Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Feb 10, 2012, 2:30 pm
A Little Boy's Dream © Andy Lendway 2012 I love it when people send me things they think I’d like! This print by Andy Lendway is adorable — though I know quite a few women, myself included, for whom this image was a little girl’s dream as well. (I still have my space LEGOs!)
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Feb 8, 2012, 9:09 am
Image Credit & Copyright: Alex Cherney (Terrastro, TWAN) I love this photo — looks like an aurora sunset. A pretty thing for your Wednesday! Why would the sky glow red? Aurora. Last week’s solar storms, emanating mostly from active sunspot region 1402, showered particles on the Earth that exc...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Feb 3, 2012, 9:29 am
A terrific Moon rocket from 1930. Off to the Moon? If only, if only….
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Feb 1, 2012, 9:44 am
STS-107 Crew Names on the Astronaut Memorial, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Photo by Danielle Signor Of the three main “anniversaries” that comprise the NASA Day of Remembrance, this is the one that hits me the hardest. I wrote about why, two years ago. It’s hard for me to read it, even now....
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Jan 26, 2012, 9:46 am
Yeah, yeah, it’s a little late for Christmas, but these images are too terrific to wait eleven months to post, I’m sorry! (Hat tip to Rachel Hobson for the find!) Heh heh, Santa goes out on a LM… (limb! Get it? GET IT?? HAHAHA… okay I’ll shut up now.)
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Jan 25, 2012, 9:35 am
Image Credit & Copyright: Bjørn Jørgensen Green fairy? Eagle? Angel? Whatever you might see in this aurora’s vast shape, I think “fantastic” is a safe description, don’t you? What’s that in the sky? An aurora. A large coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun five days ago, throwing a ...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Jan 24, 2012, 10:01 am
Agoraphobia © Austin Kleon I’ve only just been introduced to the newspaper-blackout poetry of Austin Kleon — I love this one, ever so much. Buy the print here.
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Jan 20, 2012, 9:51 pm
Posting on a stormy Friday night? Why not? This is BEAUTIFUL. (I suppose technically it’s “Vidspam”, not Picspam.)
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Jan 19, 2012, 10:00 am
This is an unusual image, a mix of visible light (red) and X-rays (green). It reminds me of a water opal: Where’s the other star? At the center of this supernova remnant should be the companion star to the star that blew up. Identifying this star is important for understanding just how Type Ia su...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Jan 13, 2012, 9:44 am
An interesting, Norman Rockwell-esque encounter with alien life from 1955. Image courtesy of x-ray delta one.
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Jan 11, 2012, 12:26 pm
A lovely spiral galaxy for your Wednesday. From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 6946 face-on. The big, beautiful spiral galaxy is located just 10 million light-years away, behind a veil of foreground dust and stars in the high and far-off constellation of Cepheus. From the cor...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Jan 6, 2012, 1:33 pm
A very cool photo I received by email (see the other two here and here.) See that little white thing in the upper left? Yeah, that’s the ISS. JSC2012-E-017827 (4 Jan. 2012) — The International Space Station can be seen as a small object in upper left of this image of the moon in the early eveni...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Jan 5, 2012, 5:42 pm
Today’s APOD is not to be missed! (But I’m a sucker for images of Saturn and the moons thereof.) Orbiting in the plane of Saturn’s rings, Saturnian moons have a perpetual ringside view of the gorgeous gas giant planet. Of course, while passing near the ring plane the Cassini spacecraft also s...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Jan 4, 2012, 10:01 am
I just love these Soviet space illustrations from Flight into Cosmic Space, circa 1949 (and hey, they were posted on my birthday, so happy belated to me!) Above is a space station (or a cosmic-sized ring, your choice), and below is said station with a rocket launching away from it. Check out the pos...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Jan 3, 2012, 12:21 pm
Saw this image on Twitter yesterday: STS-3 Columbia landing at White Sands, New Mexico. Very cool picture! Not sure where the original image came from, but I’m sure it’s buried in the NASA media archives somewhere….
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Dec 30, 2011, 5:05 pm
Image courtesy ESA/NASA I thought I scheduled this post already — I guess I just thought about it REALLY LOUDLY. Saw this image on National Geographic, get a big version on the ESA Hubble website. A galaxy slightly smaller than our own Milky Way is getting its arm twisted, and a cosmic bully may...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Dec 29, 2011, 10:29 am
You’ve probably figured out by now that I post as much science fiction and fictional spaceflight as I do “real” manned spaceflight. Give me space shuttle Discovery, the Saturn V, the Eagle, the White Star, the Heart of Gold, the Millennium Falcon — I love them all. I’m a big fan of the ret...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Nov 3, 2011, 12:41 pm
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona A spectre from space! (Yes, I’m a little late for Halloween, I know.) Spooky shapes seem to haunt this starry expanse, drifting through the night in the royal constellation Cepheus. Of course, the shapes are cosmic...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Nov 1, 2011, 1:23 pm
Image courtesy of x-ray delta one @ Flickr I like The Unknown, and I’m always in favor of exploring it….
