My Life In A Picture

This is wonderful.

via Phil Plait

Imagine if Blank Space had been recorded back in the 40′s…what might that have sounded like? I put an amp filter on PMJ’s version of it, and I gotta say, the 40′s sounds good with some taylorswift :)

Solving the data processing alone is mindnumbing…

The amount of sensory information collected pose a huge storage problem and require real-time signal processing to reduce the information to relevant data. In mid 2011 it was estimated the array could generate an exabyte a day of raw data, which could be compressed to around 10 petabytes.

Square Kilometre Array

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a radio telescope project that will be built in Australia and South Africa. It will have a total collecting area of approximately one square kilometre. It will operate over a wide range of frequencies and its size will make it 50 times more sensitive than any other radio instrument.

The Square Kilometre Array SKA

Scientists in Japan, Russia and the US have discovered four new elements, which means the seventh row of the Periodic table is finally filled!! WAY TO GO SCIENCE!!

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I never thought I’d have competition for the most startorial Emily on the planet, but Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist at the Planetary Society (and the third most followed astronomer on twitter) is bringing it! After winding up with the Fibonacci spiral dress by @shenovafashion, she is dazzling in the super star dress from Belle Neptune, as posted by the Planetary Society on Instagram.

I haven’t identified the source image yet, but I suspect it is a globular cluster, perhaps one with a lot of unusually blue stars like Messier 53.

Watch this space to see Emily’s closest approach (and who she joins forces with) tomorrow!

–Emily

It’s magically delicious http://cute-overload.tumblr.com source: http://imgur.com/r/aww/aPFzTID

You just scrolled over a high-res segment of the Andromeda galaxy. How does NASA get its photos to look so spectacular? The same way as everyone else.