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the-starlight-hotel:

Space sleeve by Dan Henk

Pretty much the most intense shoulder ever.

Pretty much out of this world.

An image of the Earth and moon, taken from the Galileo spacecraft at a distance of about 3.9 million miles. Marcelo Gleiser of NPR’s 13.7 blog writes:

“Far into the future, with the continuous slowing-down of Earth’s spin, a day will last about 47 hours and the distance to the Moon will be 43 percent longer than today.”

But we certainly won’t be around to see it. That is, unless you can survive the explosion of the sun. — rachel

Photo: NASA

Happy Weekend! Catch you Monday, Internet!

2012 04 17 - 3005 - Washington DC - Space Shuttle Discovery (by thisisbossi)

iwilleatyourzombieface:

DREAMS = SHATTERED

Why Exploring Space Still Matters (via @morningedition)

npr:

fromageetalpinisme:

Space shuttle flying over DC this morning.

The Space Shuttle taken from the roof of the NPR headquarters. -Savy

morning Internet!

Earth from Mars (by NASA on The Commons)

How to take Pictures of Auroras

Colorful Aurora Borealis, Ester Dome, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska (21) (by DavidBroome)

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit — and that now we have a chance to revisit it. That would be our favorite thing, if we could take a whole new crack at the problem — and a new way of understanding it. In physics, it seems like whenever we get a completely new understanding … it somehow subsumes the previous understandings and it … adds an extra level of sophistication.

— Saul Perlmutter, on his (shared) discovery that the universe’s expansion is speeding up and not slowing down, as previously thought. 

Monday: a discussion about dark matter, expanding universes, physics, and more with physicist Saul Perlmutter. You might have heard the name. He just shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. (pic via hier0glyphs/NASA)

respicefinem:

A Launch Photo 30 Years In The Making

This is all kinds of awesome.

yearoftheshark:

Liftoff at 15 Seconds, 1982, Jack Perlmutter

3…2…1…

This stunning 360 degree panorama of the night sky was stitched together from 37,000 images by a first-time astrophotographer.

Audio is now up for Dave Davies’ interview with Marc Kaufman about astrobiology and the search for life in the universe. Enjoy!

Today’s Fresh Air is about the ongoing search for life in the universe: “There are undoubtedly billions or trillions of planets out there and there are most likely billions in the Milky Way itself — just one of billions of galaxies. There are billions of planets in habitable zones in relation to their stars that would allow for water to be liquid and for other important conditions for life.”

A fascinating story about a Russian cosmonaut up in space, crying because he knew he was never coming home (photo of the speech prepared just-in-case something happened to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had they been marooned or killed.)