Our Beautiful Universe - Photos and Videos

In summary: I love it and the clip finishes with a great quote:In summary, these threads are all about the beauty and awesomeness of our Universe. If you feel like it, please share video clips and photos (or nice animations) of space and objects in space in this thread. Your posts, clips and photos may by all means include scientific information; that does not make it less beautiful to me (n.b. the posts must of course comply with the PF guidelines, i.e. regarding science, only mainstream science is allowed, fringe/pseudoscience is not allowed).
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Coming attractions :woot:.
 
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OmCheeto said:
Whatever you do, listen to that one line; "manual focus is critical for doing star photography"
Point well taken, these tips will end up saving me significant money as well as substantial heartbreak, I really do owe you guys more than a simple thanks :smile:

OmCheeto said:
I want to stab myself... :oldcry:
Don't do it! I'm pretty sure the experience is overrated. :frown:
 
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Andy Resnick said:
Truer words have rarely been spoken.
:thumbup:
 
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davenn said:
PS... all these posts should really be in another thread of their own :rolleyes:
This is a great suggestion, there is always a shortage of good advice in the world.
 
  • #110
Not quite in space, but going to space... I simply had to share the photo here when I saw it a while ago...
Page said:
What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle. Sometimes, if you looked out the window of an airplane at just the right place and time, you could have seen something very unusual -- a space shuttle launching to orbit.
Source: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150524.html
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  • #111
south of Australia.jpg

Here's one for Dave, NASA's pic of the day, south of Oz.
And another "killer" ISS view. :thumbup:

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Cygnus returning from...
 
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excellent!
 
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Western US
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Eastern US
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  • #117
I chose to show some pictures of the ISS from Earth:

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And a time lapse:
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  • #118
A couple of APOD beauties here. :thumbup:
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Night time lights over Europe.
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Earth seen from space Time-lapse footage - ISS FullHD 1080p Night/day

 
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look at all that light pollution ... so difficult to do astronomy :frown:
 
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NGC1000 and IC5067
North America nebula and Pelican nebula
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  • #125
Heh- that's where I'm looking right now (400mm, about 50 minutes exposure):

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  • #129
Pardon the "Star trek plugs" but this is very cool. Hubble is "lookin' good"

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For the 15.95MB download (very zoom-able) :thumbup:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2016/28/image/a/warn/
 
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  • #130
4 nights of good viewing in the past few weeks has yielded the veil nebula:

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Deets: 400/2.8 lens, 15s ISO800 exposures, total integration time = 68 minutes.

A few details of the various parts:

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  • #131
Andy Resnick said:
4 nights of good viewing in the past few weeks has yielded the veil nebula:
Very impressive, @Andy Resnick! :smile:
 
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Ok, now I'm posting a long video here (1 hour 40 minutes), but it is worth watching for those who are interested in astronomy/astrophysics and particularly gravitational waves:
World Science Festival said:
Published on 22 Jun 2016
On September 14th, 2015, a ripple in the fabric of space, created by the violent collision of two distant black holes over a billion years ago, washed across the Earth. As it did, two laser-based detectors, 50 years in the making – one in Louisiana and the other in Washington State – momentarily twitched, confirming a century-old prediction by Albert Einstein and marking the opening of a new era in astronomy. Join some of the very scientists responsible for this most anticipated discovery of our age and see how gravitational waves will be used to explore the universe like never before.

This program will feature exclusive footage from director Les Guthman’s upcoming documentary chronicling the drama of the gravitational waves discovery.

Original Program Date: June 4, 2016
MODERATOR: Brian Greene
PARTICIPANTS: Barry Barish, Nergis Mavalvala, Frans Pretorius, David Shoemaker, Rai Weiss

Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins (World Science Festival)
 
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Top 15 Space Station Earth Images of 2015
The following images were taken by astronauts on board the International Space Station. This Top 15 list was selected by NASA Johnson Space Center's Earth Observations team.

Page is here: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/top-15-earth-images-of-2015
Examples:

Red Sprites, northwest Mexico
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Rivers and Snow in the Himalayas, China and India
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Scandinavia at Night
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  • #135
:thumbup::thumbup:
 
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  • #137
DennisN said:
Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA captured a series of photos on April 25, 2016, for this composite image of the setting sun reflected by the ocean.
Image Credit: NASA

Source: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sunset-from-the-international-space-station

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I love that shot, the zoomed in telephoto images are great, I tried posting that one a bit ago but got an error message that said file to large, you must know a trick I haven't learned yet.
 
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1oldman2 said:
I love that shot, the zoomed in telephoto images are great, I tried posting that one a bit ago but got an error message that said file to large, you must know a trick I haven't learned yet.
I clicked with the right mouse button over the photo on the NASA page and then selected "copy image location". After that I pasted the copied image location into the image url box that appears when you click the button "image" in the PhysicsForums post toolbar... (my computer runs Windows as OS and Firefox as browser)... :smile:
 
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I saw a similar image yesterday:

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At first, I thought it was some silly photoshop type thing.
But then, I discovered, that it was real.

ps. I'm pretty sure that mom or dad had some hand in this, as the headline said it was a couple of kids, aged 9 & 11, that were responsible for this experiment.
[ref]
 
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OmCheeto said:
ps. I'm pretty sure that mom or dad had some hand in this, as the headline said it was a couple of kids, aged 9 & 11, that were responsible for this experiment.
Mom or dad get a passing grade as well as the kids. :thumbup:
That must be Banks lake to the left of cat.
 
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