Category: Sciency things

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Saturn’s rings up close

Tons of pictures from Cassini today. Most of them are closeups of the rings during the orbital insertion. Very cool if you’re into that kind of thing. For the rest, it’s just a bunch of boring pictures of grey stripes.
Images at JPL and NASA
Images from CICLOPS

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Countdown to Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion

In just two short days, Cassini will fire it’s engines to slow down for Saturn orbit. 15 years in the making and after an almost 7 year trip, it’s finally arriving. Looking forward to some pretty sweet data from Cassini and later from Huygens when it drops down to Titan.

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Venus Transiting

Today’s APOD is an amazing picture of Venus at the edge of it’s transit, taken by the Swedish Solar Telescope.

You can also see some cool movies taken by the Dutch Open Telescope.

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More Hubble goodness at APOD

Coming today to APOD, the newest deep space photo from Hubble, the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image. The Hubble Deep Field showed hundreds of galaxies in an area previously thought to be dark and empty. Now, with the HUDF containng data from over 400 orbits looking at the same region of space over a 3 month period, I’m sure there will be even more to see, looking even farther back into time.

Lots of cool juicy info in the STSI newsletter

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Solar system family photos

Today’s APOD photo is a very cool shot of Saturn taken from the rapidly approaching Cassinni probe. With arrival at Saturn scheduled for July 1, I’m looking forward to some exciting pictures and science in the coming months.