Awesome

Solar System: 10 Things to Know

Movie Night

Summer break is just around the corner. Hang a sheet from the clothesline in the backyard and fire up the projector for a NASA movie night.

1. Mars in a Minute

Back in the day, movies started with a cartoon. Learn the secrets of the Red Planet in these animated 60 second chunks.

2. Crash of the Titans

Watch two galaxies collide billions of years from now in this high-definition visualization.

3. Tour the Moon in 4K

Wait for the dark of the waning Moon next weekend to take in this 4K tour of our constant celestial companion.

4. Seven Years of the Sun

Watch graceful dances in the Sun’s atmosphere in this series of videos created by our 24/7 Sun-sentinel, the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO).

5. Light ‘Em Up

Crank up the volume and learn about NASA science for this short video about some of our science missions, featuring a track by Fall Out Boy.

6. Bennu’s Journey

Follow an asteroid from its humble origins to its upcoming encounter with our spacecraft in this stunning visualization.

7. Lunar Landing Practice

Join Apollo mission pilots as they fly—and even crash—during daring practice runs for landing on the Moon.

8. Earthrise

Join the crew of Apollo 8 as they become the first human beings to see the Earth rise over the surface of the Moon.

9. Musical Descent to Titan

Watch a musical, whimsical recreation of the 2005 Huygens probe descent to Titan, Saturn’s giant moon.

10. More Movies

Our Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio provides a steady stream of fresh videos for your summer viewing pleasure. Come back often and enjoy.

Read the full version of this article on the web HERE.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.

Loving Vincent

Just watched this film...the artistry is stunning! Every frame hand painted.

4 notes View Post

dragons-barb

10 years ago

Oh, and cloud forests! Those are spectacular! Have you seen much wildlife? What do you hear? How does it smell (when you're not downwind of a sulfuric volcano)?

0 notes View Post

dragons-barb

3 years ago

This is my purest form — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2T87neu

Tags

fucking truth the depths

114 notes View Post

dragons-barb

7 years ago

I think this is what I liked best about the movie... and grown-up Luke's sense of humor.

Gonna be stating some possible unpopular Star Wars opinions here, but here goes…

When I was watching The Last Jedi, I thought to myself, “is this the part that got the fans angry?” before and after every scene because all throughout the whole movie, I kept waiting for that anger inducing moment, but it never came.

In my point of view, the venom that these fans are spewing is for one core reason…they’re violently upset that the characters they worshipped and placed on a pedestal for all the years Star Wars has been around for have turned out to not be what they appear. They turned out to be human, flawed, and fallible, and the hardcore fanboys couldn’t handle it.

The biggest message this movie expressed was that transforming human beings into legends, worshiping them as gods, and turning people into symbols for incorruptible purity or irredeemable darkness will only lead to ruin. This movie drove home that human morality is a messy, complicated, chaotic force and shouldn’t be viewed in stark shades of black and white.

Feel free to disagree, but this is where I stand on the subject.

113 notes View Post

dragons-barb

7 years ago

Good practice controlling spontaneous eye-rolling and exasperated sighs

It’s awkward to be a critical thinker at a family gathering full of people who unquestioningly believe dumb shit

4K notes View Post

dragons-barb

5 years ago

Wow! Eye-opener! Honestly, I never understood why people don't do this...It seems so logical to me.

I no longer struggle with math, though...once you realize it's just a language that describes the world around us, the veil is lifted and tossed to the wind.

finding out people dont usually add numbers by first adding something to make a ten (for example 7+6= 7 plus 3 is 10 plus another 3 is 13) & that its actually an adhd thing is the WILDEST shit literally ive lived like 10 years (or however old i was when i learned to add and stuff) thinking thats how everyone does it. what the fuck

90K notes View Post

dragons-barb

7 years ago

Currently paying for 2 kids in college and, yeah... getting those "gift" requests. Yet I can only be a little annoyed, considering how badly they've been defunded. I'm tired.