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Sterling silver, meteorite, faceted pallasite olivine, faceted libyan desert glass, faceted moldavite
In late 2018 I was commissioned by the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum to make a necklace for their permanent collection. This necklace was to be based off the Northern Hemisphere Necklace I had made a few years prior, but with a piece of lunar meteorite in the center. It was great to have a chance to remake that necklace; I always really liked it, but I have lamented the fact that that I didn’t take the space-centric design further.
The main portion of this necklace was based off the Voyager 2 space probe, as well as various retro-futuristic illustrations of spacecraft from the 1970s and 80s. The initial design was scaled and tweaked to accommodate the specimen I received from the museum, and to balance it when worn on the body. The constellations remain largely unchanged from the previous necklace:
Six of the most visible constellations in the northern hemisphere sky were recreated as links in a chain, with stones set to represent each star. Like last time, each stone’s size correlates that star’s magnitude. (How bright it is in the sky) This time around, the sizing of each stone was done to a much greater degree of accuracy and the stones themselves have changed. They are now comprised of pallasite olivine for the small stars, Libyan desert glass for three of the large stars, and a single deep green moldavite for the remaining large star. (Which represents Polaris, the north star.) The back links of the necklace are based off the modules found on the international space station.
Photos taken by Robert Diamante of berlianarts.com


Apollo 13 video clip
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The crew of apollo 13 is stuck in orbit around the moon and the nasa crew on the ground is trying to figure out how to get the astronauts home alive faced with only the tools in space and a limited time window, the engineers must use every available item at their disposal to maximize the amount of time before reentry to earth’s atmosphere. Do you want to remove all your recent searches all recent searches will be deleted. View the clip from apollo 13, “the briefing” the link is located under bookmarks think about how the mission had to change, the problem solving and information management necessary.
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Nasa aborts apollo 13's lunar mission and focuses on bringing astronauts home. Apollo 13 - 6 movie clips + classic trailer (1995) ron howard, tom hanks drama movie hd subscribe for more movie clips here: nasa must devise a strategy to return apollo 13 to earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. True story of the moon-bound mission that developed severe trouble and the men that rescued it with skill and dedication.
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Summary of apollo 13: review from amazon- it had been less that a year since man first walked on the moon, but as far as the american public was concerned, apollo 13 was just another “routine” space flight – until these words pierced the immense void of space: houston, we have a problemstranded 205,000 miles from earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts jim lovell (hanks), fred haise. Watch apollo 13 movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at tvguidecom. In 2002, the movie was released in imax theaters as apollo 13: the imax experience, with a pared-down running time of 116 minutes in order to meet the technical requirements of the large-screen. The movie is based on the 1970 apollo 13 lunar mission the main characters of the movie are: lovell, fred haise, and jack swigert they are astronauts who are on the ship, apollo 13, and they are on a mission to go to the moon on behalf of the country.
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Movie: apollo 13 (1995) - the true story of technical troubles that scuttle the apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut jim lovell an. Clip description aaron (loren dean) tells the team that the shuttle must conserve power to have a chance to make it back safely kranz (ed harris) has never lost an american in space and will not lose the apollo 13 crew. This hollywood drama is based on the events of the apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts jim lovell (tom hanks), fred haise (bill paxton) and jack swigert (kevin bacon) find everything going. Tiffany demko week 4 discussion – mgmt 362 apollo 13 video clip first off this is a great movie, and i’m not much of a movie buff i found way more than just 2 ob concepts in this clip.


Aries Full Moon, Sept 29th, 2023, 11:57 CET am (Reading is done in Tropical Zodiac)
Key Themes: Rebirth, Honouring our Ancestors, Burning or revitalising relationships
The full Moon in Aries and Pitru Paksha -the Hindu 16 lunar day holiday of honouring our ancestors begins tomorrow.
Aries ruler Mars is currently only 3 degrees from Ketu (south node) in Libra. Sun is also in Libra where it is debilitated. Mars is known to be a hot planet and so is Ketu, In Jyotish this combination is known to lead to explosive behaviours and sudden and extreme happenings.
With Libra having all this “action” and “hot” planets, along with Libra’s ruler Venus which is in Leo ruled by the Sun- there is a lot of heat in our relationships! The full Moon in Aries goes along with this heat and fire…but with all fire, it can destroy or it can purify.
Full moons are the culmination of things and sometimes that brings endings but it can also be the beginning of something new. Think of the woman’s body when it is completely in tune with nature, she will bleed on new Moon days and give birth on a full Moon. Can we say birth is a kind of death?…well yes in a way it is- we have had the death of the environment of the warm and secure womb to be born (again) into this world. However, I did use this example of giving birth- as to show that this is the power of the full Moon. It’s at its highest potency. If something is not meant to be, the Moon will take it away from you and it will also birth in people, situations and things into life too.
Pitru Paksha is a time where we honour our ancestors who have left this world and some pray for them to be reborn again soon. Any births around this time in your family could be one of your ancestors returning back to your family on earth. Even if you are not Hindu, it is a great time to think about your ancestors, speak to them, offer them food and incense. The air is thin during this time, so communicating with your loved ones which have moved on will be much easier. Meditations can lead to big downloads when you ask your ancestors to assist you.


Full Moon the night before the true full moon on the following night that also was involved in a Lunar eclipse. This particular full moon was very significant since it was also the Winter Solstice. The moonlight was so bright it was easy to see everything at night without electrical light. The Misterio of the Moon is very significant in both Palo and Taino traditions. The Moon is related to the Feminine Misterios, and is a powerful puller for all manner of results. We often put certain Medicines or Spiritual Baths out in the Moonlight so they can absorb the energies of the Moon.
In considering the significance of the Full Moon, we realize that it is the Sun's light that illuminates the Moon, and that what we are calling moonlight is in fact Reflected Sunlight whose reflection gives us a glimmer of the sunlight without its radiant heat. We know that the direct sunlight comes with a heat, regardless of whether it is winter or summer, however the Moonlight is cool in nature. The moonlight will illuminate things from a different spiritual perspective than the sunlight, and is can bring light to situations or things without bringing heat.
The full moon illuminates an generally unseen world at night, its light creates alertness, enhanced activity, and even increased insanity in some minds. The full moon under lunar eclipse also activates Mother Earth and we see increased rumblings and shakings, as even she is stimulated by the alignment of Sun, Earth and Moon. During an lunar eclipse we see the Full Moon with the Earth's shadow over her, and on the opposite side of the Earth from where we are standing the Sun is pulling with its usual gravity. We are simultaneously being pulled in opposite directions by these two cosmic Misterios. As the Earth's shadow falls upon the Moon, what is that Misterio seeing in that shadow, what is she Divining about this Earth and the activities upon this Earth? The shadow is being cast by the Sun, so what is the Sun communicating to the Moon concerning the Earth? We can utilize these moments but must do so with respect for the power of what is occurring cosmically.
Absolutely a profound cosmic event!