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 28, 2011, 1:17 pm
The North America Nebula, seen in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope: This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North America Nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this image infrared view from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears. W...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 27, 2011, 9:29 am
Digital artwork by Franco Brambilla I’ve featured Franco Brambilla once before, with his terrific alien-invaded vintage postcards. He was kind enough to point me to this image: a rocket in a roundabout? Indeed, the aliens have landed! (Maybe it’s a monument.)
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 26, 2011, 2:29 pm
Image Credit: Z. Levay (STScI/AURA/NASA), T.A. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage) & H. Schweiker (NOAO/AURA/NSF), KPNO, NOAO I just love waterfalls. Space waterfalls are even better! What created the Waterfall Nebula? No one knows. The structure seen in the region of NGC 1999 in the Great Orion Molecul...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 25, 2011, 9:50 am
A Space Wheel from the "Battle of the Planets" (1978) Japanese retro-futurism? Hai douzo (yes please!) Two lovely toy illustrations from Battle of the Planets. Images courtesy of Dark Roasted Blend. Another beautiful ship from "Battle of the Planets", made by Entex Toys
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 21, 2011, 9:06 am
I love this illustration of my favorite part of Tomorrowland! A thoughtful souvenir, from someone who clearly knows my fairly obvious if you read this blog tastes.
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 20, 2011, 9:31 am
It’s 1966 and you are experiencing ZERO-GEE…. Wowsie-wow!
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 19, 2011, 9:30 am
Image Credit & Copyright: Larry Van Vleet, lvvastro.com Something about the colors in this image evoked “spooky” in me. The “bubble” could be the full moon behind wisps of cloud, on a chilly fall evening…. It’s the bubble versus the cloud. NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, is being pushed o...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 14, 2011, 9:12 am
M33 Triangulum Galaxy Down To The Core, photo by Terry Hancock A gorgeous galactic core by Terry Hancock! M33 is a spiral galaxy at approximately 3 million light years distance in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as th...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 12, 2011, 9:59 am
Why? Because it’s a motel for Martians, that’s why! Image courtesy of x-ray delta one.
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 11, 2011, 10:00 am
Composite image by Terry Hancock (downunderobservatory.com) and Marc Hoeksema (hoeksemaphoto.com) I love putting together “collages” of photos in Photoshop. (Image composites are sortof my bag, baby.) Following last week’s lovely Saturn beach, here is a Horsehead lake, courtesy of Terry Hanco...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 7, 2011, 9:17 am
Credits: NASA/ESA/ESO/W. Freudling (ST-ECF) I couldn’t help but be captivated by this stunning space illustration highlighting ESA’s next science missions. Quite the “cosmic vision”! The powerful influence of the Sun and the nature of the mysterious ‘dark energy’ motivate ESA’s next ...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 5, 2011, 9:53 am
Space Beach 2, composite image by John Williams My good friend John Williams made this captivating composite of space and terrestrial images. I love the combination of elements — spectacular space art! Saturn image credit: NASA/JPL
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Oct 4, 2011, 9:10 am
Image Credit & Copyright: Fredrick Broms (Northern Lights Photography) Amazing picture – that is all. On September 26, a large solar coronal mass ejection smacked into planet Earth’s magnetosphere producing a severe geomagnetic storm and wide spread auroras. Captured here near local midnight ...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 30, 2011, 11:45 am
My personal opinion of rockets is, the POINTIER, the BETTER. This Retro Rocket art print by Michael Murdock fits the bill nicely!
