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Philae’s New 360 Degree Image Is Our Best Look at the Comet Yet

Earlier today we showed you a composite image of the first two photo from the Philae lander. But this morning, the European Space Agency released four brand-new images in a press briefing, and it’s our clearest look at the Philae’s spot on 67P we’ve seen. The ESA put together a raw 360 degree panoramic image…

Rosetta’s comet sound matches the Flight of the Bumblebee perfectly

Apparently, if you take the spacey audio track from Comet 67P and mix it with the orchestral performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of The Bumblebee you get universal perfection! Just listen to this awesome mashup: Hat tip to font4yne! SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Rosetta’s Comet Is Singing and You Can Listen To It Here

Listen to it! That’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko singing. This cosmic song was just discovered by the European Space Agency, which released the soundtrack for our enjoyment. It’s totally new and unexpected, say the scientists who will remotely land a probe on the rocky surface of the comet tomorrow. The ESA reports: Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) consists…

13 Amazing Paintings of Space Based On Actual Missions

Yesterday we looked at an artist who immortalized the US space program. Today, we meet an artist who does the same—except that this American illustrator, Paul Fjeld, bases his work on the actual transcripts of missions. It’s science and art in equal measure, and it’s beautiful. Fjeld is both an illustrator, writer, space expert, and…

Newly formed sea ice in the Bellingshausen Sea next to an ice berg on Nov. 5, 2014. NASA’s Operation IceBridge took this aerial photograph of a calving front of the Western Antarctic ice sheet on a science flight out of Punta Arenas, Chile. The flight plan was designed to collect data on changes in ice…

NASA Captured the Lonely Last Journey of an Aircraft Carrier

This is the loneliest funeral march I’ve ever seen. This photo from November 5th was taken during a NASA mission called Operation IceBridge, the goal of which is to survey polar ice. But it also captured the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CV-64), a Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier being towed by comparatively tiny tugboats. The Constellation is…

The Hungarian-Born Painter Who Immortalized America’s Space Program

In a way, artists are the most important men and women in the aerospace industry when it came to visualizing the visions of the near (or far) future from engineers, scientists and experts. The first piece of our new series showcasing the work of some of the most noted aerospace artists, is about to pay…

Sometimes even giants need a little tenderness. Just look at the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) transiting the Elizabeth River, at Portsmouth, Va., shepherded by four tiny tugboats. The huge vessel was photographed en route to Norfolk Naval Shipyard, on November 5th. [Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Justin R. Pacheco/U.S. Navy]

Crescent Saturn and its crescent moon. This has to be one of the most beautiful pairs of heavenly bodies we’re lucky to see, thanks to the Cassini spacecraft. In this photo, Titan’s crescent nearly encircles its disk due to the small haze particles high in its atmosphere, scattering the incoming light of the distant Sun.…

These Surreal Images Envision Nature and Cities Colliding

Given the advent of Photoshop, most of us don’t bat an eye at wildly creative photographic collage. But Croatian visual artist Tanja Deman‘s still have the power to shock even the most jaded eyes—and point a surreal spotlight on the relationship between nature and humans. Deman’s recent work focuses on the built environment and community…

This may only be a shot of military vehicles being loaded into a C-5M Super Galaxy, but the dramatic lighting, shiny ramp and crisp details of the aircraft interior make it feel like a vision from the future. [Staff Sgt. Jeremy Bowcock/USAF]

This Is Why National Parks Are So Important

This incredible satellite image is of the dormant volcano of Egmont National Park on New Zealand’s North Island. And that clear, sharp boundary on the left is where the park stops and human kind starts. The image, taken on 6 March 2013 by Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite, clearly shows the boundary between protected and non-protected areas:…

The Wallops Island launch facility, viewed from the air the day after the Orbital Science Antares rocket exploded right after liftoff. The photo was taken by the Wallops Incident Response Team on Wednesday October 29th. [NASA/Terry Zaperach]

Protests Against Internet Tax in Hungary Continue—Larger Than Ever

Tens of thousands of peaceful Hungarians marched again in the streets and on the bridges of Budapest on Tuesday—continuing the demonstration against the proposed internet tax. According to Reuters, an estimated 100,000 people rallied at night to protest at a planned tax on data traffic suggested by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government. By a more…

This Is How Hungarians Are Protesting Against Proposed Internet Tax

There was something strange in the air in Budapest on Sunday evening. Mostly, it was computer parts and outdated peripherals—flying through the closed windows of the headquarters of the ruling political party, called Fidesz. You may ask why that’s happening in Hungary, a democratic member of the European Union and part of NATO, ally of…

A Rare Tour Inside a Thousand-Year-Old High-Tech Winery

The Abbey Winery in Pannonhalma, Hungary, has one of the oldest wine making traditions in Europe. In 996, Benedictine monks settled on the Sacred Hill of Pannonia—and they’ve always been closely associated with viticulture and winemaking introduced by the Romans. At the beginning of the 1900s, the Archabbey had about 100 hectares—or 250 acres—of vineyards…

13 Greyhound Ads That Will Make You Want To Travel America By Bus

It’s difficult to make a bus ride seem glamorous. But the 100-year-old Greyhound Bus Company found a way nonetheless, painting the great destinations of the U.S.—depicted in these these amazing 1960s posters—as grand adventures best reached by bus. Founded in 1914, Hibbing, Minnesota, Greyhound is now celebrating its centenary. And there’s no better time to…

Amazingly thrilling video of F-18 fighters with ambient sound

This spectacular footage of F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets is how all aviation videos should be: Just amazingly crispy shots with no stupid musical soundtrack. It makes you feel like you are sitting right there in the cockpit with the pilots. An incredibly detailed look into the F-18s of the USS Enterprise. Creators: Lt. Ian…

This serene snapshot is perhaps one of the most beautiful depictions of interdependence. That tiny aviation boatswain’s mate signals a giant MV-22B Osprey launching from the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island; so different in scale, yet they can’t exist without each other. [U.S. Navy]

Making Stars With Lasers Looks Like Tron Made Real

Not how to destroy an entire planet, but how humans are able to create a star—with the help of a laser tuned to 589.2 nanometers wavelength. The fantastic superstructure you are staring at is the Unit Telescope of the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is shooting its laser in…