I was one of the unfortunate kid who missed good chances to go to Birla Planetarium and Peiyar Science and Technology park during my school days, since then it has been an unfulfilled wish for a very long time. There was many times I plan to go there and forget about it later. It was due for a very long time to visit there, even after I finished my college and joined work. One day while I was talking to my BUDDY and BOSS (not my boss but we call him that way) at work randomly this thing topic came in middle and we deicide that we will visit there in weekend. Even though we planned for a visit we ended up visiting there twice and the story as follows.
Before the story some information about the place,
It was established in the year 1988 and maintained by TamilNadu Science and Technology Centre with a core aim of popularizing science and technologies among the general public in the urban and rural areas. It is located on Gandhi Mandapam Road and very near to Guindy Park, IIT Madras, Anna University, Madras University Guindy Campus and Anna Centenary Library. Nearest railway stations are KasthuriBhai Nagar (MRTS) and Kotturpuram (MRTS) [Source:Wikipedia]
It has got science parks and galleries themed Physical Science, Transport, Electronics & Communication, Energy, Materials Science, Life Science, Innovation, International Dolls and Children with lots of exhibits which would amuse kids if they are interested in science and stuffs, Unfortunately they weren’t properly maintained and most of them doesn’t even work. It also has a small 3D theater, but the short movies (10 mins) which they screen looks like late 80’s game animations. The galleries are open from 10 am to 5.45 pm and they charge fee of Rs.45 for adults and Rs.25 for children as a package which includes access to Science Center Galleries, Science Park, 3D Theater and Planetarium. Updated timings for Planetarium shows are as follows.
Next is the planetarium building. It has a planetarium theater and a circumferential hall of fame around the theater where lots of exhibits related to space are displayed. The air-conditioned planetarium theater got a capacity of 236 but unfortunately some seats where broken. It is equipped with two different kind of projectors, one is a old OptoMechanical GOTO GM II starfield projector (they are also called as Zeiss Projectors) and the another is a new digital spherical mirror dome projector. And that’s the reason why we visited there twice.
Birla Planetarium Entrance
When we visited there for the first time (on 08.06.2013) we could get tickets only for the 4.30 show in which they used the digital projector. The show was good and it was about chances of extra terrestrial life, but was quiet disappointed that we could experience the starfield projector which we were expecting. While we exit we made up our mind that we will visit again shortly and see the starfield projector in action.
After couple of weeks (on 22.06.2013) we visited there again and made sure that we got tickets for the 2.30 show which uses starfield projector. The show was good and it was in Tamil, This time it was all about telescopes and how different type of telescopes helped mankind to explore space an all. While i was there i could revisit myself, when i was a science enthusiastic kid during my school days, was looking at the dome with my eyes wide open recollecting lots of things like moons of Jupiter and Saturn, working principle of Newtonian Telescope etc.
GOTO GMII Statfield Projector
It was indeed a good experience to be there. Happy that one of my long time wish got fulfilled. I also wish that the Science Park and Planetarium gets updated and maintained properly by the government, If so it would attract many visitors and play a vital role in creating interest and awareness on science and technologies.


First man in space Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in orbit, was a Russian cosmonaut who completed an orbit of Earth aboard the Vostok I.
On reaching Earth, he described being in space as, “*You feel as if you were hanging in a horizontal position in traps. You feel as if you are suspended*.” This was to be his first and only journey into space. He died in an airplane crash. His ashes are buried in the walls of the Kremlin, Moscow.
First female astronaut Valentina V. Tereshkova
On June 16, 1963, Valentina V. Tereshkova successfully lifted off aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft, and during the space flight lasting 70 hours and 50 minutes, Tereshkova tried her best to overcome many problems such as physical discomfort, equipment failure, psychological stress, etc., and returned to earth without any danger after 48 circles around the earth, and is still the only woman in history to independently pilot a spacecraft to lift off, and has set up an eternal milestone in the journey of human exploration of the universe.
First man in space walk Alexei Leonov
On March 18, 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov achieved a 12-minute spacewalk during the spaceflight of the Ascend 2 spacecraft, the first astronaut in history to perform a spacewalk.
First victim Colonel Vladimir Komarov
On April 23, 1967, in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution, Colonel Vladimir Komarov, a famous Soviet cosmonaut, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:35 a.m. Moscow time on the Soyuz 1 spacecraft. However, on the way back to the ground on the 24th, due to the parachute entanglement failure and crashed and killed, the Soviet hero also became the first astronaut to die in space flight.
First man on the moon Neil Alden Armstrong
On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 spacecraft left Earth and flew to the moon. On July 20, at 10:56 p.m. Eastern Time, astronaut Armstrong got out of the lunar module and stepped on the moon, becoming the first person in the world to land on the moon.
First “space teacher” Wang Yaping
At 10:00 a.m. on June 20, 2013, Wang Yaping, astronaut of the Shenzhou 10 mission, taught students on the ground in space.
First person to sleep in space Gherman Titov
Gherman Titov was the first man to sleep in space.In other news, he also spent a whole day aboard Vostok 2 and orbited Earth 17 times and also the first person to vomit in space.
First tourist in space Dennis Tito
American multi-millionaire Dennis Tito holds the title of being the first space tourist in the world. He went aboard the Russian craft Soyuz TM-32 to reach and board the International Space Station EP-1.
First pet in space Laika
Laika, the dog, was the first animal sent into space.She survived four orbits around Earth in the Sputnik 2, but, sadly, died of possible overheating.
First primate in space Albert II
Albert II was the first primate sent to space in a US-launched V2 rocket. He reached an altitude of 134km. Sadly, Albert died on impact after a parachute failure after the spacecraft’s re-entry to Earth.


So supposedly these are authentic videos of real aliens caught on tape, however even we think some of these are rather obviously faked.
Do we believe in aliens or alien life elsewhere? Yes, the universe is too dang big for us to be alone. We can't be the smartest creatures in the universe, I would feel bad if we were, and honestly the earth isn't the center of the universe.
So are we alone?
NO, I honestly don't think so, do the math and you'll see the possibilities for life in other places. However, are these videos actual proof of aliens?
Who knows what's real and what isn't, we can't say that they're all fake,. but then again who knows…
Check it out and see what you think!
HYBRID ALIEN CREATURES CAUGHT ON TAPE!


