Very nice!

... and I'm gonna claim this, too...

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/05/18/po...space-telescope

Stu, you've made me into a poetry fan.

Beautiful! Stu, your poem made my eyes teary. I hope the astronauts will read it.

... by Nancy Atkinson. Mmm, are you sure you're not relatives?

Actually, it was given to them before launch by a KSC guy I know on Facebook, so I'm pretty sure they read it.

Which is nice.

And no, no relation. Honest.

What an moving poem to go with the fantastic images. I am excited to see what visions come when Hubble reopens its eye.

Beautiful work, Stu...and for what an audience!

Very honoured to have my two Hubble poems featured on the Hubble Heritage website

http://heritage.stsci.edu/commonpages/art/...ture/index.html

Which are the latest UMSF images released to the "general public" ?
I believe I saw UMSF images on SpaceflightNow.com

There will be a 7-page article in the January 2010 issue of S&T featuring UMSF images, authored by Emily Lakdawalla.

A good read!

Sean Walker

Well, it's official another UMSF.com image has made the cover of BIS' monthly Spaceflight magazine:
The January 2010 will be available at News & Magazines agents from 16th December...
It's a great article which mentions UMSF.com as suggestions poured in how to extract Spirit.
I've thanked everybody involved: Dan Maas, Doug Ellison, Ken Kremer, Marco di Lorenzo, Alan Martin, Eduardo Tesheiner, Glen Nagle...
Thanks again!

http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.asp...id/2101/l/en-us

A quick reminder that UMSF.com is a different website. This is unmannedspaceflight.com or UMSF, but not UMSF.com.

Quite. Call it UMSF if you like (I do). But do NOT call it UMSF dot com. That used to be a church website I believe, since mvoed to a .org, and the .com URL is now for sale for about $5000

Got me scared there... Re-checked the article and I did mention our favorite site as " unmannedspaceflight.com "
(a forum of online community of unmanned spaceflight enthusiasts)

Special thanks to Dan Maas, James Canvin, Glen Nagle and Stuart Atkinson...

cover credits:
Artist compilation © Glen Nagle
Mosaics © James Canvin, Stuart Atkinson
Raw data © NASA/JPL/Cornell/Texas A&M
Original Rover art © MAAS Digital LLC

Apparrently I got "BoingBoing" 'd... is that good?

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/09/the-c...late-hills.html

So it would seem. Congratulations, Stu, VERY well-deserved!!!

Boing, Boing . . .Bon!

Didn't know where to put this but since this is a prize shared for, at least, 5 UMSFers...here it goes.
http://beyondthecradle.wordpress.com/2010/...uperstar-award/

Perhaps this one would fit where my Iapetus map makes an appearance?

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5964/432

I made this!
http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/kepler/posts...1039347499.html

Covers made by forum-members for the British Interplanetary Society's monthly Spaceflight magazine:

Hey all,

OK, I'm pretty stoked by this one. A classical violinist from Italy, Riccardo Minasi, saw my APOD of the Pantheon in Rome (see my sig). He liked it so much that he wanted it on the cover of his latest CD. Who was I to say no to that? His record label paid me a handsome sum for the photo, but more than the money It feels really nice to have made a CD cover. I am guessing there won't be many of those in the future, so it was now or never...

CD cover by a UMSF member, would that be a first?

http://www.grooves-inc.com/product_info.ph...154/language/en

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Awesome! Congratulations Soeren.

Congratulations, well done! That's a definite first!

Hey, that's really cool! Congratulations!!!

Very well deserved. Every time you post I'm newly thrilled by that image, made possible by an almost impossible building which in itself embodies an astronomical theme given a new astronomical twist by clever photography. I hope the musician understands all the layers. Is the music any good? Heck, I may buy it for the cover anyhow.

That indeed was an awesome image Soeren -- Congratulations!

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Congratulations on the work and the CD cover

ESA published Emily's collage of asteroids and comet nuclei on its web page "Call for media: reacting to the threat of asteroid impacts."

Link to Image page

Congrats to Emily.

I see Ted Stryk's name through the credits as well.

Thanks for all your comments guys, warms the heart!



You can actually listen to snippets of the music here on the record label page of the CD:

http://www.passacaille.be/CD.aspx?ID=85

As to whether Mr. Minasi understands all the layers of the image. Well, he is from Rome, I believe, and would then know the Pantheon very well.

Wether you fancy Carl Sagan or not here's something where several UMSFers are involved:
http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/sagan/

Being behind the curtains on this I am really proud to see how people put their hearts into it...
Stu, Nick, Lyford...thank you for everything!

AHH! What a glorious day for UMSFers!!! Looks like we've take the bridge of the USS Kepler Starship!
Lyford at the keyboards, NPrev and Stu shooting word artillery and I well...I'm feeling like tattoo at fantasy island!
http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/sagan/

Wow! Nick and Stu... such marvelous writing. And Ustrax (or should I say, Tatoo) thanks for telling me about "zee plane, zee plane"!

I never would have seen it if you hadn't pointed it out to me.

Thanks, man! (insert blush emoticon here.) All kudos to Rui & the Kepler project for providing the opportunity; it's a humbling thing, was very honored.

But I'm the pollywog among some big frogs indeed in this pond. Lyford's score is not only professional in its quality, but it hits all the right notes in your heart...haunting, beautiful.

Stu's story is...God, please, just read it, everybody. I still see the images he wove, and won't ever forget them.

Stu........ !

Exactly.

Thanks, guys. I am quite pleased with how that story turned out.

And Nick, don't you dare put yourself down like that. Your essay is extremely personal and deep, deep from the heart, which makes it a fine piece of writing.

As for Lyford's music, well, it's now on my phone and I'm looking forward to listening to it next time I go up to the castle to stargaze.

A great story, Stu! I guessed the twist kinda quickly, but even so!
Just a minor correction though: 51 Pegasi b (the first found orbiting a normal star) was discovered in 1995, a year before his death, so I'm sure Carl knew about extrasolar planets.
But that's a tiny nitpick!

Yeah, bit of a clue the story being part of celebrations of Carl Sagan's life, hard to get around that!

Good point on the 51 Peg date, that totally slipped by me. Put it down to "artistic licence"

As one who used to do a pretty good Sagan impression, my only concern is that in your story he didn't say "billions."

Oh, it was hard stopping myself, trust me!

There's a whole section on this in Wikipedia!

He actually said "billions" a lot. And I'm sure he eventually ended up saying "billions and billions" later on, by request.

"...his frequent use of the word billions, and distinctive delivery emphasizing the "b".... made him a favorite target of comic performers.... and his final book was entitled Billions and Billions which opened with a tongue-in-cheek discussion of this catch phrase...."

You can actually read his "discussion of this catch phrase" in the Amazon "Look Inside!" function.
Click on "first pages" on the left.
http://www.amazon.com/Billions-Thoughts-De...ader_0345379187

The hell of it is that no matter how many times he said "billions" he was still generally understating most things astronomical...

Boy, there was sure no one like him before or since, and we were so extremely lucky to have him. Peace, Carl.

What do you guys think of:

http://www.symphonyofscience.com/videos.html

?

It's been posted before... to critical acclaim I might add...

A clip from Stephen V2's movie is today's (March 15, 2011) APOD. It features images done by several UMSF members:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110315.html

Great congrats to all authors, the HD movie is simply breathtaking (I can barely imagine its effects in a IMAX theatre...!)

Think I just saw a preview of next year's must-see IMAX!

Congratulations to Bjorn on having his incredible GRS image used for today's Astronomy Picture Of the Day! :-)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110502.html