I simulated a galaxy, and then simulated what it would like if the Hubble Space Telescope observed it5yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/Simulated
Churchill shedding a tear with Ike, 73 Years ago today - reacting to the news that the war in Europe had ended.6yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/pics
[IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar moonphase] A watch if the future. Literally.6yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/Watches
Identity discovered by Gauss when he was 21 (as he constructed the heptadecagon)6yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/math
Physics Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt has a small vineyard and makes his own wine. Here's a picture of him after bottling the 2015 stock. Schmidt (co-)won the nobel in 2011 for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe.7yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/Astronomy
Another First: Hubble space telescope snaps a supernova as it's gravitationally lensed resulting in four images.10yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/Astronomy
The James Bond movie quantum of solace was filmed at Paranal observatory in the Chilean Andes. There's a signed portrait of James Bond thanking the astronomers hanging in the lobby.9yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/Astronomy
The (heliocentric) velocity of voyager 2 as a function of time or distance from the sun, since it was lunched; now in deep space.7yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/Astronomy
“The phone number of the universe” - a mnemonic device to remember the relevant scales in the universe.5yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/cosmology
NGC 4993, an otherwise unexciting elliptical galaxy, host to the first ever neutron star merger event.7yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/Astronomy
I was going to say something about 500 Years of Luther but I shall refrain.7yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/funny
For anyone observing now or in the next days, there's a Nova star happening now in Sagittarius - pretty bright, it can be seen with binoculars. Here's what it looked like from Las Campanas. Enjoy the sky!9yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/Astronomy
Astronomers like to fit data. Heres data of how many proposals are submitted to the Hubble space telescope as the deadline looms (over 5 years, or cycles). The rate of proposal submission increases according to a predictable rate.7yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/Astronomy
I didn't take this picture but it shows the Pleiades, the oldest constellation known to man, covered in cirrus- galactic dust. Dust is under appreciated. Dust is beautiful.8yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/Astronomy
One year for Halloween my daughters dressed up as a proton. Obviously, I was much more excited then they were.10yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/pics
I know it's not much but I took these star trails with my *iphone* on a clear night using an app called NightCap Pro. Still impressed that I caught more than a dozen star trails. The brightest guy is Jupiter.9yr ⋅ astrocosmo ⋅ r/astrophotography