Nasa is celebrating the first powered, controlled flight on another planet after its Ingenuity helicopter rose into the Martian sky, hovered for a moment, then gently returned to the dusty surface.
The robotic craft climbed to an altitude of about 3 metres on its maiden flight on Monday morning, having hitched a ride to Mars with Nasa’s Perseverance rover, which touched down in February on a mission to search for signs of life.
The achievement was met with cheers and applause at mission control, where scientists released pictures taken from the craft’s onboard camera that captured the shadow it cast on the Martian soil.
MiMi Aung, the Ingenuity project manager at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), said: “We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet.” Before the mission arrived on Mars, Aung told the Guardian that the 1.8kg flying machine could pave the way for future craft that scout ahead of robotic rovers, or even human visitors to other planets, to explore terrain beyond their reach
The craft is part of a technology demonstration – a project that aims to test a new capability for the first time.
Manish Patel, head of space instrumentation at the Open University, said the flight was a glimpse into the future of Mars missions. “This is an astounding feat of engineering excellence that paves the way to a brave new world of science and exploration possibilities,” he said.
“We have explored the orbit of Mars, the surface of Mars, and now Nasa have conquered the atmosphere. This is one small flight for Ingenuity, but one giant leap for Mars exploration,” he added.
Data from the helicopter’s flight returned to Earth a few hours after the autonomous test. Pictures showed a shadow of Ingenuity hovering above the planet’s surface, and a video showed it grounded on the surface.
The solar-powered craft’s 40-second flight marked a 21st-century Wright brothers moment for Nasa, which said success could pave the way for new modes of exploration on Mars and other destinations in the solar system, such as Venus and Saturn’s moon Titan.
Thomas Zurbuchen, Nasa’s associate administrator for science, said the airfield on which the flight took place would be called Wright Brothers Field.
He said: “Now, 117 years after the Wright brothers succeeded in making the first flight on our planet, Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter has succeeded in performing this amazing feat on another world.
“While these two iconic moments in aviation history may be separated by time and 173m miles of space, they now will forever be linked. As a homage to the two innovative bicycle-makers from Dayton, this first of many airfields on other worlds will now be known as Wright Brothers Field, in recognition of the ingenuity and innovation that continue to propel exploration.”
The helicopter has two rotors that spin in opposite directions to lift it off the ground. As well as getting around in lower gravity, the helicopter faces the challenge of flying in the Martian atmosphere, which is about 100 times thinner than Earth’s.
As a technology demonstration, Ingenuity does not have any scientific instruments onboard, but will aim to fly farther and higher in future flights. Mission controllers are hoping for up to five test flights within a 30 Martian-day (31 Earth-day) demonstration window.
Dr Daniel Brown, an astronomy expert at Nottingham Trent University, said: “Flying on Mars is so challenging because its atmosphere at ground level is only 1% of that on Earth, or as thin as it is on Earth at about 16km above sea level. So this is not the usual altitude for helicopters to fly on Earth, with the altitude record held at about 12.4km.”
He said the craft had to be ultra-light with the blades rotating extremely fast. “To add to this, it has to also fly autonomously as we are far too far away on Earth to control it directly,” he said. “The technology tested in this Mars copter could allow additional support to survey the terrain for rovers and humans alike in the future.
“It could also access difficult to access cliffs that cannot be reached by rovers. A whole new way to explore the alien terrain in our solar system is now at our disposal.”


As viewed from the Globe, a solar power eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sunlight and The planet, and the Moon fully or partially prevents the Sun. This could happen only at fresh moon, when the Sun plus the Moon will be in conjunction while seen via Earth. Within a totaleclipse, the disk of the Sunshine is completely obscured by Moon. In partial and annular eclipses only part of the Sun can be obscured. TACHA ECLIPSE
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Celestial body overhead passes immediately behind our planet into its umbra (shadow). This may occur only if the Sun, Earth, and Moon are lined up exactly, or perhaps very closely so , with the Earth in the middle. Consequently, a lunar eclipse can only occur the night of a full moon. A lunar oscurecimiento lasts for several hours, whereas a total solar new moon lasts for only some minutes at any given place, due to the smaller size of the moon's darkness. Also contrary to solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to see without any vision protection or special safeguards, as they are no brighter (indeed dimmer) compared to the full celestial body overhead itself. SOLAR ECLIPSE MIRRORS SUPERSTITIONS
In ancient occasions solar eclipses had a superb significance.
Will be solar eclipses considered good or bad omen today?
Very well, today solar eclipses are just an amazing issue to see, a partial eclipse like here is just a fascination, nothing unique and as we come across people having a fantastic time looking at the eclipse together with the special protection that you need to consider the Sun when it's very bright, to protect your eyes and then you can see the Moon moving in front in the Sun, but nothing as troubled people centuries ago, once we really didn't know what was going on. Today it's just an amazing phenomenon, an important coincidence that I can duplicate for you right here. We take a ball which symbolizes the Earth and, on the reverse side, the Moon which is a one fourth of the size of the Earth. It happens that 2 times a year the Moon is at alignment together with the Sun. This time around of the yr in January we will see the Moon choosing front with the Sun although...


Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX has raised nearly $1.16 billion in equity finance over the past two months, the private rocket company said in a revised regulatory filing on Wednesday.
The filing comes after SpaceX, whose investors include Fidelity Investments and Alphabet Inc., revealed in February that it had raised about $850 million, allegedly raising its value to $74 billion.
According to financial software and data provider Pitchbook, the private space company raised $1.9 billion in its most significant single fundraising round in August.
In February, SpaceX’s prototype Starship rocket, SN9, exploded on its final landing, similar to the previous SN8. The SN9 is a test model developed to transport humans and 100 tons of cargo to the moon and Mars for future missions.
Following this, the U.S. Representative Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said last month that it was investigating a SpaceX commercial space launch that regulators said violated united states safety terms and test licenses.
Elon Musk, who is also the head of several future companies, including Neurallink, Tesla, and Boring Co., said last month that SpaceX would launch a starship rocket at Mars before 2030.


Hon’ble Chief Minister Sri K. Chandrashekar Rao congratulated (ISRO – Indian Space Research Organisation) scientists on successfully launching PSLV C-37 today. In a statement here the CM said that by launching simultaneously 104 Satellites into the Orbit ISRO has demonstrated to the world the Indian capabilities in the space technology.
It is a proud moment to the country and its space scientists that we are the first country to have successfully launched 104 Satellites into the space there by creating a world record. The Chief Minister hoped that ISRO would continue to make such experiments in science and technology for the development of mankind.
The CM has congratulated the entire ISRO team of scientists and all those who supported them in this gigantic achievement.


