Posts Tagged the universe aka the place we keep all our stuff

Our Strange Sky: Do You Remember When Lasers Cut the Night Sky?

Posted by mistergroonk in Only in Japan on June 13, 2011

Andrew Cooper, electrical engineer at Keck Observatory, captured this view from the location of another Mauna Kea telescope, the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on the summit ridge. Cooper combined 23 photographs, each with 1 minute exposures, producing a photograph alive with star trails (as the Earth rotated for 23 minutes) and yellow lasers cutting through the sky.

“During the exposure, the Keck 2 laser [far right] is aimed right over the camera at the Milky Way’s galactic core,” Cooper told Discovery News. As the Earth rotated for those 23 minutes, the laser beam stayed focused on the center of our galaxy, making the laser appear “thicker” than the other two adaptive optics lasers on Subaru and Keck 1.

— by Ian O’Neill

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Our Gorgeous Sky: Terje Sorgjerd’s Observations from El Teide, Spain’s Highest Mountain

Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Photography, Space, World on April 20, 2011

Between April 4th and 11th 2011 Terje Sorgjerd took his camera and visited Spain’s highest mountain El Teide(3718m). During the visit he filmed the hell out of the spectacular view he found. While he was there, a sandstorm hit the Sahara.

That is when something beautiful happened:

Interestingly enough my camera was set for a 5 hour sequence of the milky way during this time and I was sure my whole scene was ruined. To my surprise, my camera had managed to capture the sandstorm which was backlit by Grand Canary Island making it look like golden clouds. The Milky Way was shining through the clouds, making the stars sparkle in an interesting way. So if you ever wondered how the Milky Way would look through a Sahara sandstorm, look at 00:32.

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Music by: Ludovico Einaudi – “Nuvole bianche”

Music by my friend: Ludovico Einaudi – “Nuvole bianche” with permission.
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Friday Night Movie: “Science Saved My Soul…”

Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Movies, Science, Space, The Future on November 19, 2010

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Art-Out Moment: Betwixt Heaven and Hell

Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Dinosaurs on August 11, 2010

Dropped below the cut is a comics mural so long that it encompasses Heaven, Hell, and all that lie inbetween.

Including graboids, strangely placed remote control(Neglectful Precursors, maybe?) and a fish wearing a fez.

Fezzes are cool.

Pity the artist didn’t sign his/her work.
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Tuesday Tease: The Big Bang Explained, Simply

Posted by mistergroonk in Science, Space on August 26, 2009

Tuesday Tease‘s objective is to bring upcoming movie or comics trailers we find interesting. At times it will include trailers that everybody is seeing during commercial breaks of WAREHOUSE 13 and BETTER OFF TED. More often than not it’ll be the obscure stuff we scrape off the sides of the Internets for the sole reason that no one is talking about them…and they should be talking. This week is a deadspace for comics and movies.

So instead we turned to the Universe and everything in between. The video above explains the magic of Big Bang theory in a way even a squib can understand. Time, space and all that stuff in between made understandable in the span of 2 minutes. This is why The Future is great.

(via just blew your mind You Tube and Geekologie)

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