- Wanna dive into the water? Here are some nice photos at The Big Picture.
- Photo post production before/after images (via visuelleGedanken)
- The calculus version of Bohemian Rhapsody (via Mathlog (und rolak))
Links and Videos of the Week (2010/34)
- Surreal photo manipulation (via pickspack)
- Intelligent Design? Pshaw, boring and stupid. But the Intelligent Gestation Theory’s great!
- A nightly landscape lit only by the milky way
- A great timelapse video with shooting stars (via Bad Astronomy)
- A tornado made of fire (via Bad Astronomy)
(Something was embedded as Flash object here. Not exactly sensible anymore.)
The Smilie Galaxy?
The emphasis in this newly released image of the Antennae Galaxies is mine, of course – anyway it’s nice to see an entire galaxy smile. 
Just wondering what the New-Agey woo-woos may think about that – face of god? Manifestation of galactic love? Kryon’s wife? A guardian for the synchronization beam? …?
← The original image is a composite of images from Chandra (X-ray, shown in blue), Hubble (gold and brown), and Spitzer (infrared, shown as red) and is taken from HubbleSite which also has more info and higher resoluion images.
Credits: HubbleSite, NASA, ESA, SAO, CXC, JPL-Caltech, STScI
Links and Videos of the Week (2010/29)
- Beautiful and horrible photos of thunderstorms and their damage at The Big Picture
- God hinting at retirement
- A walk across the USA in stop-motion (via Nerdcore)
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Astrophysicist Neil Tyson about UFOs and the argument from ignorance (via Astrodicticum):