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“Riding Light” – Animation by Alphonse Swinehart

February 5th, 2015 | Space

Riding Light Vimeo

“Riding Light” is a new, beautiful animation by Alphonse Swinehart. In the 45-minute journey, you will travel with light on its way from the Sun to Jupiter. I love videos like this because they really help me gain a better appreciation for the scale of our Universe. If you watch light travel from Earth to Mars, for example, you will realize how difficult it will be to successfully complete a manned exploration mission to the red planet. There’s just so much emptiness between the planetary masses…

A word from the creators:

“In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it’s unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective.

I’ve taken liberties with certain things like the alignment of planets and asteroids, as well as ignoring the laws of relativity concerning what a photon actually “sees” or how time is experienced at the speed of light, but overall I’ve kept the size and distances of all the objects as accurate as possible. I also decided to end the animation just past Jupiter as I wanted to keep the running length below an hour.

Design & Animation: Alphonse Swinehart / aswinehart.com
Music: Steve Reich “Music for 18 Musicians”
Performed by: Eighth Blackbird / eighthblackbird.org”

-RSB

Planet Illustrations from Joe Van Wetering

July 16th, 2013 | Space

Joe Van Wetering

Joe Van Wetering 2 - Jupiter

Joe Van Wetering - Mountains

Joe Van Wetering is a prominent Chicago-based illustrator who’s worked for Threadless and Armada Ski Company.  I recently stumbled across his eye-catching portfolio, and it’s really great.
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 You can find it here.

Here’s a description of his work:

“Inspired by the contrasting visions of pop culture and nature, Joe explores the continuously developing relationship between color and space, creating abstract visions of everyday life through his artwork.”

Many of his illustrations appear to be inspired by space or technology, so if you like RobotSpaceBrain, you’ll probably like his creations.

-RSB

Four Planet Sunset

June 13th, 2013 | Space

Four Planet Sunset

Four Planet Sunset

Chris Kotsiopoulos recently shot 60 photos of the incredible triple planet conjunction on May 25th of this year. Venus, Jupiter, and and Mercury (as well as the star Elnath (Beta Tauri) on the far right) can be seen dropping across a beautiful sunset over the Alikes salt lake near Kos Island in Greece.  It’s a pretty amazing time-lapse.
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Look for the next triple conjunction in October of 2015.

Specs of the photo: Camera Model Canon EOS 550D, Shooting Date/Time 25/5/2013 20:59 – 21:30, Author  Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1 – 8 sec, Av( Aperture Value ) 5 – 7.1, ISO Speed 200 – 400, Lens Canon EF50mm f/1.8 II, Focal Length 50.0 mm

Find more photography from Chris at his site, Greek Sky.

-RSB

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10 Moons

January 9th, 2012 | Space

Saturn’s Rhea

Jupiter’s Europa

Jupiter’s Callisto

Jupiter’s Io

Earth’s Moon Transiting The Sun

Saturn’s Mimas – aka Death Star

Mars’ Phobos

Neptune’s Triton

Uranus’ Oberon

Jupiter’s Ganymede

Check out this collection of spectacular moon photos I saw on the Mother Nature Network, and learn a bit about our solar system in the process.  A lot of the photos have different filters to make them look extra special, but they are interesting nonetheless.  I thought it would be cool to learn all of the moons of the solar system, but I found out there are more than 170, so that could be quite challenging.  Did you know Jupiter, alone, has 63 moons!?

-RSB