staceythinx: Astronomy by Taylor Allen is an “ongoing personal project exploring the human form and the organic nature of deep space formations”.  Stunning work. Which do you think is more exquisitely built? The cosmos or the human form?  One is a seemingly infinite collection of various condensations of matter, all expanding outward from the same genesis, existing independently across immense distances that turn even the simplest observations into time travel. The other is a localized collection of biological units, each dependent on the summed contributions of the whole, and even on the contributions of life beyond itself, in order to exist at all. As the cosmos does, it arises from a single genesis, but its growth and organization rely on an intensely intricate choreography of signals, relationships and cooperation across distances small enough that we don’t distinguish them from the body as a whole. One is built out small bits of the other, but the larger, in a way, does not exist except that it has been named by the smaller.
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staceythinx: Astronomy by Taylor Allen is an “ongoing personal project exploring the human form and the organic nature of deep space formations”.  Stunning work. Which do you think is more exquisitely built? The cosmos or the human form?  One is a seemingly infinite collection of various condensations of matter, all expanding outward from the same genesis, existing independently across immense distances that turn even the simplest observations into time travel. The other is a localized collection of biological units, each dependent on the summed contributions of the whole, and even on the contributions of life beyond itself, in order to exist at all. As the cosmos does, it arises from a single genesis, but its growth and organization rely on an intensely intricate choreography of signals, relationships and cooperation across distances small enough that we don’t distinguish them from the body as a whole. One is built out small bits of the other, but the larger, in a way, does not exist except that it has been named by the smaller.
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staceythinx: Astronomy by Taylor Allen is an “ongoing personal project exploring the human form and the organic nature of deep space formations”.  Stunning work. Which do you think is more exquisitely built? The cosmos or the human form?  One is a seemingly infinite collection of various condensations of matter, all expanding outward from the same genesis, existing independently across immense distances that turn even the simplest observations into time travel. The other is a localized collection of biological units, each dependent on the summed contributions of the whole, and even on the contributions of life beyond itself, in order to exist at all. As the cosmos does, it arises from a single genesis, but its growth and organization rely on an intensely intricate choreography of signals, relationships and cooperation across distances small enough that we don’t distinguish them from the body as a whole. One is built out small bits of the other, but the larger, in a way, does not exist except that it has been named by the smaller.
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staceythinx: Astronomy by Taylor Allen is an “ongoing personal project exploring the human form and the organic nature of deep space formations”.  Stunning work. Which do you think is more exquisitely built? The cosmos or the human form?  One is a seemingly infinite collection of various condensations of matter, all expanding outward from the same genesis, existing independently across immense distances that turn even the simplest observations into time travel. The other is a localized collection of biological units, each dependent on the summed contributions of the whole, and even on the contributions of life beyond itself, in order to exist at all. As the cosmos does, it arises from a single genesis, but its growth and organization rely on an intensely intricate choreography of signals, relationships and cooperation across distances small enough that we don’t distinguish them from the body as a whole. One is built out small bits of the other, but the larger, in a way, does not exist except that it has been named by the smaller.
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staceythinx:

Astronomy by Taylor Allen is an “ongoing personal project exploring the human form and the organic nature of deep space formations”. 

Stunning work. Which do you think is more exquisitely built? The cosmos or the human form? 

One is a seemingly infinite collection of various condensations of matter, all expanding outward from the same genesis, existing independently across immense distances that turn even the simplest observations into time travel.

The other is a localized collection of biological units, each dependent on the summed contributions of the whole, and even on the contributions of life beyond itself, in order to exist at all. As the cosmos does, it arises from a single genesis, but its growth and organization rely on an intensely intricate choreography of signals, relationships and cooperation across distances small enough that we don’t distinguish them from the body as a whole.

One is built out small bits of the other, but the larger, in a way, does not exist except that it has been named by the smaller.