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 29, 2011, 9:48 am
I don’t know about you, but when I see a link entitled “The Pacman Nebula“, I expect it to look like… Pacman. Y’know? After staring at the below image for a few moments, trying to see the Pacman, I looked up NGC 281 and found the above. (Which does, after a fashion, resemble Pacman.) Howe...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 28, 2011, 12:47 pm
A beautiful concept of the Space Shuttle from 1972, courtesy of x-ray delta one. It’s interesting to see how the external tank evolved — here it looks like a larger SRB, with a penthouse (or whatever other purpose that little top spike is supposed to serve.) The orbiter itself has a bit of a str...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 27, 2011, 12:12 pm
The Andromeda Galaxy M31 NGC224, photo © Terry Hancock This image of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, is another stunning capture by Terry Hancock (who was shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011 award!) Drifting through the cosmos a mere two and a half million light-years distant, ...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 23, 2011, 9:56 am
35 years ago, on September 17, NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise to the delight of her TV crew. (Why Bones, you look so STYLIN’ in those gold bell-bottom slacks!) In 1976, NASA’s space shuttle Enterprise rolled out of the Palmdale manufacturing facilities and was greeted by NASA offici...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 22, 2011, 9:18 am
Would NOT want to be the guy pulling the lever, seems like you might get a little toasty when it takes off…. Posted by x-ray delta one, with permission from Paul Malon.
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 21, 2011, 9:14 am
The Rosette Nebula, by Andy D'Arienzo and Terry Hancock “A rose for a Rose” — I used to get this line a lot when I was growing up, because my maiden name is Rose, and I did love roses quite a bit! This lovely rose was captured by Andy D’Arienzo and Terry Hancock (Terry is a friend and reade...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 20, 2011, 12:49 pm
Lunar Lander at 1964 World's Fair A lunar lander mockup on display at the 1964 World’s Fair. Comment by the poster: “This was the popular all white mid-century modern version.” Agreed!
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 16, 2011, 9:30 am
Image Credit & Copyright: R Jay Gabany (Blackbird Obs.), Collaboration: David Martinez-Delgado (MPIA, IAC), et al. Definitely one of the more amazing galaxy photos I’ve come across recently. Enjoy your Friday! Gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is a mere 35 million light-years away, toward the cons...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 15, 2011, 9:11 am
Image courtesy of x-ray delta one @ Flickr An intriguing illustration from 1970 shows a young boy (who reminds me ever so much of Ivan, the protagonist of The Humpbacked Horse), learning about the Earth and Moon. A Soviet rocket model stands in the foreground. Learn well, young Ivan!
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 13, 2011, 1:13 pm
Image Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper (LaunchPhotography.com) The latest Moon mission (unmanned) launched on September 10th. Would love to have been there, but alas, many other things going on around then. Enjoy this beautiful time-lapse image by Ben Cooper of the rollback. This dramatic time-lapse...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 8, 2011, 11:09 am
This star cluster is beautiful, just like today is, and just like ten years ago was. Stars shine brightly! To some, the outline of the open cluster of stars M6 resembles a butterfly. M6, also known as NGC 6405, spans about 20 light-years and lies about 2,000 light years distant. M6 can best be seen...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 6, 2011, 9:46 am
Moonlight of Saturn Necklace by Lisa Zamcho (BrightFireBeads @ Etsy) Steampunk? Saturn? Why yes, I’ll have some of that! A brass Saturn is surrounded by gears and red Swarovski Crystal Moonlets. An antique pocket watch movement and a hand tooled filigree serve as the base in this piece.
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 2, 2011, 1:12 pm
Credit: ESO/WFI (visible); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al. (microwave); NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et al. (X-ray); Inset: NASA/TANAMI/C. Müller et al. (radio) Hubble unveiled some amazing time-lapse videos of supersonic jets released by young stars this week; above are some (scary) plasma jets shooting...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Sep 1, 2011, 1:03 pm
Aircraft of Uranus, photo by x-ray delta one @ Flickr Interesting aircraft designs – seems like the gaseous atmosphere of Uranus would clog those engines, but maybe not… as someone on Flickr pointed out, we’ll never know the details without page 238! And yes, I realize I’m setting myself u...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Aug 30, 2011, 4:57 pm
Image Credit & Copyright: J-P Metsävainio (Astro Anarchy) Something beautiful for your Tuesday. Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and it’s almost easy to miss stars of open cluster IC 1590. But, formed within the nebula, that cluster’s young, massive stars ultimately power t...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Aug 26, 2011, 9:02 pm
I mentioned on Twitter last week that I noticed the other day, all of the space shuttles I drew in high school happened to be either Discovery or Atlantis, the two launches I saw in person. (Strange coinkydink, dontcha think?) @deliciousblur asked me to post them, so here they are (belatedly.) I hav...
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Danielle S. posted an article on Silver Rockets - Aug 25, 2011, 9:48 am
What do you think? Is this a spaceship? Because it reminds me of a toy my little sister had as a baby… or maybe a cat toy. A hamster ball? Let the dust jacket copy of this 1958 adventure convince you: SPEED-AND MORE SPEED-go into the mammoth project of completing Tom Swift Jr.’s newest type of...
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