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Kelly Lepo

Did you know that JPL has a whole gallery of beautifully illustrated Halloween posters, based on real science? Perfect to print and decorate your space, use as a wallpaper on your computer or phone, or as a Zoom background.

exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worl

An illustrated poster, in the style of a horror movie: A scarlet star looms behind the ruins of an exoplanet that resembles the shape of a skull. A red galaxy arm is visible in the background. Title: MACS 2129-1 stars in: Galactic Graveyard. Subtitle: Beware: It's old, red and dead! Smaller text: This chillingly haunted galaxy mysteriously stopped making stars only a few billion years after the Big Bang! It became a cosmic cemetery, illuminated by the red glow of decaying stars. Dare to enter, and you might encounter the frightening corpses of exoplanets or the final death throws of once-mighty stars. A Hubble Space Telescope Observation. Based on Real Science.
Illustrated poster, in the style of a horror movie poster. Two astronauts are standing on an asteroid, watching a pair of neutron stars, or the cores of collapsed stars, collide in the distance. The result of the collision is bright, concentrated beams of light called gamma rays. The gamma ray bursts narrowly miss the astronauts as they shoot outward from the collision. Title: A Radiating Thriller of Cosmic Proportions. Gamma Ray Ghouls. Smaller text: In the depths of the Universe the cores of two collapsed stars violently merge to release a burst of the deadliest and most powerful form of light, known as Gamma Rays. These beams of doom are unleashed upon their unfortunate surroundings, shining a million trillion times brighter than the Sun for up to 30 terrifying seconds. No spaceship will shield you from the blinding destruction of the Gamm Ray Ghouls! Based on Real Science. Presented by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope.
5 Oct 2023 at 21:13 | Open on astrodon.social
13 comments
Dr. Victoria Grinberg

@kellylepo my favorite is Cygnus X-1, of course. Even though we by now know that it's even a bit heavier than the poster says 😁

5 Oct 2023 at 21:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Seth πŸŽ™οΈ:jawn_sg:

@kellylepo The are my new favorite things.

5 Oct 2023 at 22:30 | Open on s3th.me
The Mad Codger
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@kellylepo
Dammit, Lisa Simpson grew up and now promotes member/partner agencies of the military industrial complex while maintaining a loud complicit silence in solidarity with her country's ascendant white supremacy and fascism.

SIDO - Astronaut (feat. Andreas Bourani)
youtu.be/WPFLAjmWCtk

5 Oct 2023 at 23:27 | Open on kolektiva.social
dark was the night 🌚

@kellylepo I'm very interested in who the artists are... Poster nerds need to know!

6 Oct 2023 at 1:08 | Open on mas.to
π‘ͺπ’π’“π’†π’š π‘Ίπ’π’Šπ’‘π’†π’” πŸ‚

@kellylepo Oh my gosh. Exoplanet Travel Bureau, even. Fantastic.

Poster from NASA's Exoplanet Travel Bureau series featuring a person falling toward the surface of a planet from space. "Experience the gravity of HD 40307g"
6 Oct 2023 at 2:33 | Open on fosstodon.org
Janie Karma S πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ––πŸΏ

@kellylepo

These are great, thanks!

They remind me of these from NASA's Exoplanet Travel Bureau.

exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worl
6 Oct 2023 at 3:34 | Open on mastodon.social
🌈 ☯️TeresitaπŸ§πŸ‘­

@Karma_J @kellylepo Makes me think of Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312, a grand romp across the whole Solar System. Fans of The Expanse'd love it.

6 Oct 2023 at 3:40 | Open on techhub.social
Kelly Lepo
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@kellylepo Damn, this is SO cool (and so beautiful!).

6 Oct 2023 at 6:51 | Open on mastodon.social
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