Galaxies of Genetically Modified E. coli Zachary Copfer, the same bioartist behind those bacterial radiograph portraits of famous scientists, also created a series of galaxies drawn with E. coli expressing fluorescent proteins. Here are his bacteriastronomical renditions of the Milky Way and M81 galaxies. Bacteria, some of the oldest life forms on our planet, recreating the star stuff they were seeded from, a pretty neat reminder that even in our individual bodies they are as numerous as the stars in a galaxy.
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Galaxies of Genetically Modified E. coli Zachary Copfer, the same bioartist behind those bacterial radiograph portraits of famous scientists, also created a series of galaxies drawn with E. coli expressing fluorescent proteins. Here are his bacteriastronomical renditions of the Milky Way and M81 galaxies. Bacteria, some of the oldest life forms on our planet, recreating the star stuff they were seeded from, a pretty neat reminder that even in our individual bodies they are as numerous as the stars in a galaxy.
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Galaxies of Genetically Modified E. coli

Zachary Copfer, the same bioartist behind those bacterial radiograph portraits of famous scientists, also created a series of galaxies drawn with E. coli expressing fluorescent proteins.

Here are his bacteriastronomical renditions of the Milky Way and M81 galaxies. Bacteria, some of the oldest life forms on our planet, recreating the star stuff they were seeded from, a pretty neat reminder that even in our individual bodies they are as numerous as the stars in a galaxy.

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staceythinx: Illustrations by Moonrunner About Moonrunner: Moonrunner is primarily known for its science-based illustrations, especially in such fields as astro-physics, cosmology, dark energy, black holes, the solar system and such stellar phenomena as quasars, star nurseries and pulsars. We have worked with Stephen Hawking, as well as with the scientist/authors of the National Geographic and Scientific American magazines, and also those publishing with Dorling Kindersley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Weldon Owen. Click on the images to see what they represent. That’s what I call some serious astro-illustration. Be sure to click on the photos above to check out the explanations in the slide show. 
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staceythinx: Illustrations by Moonrunner About Moonrunner: Moonrunner is primarily known for its science-based illustrations, especially in such fields as astro-physics, cosmology, dark energy, black holes, the solar system and such stellar phenomena as quasars, star nurseries and pulsars. We have worked with Stephen Hawking, as well as with the scientist/authors of the National Geographic and Scientific American magazines, and also those publishing with Dorling Kindersley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Weldon Owen. Click on the images to see what they represent. That’s what I call some serious astro-illustration. Be sure to click on the photos above to check out the explanations in the slide show. 
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staceythinx: Illustrations by Moonrunner About Moonrunner: Moonrunner is primarily known for its science-based illustrations, especially in such fields as astro-physics, cosmology, dark energy, black holes, the solar system and such stellar phenomena as quasars, star nurseries and pulsars. We have worked with Stephen Hawking, as well as with the scientist/authors of the National Geographic and Scientific American magazines, and also those publishing with Dorling Kindersley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Weldon Owen. Click on the images to see what they represent. That’s what I call some serious astro-illustration. Be sure to click on the photos above to check out the explanations in the slide show. 
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staceythinx: Illustrations by Moonrunner About Moonrunner: Moonrunner is primarily known for its science-based illustrations, especially in such fields as astro-physics, cosmology, dark energy, black holes, the solar system and such stellar phenomena as quasars, star nurseries and pulsars. We have worked with Stephen Hawking, as well as with the scientist/authors of the National Geographic and Scientific American magazines, and also those publishing with Dorling Kindersley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Weldon Owen. Click on the images to see what they represent. That’s what I call some serious astro-illustration. Be sure to click on the photos above to check out the explanations in the slide show. 
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staceythinx: Illustrations by Moonrunner About Moonrunner: Moonrunner is primarily known for its science-based illustrations, especially in such fields as astro-physics, cosmology, dark energy, black holes, the solar system and such stellar phenomena as quasars, star nurseries and pulsars. We have worked with Stephen Hawking, as well as with the scientist/authors of the National Geographic and Scientific American magazines, and also those publishing with Dorling Kindersley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Weldon Owen. Click on the images to see what they represent. That’s what I call some serious astro-illustration. Be sure to click on the photos above to check out the explanations in the slide show. 
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staceythinx: Illustrations by Moonrunner About Moonrunner: Moonrunner is primarily known for its science-based illustrations, especially in such fields as astro-physics, cosmology, dark energy, black holes, the solar system and such stellar phenomena as quasars, star nurseries and pulsars. We have worked with Stephen Hawking, as well as with the scientist/authors of the National Geographic and Scientific American magazines, and also those publishing with Dorling Kindersley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Weldon Owen. Click on the images to see what they represent. That’s what I call some serious astro-illustration. Be sure to click on the photos above to check out the explanations in the slide show. 
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staceythinx: Illustrations by Moonrunner About Moonrunner: Moonrunner is primarily known for its science-based illustrations, especially in such fields as astro-physics, cosmology, dark energy, black holes, the solar system and such stellar phenomena as quasars, star nurseries and pulsars. We have worked with Stephen Hawking, as well as with the scientist/authors of the National Geographic and Scientific American magazines, and also those publishing with Dorling Kindersley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Weldon Owen. Click on the images to see what they represent. That’s what I call some serious astro-illustration. Be sure to click on the photos above to check out the explanations in the slide show. 
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staceythinx: Illustrations by Moonrunner About Moonrunner: Moonrunner is primarily known for its science-based illustrations, especially in such fields as astro-physics, cosmology, dark energy, black holes, the solar system and such stellar phenomena as quasars, star nurseries and pulsars. We have worked with Stephen Hawking, as well as with the scientist/authors of the National Geographic and Scientific American magazines, and also those publishing with Dorling Kindersley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Weldon Owen. Click on the images to see what they represent. That’s what I call some serious astro-illustration. Be sure to click on the photos above to check out the explanations in the slide show. 
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staceythinx: Illustrations by Moonrunner About Moonrunner: Moonrunner is primarily known for its science-based illustrations, especially in such fields as astro-physics, cosmology, dark energy, black holes, the solar system and such stellar phenomena as quasars, star nurseries and pulsars. We have worked with Stephen Hawking, as well as with the scientist/authors of the National Geographic and Scientific American magazines, and also those publishing with Dorling Kindersley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Weldon Owen. Click on the images to see what they represent. That’s what I call some serious astro-illustration. Be sure to click on the photos above to check out the explanations in the slide show. 
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staceythinx: Illustrations by Moonrunner About Moonrunner: Moonrunner is primarily known for its science-based illustrations, especially in such fields as astro-physics, cosmology, dark energy, black holes, the solar system and such stellar phenomena as quasars, star nurseries and pulsars. We have worked with Stephen Hawking, as well as with the scientist/authors of the National Geographic and Scientific American magazines, and also those publishing with Dorling Kindersley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Weldon Owen. Click on the images to see what they represent. That’s what I call some serious astro-illustration. Be sure to click on the photos above to check out the explanations in the slide show. 
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staceythinx:

