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Check out this amazing video taken by International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank of Comet Lovejoy, the sungrazing comet that just last week survived its close encounter with the Sun.
Lovejoy was also visible for us Earth-dwellers, and I found some great pictures on Flickr. This one is a particular favourite, taken just yesterday in rural Argentina by user lrargerich.
And with that I’d like to wish you all lots of love & joy for the festive season!
Check out this gorgeous timelapse taken from the ISS! Details on data sources and how the timelapse was made on the YouTube page.
h/t to Rob for posting.
The last ever space shuttle flight is almost over. After its final visit to the International Space Station, Atlantis is preparing to return to Earth tomorrow, marking the end of a long and eventful era in the human exploration of space. Astronaut Mike Dexter Fossum has been posting some beautiful pictures online – this one is particularly gorgeous, showing Atlantis docked at the ISS with a beautiful aurora display in the background. I love the hashtag #FromSpace – just in case you were, you know, confused about that.
Endeavour, ready for launch. Credit: Ken Kremer
If you’ve never watched the Space Shuttle launch – either live or via NASA’s web feed - you’ve got just two chances left! Endeavour should launch later today, at 08:56 EDT. That’s 14:56 in Western Europe or 13:56 in the UK, just in time for your post-lunch coffee break. It’s the last ever launch for Endeavour, which makes space enthusiasts a little misty eyed. The 6 astronauts will be carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the ISS. AMS-02 is a cosmic ray detector that will collect and analyse energetic particles as they travel through space. From these data we can gain important new insights into the nature of the unseen stuff – dark matter – in the Universe. The experiment has a neat website with lots of info and video , as well as a twitter feed. There’s a nice 365Days podcast today about this cool particle physics experiment.
I’ll be watching!
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