Ex Astris Scientia — kaijuno: I’ve been working on editing space...

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I’ve been working on editing space images into “space porn”, specifically working with tilt shift. The photos were taken by Hubble but I processed and edited them into what they look like now. I emailed them to my old astro prof who thought they were “ethereal and god damn gorgeous” so I thought I’d post them lol

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cosmicvastness: “Light continues to echo three years after stellar outburstThe Hubble Space Telescope’s image from 2005 of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. The...
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Light continues to echo three years after stellar outburst

The Hubble Space Telescope’s image from 2005 of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. The effect, called a light echo, has been unveiling never-before-seen dust patterns ever since the star suddenly brightened for several weeks in early 2002.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0503a/
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A Montage of the Carina Nebula

The Carina Nebula (known by astronomers as NGC 3372) is sometimes called the Great Nebula in Carina or the Grand Nebula. These images taken by the Hubble space telescope show the magnificent structure within the Carina Nebula. These images contain regions of dense star formation, interstellar winds, massive particle clouds and much more. Many of these structures are hundreds of light-years across and make the size of our solar system look pathetic in comparison. The Carine Nebula is about 10,000 light-years away from earth and is located in the constellation Carina.

Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble

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I’ve been asked in the past to teach people about astronomy over the internet, and I do not have the time to do that. I do, however, have the time to upload all of my astronomy notes, various charts and graphs, and one particularly heart wrenching lecture about global warming via my very passionate astrophysics professor, and possibly in the future even lecture slides. All for free. To dropbox. Right here.

The content follows the book The Essential Cosmic Perspective by Bennett, but can be adapted for any intro level course 

The notes include:

  1. Developing perspective
  2. Key concepts for astronomy
  3. Formation of the solar system, analysis of the planets as well as other small bodies
  4. Stars, their formation, classification, and death
  5. Galaxies, their formation, classification, dark matter, dark energy, and the fate of the universe
  6. The Drake Equation

Other content:

  1. Graphs
  2. Charts
  3. Helpful graphics
  4. The Most Important Lecture
  5. The Most Important Lecture Slides

I am also willing to update this as I find more things to add, possibly interesting articles, videos, etc. So if you find something interesting to share, send me a link!

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