Okay, while I admit that I found this page because it had the NuSTAR observation of the Sun listed as one of the top ten pics, it also made me think that this was a GOOD year for space imagery…
Author: Brian
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Merging Active Galaxies
Beautiful new shot of Arp299. Red/Blue are the NuSTAR false color hard X-ray images overlaid on an HST optical image.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC
Associated news release here, where you can also get a link to larger versions of the image. Because you know you want this to rotate through as your desktop background.
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Reducing Infinites
Like most of us, right my primary means of consuming new content is via an RSS reader. I’ve pretty much forsaken Facebook except to keep up with family and old friends and occasionally use my Google+ page as a means of discovering new content (mainly photography, both terrestrial and space), but 99% of the time I open up Feedly.
Lately I’ve felt like I’m sliding back into the “infinite content that I don’t actually care about but spend time reading anyways” trap. So I’m cleaning house and trimming down. Here’s what’s in my RSS feed now (will be updated if I feel like I’m missing things):
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The Sun with NuSTAR Yep, we made it into APOD. And on the evening news. Woot. This particular link goes straight to the APOD coverage, but if you Google “NuSTAR Sun” then you can find lots of great coverage.
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A giant pulse from M82
Latest NuSTAR Nature paper on the “ultra” pulsar in M82 and the press release via the NuSTAR Caltech site. (more…)
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The short and the long of it
So this is the first my test of playing out a full featured blog. I think it’s worth it for me to keep notes for myself, just to remember what went into making this thing happen…
