Fly Through Space

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.

New Day

Sunrise, seen from the ISS. Beautiful!

Image: NASA

Spitzer: The Musical

Wow. This is really special. Go on, watch it in HD.

Blogging holiday

Bit of a holiday, back in a few weeks. Meanwhile, enjoy the first all-sky map released from cosmic microwave background satellite Planck!

Herschel looks into the Heart of Darkness

Star formation in Gould's Belt

Last week a big conference took place at the European Space Agency hub ESTEC, down the road in Noordwijk. The town was inundated with the lucky scientists who got to play with the first data from the new infrared space observatory Herschel and were finally allowed to talk about it to the rest of the world. And now that the conference is over, as expected, science from Herschel is everywhere!

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