Twenty-two awesome pictures from history.
Twenty-two awesome pictures from history.
Tag: photography
The universe as seen by astronauts on ISS.
The universe as seen by astronauts on ISS.
A 2010 expedition has now released some spectacular new images of the wreck of the Titanic.
A 2010 expedition has now released some spectacular new images of the wreck of the Titanic.
Nine incredible places on Earth. With pictures.
Nine incredible places on Earth. With pictures.
Clouds inside a room.
Clouds inside a room. With pictures.
The Battle of the Bulge in photos
The Battle of the Bulge, in photos.
Mark “Indy” Kochte – West Virginia Nights 2011
An evening pause: Time lapse photography by Mark “Indy” Kochte. At one point the time-lapse sequence shows Seneca Rocks near the end of the day, with the lights of the climbers visible as they rappel off the mountain.
World War II: After the war, in photos
World War II: After the war, in photos.
Pictures of London’s Tower Bridge, taken during construction in the 1890s, discovered
Cool images: Lost for more than a hundred years, a set of pictures taken during the construction of London’s Tower Bridge in the 1890s have been rediscovered.
Ray Lynch – The Vanished Gardens of Cordoba
An evening pause: Let’s relax with some good music and nature photography. Music by Ray Lynch.
A Random Collection Of Awesome Things
A random collection of awesome things. In pictures.
Hubble captures a necklace in space
Who needs aliens and imagined cities on the moon when you have a reality that produces such strange and beautiful things as the image on the right?
On July 2, the Hubble Space Telescope took this image of a planetary nebula, aptly dubbed the Necklace Nebula. As the caption explains,
A pair of stars orbiting close together produced the nebula, also called PN G054.2-03.4. About 10,000 years ago one of the aging stars ballooned to the point where it engulfed its companion star. The smaller star continued orbiting inside its larger companion, increasing the giant’s rotation rate.
The bloated companion star spun so fast that a large part of its gaseous envelope expanded into space. Due to centrifugal force, most of the gas escaped along the star’s equator, producing a ring. The embedded bright knots are dense gas clumps in the ring.
The binary still exists, and can be seen as the star in the center of the necklace. The two stars are now only a few million miles apart and complete an orbit around each other in about a day.