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HD 1080p Wallpaper Of The Day; A Thanksgiving Two-Fer
Wow, it has been over a month since we’ve brought you one of our famously popular HD 1080p Wallpapers of the Day, that’s just way to long so we’re going to double up today… tomorrow’s Thanksgiving after all! Below is a shot of the Crab Nebula as seen from the tag team duo of the [...]
Continue reading...HD 1080p Wallpaper Of The Day; Saturn Head On
7. October 2009
Today’s 1920×1080 HD wallpaper comes at you courtesy of NASA and the Cassini Spacecraft. The shot below is a digital composite of Saturn and it’s ring’d plane pointed directly at the Sun. We’ve also included a 1920×1200 version of the wallpaper for consumption. If you like this wallpaper be sure to check out all of our Wallpaper of the [...]
Continue reading...Use The Masses To Count The Stars… BRILLIANT!
18. February 2009
Thousands of astronomers are kicking themselves in the ass and having a "why didn’t I think of that?" moment. Astronomers now have over a million images of galaxies far, far away taken by telescopes that they need to classify into galaxy types, such as Spirals, Bared and Elliptical. In comes Dr. Chris Lintott of Oxford [...]
Continue reading...HD 1080p Wallpaper Of The Day; Spiral Out, Keep Going
17. February 2009
Today’s HD 1080p wallpaper of the day comes to us courtesy of NASA’s Hubble telescope. The following image is of the Messier 101 spiral galaxy and is a composite of the infrared colors from Spitzer observatory, visible colors from the Hubble space telescope and the x-ray colors from Chandra observatory. If you liked M101 in [...]
Continue reading...NASA’s 10 Greatest Achievements
16. February 2009
How Stuff Works has an entertaining read regarding the 10 greatest achievements. The article is 11 pages in length… we’ll sum it up for you here: 10. Explorer 1, the First U.S. Satellite (1958)09. Hubble Space Telescope, the Universe Unveiled (1990-present)08. Chandra X-ray Observatory, the High-energy Universe (1999- present)07. Pioneer 10, Flight to Jupiter (1972-1997)06. Apollo [...]
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25. November 2009
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