Illustrations by Moonrunner

About Moonrunner:

Moonrunner is primarily known for its science-based illustrations, especially in such fields as astro-physics, cosmology, dark energy, black holes, the solar system and such stellar phenomena as quasars, star nurseries and pulsars. We have worked with Stephen Hawking, as well as with the scientist/authors of the National Geographic and Scientific American magazines, and also those publishing with Dorling Kindersley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Weldon Owen.

Click on the images to see what they represent.

That’s what I call some serious astro-illustration. Be sure to click on the photos above to check out the explanations in the slide show. 

When Galaxies Collide: A Gallery of Stellar Chaos In about 4 billion years, the Milky Way will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.   Colliding galaxies are surprisingly common, and the merging of smaller star systems likely led to the evolution of larger star systems that we see today. The stars within colliding galaxies probably don’t collide, but the gravitational chaos can alter planetary positions and star locations. Wired has a great gallery of colliding galaxies for your chaotic beauty needs. And because looking at them isn’t enough, Galaxy Zoo has a Java app that lets you create, and then collide your own galaxies.
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When Galaxies Collide: A Gallery of Stellar Chaos In about 4 billion years, the Milky Way will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.   Colliding galaxies are surprisingly common, and the merging of smaller star systems likely led to the evolution of larger star systems that we see today. The stars within colliding galaxies probably don’t collide, but the gravitational chaos can alter planetary positions and star locations. Wired has a great gallery of colliding galaxies for your chaotic beauty needs. And because looking at them isn’t enough, Galaxy Zoo has a Java app that lets you create, and then collide your own galaxies.
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When Galaxies Collide: A Gallery of Stellar Chaos