Pop Goes The News — The Canadian Space Agency will announce Monday morning that another Canadian is heading to the International Space Station (ISS).
David Saint-Jacques will be the seventh Canadian astronaut — as well as the eighth Canadian and fourth Québécois — at the ISS and the first since Col. Chris Hadfield left on May 13, 2013.
Navdeep Bains, the federal minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and CSA president Sylvain Laporte are scheduled to reveal details at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa.
Saint-Jacques has nearly 30,000 followers on Twitter and has a Facebook page, where he shares photos and videos of training exercises.
Saint-Jacques, 46, will blast off in November 2018.
NASA currently has five trips to the ISS scheduled between June 2016 and May 2017 with astronauts from the U.S., Russia, Japan, France, and Italy.
Since 2000, 222 people from 18 countries have visited the ISS. Prior to Hadfield, Canadian astronauts Marc Garneau, Steve MacLean, Julie Payette, Robert Thirsk and Dafydd Williams were there. Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté visited the ISS as a space tourist in 2009.
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One of two active astronauts in the Canadian space program, Saint-Jacques was selected by the CSA in 2009. (The other, Ontario’s Jeremy Hansen, will likely go to the ISS in 2024.)
A licensed pilot and avid sailor, he is married and the father of two.
Last summer, Saint-Jacques told Le Journal de Quebec it was a childhood fantasy to be an astronaut.
“I never really thought it was possible,” he said. “I’m like an athlete who dreams of going to the Olympics. You can dream if you want, but it is not you who decides.”
He spoke to Macleans last year about the ISS.
“The International Space Station was built in orbit. Each piece hurtled into space at eight kilometres per second. From an engineering point of view, it’s madness. Unbelievable,” he gushed.
“It’s also a feat of policy—Russia, the U.S., Germany and Japan working together. Do you realize what that means? These countries were sending nukes to each other a generation ago. Space does that. It gives us that amazing big picture.”
Although born in Quebec City, Saint-Jacques was raised in the Montreal suburb of Saint-Lambert. After getting an engineering degree from École polytechnique de Montréal, he earned a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the UK’s Cambridge University.
Saint-Jacques returned home to study medicine and earned his M.D. from the Université Laval in Quebec City before doing his residency in family medicine at McGill University. He became co-chief of medicine at Inuulitsivik Health Centre in Puvirnituq, an isolated community in northern Quebec.
Saint-Jacques’ education and work also took him to France, Hungary, Lebanon and Guatemala.
“I never believed I could be an astronaut,” he told BT Montreal in 2014. “I thought it’s something so abstract. I remember deciding I’m going to model my life, myself, on what I thought astronauts were because that looks like a good way to become a good person.”
Asked what he is looking forward to most when he reaches the ISS, Saint-Jacques replied: “Looking back and seeing the world. Seeing Earth. Floating in space. Seeing the spacecraft that we’re on. Because we’re all on one little spacecraft … and we’re all in this adventure together.”
Based in Houston since 2009, Saint-Jacques was in Montreal in early May to speak at a gala for the 40th anniversary of the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University.
He told Macleans last year that his primary mission as an astronaut is to inspire people — especially the next generation.
“Everybody has a dream, but it’s often very vague. We owe it to ourselves to identify it and not be afraid of it. Even if it’s crazy and unachievable,” he said. “The importance of finding your dreams doesn’t lie in the fact that it gives you a target that you have to achieve, but it gives you a direction. When you set it into motion, things happen.
“That’s the message I want to give my kids. If your dream isn’t scary, it’s not big enough. Sure, use your head, get a job. But don’t lose sight of wonder.”
BELOW: Get to know Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques


Fantastic Life and Where to Find It: Grades 4-6
Would you like to learn about the possibility of life in outer space? During this camp, we will be discussing how we define life, methods that scientists are using to search for life, and how we might recognize it on other celestial bodies! Using Mars as our main example, we will be exploring geological features that help scientists look into the past of the planet to see if life could have existed there and what that would mean for us on Earth. We will also discuss how life can exist in extreme environments such as the bottom of the oceans or places like Antarctica and Death Valley. You will have the opportunity to create your own space rovers that you will be able to bring home after we discuss how the Martian rovers are helping with the search for extraterrestrial life. This class will keep campers excited about astrobiology, astronomy, and geology all week long!
Participants should bring a refillable water bottle. For their safety, it is important that each student wear comfortable clothing and closed toe shoes. A hat and sunscreen may make outside time more comfortable.
The camp will be held in the Sonderegger Science Center on the Edgewood College Campus, 1000 Edgewood College Dr. Madison, WI. The science center is a K-16 building that serves science students of all ages.
July 10 - July 14, 2017, 9:00-2:00 daily. Lunch is not provided. Send a sack lunch with your child daily. A mid-morning snack will be provided. If you child has particular dietary needs please pack an appropriate snack for them.
The camp leader is Amanda Heinsohn, a recent graduate from UW Madison with a Bachelor’s degree in Geology and a strong background in Astronomy. She has been a tour guide at the UW Geology Museum for the past 2 years and is excited to share NASA Astrobiology information with students! This week’s camp is in partnership with the UW Geology Museum and the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
Registration will be first come, first served. To ensure plenty of individual attention the limit for the camp is 12 children. The registration deadline is July 3, 2017.
$250 for the week-long camp.
For more information contact:
Amy Schiebel firstname.lastname@example.org (608)663-3414


Times had always been plentiful. Since the beginning of the age when their ancestors first walked in the world, the People had lived in harmony with the spirits and the elements. Their language had no words for war or want, famine or drought. The forests were vast, the plains fertile. Fair winds brought rain from warm oceans. All of life flourished in abundance.
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No memory had been handed down of where the People came from.
Some taught that they were born of Neveya, who ruled the skies during the times of lesser light when the smaller but brighter Sun was absent, and at the end of mortal life they would return to her across the Golden Sea in which the world floated. They learned to farm the lands and tame animals; to study the ways of wood, and stone, and metals; to admire and create music, likenesses, and things of beauty. Their sages pondered over the mysteries of mind and the senses, life and motion, of number and the nature of things. Communities grew under social imperatives and marketplaces for ideas, and became centers of government and commerce.
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Iryon stood near the mouth of a broad river, between arms of green hills rising to distant mountains. It was not the largest of cities, but its buildings had been shaped and ornamented with a care that made the whole as much an expression of art as the carved gates and gilded window traceries, or the marble reliefs surrounding the central square. At the summit of one of the five hills on which Iryon was built stood the Astral Temple, where priests of Neveya charted the cycles of the heavens.
Each day began with the world looking out across the immensity of the celestial ocean that extended away to Neveya's orb, dividing it equally like the plane of a blade halving a water-fruit so that only the upper hemisphere of Neveya was visible. Then the Ocean would rise, tilting and narrowing as it did so until it became an edge crossing past the world to reveal briefly all of Neveya's countenance; from there, now above, it broadened again to expand its underside, at the same time obscuring Neveya's upper part to reach its half-day low, after which it would fall and cross back again. This cycle repeated 5,623 times in the year that the stars took to turn through their constellations.
The proportions of light and dark making up the days changed according to whether the Sun was visible as well as Neveya, and in what situationwhich varied with the seasons. The "blue hours" came when the Sun shone from the far side of Neveya, transforming its normally orange glow into a black shadow cast across the Golden Ocean. At certain times in the course of the year, as the Ocean crossed past the world during the blue hours, the Sun would vanish behind Neveya completely, turning day abruptly into darkest night. These were the times when the other worlds that moved about Neveya revealed themselves in their full glories of form and color. They were known as the days of "Dark Crossings." Multitudes would come from afar to Iryon to attend the rites and ceremonies that took place on these occasions.
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The pyramid was built such that, from the Eye Stone at the center of the semicircle of astronomers and priests where the Speaker of Neveya stood, the orb was seen as if supported on its apex like a cloud grazing a mountain. Since Neveya never changed her position in the sky, the disk remained balanced in that manner always, varying only from yellow jewel through shrinking face to waning crescent as the Sun rode its distant course about both her and the world, and the celestial Ocean rose and dipped through its daily cycle. As the moment of the Dark Crossing approached, she glowered at the world with full face, black and featureless, fading into the glare as the Sun touched her shoulder.
The crowds assembled on the slopes were hushed as the Speaker intoned the Verses of Passage. Around the temple and across the city below, torches had been lit in readiness for the Darkness. At the top of the pyramid, Neveya reappeared suddenly out of the glare as a black arc sliding across the Sun, her shadow lying now like a black ray cut out of the Ocean, moment by moment advancing closer. When it fell across the world, connecting it to Neveya like a bridge spanning the Ocean, then, it was taught, the souls whose time had come to return would depart on their journey.
A murmuring of awe and wonder, more a wind than a sound, stirred through the crowd as the sky darkened. The astronomers readied their instruments and recording tablets, while the Speaker turned, opening his robed arms wide to greet the spectacle. For an instant Neveya's outline flared into a thin curve of light as if the extinguishing Sun were trying to claw its way back around the edge. . . .
And then all the light went from the sky, and the stars appeared. Above and to one side of Neveya, the pink globe of Jenas became visible, while beyond it Sephelgo's white-veined features shone as crescents of crystal. Lower was Aniar, graying and mottled, swimming to the side of Neveya, transfixed by the spear of the celestial sea seen edgewise, with the white speck of Delem farther out still along the same line. As the astronomers peered and recited their measures, scribes marked the stone that would later be cut for incorporation into the records.
The picture showed a disk pierced by a shallowly sloping line, standing on an arrowhead. Smaller circles showed the other visible worlds and their dispositions, with major stars represented by their symbols. A table incised beneath the design gave precise directions and elevations.


