A Model Map Of The Solar System.

A Model Map Of The Solar System.

A model map of the Solar System.

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8 years ago

Pale blue dot

Pale Blue Dot

"Da questo punto di osservazione, la Terra può non sembrare di particolare interesse. Ma per noi, è diverso. Guardate ancora quel puntino. È qui. È casa. Siamo noi. Su di esso, tutti quelli che amate, tutti quelli di cui avete mai sentito parlare, ogni essere umano che sia mai esistito, hanno vissuto la propria vita. L’insieme delle nostre gioie e dolori, migliaia di presuntuose religioni, ideologie e dottrine economiche, ogni cacciatore e raccoglitore, ogni eroe e codardo, ogni creatore e distruttore di civiltà, ogni re e suddito, ogni giovane coppia innamorata, ogni madre e padre, figlio speranzoso, inventore ed esploratore, ogni predicatore di moralità, ogni politico corrotto, ogni “superstar”, ogni “comandante supremo”, ogni santo e peccatore nella storia della nostra specie è vissuto lì su un granello di polvere sospeso dentro ad un raggio di sole. La Terra è un piccolissimo palco in una vasta arena cosmica. Pensate ai fiumi di sangue versati da tutti quei generali e imperatori affinché, nella gloria ed il trionfo, potessero diventare i signori momentanei di una frazione di un punto. Pensate alle crudeltà senza fine impartite dagli abitanti di un angolo di questo pixel agli abitanti scarsamente distinguibili di qualche altro angolo, quanto frequenti i loro malintesi, quanto smaniosi di uccidersi a vicenda, quanto ferventi i loro odii. Le nostre ostentazioni, la nostra immaginaria autostima, l’illusione che abbiamo una qualche posizione privilegiata nell’Universo, sono messe in discussione da questo punto di luce pallida. Il nostro pianeta è un granellino solitario nel grande, avvolgente buio cosmico. Nella nostra oscurità, in tutta questa vastità, non c’è nessuna indicazione che possa giungere aiuto da qualche altra parte per salvarci da noi stessi. La Terra è l’unico mondo conosciuto che possa ospitare la vita. Non c’è nessun altro posto, per lo meno nel futuro prossimo, dove la nostra specie possa migrare. Visitare, sì. Abitare, non ancora. Che vi piaccia o meno, per il momento la Terra è dove ci giochiamo le nostre carte. È stato detto che l’astronomia è un’esperienza di umiltà e che forma il carattere. Non c’è forse migliore dimostrazione della follia delle vanità umane che questa distante immagine del nostro minuscolo mondo. Per me, sottolinea la nostra responsabilità di occuparci più gentilmente l’uno dell’altro, e di preservare e proteggere il pallido punto blu, l’unica casa che abbiamo mai conosciuto." - Carl Segan sulla foto scattata, come da sua richiesta, dalla sonda Voyager 1, nel 1990, a sei miliardi di chilometri di distanza dalla Terra.  https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=yAHWgwAPC8o


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8 years ago
Nuova Locandina Vintage-futuristica Della NASA. 💞

Nuova locandina vintage-futuristica della NASA. 💞


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8 years ago
I Computer Non Sono Stati Sempre Fatti Di Schede Madri E CPU. Un Tempo, Erano Umani! E Al Jet Propulsion

I computer non sono stati sempre fatti di schede madri e CPU. Un tempo, erano umani! E al Jet Propulsion Laboratory della NASA, i computer umani erano una squadra di donne talentuose, diventate le prime programmatrici di computer. In questa foto del 1959, un computer umano lavora con un computer-macchina, presto chiamato IBM 704. Questi ultimi erano in grado di fare alcuni calcoli veloci, ma non erano ancora affidabili o efficienti come gli esseri umani.

Crediti: NASA / JPL-Caltech

8 years ago
Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong And Buzz Aldrin On The Moon, Illustrated In The Houston Post, July

Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, illustrated in the Houston Post, July 21, 1969.

7 years ago
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Surface Of Mars, As Seen By NASA’s Viking 2 Lander, September 25, 1977.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: The surface of Mars, as seen by NASA’s Viking 2 lander, September 25, 1977.

