Whole universe

Trying to imagine the scope of the cosmos is nearly impossible, but musician and artist Pablo Carlos Budassi decided to make a visual attempt by cramming the entire known universe into a single image. Using scores of satellite images and photos snapped from NASA’s rovers, he painstakingly pieced together many of the prominent features of the universe as observed from our solar system in the form of a logarithmic map. Logarithms are useful for understanding large numbers or distances, so in…

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History of the Universe - a timeline of the cosmos [#science #cosmology]

A star exploded just 625 million years after the Big Bang, but the radiation of this event didn’t reach Earth until last spring. This gamma-ray burst was named GRB 090423. It is the most distant astronomical object yet discovered. Jochen Greiner and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching investigate such cosmic ‘ignition sparks’ at the edge of space and time.

NGC 6217 Constellation: Ursa Minor Distance: 67 million light years RA: 16h 32m 39.217s Dec: +78° 11′ 53.56″ NGC 6217 is a barred spiral galaxy located...

Earth different colors art

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.