Full moon silhouettes

Uau!!!!

Full Moon Silhouettes from Mark Gee on Vimeo.

Jupiter and the moon

"Now that she's back in the atmosphere
With drops of jupiter in her hair
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's a time to change
Since the return of her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like june"

 (obrigada pela foto pai!!! não acredito que você conseguiu tirar!!)

i ♥ Nasa!

"We were hunters and foragers. The frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the earth, and the ocean, and the sky. The open roads still, soft and cause. Our little  terraqueous globe is the madhouse of those hundred, thousand, millions of worlds. We who can not even put our planetary home in order, riven with rivalries and hatred, ARE WE TO VENTURE OUT INTO SPACE ? By the time we are ready to settle even the nearest planetary systems, we will have changed. The simple passage of so many generations will have changed us. The necessity will have changed us. We're.. an adaptable species. It'll not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other new by stars, it'll be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses. More confident, farseeing, capable and prudent. For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. What new wonders undreamed of in our time will we have rot in another generation and another. How far will have our nomadic species have wondered, by the end of the next century and the next millennium. Our remote descendants safely arrayed on many worlds in through the solar system and beyond, will be unified. By their common  heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that whatever other life may be, the only humans in all this universe, come from earth. They will gaze up and stream to find the blue dot in thier skies. They will marvel that how vulnerable the repository of war potential once was. How pairless our infancy. How humble our beginnings. How many rivers we had to cross before we found our way." - Carl Sagan








"As children we fear the dark. The unknown troubles us. Anything might be out there. Ironically it’s our fate to live in the dark. Head out from the earth in any direction you choose, and after an initial flash of blue, you are surrounded by blackness; punctuated only here and there by the faint distant stars. Even after we're grown the darkness retains its power to frighten us, and so there are those who say we should not enquire too closely, into who else might be living in that darkness. Better not to know, they say.

There are four hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Of this immense multitude, could it be that our humdrum sun is the only one with an inhabited planet? Maybe, maybe the origin of life or intelligence is exceedingly improbable. Or maybe civilizations arise all the time but wipe themselves out as soon as they are able. Or, here and there peppered across space. Maybe there are worlds something like our own. On which other beings gaze up and wonder as we do, about who else lives in the dark.
Life is a comparative rarity. You can survey dozens of worlds and find that in only one of them does life arise, and evolve, and persist. If we humans ever go to those worlds, then it will be because a nation or a consortium of them, believes it to be of its advantage, or to the advantage of the human species. In our time we have crossed the solar system and sent four ships to the stars. But we continue to search for inhabitants. LIFE LOOKS FOR LIFE -Carl Sagan

Endeavour Parade ♥

Lover of the lights

Sunrise on Mars ♥

Sometimes all we need a different point of view

This is Our Planet from Tomislav Safundžić on Vimeo.

We are all in a dance

Venus dancing in the sky

Fonte e mais informações: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/04/21/venus-from-one-side-of-the-sun-to-another/

Obrigada @emcimadoteto!

Astronaut

"You live waaaay above any astronaut would ever reach! :)"

some of the moon's history

"From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this." :o

Aurora Lunar

Desde pequena, sei lá porque eu tenho uma fascinação pela lua. Meus pais falam que quando eu falava "oh lá a bloom!!" (vai ver eu já falava inglês e nem sabia). Em viagens eu sempre escolho sentar na janela na esperança de ver coisas incríveis acontecerem, bem na minha frente. E depois ter tido de abrir mão de uma viagem para ver a aurora boreal esse ano, na volta de uma outra viagem importante pra mim, eu fiquei olhando para a janela esperando algo acontecer. Dormi. Acordei com a luz da lua me iluminando. Ali. Linda e redonda me olhando. Durante essa troca fica de olhares, acontece algo que eu nunca tinha visto. A lua refletiu de um jeito nas nuvens que estavam embaixo dela, que era quase como se fosse uma aurora lunar!!! Era uma luz dourada que dançou nos meus olhos. Foi lindo...Obvio que a janela do avião não me deixou tirar foto com definição, nem a lua saiu definida. Essa foi a melhor que eu consegui e não é nem 0,00001% do que foi ao vivo.


Logo depois da "aurora lunar", eu assisti o por-da-lua. Foi lindo.


Aí hoje recebo um email do @emcimadoteto com essa foto e vejo que realmente existe uma "aurora lunar"...hehe

Fonte e mais informações da foto aqui: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/09/a-warm-greeting-for-the-frigid-moon/

"What glories of nature are you missing by not looking around you?"

"Halos like this are caused by ice crystals suspended in the air. The crystals are hexagonal, and light entering one face of the hexagon gets slightly bent, and then bent again as it comes out. The total angle of bending is (at least) 22°, and this is what forms the ring 22° in radius.

Different colors are bent by different amounts; red is bent slightly less than blue, so the inner edge of the halo is red (look at the picture carefully and you’ll see that’s true). The inside of the halo is slightly darker than the sky around it, because no light is bent less than 22°. Light coming to you from the Moon inside that 22° limit gets bent away from you, so you don’t see it. Light outside that limit gets bent toward you, making the bright ring. The halo is actually pretty broad, but fades rapidly outside 23 or so degrees from the Moon, so it looks like a halo. In reality it’s more like a disk with a hole in it.

