http://www.bigfrog.net/vnews/html/5 Pictures of Today's Infinity and Beyond Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:28:16 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Visual News 2.0 steve@bigfrog.net steve@bigfrog.net en-us 60 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/photos/categories/832/index/*http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Science-Photos/ss/832/im:/ydownload/20110617/photos_net_web_sc/1308324753 (News) - From NASA.gov: 'Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of a baked object that could be called a 'cometary planet.' Named HD 209458b, the gas giant is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space. Observations suggest powerful stellar winds are sweeping the cast-off atmospheric material behind the scorched body and shaping it into a comet-like tail. HD 209458b is located 153 light-years from Earth.' NASA / ESA / G. Bacon]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:32:33 GMT http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20110617/capt.c334e932fd16c922ab40148b6e1e45c0.jpeg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=_FOAjHeo2.CJjxLxaY7g1A-- http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/photos/categories/832/index/*http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Science-Photos/ss/832/im:/ydownload/20110617/photos_net_web_sc/1308324862 (News) - From NASA.gov: 'This artist's concept illustrates what the night sky might look like from a hypothetical planet in a star system with an asteroid belt 25 times as massive as the one in our own solar system. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence for such a belt around a nearby star called HD 69830 when its infrared eyes spotted dust -- presumably from asteroids banging together. The telescope didn't find any evidence for a planet in the system, but astronomers think one or more may be present.' NASA/ JPL-Caltech]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:34:22 GMT http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20110617/capt.d9815e0256c38b02938f6a6dc2b6338d.jpeg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=BdzEDSaSTdkhbQN1UJ33eA-- http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/photos/categories/832/index/*http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Science-Photos/ss/832/im:/ydownload_ap/20110506/photos_net_ap_sc/1304722019 (AP) - U.S. astronaut Cady Coleman, right, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratiev, center, and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, ISS, walk in an rocket assembly shop at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Wednesday, Dec. 15. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)]]> Fri, 06 May 2011 22:46:59 GMT http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20110506/capt.09e0162653c53007aa8692f69f56f8b1.jpeg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=ahB8vOa9pq9e53CGYFZVbg-- http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/photos/categories/832/index/*http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Science-Photos/ss/832/im:/ydownload/20110617/photos_net_web_sc/1308324986 (News) - From NASA.gov: 'This artist's concept shows two scientists examining rock formations on the Red Planet. Many scientists say sedimentary deposits evident in Mars Global Surveyor images could contain fossils visible under ordinary magnification -- all the more reason to send exobiologists and geologists there.' NASA/Pat Rawlings]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:36:26 GMT http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20110617/capt.65b5823b1128e85ab8e48ea1f7b87b41.jpeg?x=130&y=70&q=85&sig=H4bp.R_nsOy2RPqkfb1k9g-- http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/photos/categories/832/index/*http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Science-Photos/ss/832/im:/ydownload/20110603/photos_net_web_sc/1307109043 (News) - This shot from a NASA fireball-watching camera shows a meteor over Macon, Ga., on the evening of May 20, 2011. .CREDIT: NASA/MSFC/MEO]]> Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:50:43 GMT http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20110603/capt.1c6b507e50178f9ed28d6ab47003e057.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=Xwg4ejj5io3YM_Aoei142Q-- http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/photos/categories/832/index/*http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Science-Photos/ss/832/im:/ydownload/20110617/photos_net_web_sc/1308324926 (News) - From NASA.gov: 'The giant planet HR 8799b was first discovered in 2007 at the Gemini North observatory. The planet is young and hot, with a temperature of 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. It's slightly larger than Jupiter and may be 10 times more massive.' NASA / ESA / G. Bacon]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:35:26 GMT http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20110617/capt.4692bc20fe64d91d3170393dccaf6ada.jpeg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=1BhLrWNwACQxQ1g7PDeNGA-- http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/photos/categories/832/index/*http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Science-Photos/ss/832/im:/ydownload/20110421/photos_net_web_sc/1303422518 (News) - The large Whirlpool Galaxy (left) is known for its sharply defined spiral arms. Their prominence could be the result of the Whirlpool's gravitational tug-of-war with its smaller companion galaxy (right). (NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team, STScI/AURA)]]> Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:48:38 GMT http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20110421/capt.4c685d5eae4a2c7fe5c83f6c75608e93.jpeg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=GQRnysEb5ddIw03a8Lue9A-- http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/photos/categories/832/index/*http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Science-Photos/ss/832/im:/ydownload/20110517/photos_net_web_sc/1305667889 (News) - A German satellite image provides a detailed view of Istanbul from more than 300 miles (500 kilometers) up. There is dense housing where yellow is predominates. In the city itself, only a few areas remain undeveloped and are thus shown in green. .CREDIT: DLR]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 21:31:29 GMT http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20110517/capt.38c5f9b9462bdeb6d8a140e4b1dd90ee.jpeg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=oeOqHK4f5.KPsaf2ZPrsmQ-- http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/photos/categories/832/index/*http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Science-Photos/ss/832/im:/ydownload/20110523/photos_net_web_sc/1306184577 (News) - Bioluminescent Mushroom (Mycena luxaeterna) Common name: Eternal light mushroom. Lighting up the top 10 is a luminescent fungus collected in São Paulo, Brazil, found on sticks in an Atlantic forest habitat. The teeny mushrooms, less than 8 millimeters in diameter with caps smaller than 2 centimeters across, have gel-coated stems that glow constantly, emitting a bright, yellowish-green light. San Francisco State University biology professor Dennis Desjardin and his colleagues who made the discovery, named the new species Mycena luxaeterna (eternal light) after a movement in Mozart's 'Requiem.' Desjardin, who has discovered more than 200 new fungi species, noted that of the estimated 1.5 million species of fungi on Earth, only 71 species are known to be bioluminescent. Credit: Cassius V. Stevani (Instituto de Química – Univ. de São Paulo, Brazil)]]> Mon, 23 May 2011 21:02:57 GMT http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20110523/capt.5ecc94bdbdbe657f0fba9a77272cb30a.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=JETPz4l0q5EKXxgRoCkEHA--