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Sun, 19 May 2013 00:58:25 -0400

astronomy-picture-of-the-day: Black Hole-Powered Jets Plow Into...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:17:59 -0400

Black Hole-Powered Jets Plow Into Galaxy.

This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) and radio waves from the NSF’s Very Large Array (pink).

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Image Credit: NASA

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Tue, 14 May 2013 04:59:49 -0400

oxane: Daft Punk

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:32:20 -0400

oxane:

Daft Punk

spacettf: Repairing the Station in Orbit by NASA Goddard Photo...

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:31:48 -0400

spacettf:

Repairing the Station in Orbit by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Expedition 35 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy (pictured) and Tom Marshburn (out of frame) completed a spacewalk at 2:14 p.m. EDT May 11, 2013 to inspect and replace a pump controller box on the International Space Station’s far port truss (P6) leaking ammonia coolant. The two NASA astronauts began the 5-hour, 30-minute spacewalk at 8:44 a.m.

A leak of ammonia coolant from the area near or at the location of a Pump and Flow Control Subassembly was detected on Thursday, May 9, prompting engineers and flight controllers to begin plans to support the spacewalk. The device contains the mechanical systems that drive the cooling functions for the port truss.

Image Credit: NASA

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Sun, 12 May 2013 21:51:21 -0400

efjace: An astronaut (Chris Hadfield) and his team just...

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:53:45 -0400

efjace:

An astronaut (Chris Hadfield) and his team just recorded a cover/music video to Space Oddity IN SPACE and uploaded it to Youtube…FROM SPACE.

YOU GUYS.
From. Effing. Space.
I just. I can’t process. It’s too awesome. I’ve never felt so happy/proud of our day and age and just, there is no reason on this planet (or outside of it) you can’t accomplish WHATEVER it is you want to do. So inspiring.

(And since I’ve never uploaded a video to Tumblr, I don’t know if it’ll work, here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo )

kayoung1227: Who’s car is this??? Wow! #different #space...

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:53:05 -0400

kayoung1227:

Who’s car is this??? Wow! #different #space #rocket #wth

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Sun, 12 May 2013 20:50:31 -0400

#mojave with MK KAISER @marissakaiser #rachelsladder

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:12:19 -0400

#mojave with MK KAISER @marissakaiser #rachelsladder

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Wed, 08 May 2013 08:02:27 -0400

letsdolaunch: Eject

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:00:24 -0400

letsdolaunch:

Eject

new-aesthetic: The halfcat, attracting newly revived interest...

Wed, 08 May 2013 07:33:18 -0400

new-aesthetic:

The halfcat, attracting newly revived interest on Twitter thanks to this blog post, appears to have first been spotted in this blog post in August 2009. But there are no attributions. The latest reports pin it to Street View - not mentioned in the original posting - and it certainly appears to be Street View image, but, lacking coordinates, the halfcat seems destined to be a mystery forever, one of any number of mythical beings, lost in the Clouds.

More interesting than the halfcat’s strangeness, perhaps, is its unknowability. Someone saw the halfcat, snapped it, but the route back is lost. The databases contain such multitudes of new myths.

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Wed, 08 May 2013 07:24:20 -0400

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:47:11 -0400

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:15:29 -0400

cad-ein-sof: NGC 869 (left) and NGC 884 make up the Double...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:14:25 -0400

cad-ein-sof:

NGC 869 (left) and NGC 884 make up the Double Cluster in the… - Source: http://bit.ly/15oqsYr; Follow

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:13:33 -0400

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:52:40 -0400