The Big Foto Planck was selected as the third Medium-Sized Mission (M3) of ESA’s Horizon 2000 Scientific Programme, and is today part of its Cosmic Vision Programme. It is designed to image the anisotropies of the Cosmic Background Radiation Field over the whole sky, with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution. Planck will provide a major source of information [...]
We can see today 2 great examples of time lapse videos from night photographies.
The first one is a time lapse video of the sky over the 2009 Nova Sedis Fall Star Party at Chiefland Astronomy Village in Florida. The time lapse was recorded from the evening of November 13 to the morning of November 14. [...]
This oil spill will probably become the worst oil slick ever and not only the US but all North Atlantic countries should help now, because if the oil is spreaded by ocean currents, it could be a major environmental disaster for the whole ocean.
In the following satellite images you can see how the oil [...]
This post shows the work of astrophotographer Daniel López from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) that works in Research and Divulgation areas. Among his work you can find deep sky images, Astro-TimeLapse, photographs of astronomical observatories, telescopes and everything related to astronomy and astrophotography.
Daniel’s astro-timelapse Viaje alucinante (“Amazing trip”) is already a classic. [...]
Last week one of NASA’s images of the day was the international space station(ISS) as seen from a german remote sensing satellite (#1), so I decided to find out more about the ISS.
In this set you can see the evolution of the International Space Station through some of the best shuttle mission imagery that [...]
Space, history, nature, people, animals, … I hope you have enjoyed them.
Note. Credits in this post link to orginal posts of this blog. Photo credits are placed on the landing pages.
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