7 years ago

Five Famous Pulsars from the Past 50 Years

Early astronomers faced an obstacle: their technology. These great minds only had access to telescopes that revealed celestial bodies shining in visible light. Later, with the development of new detectors, scientists opened their eyes to other types of light like radio waves and X-rays. They realized cosmic objects look very different when viewed in these additional wavelengths. Pulsars — rapidly spinning stellar corpses that appear to pulse at us — are a perfect example.

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The first pulsar was observed 50 years ago on August 6, 1967, using radio waves, but since then we have studied them in nearly all wavelengths of light, including X-rays and gamma rays.

Typical Pulsar

Most pulsars form when a star — between 8 and 20 times the mass of our sun — runs out of fuel and its core collapses into a super dense and compact object: a neutron star. 

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These neutron stars are about the size of a city and can rotate slowly or quite quickly, spinning anywhere from once every few hours to hundreds of times per second. As they whirl, they emit beams of light that appear to blink at us from space.

First Pulsar

One day five decades ago, a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, England, named Jocelyn Bell was poring over the data from her radio telescope - 120 meters of paper recordings.

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Image Credit: Sumit Sijher

She noticed some unusual markings, which she called “scruff,” indicating a mysterious object (simulated above) that flashed without fail every 1.33730 seconds. This was the very first pulsar discovered, known today as PSR B1919+21.

Best Known Pulsar

Before long, we realized pulsars were far more complicated than first meets the eye — they produce many kinds of light, not only radio waves. Take our galaxy’s Crab Nebula, just 6,500 light years away and somewhat of a local celebrity. It formed after a supernova explosion, which crushed the parent star’s core into a neutron star. 

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The resulting pulsar, nestled inside the nebula that resulted from the supernova explosion, is among the most well-studied objects in our cosmos. It’s pictured above in X-ray light, but it shines across almost the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays.

Brightest Gamma-ray Pulsar

Speaking of gamma rays, in 2015 our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered the first pulsar beyond our own galaxy capable of producing such high-energy emissions. 

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Located in the Tarantula Nebula 163,000 light-years away, PSR J0540-6919 gleams nearly 20 times brighter in gamma-rays than the pulsar embedded in the Crab Nebula.

Dual Personality Pulsar

No two pulsars are exactly alike, and in 2013 an especially fast-spinning one had an identity crisis. A fleet of orbiting X-ray telescopes, including our Swift and Chandra observatories, caught IGR J18245-2452 as it alternated between generating X-rays and radio waves. 

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Scientists suspect these radical changes could be due to the rise and fall of gas streaming onto the pulsar from its companion star.

Transformer Pulsar

This just goes to show that pulsars are easily influenced by their surroundings. That same year, our Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope uncovered another pulsar, PSR J1023+0038, in the act of a major transformation — also under the influence of its nearby companion star. 

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The radio beacon disappeared and the pulsar brightened fivefold in gamma rays, as if someone had flipped a switch to increase the energy of the system. 

NICER Mission

Our Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission, launched this past June, will study pulsars like those above using X-ray measurements.

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With NICER’s help, scientists will be able to gaze even deeper into the cores of these dense and mysterious entities.

For more information about NICER, visit https://www.nasa.gov/nicer

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8 years ago

What a man. John Glenn ❤

8 years ago
TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad Goes To Work On The Moon. Photos By Alan Bean, November
TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad Goes To Work On The Moon. Photos By Alan Bean, November
TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad Goes To Work On The Moon. Photos By Alan Bean, November
TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad Goes To Work On The Moon. Photos By Alan Bean, November
TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad Goes To Work On The Moon. Photos By Alan Bean, November
TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad Goes To Work On The Moon. Photos By Alan Bean, November
TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad Goes To Work On The Moon. Photos By Alan Bean, November
TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad Goes To Work On The Moon. Photos By Alan Bean, November
TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad Goes To Work On The Moon. Photos By Alan Bean, November
TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad Goes To Work On The Moon. Photos By Alan Bean, November

TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad goes to work on the Moon. Photos by Alan Bean, November 19, 1969

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