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isntthatwizard: wibbly wobbly challenge | good times vs bad...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:02:05 -0400

_{wibbly wobbly challenge} _{| good times vs bad times}

_{When I was a child, my favorite story was about a man who lived forever, but whose eyes were heavy with the weight of all he had seen. A man who fell from the stars.}

mystic-revelations: Canada & Montana By Dangerous…Dan

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:37:47 -0400

mystic-revelations:

Canada & Montana

By Dangerous…Dan

awkwardsituationist: high tide and low tide in great britain....

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:37:21 -0400

awkwardsituationist:

high tide and low tide in great britain. photographs by michael marten

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:11:04 -0400

rllygay: The Highest Point of 102 Road by anchi. on Flickr.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:05:25 -0400

rllygay:

The Highest Point of 102 Road by anchi. on Flickr.

kenobi-wan-obi: Milky Way Shows 84 Million Stars in 9 Billion...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:54:59 -0400

kenobi-wan-obi:

Milky Way Shows 84 Million Stars in 9 Billion Pixels

Side Note: The two images shown above are mere crop outs from ESA’s recent hit: The 9 Billion Pixel Image of 84 Million Stars. These two focus on the bright center of the image for the purpose of highlighting what a peak at 84,000,000 stars looks like.

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile have released a breathtaking new photograph showing the central area of our Milky Way galaxy. The photograph shows a whopping 84 million stars in an image measuring 108500×81500, which contains nearly 9 billion pixels.

It’s actually a composite of thousands of individual photographs shot with the observatory’s VISTA survey telescope, the same camera that captured the amazing 55-hour exposure. Three different infrared filters were used to capture the different details present in the final image.

The VISTA’s camera is sensitive to infrared light, which allows its vision to pierce through much of the space dust that blocks the view of ordinary optical telescope/camera systems.

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