I love how Jupiter is sitting just outside the ring; in a couple of days the Moon will swing past the giant planet in our sky, missing it by just about 4° (roughly 8 times the size of the Moon’s disk itself). That’ll be a lovely sight.

(...)I’ve seen halos many, many times — though this one was really spectacular. Still, the reason I’ve seen so many is quite simple: I look up. Seriously, that’s all it takes. What glories of nature are you missing by not looking around you?"

fonte: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/11/07/ring-around-the-moon/

Aí...imagina ver isso da sua janela do avião???? não sei o que eu faria....

fonte: http://imgur.com/jPu9a

obrigada pelo presente @emcimadoteto! :)

Comet Lovejoy

Pois é, cada dia mais a minha fé em Deus está mais forte e quando recebo algo assim então...o céu me inspira todo dia! Como se eu nunca tivesse visto antes. Sempre aprendo alguma coisa, seja com o sol nascendo, o sol se pondo, o céu cinza, a chuva, as estrelas, a lua sorrindo, a lua cheia, a lua escondida, não importa, Deus sabe como falar comigo através do céu.
E vendo que passou um cometa que chamaram de Lovejoy nesses dias, um sorriso gigante sai no meu rosto. Um sorriso da certeza de que eu quero que a minha vida continue sendo boa e brilhante como esse cometa.
Para mim esse é um presente não de Natal, mas de vida! Vida que eu ganho de presente toda vez que eu converso com Deus quando olho pra cima, quando eu tento ser como Jesus foi, quando eu leio a Biblia, não por religião, porque eu não tenho uma, mas por love and joy, simplesmente.
Não tem como não ficar fascinada por um cometa assim, por um céu assim, por um Deus assim!
É, não tem nada mais Little Bitt way of life do que um cometa Lovejoy! Juntei todos os vídeos e fotos! :)

Comet Lovejoy from the VLT, Chile from g br on Vimeo.

"mas as estrelas sabem sobre mim" (via madalena do umpontoum)
Apnéia

(obrigada pelo presente de Natal Em cima do teto!)

fonte
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/24/insanely-cool-picture-of-comet-lovejoy/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/22/time-lapse-video-iss-cometrise/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/22/a-celestial-visitor-seen-from-space/

Invisible?

What if we could see the way of the stars? :)
I love to see what we "can't" see.

I would put a picture like this in my wall!






fonte: http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/ciencia/fotografo+australiano+registra+o+rastro+das+estrelas+no+ceu/n1597188987246.html (obrigada Em cima do teto!)

Mais um timelapse pra coleção

Tempest Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

(obrigada Em cima do teto)

E depois eu convido a assistir o video de novo com essa música..haha

Cosmic Love - Florence and the machine

So bloddy perfect!

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language from Matthew Rogers on Vimeo.

via ela, a querida de sempre: Tassi

E depois achei esse vídeo, do mesmo designer, que também é incrível!!!

TED x Nasa!

TED e Nasa: two magic words together: http://twitter.com/#!/TEDxNASA

Aurora Boreal!!

http://auroraborealnoartico.blogspot.com/2011/07/proxima-expedicao-rumo-aurora-boreal.html

EXCLAMAÇAO DE GALAXIAS!

EXCLAMAÇAO DE GALAXIAS! WOW! :o E é por ISSO que eu AMO o céu!

"uma composição feita com dados do telescópio Hubble e do observatório Chandra (ambos da Nasa), mostra uma clássica colisão de galáxias - salvo o curioso aspecto de um ponto de exclamação. Na parte de cima da foto está a galáxia VV 340 Norte e o 'ponto' da exclamação cósmica, na parte de baixo da figura, é a galáxia VV 340 Sul. Daqui a milhões de anos, os dois gigantes espaciais vão se fundir, da mesma forma que a Via Láctea e a vizinha Andrômeda vão se unir daqui bilhões de anos. A 'exclamação galáctica' está localizada a 450 milhões de anos-luz da Terra."

Fonte: http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/ciencia/exclamacao-cosmica-e-flagrada-pelas-lentes-do-hubble--2 (presente diretamente do Em cima do teto!)

chandra - exploring the invisible universe! ♥
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/main/index.html

Big Bag kind of news

This Friday, NASA will launch an Atlas V rocket that will be contain a very special payload - three secret Lego minifigs. "Not only will the rocket be carrying Juno, a space probe that is being sent to Jupiter to study the fifth planet from the Sun, but there will be a few unique stowaways. The figures spent $15,000 carving these 1.5-inch tall figures out of solid blocks of aluminum to make sure that they don't cause the spacecraft to crash into Jupiter by accident. The beardy guy with the lightning bolt on the left there is Jupiter himself, next to him is his wife (and, uh, sister) Juno holding a magnifying glass, and rounding out the trio is Galileo, who's got a model of Jupiter in one hand and a telescope in the other. It is scheduled to arrive at Jupiter in 2016, where it will spend a year orbiting the gas giant, and and crash into the planet’s surface."

fonte: http://www.likecool.com/These_Lego_minifigs_are_going_to_Jupiter--News--Gear.html

This reminds me this:
Nasa has helped Disney celebrate the opening of its new Toy Story Mania ride at Disney World Florida by blasting a special figurine of Buzz Lightyear into space.

The action figure rode into the heavens onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on Saturday, before finding a new home on the International Space Station.

fonte:http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2008/06/02/nasa-blasts-buzz-lightyear-into-space/