Planet, sun and moon pendants from the Edelstein Metalsmiths Etsy store.
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Celestial serving bowls from Think Geek
Letting Go by Eric Rieger, aka Hot Tea, is an interpretation of the sun made with 84 miles of yarn.
Rieger on his project:
The sun brings life and also represents happiness, warmth and energy. When letting go of something or someone we truly love, sometimes it is okay to celebrate their lives along with mourning. This piece represents the warmth and love I have received from those I have had to let go of.
Want to make cool images like these? Want to participate in a cool project with cool people? If you answered “yes” to either one of these questions, you should check out the super cool Sun Project: “A global science/art project to capture Solargraphs, tracking the path of the Sun worldwide via pinhole photography”.
The Fingers and Yarn Etsy store has come up with a fun (and soft) way to teach kids about the solar system.
About the Knit Solar System:
A collection of 10 knit and stuffed spheres featuring each planet and the Sun (and yes, I included Pluto even though he is, sadly, no longer a planet. Explain why to your child for additional bonus points!) These toys are a great way to spark interest in space for kids… or a wonderful gift for your space-loving friends.
Each is colorfully embroidered with its initials for reference. Diameters range from 2 to 9 inches across, and their sizes are accurate in relation to each other (Pluto is smaller than the Earth, and so on). The colors used are as accurate as possible. Are they made perfectly to scale? Of course not! Are the colors exactly right? No, it’s yarn! Are they super fun and educational? Absolutely!
Scale of Earth, Sun, Rigel, and VY Canis Majoris. [full zoom at the end after the credits] (by SecularAstronomer)
Midnight Sun | Iceland (by SCIENTIFANTASTIC)
About the video:
Midnight Sun: A natural phenomenon occurring in the summer months north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun never fully sets and remains visible 24 hours a day.
This short time lapse film was shot during the Icelandic Midnight Sun in June of 2011. For 17 days I travelled solo around the entire island shooting almost 24 hours, sleeping in the car, and eating whenever I had the time. During my days shooting this film I shot 38,000 images, travelled some 2900 miles, and saw some of the most amazing, beautiful, and indescribable landscapes on the planet. Iceland is absolutely one of the most beautiful and unusual places you could ever imagine. Especially during the Midnight Sun when the quality of light hitting the landscape is very unusual, and very spectacular.
Two incredible photos of the sun taken in late September by NASA Goddard.
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Take five seconds and watch a comet hit the sun, followed by a coincidental coronal mass ejection. #GOODstuff
NASA’s Unbelievable Footage of a Comet Hitting the Sun
NASA’s Solar Heliospheric Observatory captured this footage of a comet hitting the sun, followed immediately by a massive explosion caused by solar winds, known as a coronal mass ejection. The synchronicity is actually coincidental, but the image is unforgettable.
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This movie from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) shows the sun’s atmosphere – the corona – from September 17 to September 20. Numerous CMEs blasted off the sun during this period.
Sun Symphony, 1st and 2nd Movements
“A solar prominence (also known as a filament) is an arc of gas that erupts from the surface of the Sun. Prominences can loop hundreds of thousands of miles into space. Prominences are held above the Sun’s surface by strong magnetic fields and can last for many months. At some time in their existence, most prominences will erupt, spewing enormous amounts of solar material into space.”*
Copyright: Alan Friedman
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The Sharpest View of The Sun
Here is one of the sharper views of the Sun ever taken. This stunning image shows remarkable details of a dark sunspot across the image bottom and numerous boiling granules which appear like kernels of corn across the top. Taken in 2002, the picture was made using the Swedish Solar Telescope operating on the Canary Island of La Palma.
Credit: SST, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured this shot of the X1.8 solar flare on Sept. 7, 2011.
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