As I've already made clear, I am a geek. But my geekyness isn't solely in the area of computers. It is also in the area of science, specifically astronomy.
It all began as a child. I remember the Apollo mission blasting off at night for a rendezvous with the moon. Any kind of space show or movie really caught my eye. When "Star Wars" came on the scene, well, let's just say I went into overdrive. Would you believe that I dressed up as Darth Vader one Halloween? Ask my sisters if you want to know more scoop on that. In Junior High I took every astronomy and aviation class that was offered. I loved it. But after that, other things caught my attention. It wasn't until almost 20 years later, as a seminarian intern, that I rekindled my passion in astronomy. As I read and learned more, I found out that the science of astronomy has a great debt to the Catholic Church. So, when I graduated from seminary and was ordained, I pooled all my monitary gifts into buying a telescope. I bought what is called a dobsonian mounted reflector, and I have it to this day.
Each summer since being ordained, I have made the trek to Central Oregon to a high plateau just East of Prineville with 600 to 700 other amature astronomers for the Oregon Star Party or OSP. In each of the four nights of this event, I stay up as late as possible gazing heavenward. Several times I had to stop viewing because the sun was coming up. Needless to say, I would most certainly sleep in as long as I wanted and take many naps during the day. In the first weekend of July, the Oregonian published an article about OSP. The article was good, but I quickly took note of the two photos included in the paper, and lo and behold, there was my trailer alongside Fr. Heiko's VW bus (see photo above).
Astronomy reminds me of how big is and how small I am, yet God loves me all the same. It makes me wonder about life on other worlds in the universe. I wonder about the size of things. I am reminded of Psalm 19:1 where we read "the heavens declare the glory of God." I stand in a much more humble place for gazing to the heavens. It is simply amazing how complex and violent it is. Its beauty is beyond my description. I could go on and on.
If you are interested in learning about astronomy but feel too inept or intimidated to take a class on it, try the book that restarted it for me, "Secrets of the Night Sky: The Most Amazing Things in the Universe You Can See with the Naked Eye by Bob Berman. Mr. Berman uses fun factiods and humor to write a wonderful book. If I can dig it our of the books in the garage, I think I may re-read his fantastic work. This week will be a wonderful time to do this as for this week is the OSP. Time to overdose on astronomy! So when you see me after OSP and I look a little tired, well just be nice and say, "Ah! The Oregon Star Party!"
Fr. William Holtzinger


Full Moon Feels
The full moon is known to be a time of ripening/fruition, celebration, and completion. Many times, this is when things you’ve been working on in your life will manifest into reality or you’ll start to see the beginning pieces of your goals fall into place. Light sheds onto the parts of our psyche that maybe we’d prefer to keep in the shadows. If we’ve been avoiding anything, it may very well come to a head at this point in the lunar cycle. Full moons tend to bring heightened emotions, intuition, and sensitivity into our experiences. We may feel uneasy or restless for seemingly no apparent reason. The more we follow the moon’s cycles and put rituals and practices into place that align us with the nature of the moon, the more harmony we’ll experience in our life. The more success we’ll see in our hopes and dreams. We’ll be better able to listen closely to ourselves and follow the signs we’re given.
We have a full moon coming up this Friday September 13th and it’s going to be an intense one! If you read my last post about Virgo season, you’ll know that the sun is still in earthy, analytical Virgo (until the 23rd), so that’s sort of the drop back of our experiences right now, but this particular full moon will be adorned with the energy of watery, dreamy Pisces.
With this full moon in Pisces, expect to have some super great insight, creative ideas, heightened empathy (and more intense emotions in general), and clearer communication with your higher Self.
It’s important with every full (and new) moon to slow things down, venture inward and take inventory of your world. Notice how you feel physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Sit in meditation and take note of what comes up. Journal. Pray. Move your body, clear out your energy. Get outside and bathe under the moon. Empty yourself of the old cycle and refill with new potential.
We hope you come to our Full Moon Ceremony at Yoga Pulse this Friday September 13th, 7:30pm! It’s going to be magical. Sign up here!


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For a while we have been coming across Chandrayaan 3 and its space odyssey. And finally, thanks to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the mission has come to a successful point. Today, the renowned lunar mission of India Chandrayaan 3 has arrived at its destination and there has been soaring claps from across the world.
Earlier, ISRO shared a link where people can watch the live soft landing of the Chandrayaan 3 and gazillion people tuned into it. The historic moment of India not only filled us with pride and made the nation first country to land on the South Pole of moon but also made the country 4th nation in the world to achieve the soft landing on the lunar surface.
The mission is on schedule.
Systems are undergoing regular checks.
Smooth sailing is continuing.
The Mission Operations Complex (MOX) is buzzed with energy & excitement!
The live telecast of the landing operations at MOX/ISTRAC begins at 17:20 Hrs. IST… pic.twitter.com/Ucfg9HAvrY
— ISRO (@isro) August 22, 2023
ISRO not only asked people to join in this countdown of 40 days journey but also tweeted “Chandrayaan-3 Mission: ‘India, I reached my destination and you too!’ : Chandrayaan-3 Chandrayaan-3 has successfully soft-landed on the moon !. Congratulations, India!”, announcing the milestone achieved in the lunar mission.
I reached my destination
and you too!’
Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.
— ISRO (@isro) August 23, 2023
Moreover, the Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Modi also tweeted “Historic day for India’s space sector. Congratulations to @isro for the remarkable success of Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission”, along with a video clip praising the birth of new India.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 23, 2023
Chandrayaan 3 represents India’s unwavering commitment to space exploration and scientific discovery. The mission embodies the spirit of exploration and human curiosity, pushing the boundaries of what is possible and inspiring generations to dream big.
The successful landing of Chandrayaan 3 proves that India’s journey into the cosmos is far from over, and the future holds exciting possibilities for lunar exploration and beyond.