In about 4 billion years, the Milky Way will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.   Colliding galaxies are surprisingly common, and the merging of smaller star systems likely led to the evolution of larger star systems that we see today. The stars within colliding galaxies probably don’t collide, but the gravitational chaos can alter planetary positions and star locations.

Wired has a great gallery of colliding galaxies for your chaotic beauty needs. And because looking at them isn’t enough, Galaxy Zoo has a Java app that lets you create, and then collide your own galaxies.

Dark Matter and the Phantom Filaments Sounds like a good band name, eh? Simulations of how we think the universe is organized, astrophysically speaking, show patterns resembling nodes of clustered galaxies connected by filaments of dense matter. We’ve found plenty of the galaxy clusters, but the filaments have been harder to actually observe. That’s because they are likely made of dark matter, which neither emits or absorbs light (and is therefore invisible to we mere humans). But scientists may have witnessed the effect of one of these filaments recently, marking the first time that dark matter has been observed connecting galaxy clusters. As Matthew Francis reports: The researchers used archival data from the 8.2 meter Subaru telescope in Hawaii, which includes visible and infrared observations of the supercluster. These were scanned to look for subtle changes in the light from objects behind the clusters. These can be signs of weak gravitational lensing, which would reveal the distribution of dark matter near the clusters. Gravitational lensing basically means that something invisible with mass, like dark matter, is bending the light from the cluster of galaxies. So although we can’t see the dark matter, we can see it affecting the light’s path and take a pretty good guess it is there. I bet these guys wish they hadn’t announced this in the same week as the Higgs boson, but hey … can’t win ‘em all. It gives support to the idea that our universe could be built on enormous webs of dark matter, and where these filaments and strands intersect, there is where gravity pulls galaxies together to form the clusters of stars and visible matter that we see every time we look up at night. (↬ Ars Technica)
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Sounds like a good band name, eh?

Simulations of how we think the universe is organized, astrophysically speaking, show patterns resembling nodes of clustered galaxies connected by filaments of dense matter. We’ve found plenty of the galaxy clusters, but the filaments have been harder to actually observe. That’s because they are likely made of dark matter, which neither emits or absorbs light (and is therefore invisible to we mere humans).

But scientists may have witnessed the effect of one of these filaments recently, marking the first time that dark matter has been observed connecting galaxy clusters. As Matthew Francis reports:

The researchers used archival data from the 8.2 meter Subaru telescope in Hawaii, which includes visible and infrared observations of the supercluster. These were scanned to look for subtle changes in the light from objects behind the clusters. These can be signs of weak gravitational lensing, which would reveal the distribution of dark matter near the clusters.

Gravitational lensing basically means that something invisible with mass, like dark matter, is bending the light from the cluster of galaxies. So although we can’t see the dark matter, we can see it affecting the light’s path and take a pretty good guess it is there.

I bet these guys wish they hadn’t announced this in the same week as the Higgs boson, but hey … can’t win ‘em all. It gives support to the idea that our universe could be built on enormous webs of dark matter, and where these filaments and strands intersect, there is where gravity pulls galaxies together to form the clusters of stars and visible matter that we see every time we look up at night.

