up in suburbia, which meant that most stars are drowned out, but I have always, ALWAYS been able to locate Orion’s Belt - even more consistently than the Big Dipper. This is a perspective on a constellation that I have been able to look up and find for over two decades that I had never thought to see!
Moonset from the space station
On January 9, 2012, astronauts on the International Space Station took this amazing footage of the moon setting behind the Earth’s limb. Air near the horizon is thicker, and acts like a lens. That bends the light from the bottom of the Moon up, squashing the Moon’s shape as you watch!
Time Lapse Images of Earth at Night Taken From the International Space Station
Not bad pictures for someone traveling 7,706 meters per second, eh?
All of them in one place! Can’t handle! \o/
(Source: britneysunicorn)
The ISS rushing across the Moon
This GIF animation shows the International Space Station passing across the face of a daytime Moon, captured by astrophotographer Alan Friedman on January 12, 2012 from his location in upstate New York. Alan captured these images at 10:30 a.m. EST and slowed down the animation a bit; in real-time the event lasted less than half a second. View a bigger version →
The ISS’s average speed: 17,000+ mph!
The Milky Way and Storms over Africa
This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken December 29, 2011 from 20:55:05 to 21:14:09 GMT, on a pass from over central Africa, near southeast Niger, to the South Indian Ocean, southeast of Madagascar.
The complete pass is over southern Africa to the ocean, focusing on the lightning flashes from local storms and the Milky Way rising over the horizon. The Milky Way can be spotted as a hazy band of white light at the beginning of the video. The pass continues southeast toward the Mozambique Channel and Madagascar.
The Lovejoy Comet can be seen very faintly near the Milky Way. The pass ends as the sun is rising over the dark ocean.
A new version that includes the Milky Way! \o/
International Space Station Science
Astronaut Ron Garan takes you on a tour of the International Space Station’s research facilities, which have contributed to advances in materials, environmental science, medicine and our understanding of the human body, our planet and the universe.
GREAT speaker. A wonderful up-close-and-personal introduction to the work that actually takes place on the ISS.
One of the things I find fascinating is how we are attempting to understand so many things about life in the most inhospitable environment to life available. Obviously, the key differentiation here is the lack of gravity rather than the other variables (that we, incidentally, shield the experiments from, such as cosmic radiation or the frigid cold), but it is amazing to think that the lack of something which we take for granted like nothing else on Earth - the presence of gravity - could result in understandings and technological breakthroughs that have a huge impact on life on Earth.
And lookit all those lenses and floor-portholes for taking photographs through! :D
They … they look like bits floating around o.o