The Curiosity Rover takes numerous pictures of Mars from all the cameras it is equipped with and sends them back to Earth on a daily basis. You can actually look at all the pictures or at least the ones which NASA and the government want you to see.
But a researcher from Ohio University in the US, Professor Emeritus William Romoser believes that there is evidence of an insect-like creature on Mars. He says he used the pictures taken by all the Mars rovers and found numerous examples of insect-like forms. He says there are images showing both living and in fossilized forms.
Take a look at this image -
© Ohio University
The image, as you can see, shows an insect-like creature, complete with legs, a head, abdomen, and more. Obviously, it's not a clear image because we doubt if it'll wait for the rover to come close and let it take a snap. But the creature was indeed spotted in one of the images captured on the Martian surface.
Dr. Romoser, who specializes in arbovirology and general/medical entomology, has been studying photographs from the red planet for several years now. He presented all of his findings a couple of days back at the national meeting of the Entomological Society of America in St. Louis, Missouri.
"There has been and still is life on Mars. There is apparent diversity among the Martian insect-like fauna which display many features similar to Terran insects that are interpreted as advanced groups - for example, the presence of wings, wing flexion, agile gliding/flight, and variously structured leg elements," he said.
© Ohio University
It's not going to be an obvious visual for us since we're not trained to look at the way these researchers are. They've been studying these photographs for years now and know exactly what and where to look at. What appears as just a piece of rock to us may look a living form or a fossil of some sort, and they might actually be right.
Dr. Romoser even made a collection of such images and marked them for us to look at. You can check out those images right here.
Look, we don't know if there was life on Mars or if there still is. But some of these researchers strongly believe so and they even have the evidence to prove it. It's possible that NASA and the government know something which we don't, but we can't say for sure. At the same time, it's also possible that they've found nothing compelling so far and maybe the Mars 2020 rover will fetch some answers for us.
Source: Ohio University


A rare celestial spectacle will unfold on Saturday, as the moon will be at its closest point to the earth. This rare phenomenon known as ‘Supermoon’ last occurred 18 years back. The appearance of the moon larger and closer to the earth has had people talking about natural calamities such as earthquakes and tsunami that may be triggered during this period. Many astrologers have linked the Japan earthquake and subsequent Tsunami to the closeness of the moon to the earth.
March 19, 2011


Maybe it’s because of all this cool stuff on the news about Pluto—the planet that was, and then wasn’t—or the fact that I’ve always been fascinated with everything to do with outer space (excited for the Star Wars movie, anyone?!), but when I realized that July 20 is MOON DAY, I decided to dig up a few facts, just for fun.
Obviously I learned some neat things. Like, the fact that the moon isn’t actually round—it’s egg-shaped! And, everyone knows the moon rotates around the Earth, but did you know that it orbits at ten miles per hour and takes 27.3 days to fully circle? That seems like forever. (My grandpa’s tractor can probably go faster than that!)
A simple Google search will give you tons of facts about the moon, but I learned two fascinating things that I’m going to combine and use in a short story! The first is that every full moon has a name. You’re probably most familiar with Harvest Moon (which happens in September) but the July full moon is called THUNDER MOON. Sounds SPOOOKY, right?
That alone sparked a few story ideas. But then I learned that because the moon has no atmosphere or wind, footprints never disappear. That means when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 21, 1969, his footprints are still there.
You can see where I’m going with this, right? My character goes up in space and lands on the moon. When he steps off the shuttle, there are footprints everywhere…and some of them don’t look human. Dun-Da-Du-Dun!
Gotta jet! I’ve got a short story to write!
— Chase Superman Duffy


Our Solar System
This half term we will be learning all about SPACE! This is one of my favourite topics as there is so much to learn and discover! Over the next 2 days I am going to ask you to use the internet to research the 8 planets in our Solar System.
For today, I would like you to find out about the 4 planets that are closest to the Sun:
These are some of the question you could try and answer:
What size is the planet?
How far away from the sun is it?
What is it made from?
How long does it take for it to orbit the Sun?
You can choose to present your work as either a PowerPoint Presentation or as a poster - Remember you will add to your work tomorrow when you research the other 4 planets.
I have added a useful Youtube video below, to get you started, but I'm sure there's lots of other videos and information out there too! Can't wait to see what you find out. Have fun!