(↬ Ars Technica)

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iomikron: This is roughly the view of our neighbouring brightest galaxies if you were 20 million light years away from ‘home’ (red dot). A closer view reveals the closest neighbours as well. In a very small distance there are two galaxies surrounding the Milky Way, the Large and the Small Mangelanic Clouds._____________________________________________I created this 3D map with Mathematica.Data collected from atlasoftheuniverse.  Howdy neighbors! Well, stellar neighbors, anyway. Love to see this kind of creation from our Tumblr friends, by the way. Not that I don’t have love for the whole internet, but fellow Tumblr Science folks are sort of like the Magellanic Clouds of our blogging Milky Way. Just that much better than the rest of the galaxies. So go meet them all, or something.
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iomikron: This is roughly the view of our neighbouring brightest galaxies if you were 20 million light years away from ‘home’ (red dot). A closer view reveals the closest neighbours as well. In a very small distance there are two galaxies surrounding the Milky Way, the Large and the Small Mangelanic Clouds._____________________________________________I created this 3D map with Mathematica.Data collected from atlasoftheuniverse.  Howdy neighbors! Well, stellar neighbors, anyway. Love to see this kind of creation from our Tumblr friends, by the way. Not that I don’t have love for the whole internet, but fellow Tumblr Science folks are sort of like the Magellanic Clouds of our blogging Milky Way. Just that much better than the rest of the galaxies. So go meet them all, or something.
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iomikron:

This is roughly the view of our neighbouring brightest galaxies if you were 20 million light years away from ‘home’ (red dot). A closer view reveals the closest neighbours as well. In a very small distance there are two galaxies surrounding the Milky Way, the Large and the Small Mangelanic Clouds.
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I created this 3D map with Mathematica.
Data collected from atlasoftheuniverse. 

Howdy neighbors! Well, stellar neighbors, anyway.

Love to see this kind of creation from our Tumblr friends, by the way. Not that I don’t have love for the whole internet, but fellow Tumblr Science folks are sort of like the Magellanic Clouds of our blogging Milky Way. Just that much better than the rest of the galaxies.

So go meet them all, or something.

A Catalog of Galaxies: Mapping One Billion Light Years of the Universe The map above shows the distances of every observable galaxy within one billion light years of Earth, with red, blue and green representing increasing distance groups. It’s the most complete mapping ever of galaxies within our billion-light-year neighborhood! The Milky Way lies among a small neighborhood of fifty or so galaxies called the Local Group, itself drifting toward the thousand-plus group of the Virgo Supercluster, who make up just a miniscule portion of the more than 80 billion galaxies thought to exist in the observable universe. But how are they organized? The map reinforces the idea that galaxies are not uniformly distributed, and that there are great areas of density like the Sloan Great Wall (the largest known structure in the universe, at 1.4 billion light years in length). It’s but a fraction of what’s out there. This comes from a recently released paper, posthumously authored by John P. Huchra, a pioneer of galaxy mapping who was working on the project when he passed away. A fitting tribute from his colleagues. (via SciTechDaily)
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A Catalog of Galaxies: Mapping One Billion Light Years of the Universe

The map above shows the distances of every observable galaxy within one billion light years of Earth, with red, blue and green representing increasing distance groups. It’s the most complete mapping ever of galaxies within our billion-light-year neighborhood!

The Milky Way lies among a small neighborhood of fifty or so galaxies called the Local Group, itself drifting toward the thousand-plus group of the Virgo Supercluster, who make up just a miniscule portion of the more than 80 billion galaxies thought to exist in the observable universe. But how are they organized?

The map reinforces the idea that galaxies are not uniformly distributed, and that there are great areas of density like the Sloan Great Wall (the largest known structure in the universe, at 1.4 billion light years in length). It’s but a fraction of what’s out there.

This comes from a recently released paper, posthumously authored by John P. Huchra, a pioneer of galaxy mapping who was working on the project when he passed away. A fitting tribute from his colleagues.

(via SciTechDaily)

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For the rest of Friday, the theme will be “Amazing Journeys”.

Let’s start with a journey to the farthest reaches of the universe, flying through a 3-D rendition of known galaxies. If we could travel millions and millions of light years in just seconds, this is what you might see out your window.

The data was collected over five years as part of the 6df redshift galaxy survey.

Don’t feel small, just feel the awe.

Gobstopping Video Captures Expansion Of The Universe

“How fast is the universe expanding? We could give you a number, but it’d be meaningless to those of you who aren’t Stephen Hawking. So here’s a video. Prepare to have your mind blown straight into orbit.”

Go ahead and go full screen on this one, folks. You’ll thank me.

(via Co. Design)

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