Reblogged from unknownskywalker May 10th, 2012 at 12:55 pm 73 notes #space #science #videos #symphony of science“We Are Star Dust” - Symphony of Science
We are star dust, reaching out to the universe. The 15th Symphony of Science video featuring Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Richard Feynman and Lawrence Krauss.
It’s Hanko de Mayo!
It’s Hanko de Mayo! We all know Hank loves the James Webb Space Telescope, so hopefully he’ll like our gift. In addition to his gift, nerdfighteria is celebrating Hank’s birthday by letting our elected officials know that Increasing Awesome through scientific exploration is important to us. You’ll find the email I wrote my congressperson and senators below. You can copy it, amend it, or write your own. Here’s how:
AMERICANS:
Find your congressional representative here:
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
And your senators here:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Click through to their contact pages to email them.
NON-AMERICANS:
I do not know how to email your representatives, but I do know that it is possible in every democratic country, and since the James Webb Space Telescope is a collaboration among many nations, it’s likely that your government is involved. So let them know how much space exploration and science funding matter to you!
Here’s my letter:
Dear Congressman Carson,
My name is John Green. I’m a voter in your district, and I’m contacting you to ask that you work to increase federal government support for NASA and other scientific initiatives. NASA projects like the James Webb Space Telescope offer us the opportunity to understand the very beginning of our universe. For centuries, government-backed scientific programs have improved the lives of every person on the planet, and they are a gift to every person who will live after us. It’s vital that the United States lead the world in increasing awesome through scientific exploration and discovery. So please support NASA and projects like the James Webb Space Telescope.
It’s a big universe. And it is our privilege and responsibility as human beings to work to understand and appreciate it.
Best wishes,
John Green
HUGE thanks to everyone at NASA and Northrop Grumman who made Hank’s present possible, especially Ron Birk, Charlie Atkinson, and Rolf Danner. And thanks to Michael Gardner at ecogeek for facilitating the whole process. Happy Hanko de Mayo!
Happy Hanko de Mayo!
Reblogged from fishingboatproceeds May 5th, 2012 at 12:49 pm 701 notes #hank green #hanko de mayo #jwst #james webb space telescope #space #astronomy
Reblogged from Flickr / nasahqphoto April 27th, 2012 at 12:22 pm 97 notes #NASA #SCA #Enterprise #space shuttle #spaceShuttle Enterprise Flight To New York
Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), is seen off in the distance behind the Statue of Liberty, Friday, April 27, 2012, in New York. Enterprise was the first shuttle orbiter built for NASA performing test flights in the atmosphere and was incapable of spaceflight.
Originally housed at the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Enterprise will be demated from the SCA and placed on a barge that will eventually be moved by tugboat up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in June.
Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
During last month’s solar storm a group of students called Earth to Sky from Bishop, California, launched a helium balloon which lifted Camilla the rubber chicken into space to study solar radiation. Picture: Reuters/Nasa
Camilla is awesome.
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Reblogged from telegraph.co.uk April 23rd, 2012 at 2:01 pm 64 notes #will you look at her little knitted space suit #you go camille #space
Reblogged from Flickr / nasahqphoto April 19th, 2012 at 1:13 pm 40 notes #NASA #SCA #Discovery #space shuttle #spaceShuttle Discovery Is Demated From SCA
The space shuttle Discovery is suspended from a sling held by two cranes after the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) was pushed back from underneath at Washington Dulles International Airport, Thursday, April 19, 2012, in Sterling, VA.
Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles. NASA will transfer Discovery to the National Air and Space Museum to begin its new mission to commemorate past achievements in space and to educate and inspire future generations of explorers.
Reblogged from nasa.gov April 19th, 2012 at 1:06 pm 24 notes #Moon #Apollo 8 #space #videosLRO Brings “Earthrise” to Everyone
On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and crew members William A. Anders and James A. Lovell, Jr. became the first humans to photograph the Earth rising over the moon. Now, the rest of us can see what it was like in a new NASA visualization that draws on richly detailed maps of the moon’s surface made from data gathered by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The narration in this visualization comes from the original audio recording of the Apollo 8 astronauts. The flight time has been compressed for effect. The Earth in this visualization is not an exact duplication of what the astronauts saw but a mosaic of more recent images taken by Earth-observing satellites. Representative clouds were then layered on top of the mosaic.
The cracked, icy face of Enceladus, lit by yellow Saturnshine and backlit by the Sun, was imaged by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft a week ago. In Greek mythology, Enceladus was a Giant imprisoned under the island of Sicily, and his breath the volcanic fires of Mt. Etna. At the south pole of Enceladus (bottom left in this image), cryovolcanic plumes can be seen throwing a haze of water vapor high above the moon (image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/color composite Gordan Ugarkovic).
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Reblogged from peterfries April 13th, 2012 at 3:54 pm 15 notes #enceladus #space #saturn #moon #favorite moon
Reblogged from unknownskywalker April 10th, 2012 at 2:38 pm 48 notes #ISS #Earth #spaceThe Great Barrier Reef as seen from the ISS
Captured by André Kuipers on 29 March 2012, The Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