This was an exhibition of man's exploration of space from Sputnik to the International Space Station. Many full-sized models of various space vehicles and a number of items displayed that have either been into space or actually on the lunar surface. Highly recommended. I really enjoyed my time in Queensland Museum. We spent around an hour and a half visiting the free exhibitions.
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Retrace the footsteps of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and the events that led Nasa space exhibit to the historic moon landing that took place fifty years ago. The Apollo lobby exhibit will be open Tuesdays through Friday to Explore Mission Zone. The exhibit features artifacts from the past fifty years of space exploration, as well as the newest innovations designed to help astronauts make more frequent and longer trips into orbit. This live Spanking bare butts of boys will show you where to look for planets, constellations, and many more heavenly sights. Toggle navigation. Imagine Naaa Moon explores how the Moon has inspired human creativity, learning, and exploration ever since we have looked to the sky. And the Nsa is Nasa space exhibit to go back to the moon, and even Mars. Discover more Basketball players naked. Prev Mission Zone. On display at the CU Heritage Center is lunar sample A New Moon Rises. Opens June Receive a personalized photograph of the guest astronaut, and don't forget to snap a stellar selfie with the space explorer.
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Junior astronauts can collect a wrist band and start their fact finding mission by following the stars through the exhibition. Activities for kids:. Discounted tickets available for Annual Pass holders. A valid card will need to be presented with ticket at entry. Find out here if the Annual Pass suits you. Groups of 10 or more adults 16 years and over can purchase tickets for a discounted rate by booking through QTIX.
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Shows last about one hour and consist of a live presentation followed by a full-dome movie. What would you like to learn today? Discover what is possible and what awaits in orbit and beyond. July 20, the world paused to watch American astronauts walk on the moon. Space Adventure exhibition at The Mind Museum. Participants can operate a 34 meter foot radio telescope from the Discovery Cube.
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This was an exhibition of man's exploration of space from Sputnik to the International Space Station. Many full-sized models of various space vehicles and a number of items displayed that have either been into space or actually on the lunar surface. Highly recommended. I really enjoyed my time in Queensland Museum. We spent around an hour and a half visiting the free exhibitions. My favourite exhibition was the Queensland wildlife species.
I would have happily spent longer in the exhibition. Well worth a visit and perfect for backpackers looking for a time consuming free activity. We were told to stop by and take a look at some of the unusal events that were going on , this was a great way to spen a few hours away from the normal tourist attactions. We had a great Time here. Really enjoyed our visit to the museum the kids loved the dinosaurs , so much to see and do a great day out for all. We visited this museum on our first day in Brisbane and really enjoyed it.
Many exhibits were free, such as the World War I and Australian animals displays. The only surviving World War I German tank is in the museum, which was surprising but interesting. Great for looking at Australia's fauna. Was a bit disappointed in the rest of the museum, underwhelming. Flights Vacation Rentals Restaurants Things to do. Profile JOIN. Log in to get trip updates and message other travelers. Queensland Museum. Museums , Specialty Museums. Stewart P.
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Making Historical past: Japanese to ship Israeli expertise to mine oxygen, metals from lunar soil
This technical demonstration is a big step for humanity’s important route towards “stay off the land” in areas apart from Earth.
Israeli space-tech startup Helios, the developer of expertise to mine oxygen from lunar soil, to hitch Japan-based ispace’s second and third missions to the lunar floor to display its expertise to supply oxygen and metals in-situ.
As humanity races again to the Moon within the subsequent years to create everlasting infrastructure on the lunar floor, one of many main obstacles is the exorbitant value of transporting something from Earth to the Moon.
One of the sought-after assets for cislunar area is oxygen, primarily used to refuel rockets and spacecraft as a result of it accounts for over 70% of the propellant weight. Because of this, the power to fabricate oxygen on the Moon is vital to sustaining humanity’s progress past Earth.
“The expertise we’re growing allows the institution of everlasting bases away from Earth. So as to not need to endlessly transport tools to the lunar station and trigger life exterior of Earth to function underneath restrictive constraints, we have to take a look at issues by means of the prism of infrastructure that may produce supplies from pure assets,” stated Jonathan Geifman, Helios’s co-founder and CEO.
The Japanese Ambassador to Israel, Mr. Mizushima Koichi, hosted a signing ceremony between the Israeli Helios and Japanese ispace to ascertain the preliminary settlement, as 2 Memorandum of Understandings (MoU), by which ispace might ship Helios’ expertise to the lunar floor onboard ispace’s lander by the top of 2023 and mid 2024.
Helios’ payloads, referred to as Lunar Extractor – 1 and Lunar Extractor – 2 goals to display the manufacturing of oxygen and metals from the native assets. The lunar soil has over 40% oxygen by weight, locked in oxides and minerals. The Lunar Extractor -1 is designed to separate the oxygen from the soil utilizing electrolysis. As byproduct, the reactor will produce steel that may be solid right into a mould—what may very well be the primary artifact to be produced on the Moon in human historical past.
This technical demonstration is anticipated to be a big step ahead in humanity’s important route towards growing the power to “stay off the land” in areas apart from Earth.
Takeshi Hakamada, Founder & CEO of ispace, stated, “Using the assets on the Moon is the pure conclusion and would result in massive financial influence for a cislunar ecosystem and finally the sustainability of the Earth. ispace, as a pioneer in constructing the cislunar ecosystem, is honored to offer our lunar transportation service and help Helios to display their expertise on the Moon. We’re very excited by their expertise and we imagine this effort will stimulate extra gamers to enter this market.”
Avi Blasberger, Director of the Israel Area company on the Ministry of innovation, science & expertise returning to the moon and establishing a everlasting base on it requires collaboration between nations and corporations. The Israeli Area Company welcome the cooperation between Ispace, a Japanese firm, and Helios, an Israeli firm, and hopes it’s going to result in additional collaboration between the area companies of the 2 nations. Returning to the moon will create vital enterprise alternatives within the world area trade, and Helios and Ispace are an instance of firms that can lead and be a key issue on this development. The Israeli Area Company helps and promotes Israeli area firms for them to grow to be main gamers within the rising world area financial system, along with the contribution to the expansion of the Israeli financial system.


The Competition is now in its third cycle. First announced at the NSS-sponsored International Space Development Conference held in May 2013 in San Diego CA, the initial round was brought to a successful close at ISDC-Los Angeles in May 2014, with six teams honored. Three of the designs submitted were awarded cash prizes, with Rajiv Gandhi University earning $10,000 as the first place winner. Each of the top three concepts are now published in the Online Journal of Space Communication
The second round of the Competition saw similar success. With ten registered teams in final consideration and three cash prizes to be given
, the China Academy of Space Technology took the $10,000 first place at the ISDC Conference held in Toronto in May 2015. The CAST visualization, along with those of the runner-up teams, is also published in Issue No.18
of the Space Journal.
Registration for the third cycle is now open, and team enrollments will continue to be taken until January 15, 2016. Deadline for submission of completed designs and supporting documentation is April 1, 2016. Winners will be announced and their “Creative Visualizations” will be shown and celebrated in May 2016 at ISDC-Puerto Rico.
WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER THEME AND GUIDELINES
Our 2015-2016 Competition is soliciting research and creative visualizations related to the topic of Wireless Power Transmission.
We are interested in those “practical applications” of space solar power beaming that might produce near-term solutions in energy and environment, in communications, transport, commerce, manufacturing and other significant challenges facing our planet. Such applications may address either space to earth, earth to space or space to space transmissions and exchanges, or some combination of these.
Each of these submissions should consist of a completed WPT concept of exceptional quality based on: 1) an idea of significance, 2) a clarifying Creative Visualization, 3) an understandable Technical Brief, 4) a plausible Economic Plan and 5) a good Bibliography.
Those officially registered teams producing an early draft (with Abstract, Visualization, Tech Brief and Business Plan) by Feb. 1, 2016, will be assigned an NSS or SSPI professional to give critique and constructive comment, if needed.


Scientists Have Found The Hottest Planet Within The Universe And It’s Hotter Than Most Stars
In the early 1600s, Europe was awash with a new invention referred to as the telescope. Designed by a Dutch optician referred to as Hans Lippershey (or Lipperhey), it introduced distant objects closer. Ideal for military use, it is also used as a toy – or, in this case, bringing the heavens nearer. Plate tectonics is the slow motion of pieces of Earth’s crust, which shape mountain ranges and ocean depths.
What he noticed amazed him, and you’ll see the same factor using odd binoculars if you can find Jupiter in the sky. On both facet of the planet are up to four little stars, which are actually the 4 largest moons of Jupiter. They orbit the planet, as moons do, so each night you look they are in different positions.
But not like its rocky siblings, virtually 70 percent of Earth’s floor is covered in oceans of liquid water that average 2.5 miles deep. These our bodies of water comprise ninety seven percent of Earth’s volcanoes and the mid-ocean ridge, a large mountain range greater than 40,000 miles long. Earth rotates on its axis each 23.9 hours, defining day and night time for floor dwellers. This axis of rotation is tilted 23.4 levels away from the plane of Earth’s orbit across the sun, giving us seasons. Whichever hemisphere is tilted closer to the sun experiences summer, while the hemisphere tilted away gets winter. In the spring and fall, each hemisphere receives comparable quantities of sunshine.
Every 584 days, Earth and Venus are 26 million miles aside. However, when they are on reverse sides of the solar, there is a huge one hundred sixty million miles between them and presently only 33 million miles between Mercury and Earth. The researchers made their discovery by monitoring patches of the evening sky over many months, and detecting red mild from the star with progressive red-sensitive cameras. They observed dips within the mild from the star every 2.6 days, implying that a planet was orbiting and periodically blocking starlight. The planet is a hot Jupiter, no less than as large as the Jupiter in our photo voltaic system, but with around 20% less mass. It may be very close to its star – simply 3% of the space between Earth and the Sun – and orbits the star every 2.6 days, meaning a yr on NGTS-1b lasts two and a half days.
For these two planets, we don’t know the temperature at the floor as they don’t have a floor (being made from gas). Instead, we estimate the temperature at different pressure ranges within the gases. Saturn is further from the Sun, and so is colder, at roughly -138°C. Earth is the planet we now have one of the best opportunity to grasp in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even these orbiting distant stars. As a end result, scientists are increasingly monitoring Earth from house.
As these plates collide, tear apart or slide past each other, they provide rise to our very energetic geology. Earthquakes rumble as these plates snag and slip previous one another. Many volcanoes kind as seafloor crust smashes into and slides beneath continental crust. When plates of continental crust collide, mountain ranges such as the largest planet Himalaya are pushed toward the skies. With a diameter of 5,268km, it’s the largest moon within the solar system – greater than the planet Mercury.
On two specific dates every year—called the equinoxes—both hemispheres get illuminated equally. At the identical time, telescopes are gazing outward to search out different Earths. Other missions, such because the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, are poised to search out much more.


