TagsTagsA great piece at the New York Times by Dennis Overbye looks at the latest research from the Hubble Space Telescope’s new Wide Field Camera 3, which is recording images from a time ever closer to the beginning of the universe itself: With Updated Hubble Telescope, Reaching Farther Back in ...
Astronomy, Milky Way, Galaxies, Photography, Space, Hubble Space Telescope
It’s a wonderful feeling to be able to inspire creativity in people, and this tribute by some right wing admirers is a great example. This must have taken some time and effort to produce! Truly I am blessed, to be such a large influence on their lives. [Video] Thanks for the plug, ...
Little Green Footballs, Calendar, Photographs, Photography, 2010
This really is the new golden age of astronomy. Now the three telescopic stars in this new age (Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer) have been joined by another awesome new tool: VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy). And the VISTA team is now releasing their first images, including this ...
Now available at Lulu.com in time for Christmas and the New Year — the Little Green Footballs 2010 Calendar, featuring 13 beautiful high resolution versions of photographs I’ve posted at LGF. It's $24.99, Lulu.com handles all the printing and shipping, I get 10 bucks, and they get the difference. Not ...
Little Green Footballs, Calendar, Photographs, Photography, 2010
Phil Plait has a great description of what you see in this stunning new picture of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, a mosaic comprised of images from the Hubble (visible light), Chandra (X-rays), and Spitzer (infrared) space telescopes. There is so much going on in this image it’s ...
A spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope’s newly-installed Wide Field Camera 3, showing a birthplace of stars in the nearby galaxy M83: Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel. (Hat tip: Phil Plait, who has interesting commentary on how this image was generated, and what you’re seeing.) ...
Science, Space, Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Photography, Galaxies, Universe
Astrophotographer Axel Mellinger of Central Michigan University has created a new panoramic image of the Milky Way galaxy. You may have seen version 1.0 of Mellinger’s panorama; it’s even for sale as a poster at Amazon. Version 2.0 is an order of magnitude more detailed. It was assembled from more than ...
Newly released images from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys give us a look at two galaxies that are losing it. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) allows astronomers to study an interesting and important phenomenon called ram pressure stripping that is so powerful, it is capable of ...
Science, Space, Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Photography, Galaxies, Universe
I have a Nikon D90 digital SLR camera, and love it. I’ve used the D90’s still photography capabilities quite a bit, but one of the items on my to-do list is to further explore the camera’s high definition video features. The nice thing about a DSLR that shoots HD video is ...
Photography, Cameras, Digital SLR, Digital Cameras, Nikon, Canon, Video
Here’s an excellent high definition video on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field images, with a 3D simulation that flies you through Hubble’s most awe-inspiring photographs. The Deep Field images were created by pointing the Hubble Space Telescope for several days at a tiny patch of apparently empty sky — “empty” sky ...
Science, Space, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Photography, Deep Field, Galaxies, Universe
Here’s a creative use for disassembled vintage and antique cameras. (More information on the film at The Falcon.) [Video]
Some recommended books I’m currently reading (or have just finished) on my Kindle, with one-line reviews:
Books, Kindle, Tim Dorsey, Tim Powers, Climate Change, Photography, Photoshop, zombies
An ingenious promo film for the Olympus PEN camera, comprised of more than 60,000 photographs: [Video]
Ten years ago APOD ran this photograph, a view from the Mir Space Station of the Moon’s shadow passing over the Earth during a total solar eclipse. (Hat tip: Racer X.)
Science, Solar Eclipse, Photography, Mir Space Station, Space, Space Exploration
The first crystal clear images from the high resolution cameras on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have been released, showing an area near the Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds): NASA - LRO’s First Moon Images.
Science, Space, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Moon, NASA, Photography
An incredible 3D image captured by an astronaut in the International Space Station as it passed over the Sarychev Peak volcanic eruption on June 12, 2009. [Video] Astronaut photograph ISS020-E-9048 was acquired on June 12, 2009, with a Nikon D2XS digital camera fitted with a 400 mm lens, and is provided ...
Volcano Monitoring, Volcanic Eruption, Space, International Space Station, ISS, Photography
Striking high resolution images from Iran, at Boston.com’s Big Picture: Iran’s Disputed Election.
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Election, rioting, Technology, Internet, Gadgets, Photography
Here’s an excellent resource for digital camera freaks and geeks, packed with lucid explanations of the sometimes confusing terms and techniques that produce the best photographs: Cameraworks.
Here’s a good article at Scientific American on 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo.
Looks like someone got a little ... uh ... over-zealous with Photoshop in a yearbook for McKinney High School in Texas: Students’ photos altered in McKinney yearbook. Imagine posing for a yearbook photo and ending up with someone else’s body – or looking nude – in the final product. Yearbook photos ...