yaxche cosmology

Solar eclipse above clouds

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:24:26 -0300

Solar eclipse above clouds

Some pics of planet LV 223, a conceptual planet from the movie...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:13:50 -0300

Some pics of planet LV 223, a conceptual planet from the movie “Prometheus” directed by Ridley Scott in 2012

The eye of the cyclone is an enormous 1,250 miles across....

Mon, 06 May 2013 01:37:21 -0300

The eye of the cyclone is an enormous 1,250 miles across. That’s 20 times larger than the typical eye of a hurricane here on Earth. And it’s spinning super-fast. Clouds at the outer edge of the storm are whipping around at 330 mph

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the...

Mon, 06 May 2013 01:36:00 -0300

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole.

All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:07:51 -0300

All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS (by David Peterson)

aurora borealis meets meteor.

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:25:00 -0300

aurora borealis meets meteor.

French astronomers think they found Tatooine in real life and we...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:05:50 -0300

French astronomers think they found Tatooine in real life and we didn’t even have to travel to a galaxy far, far away (well, it’s still kind of far). The fictional home of Luke Skywalker is called 2MASS0103(AB)b in real life and it revolves around two suns that move relatively close together. Basically, this planet is in the binary star system just like Tatooine.

fuck, am in love again.

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:18:00 -0300

fuck, am in love again.

A team of scientists has revealed a cloudy atmosphere containing...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:17:55 -0300

A team of scientists has revealed a cloudy atmosphere containing water vapor and carbon monoxide on the distant planet HR 8799c.

Comet McNaught

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:02:40 -0300

Comet McNaught

Curiosity Rover Self-Portrait.

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:17:00 -0300

Curiosity Rover Self-Portrait.

From motion picture “Melancholia” 2011 by Lars von...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:52:35 -0300

From motion picture “Melancholia” 2011 by Lars von Trier.

Director of photography Manuel Alberto Claro.

From motion picture “Melancholia” 2011 by Lars von...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:52:00 -0300

From motion picture “Melancholia” 2011 by Lars von Trier.

Director of photography Manuel Alberto Claro.

From motion picture “Melancholia” 2011 by Lars von...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:51:43 -0300

From motion picture “Melancholia” 2011 by Lars von Trier.

Director of photography Manuel Alberto Claro

From motion picture “Melancholia” 2011 by Lars von...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:51:01 -0300

From motion picture “Melancholia” 2011 by Lars von Trier.

Director of photography Manuel Alberto Claro

NASA’s SDO Observes Fast-Growing Sunspot As magnetic...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:54:31 -0300

NASA’s SDO Observes Fast-Growing Sunspot

As magnetic fields on the sun rearrange and realign, dark spots known as sunspots can appear on its surface. Over the course of Feb. 19-20, 2013, scientists watched a giant sunspot form in under 48 hours. It has grown to over six Earth diameters across but its full extent is hard to judge since the spot lies on a sphere not a flat disk.

The spot quickly evolved into what’s called a delta region, in which the lighter areas around the sunspot, the penumbra, exhibit magnetic fields that point in the opposite direction of those fields in the center, dark area. This is a fairly unstable configuration that scientists know can lead to eruptions of radiation on the sun called solar flares.

you gotta love it

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:36:43 -0300

you gotta love it

Nicolaus Copernicus 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543 Was a...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:37:00 -0300

Nicolaus Copernicus 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543

Was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe.

The publication of Copernicus’ epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, is considered a major event in the history of science. It began the Copernican Revolution and contributed importantly to the rise of the ensuing Scientific Revolution. Copernicus’ heliocentric theory placed the Sun at the center of the solar system and described that system’s mechanics in mathematical rather than Aristotelian terms.

One of the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, jurist with a doctorate in law, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classics scholar, translator, artist, Catholic cleric, governor, diplomat and economist.

Flux Ropes on the Sun This is an image of magnetic loops on the...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:31:23 -0300

Flux Ropes on the Sun

This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has been processed to highlight the edges of each loop to make the structure more clear.

A meteor seen flying over Russia on Feb. 15 at 3:20: 26 UTC...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:31:18 -0300

A meteor seen flying over Russia on Feb. 15 at 3:20: 26 UTC impacted Chelyabinsk. Preliminary information is that this object was unrelated to asteroid 2012 DA14, which made a safe pass by Earth.