Posts tagged astronomy
Stunning unintentional capture of a meteor burning across the night sky in this time-lapse video by Colin Legg originally set up to track Asteroid 2012 DA 14 flying by Earth.
(via It’s Okay To Be Smart)
Kepler Discovers a Planet with Two Suns
NASA Science:
The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA’s Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet — a planet orbiting two stars — 200 light-years from Earth.
Terje Sørgjerd is back with another incredible timelapse. This time, from El Teide, Spain’s highest mountain.
This is one of many amazing photos on Flickr of the March 19 super perigee moon. Rob Lind snapped it. Here are some of my other faves:
(Angela)
(George)
Unfortunately, none of these moon shots were featured in NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. That honor went to Anthony Ayiomamitis who captured a regular—not “super”—full moon over the Parthenon on January 19, 2011:
NASA also posted a photo of last weekend’s super perigee moon rising near the Lincoln Memorial in DC, but it pales in comparison to the one rising over London .