3d, Feature Film
During the summers of 2003 and 2004, I worked my first industry job with a team of incredibly talented people led by Dan Maas on Disney’s IMAX documentary feature, Roving Mars. I primarily worked as a matte/texture painter, and modeler but also did a bit of animation. Notable work included painting textures and matte paintings for much of the Martian surface, as well as the Cape Canaveral launch site, modeling the below-deck body of the rover, modeling various sections of the launch vehicles, and animating the rover arm and camera in a few shots.
December 30, 2004


Travel & Landscape Photography from over 90 countries of the world
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Night Sky and Northern Lights over wintery Iceland
It is being said that a picture is worth a thousand words and it is surely a true statement, however what if you put thousands of pictures together ?
I had the incredible luck to experience once in a life time Northern Lights show created by huge Solar storm which brought unseen colors ranging from the usual green, yellow to red, purple or even blue, to the sky all over Nordic countries and even all the way to the south of UK. Add several other lucky nights with smaller or larger Aurora Borealis appearance in unique landscape of Iceland and the result is relatively lot of footage for my first ever time-lapse video.
(note this is not HD version, for much better viewing experience check the HD version that can be seen on Vimeo itself)
Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis and Night Sky over Iceland (Timelapse) - Part 1
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Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis and Night Sky over Iceland (Timelapse) - Part 2
In Norse mythology the Valkyries (immortal, war-like virgins) would come galloping across the night sky upon their horses equipped with helmets, spears and armor that would glow and shimmer in the darkness. These lights, colored red, blue, violet and green, would spread in curtains from horizon to horizon, amazing the mortals below. This is how the Vikings explained a phenomenon we now call the aurora borealis, or the Northern Lights. Different societies have explained the phenomenon in diverse ways. The Alaskan Inuits thought of the lights as the souls of deer, seals, salmon and whales that they hunted. The Menominee Indians in North America thought the glow must be the torches of giants that lived in the North.
No single Northern Lights photo does true justice to what is happening on the sky during those unique moments when Northern Lights appear. This video is my first time ever time-lapse attempt in order to try to show how such phenomenon looks like. Capturing Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis can be extremely demanding on its own, however trying to capture enough footage/photos for just few seconds of video takes the dedication and exhaustion from hardly any sleep and days/night outside in a cold to a very new level. I'm still fascinated how this 6 minutes video captures events of more than 48 hours constant activity (spread across 2 weeks period).
I had some of the best conditions for Northern Lights at THE perfect place, everybody wishes to capture it -- Jökulsárlón - the Glacier Lagoon. There was no wind, temperature just below freezing, clear sky with millions of stars reflected on perfectly mirror like surface of the lagoon. The Alaskan Forecast for Aurora activity had just increased to level 5 -- high activity -- I've never seen it that high !
However it was only the next night of the 28th of February 2014 when the promised super large solar activity hit the Earth and created that incredible solar storm which brought colors all over the sky, not only over Arctic Europe but all the to such latitudes as UK, Isle of Man and Jersey ! There were such colors that I have never seen before and neither none of my local photographer friends that are chasing and capturing Aurora for years. It was the full color scale from usual yellow, green to very unusual purple, red or even blue. Aurora's magnetic colorful veil spread all over the sky coming from all directions!! I have seen multiple large burning meteorites falling from the sky, such a large size I've never seen before !!!
Several other nights provided me with aurora display in various locations to make the movie more interesting. It must have been my 8th visit to this incredible island, however I had never had so much luck with solar activity and clear skies before. Thank you Odin ;)
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The first watch ever worn on the moon, it has become an enduring symbol of the ingenuity and skill that took us into space. On its sixtieth anniversary, we look back at the heady days of the Apollo program and reflect on why the Speedmaster was able to go where it did.
The first Speedmaster
Called the “Broad Arrow” due to its distinctive hands, this was not only the first Speedmaster, but it was also the first chronograph wristwatch in the world with its tachymeter scale on the bezel as opposed to printed on the dial - a feature designed for the benefit of racing car drivers.
First watch worn on the moon
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in 1969, this Speedmaster model became the first watch ever worn on the moon. In fact, it has since become the watch that has served on the most lunar missions.
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With clear, dry air and very few electrical lights, the night sky in Yellowstone is glorious. We tended to explore the park until dark and then make our way back to Silver Gate driving at night. We stopped in Lamar Valley and I decided to try to photograph star trails and the the beautiful Milky Way. There are a lot of ways to approach night astrophotography. One approach is to shoot a long exposure and get beautiful star trails.
I learned quickly that if you are shooting the Milky Way, long exposures just leave the Milky Way blurry - not beautiful. My new Canon 5D MKIII has low noise even at higher ISO's. So I experimented with higher ISO and shorter shutterspeeds. This gave me beautiful Milky Way and much crisper stars.
I tried a different approach with this photo. I shot away from the Milky Way and gave a much longer exposure trying to get the skyglow to illuminate the scene. While it does get the road - hand of man- I like this one.
The following night I went to a different place in Lamar Valley -Soda Butte. I wanted to illuminate the Butte and get the stars. My results were mixed because when I used the highest ISO, there is a LOT of noise. One shot was "messed up" by the passage of a car, but it looked better than I expected.
In this one below, the lights from a passing car lighted up Soda Butte. Because I was trying to position the Milky Way in the third's position, I had to clone out our car and the reflective road poles. I shot this with an ISO of 25,600 hoping to get the stars crisp. The noise level was much higher than I wanted so I definitely had to use noise reduction software. There is still noise when you blow this up at pixel level. But it is pleasing anyway.
I did try light painting on Soda Butte, but was not happy with the results.
I meant to try one more time, but as the days went by getting up before dawn to look for wolves and staying out late to enjoy other parts of the park, our stamina gradually diminished. Our last night there was overcast.
Things I would try next time - lower ISO on the star trails over the trees. I used infinity focus for most shots, but I think it might have been better to focus on a brighter star. Henry recommended using a smaller aperture to try to get the stars crisper.
Perhaps I'll have another opportunity as we travel east from Seattle to try more star shots.