Space

[Junior]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/25/145843287/blue-marble-2012-nasas-most-amazing-high-def-image-of-earth-so-far

 

[MLB 51]

I'd love to see a time lapse image of one of these nebulae. Something fluid so you get a sense of their speed and motion.

Not possible. You can't see things moving that fast.

 

[ZRod]

I'd love to see a time lapse image of one of these nebulae. Something fluid so you get a sense of their speed and motion.

Not possible. You can't see things moving that fast.

I don't know. You're talking crazy speeds, but over distances of light years. It's like watching a jet from the ground, it's traveling 500mph but it doesn't look terribly fast from 6 miles away. Relativity!

I found one of the crab nebula but it's not great quality so it's really not that cool to see... :hmmph Instead here's a time lapse of the Earth from the ISS, I find it hard to believe it's not cgi, it's so beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPj8D5KaPVU

 

[NUance]

A nice pic of my best friend floating out in space. :lol:

 

[HSKR]

I had no idea Uranus was that big Walksalone.

 

[Junior]

Only one human being alive on July 21, 1969 is not in this picture.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/07/20/time_lapse_video_a_quarter_million_miles_and_apollo_11_s_michael_collins.html

 

[ZRod]

Only one human being alive on July 21, 1969 is not in this picture.

http://www.slate.com...el_collins.html

Now that's a trip right there!

 

[huKSer]

Only one human being alive on July 21, 1969 is not in this picture.

http://www.slate.com...el_collins.html

Should have done a selfie

 

[ZRod]

Earth from Saturn, hot off the press.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/did-you-smile-camera-earth-glitters-new-view-saturn-6C10700482

Earth and the moon

 

[The Dude]

I guess North America is facing the camera in that picture.

I forgot to stay up and say "cheese".

 

[CornHOLIO]

The final frontier.

The second Side ear.

 

[BigRedBuster]

In a world where science is based on facts and that is where truth comes from, how do we wrap our minds around the fact that space never ends?

 

[sd'sker]

In a world where science is based on facts and that is where truth comes from, how do we wrap our minds around the fact that space never ends?

i do not know if we will ever be able to do that. but we have come a long way from a geocentric view of the universe.

 

[knapplc]

In a world where science is based on facts and that is where truth comes from, how do we wrap our minds around the fact that space never ends?

That's an oversimplification of "science." Science doesn't claim to answer all things, or have the answer to all things that falls within its purview. It's a means to an end, and sometimes the end isn't known yet.

 

[Landlord]

In a world where science is based on facts and that is where truth comes from, how do we wrap our minds around the fact that space never ends?

How does science go about providing us the facts-based truthful answer to "why did life begin?" as one example.