Tagged: astronomy

Paris 48° 50’ 55’’ N 2012-08-13 lst 22:15 An exhibit on display at New York's Danziger Gallery features the artwork of Parisian Thierry Cohen  titled ' Villes Éteintes' (Darkened Cities) , showing night skies in various international cities without the disadvantages of light pollution . For those who cannot make it to NYC for the exhibition, be sure to check the online gallery, featuring detailed and accurate depictions of star-filled skies above a blacked-out New York City, Paris, Sao Paolo, Los Angeles, and more. [...]

If your French is better than mine, you might understand the words that Stéphane Lafleur is singing. But il ne faut pas que vous parler français to understand what’s going on in Astronomie, the fourth full-length release by Lafleur’s Montreal brush-folk group Avec pas d’casque. The group take their name (literally, With No Helmet) from [...]

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Do you have an hour and a half to spare this weekend? If so, just bookmark this and come back when you have the time. National Geographic and Jack Donaghy presents the first accurate non-stop voyage from Earth to the edge of the Universe using a single, unbroken shot through the use of spectacular CGI and images taken from the Hubble telescope. While the temptation would be to feel small and insignifcant after watching something like this, my takeaway is similar to Neil DeGrasse Tyson's - we're special because we're made of stardust .

From Jason Kottke : "Venus  passed in front of the Sun  yesterday for the last time until 2117. The transit took almost seven hours but this NASA video shows it in under a minute." To which, I add the more eloquent, "daaaaamn."

Yes it is. It's just technically a dwarf planet according to the IAU, which down-graded the celestial object in 2006. Internet explainer C.G.P. Grey offers an explanation for those still upset with the change. The long and short of it, at least according to a Harvard astrophysicist I once met and who voted to keep Pluto a planet, is that if Pluto didn't get downgraded, it would be planetary anarchy. Instead of nine planets in the solar system, there would be thousands of planets to learn and so, it was easier for astronomers to down-grade Pluto than [...]

The best place to see the eclipse was across Asia and parts of the western United States, which means on the east coast we were shit out of luck for the first annular solar eclipse visible in North America in nearly 18 years. Luckily, Buzzfeed has a great collection of photos . Fortunately, photographer Cory Poole made the video above of the annular solar ecplise yesterday using 700 photographs taken from his telescope. Read More: Wired has a lot of scientific information about the eclipse .

En tout début de printemps et sans doute pour le célébrer, Avec pas d’casque y allait de son nouvel opus, Astronomie. Ainsi, après Trois chaudières de sang (2006) et Dans la nature jusqu’au cou (2008), le groupe revient avec sa spécialité : une musique folk-country douce et accrocheuse parsemée de trouvailles et des textes personnels créés à même le quotidien du quotidien. Toutefois, des ingrédients s’ajoutent au fil des albums. D’un duo, puis trio, voilà qu’ils sont quatre maintenant... Astronomie, c’est neuf nouvelles chansons prêtes pour aller planer dans la tête de chacun, longtemps-longtemps. Le résultat : [...]

Crater Lake in Oregon is one of the few natural wonders I've seen that made my head explode from its inexplicable beauty and majestic tranquility - the other was the Grand Canyon, natch.  Things like Crater Lake shouldn't exist. They just shouldn't because they an incomprehensible. They exist outside of what my rational human brain is capable of understanding. Anyway, photographer   Brad Goldpaint  caught a meteor shooting past Crater Lake at night in mid-April and the photo is quite remarkable in its own right. [via APOD , of course] Somewhat Related: [...]

NASA has released a new solar system atlas , composed of more than 18,000 individual images, of more than 560 million stars, galaxies and asteroids - many never even seen before. The atlas images were taken by the Wide-field Survey Explorer (WISE), NASA’s infrared space telescope. A quick guide to WISE’s all-sky archive is available  online . Above is a photo of the known sky, with the Milky Way galaxy running horizontally across the map in blue. Related: Neil DeGrasse Tyson shares the most astounding fact .

Nada Surf's seventh studio album "The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy" is out now on Barsuk Records! Barsuk Records and Nada Surf celebrated the January 24th release of the critically acclaimed album "The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy" by unveiling the music video for "When I Was Young," on VEVO. They ...

The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy is out January 24, 2012 on Barsuk. NADA SURF 2012 TOUR DATES: JANUARY 24 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom (Album Release Show) 28 - San Diego, CA - Bright Lights Concert Series @ 4th & B FEBRUARY 02 - Seattle, WA - The Tractor Tavern MARCH 20 - Los Angeles, CA - The Music Box 21 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore 23 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom 27 - Salt [...]

• Nada Surf - When I Was Young

Barsuk Records and Nada Surf are excited to announce Spring 2012 tour dates. The national tour will kick off March 20th in Los Angeles, CA and see the band roll cross-country, wrapping up in Washington, DC on April 10th. The dates in support of Nada Surf's new album - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy (Barsuk) - follow select east and west coast gigs in late January, including a home town show at Bowery Ballroom on the day of album...

Persian Astronomy - Secret Archives of the Vatican Podcast 69 by Secret Archives Of The Vatican on Mixcloud download via http://vincemillett.libsyn.com /persian-astronomy-secret-arch ives-of-the-vatican-podcast-69 deepgoa.blogspot.com underground music guide _________ © dg , 2011

On the occasion of the midweek take in a few tracks from Wellington, New Zealand's The Golden Awesome. "A Thousand Nights And One Night" "Highlife" "Astronomy" http://www.mladysrecords.com fbook

Depois do delicioso álbum de versões 'If I Had A Hi-Fi', os Nada Surf regressam neste fim de ano com o seu mais recente single, "When I Was Young", que faz parte do alinhamento do novo álbum 'The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy' cujo lançamento se prevê em Jan '12. O single não me convence muito, mas para quem quiser, o MP3 do mesmo está disponível para download gratuito através do site

Barsuk Records is excited to announce the release of the new Nada Surf record, The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy, on January 24, 2012. NPR debuted the first track, "When I Was Young," yesterday. Fans can now grab, share and re-post the free download from NPR HERE. Stars is Nada Surf's seventh record, and fourth [...]

It took recording a covers album for Nada Surf to get their mojo back. Or, should we say, that is at least what When I Was Young - a teaser of their upcoming seventh album - can proudly boast. After 20082s stodgy Lucky  you felt that the group needed something, anything, to relight their creative fire. Bizarrely, recording other peoples songs did just that in the form of the brilliant if i had a hifi , their 2010 covers album. And now, almost four years on since releasing anything of their own, [...]

• Nada Surf - When I Was Young

The Stars Are Different To Astronomy è il titolo del settimo album dei Nada Surf , che uscirà il prossimo anno - il 23 Gennaio in Europa. il primo assaggio offerto è questa When I Was Young , in download sul loro sito in cambio di un indirizzo e-mail: Nada Surf - When I Was Young by cityslang

The Stars Are Different To Astronomy è il titolo del settimo album dei Nada Surf , che uscirà il prossimo anno - il 23 Gennaio in Europa. il primo assaggio offerto è questa When I Was Young , in download sul loro sito in cambio di un indirizzo e-mail: Nada Surf - When I Was Young by cityslang

• Nada Surf - When I Was Young

Nada Surf have announced the release of their seventh record, The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy , on January 24th via Barsuk. download “When I Was Young” from The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy