Our best image yet of Pluto and Charon, pretty exciting stuff.
New Horizons is travelling 5 billion km to reach Pluto. To put that distance into perspective: it’s really fucking far.
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The Last Planet
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This is a sweded parody of “Space Oddity,” the David Bowie song (and music video). The lyrics contain only the thousand most common words in English. It’s a loving tribute to David Bowie and it’s inspired by Flight of the Conchords, Michel Gondry, and especially the Up-Goer Five diagram by Randall Munroe.
On a related note, Randall Munroe’s next book will be Thing Explainer, an extension of his Up Goer Five strip a few years ago. It will probably be worth your money if What If? is anything to go by.
(via Waxy)
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Korean Seaweed Farms
From NASA.
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Earth
Aerosol optical thickness of black and organic carbon (green), dust (red-orange), sulfates (white), and sea salt (blue)…also included are locations, indicated by red and yellow dots, of wildfires and human-initiated burning as detected by the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites.
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Kepler-16b
Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren’t good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that the movie’s iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction.
NASA release retro travel posters for some newly discovered planets.
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Orbit
Planet is series of scrollable journeys around the Earth made of photos taken from the International Space Station. Screenshots don’t really do it justice so you should just have a look. Some faves: