Chris Petescia
Co-founder of Carrot Creative, design geek, practical hippie, music enthusiast and generally creative individual who finds inspiration through imagination.
Located in Park Slope & DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.
Dreaming in a galaxy far, far away....
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
SMOKE MONSTER It was late in the northern martian spring when the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spied this local denizen. Tracking south and east (down and right) across the flat, dust-covered Amazonis Planitia the core of the whirling dust devil is about 30 meters in diameter, while its plume reaches about 800 feet into the thin Martian atmosphere. (Photo via NASA APOD)
I’ve posted this before but it’s just so freakin’ beautiful.
Carl Sagan is my Spirit Animal
- shirt available today on teefury
Solaris
(Source: neipula)
Temporal Distortion by Randy Halverson
(Featuring an original score by Bear McCreary)
Milky Way, Stars and Aurora Borealis Over Planet Earth
Look up at the stars…
Astronomers Aim To Take First Picture of Black Hole
Taking a picture of a black hole, an object so gravitationally bound that not even photons of light can escape, sounds like an oxymoron, but astronomers this week will attempt to do just that.
What they’re hoping to glimpse is something called the “event horizon” — the swirl of matter and energy that are visible around the rim of the black hole just before it falls into the abyss.
Read the whole article, it’s amazing.
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Astronomers report that they have taken the measure of the biggest, baddest black holes yet found in the universe, abyssal yawns 10 times the size of our solar system into which billions of Suns have vanished like a guilty thought.
One of these monsters, which weighs as much as 21 billion Suns, is in an egg-shaped swirl of stars known as NGC 4889, the brightest galaxy in a sprawling cloud of thousands of galaxies about 336 million light-years away in the Coma constellation.
The other black hole, a graveyard for the equivalent of 9.7 billion Suns, more or less, lurks in the center of NGC 3842, a galaxy that anchors another cluster known as Abell 1367, 331 million light-years away in Leo.
“These are the most massive reliably-measured black holes ever,” said Nicholas J. McConnell, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in an e-mail, referring to the new observations.
These results are more than just cool and record-setting. Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope over the years have shown that such monster black holes seem to inhabit the centers of all galaxies — the bigger the galaxy, the bigger the black hole. Researchers said that the new work could shed light on the role these black holes play in the formation and evolution of galaxies.
The New York Times, “Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet.”
Prepare the red matter!!! OH WAIT RED MATTER WON’T MATTER!
(via inothernews)
“Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011.”
via Mike Lebowitz
