Revelers salute with traditional 1-liter beer mugs on the first day of the Munich Oktoberfest, September 17, 2011. (Reuters/Michael Dalder) #
Here’s a look at how Wells’ fictional visions became 21st-century reality.
For one, the title of one of his books foretold one of the greatest technological achievements in the history of humankind: landing men on the moon.
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Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn’s Enceladus
Sun’s Active Region
Paul Andrew captured this photo of the Sun’s active region on September 3rd, 2011.
The Sun’s active region is an area on the Sun where there is intense magnetic field. Sunspots usually form in active regions where it also host related phenomena such as solar flare and solar prominence which can also be seen in the photo above.
Taken in Ha light with a DMK41AU02.AS camera and a single stacked Lunt LS60T, it comprises of two separate exposures (one for the prominence and one for the detail of the solar surface).
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I’m not in love with this one like I was the one I finished yesterday, but I tried out some new things and saved it from my miserable first idea.
No excuses though. There it is.
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socialentraNGC 1999 is a dust filled bright nebula with a vast hole of empty space represented by a black patch of sky, as can be seen in the photograph. It is a reflection nebula, and shines from the light of the variable star V380 Orionis.
It was previously believed that the black patch was a dense cloud of dust and gas which blocked light that would normally pass through, called a dark nebula. Analysis of this patch by the infrared telescopeHerschel (October 9, 2009), which has the capability of penetrating such dense cloud material, resulted in continued black space. This led to the belief that either the cloud material was immensely dense or that an unexplained phenomenon had been detected.
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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn’t, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
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The Earth and the Moon. Taken 6 million miles away by the Juno spacecraft which is on its way to Jupiter.
Man, space is neat! Everything we love and hate and know is on that pale blue dot.













