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Amateur astronomy on shoestring budget

Shelob awaits you

Come into my parlor said Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen to the mob. This exhibit in an old stock exchange building in Vienna is made entirely of packaging tape. Nearly 117,000 feet worth. As you can see below, the structure is strong enough to support people climbing inside it. The exhibition runs only until today but if anyone is around Frankfurt in September, they’ll be making another in a public space in the city centre.

Click here for more pictures and information in the original article by Jill Singer for Fast company

17th Century Ottoman tent

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Galaxy of the day

NASA officially clueless about comet like object

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never been seen before…

The filamentary appearance of P/2010 A2 is different from anything seen in Hubble images of normal comets, consistent with the action of a different process…

Hubble shows the main nucleus of P/2010 A2 lies outside its own halo of dust. This has never been seen before in a comet-like object…

NASA shouldn’t be allowed to use the phrases “never seen before” and “different from anything seen” when talking about mysterious x shaped objects shooting through our solar system. Im not paranoid but…

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Breakups are always tough

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This is an animation created from photographs that Voyager 1 shot as it approached Jupiter in 1979. This is the same craft that shot the famous pale blue dot photograph of earth that Carl Sagan hoped would unite mankind. Voyager is currently over 16,490,000,000 kilometers away from the sun making it the furthest out known object in the solar system and by far the furthest any manmade object has travelled into space.

When I came across this image I felt quite sad for the humble little craft; drifting out of contact with its home planet and with its systems failing one by one. Its wikipedia entry describes the 7 stages of this shutdown, ending in the ominous phrase “2025 or after:Can no longer power any single instrument”. This entry is my small salute to our most intrepid explorer.

What if the earth had rings?

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Life is but a dream

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