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July 21, 2010
Crown of the sun
[posted by Benz Roos]
The Crown of the Sun by Alain Maury and Jean-Luc Dauvergne
Photo’s by Alain Maury and Jean-Luc Dauvergne.“During a total solar eclipse, the Sun’s extensive outer atmosphere, or corona, is an inspirational sight. Subtle shades and shimmering features that engage the eye span a brightness range of over 10,000 to 1, making them notoriously difficult to capture in a single photograph. But this composite of 7 consecutive digital images over a range of exposure times comes close to revealing the crown of the Sun in all its glory. The telescopic views were recorded from the Isla de Pascua (Easter Island) during July 11′s total solar eclipse and also show solar prominences extending just beyond the edge of the eclipsed sun. Remarkably, features on the dim, near side of the New Moon can also be made out, illuminated by sunlight reflected from a Full Earth” source: astronomy picture of the day
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July 20, 2010
Solar Equation, 100 million times smaller than the real thing
[posted by Benz Roos]
Solar equation by rafael lozano-hemmer
“Solar Equation” is a large-scale public art installation that consists of a faithful simulation of the Sun, 100 million times smaller than the real thing. Commissioned by the Light in Winter Festival in Melbourne, the piece features the world’s largest spherical balloon, custom-manufactured for the project, which is tethered over Federation Square and animated using five projectors. The solar animation on the balloon is generated by live mathematical equations that simulate the turbulence, flares and sunspots that can be seen on the surface of the Sun. This produces a constantly changing display that never repeats itself, giving viewers a glimpse of the majestic phenomena that are observable at the solar surface and that only relatively recent advances in astronomy have discovered. The project uses the latest SOHO and SDO solar observatory imaging available from NASA, overlaid with live animations derived from Navier-Stokes, reaction diffusion, perlin, particle systems and fractal flame equations” lozano-hemmer. source: designboom
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July 14, 2010
Light phenomana as seen from ISS
[posted by Benz Roos]
An Aurora Australis as seen from the international space station
Sunset as seen from the International space station
Natrual lighting phenomana as seen from the International Space Station. Astronomy picture of the day are lots of great pictures like thes including information of the phenomana. source: Astronomy picture of the day
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June 20, 2010
New images of the sun
[posted by Benz Roos]
This first image of the sun from the GOES-15 SXI instrument from June 2, 2010 was a cause for celebration. Image: NASA/NOAA/ Lockheed Martin
NASA Goes-15 spacecraft returned its first x-ray image to earth. Scientist faced a lot problem due voltage problems in the instruments of the spacecraft. GOES-15 is observing the surface of the sun to predict space weather.
I think those images of the sun are really interesting and beautiful. When You see the sun at day you never really realize it looks actually more like the image above! source: nasa -
June 14, 2010
Black rain by Semiconductor
[posted by Benz Roos]
Black Rain from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
Last year the Royal Academy in London showed this piece in the exhibition ‘Earth’. This video art work is called Black Rain and is made by Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt).
Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME’s (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth.
I like this movie a lot. The raw data has some exciting neatness. It shows our sun in a different way then we used to. make sure to check the site of Semiconductor for more interesting images. source:creative applications - Older Posts »