Psychogeeks

I recently had the pleasure of attending a friend’s birthday party (Thanks Kate) with another friend (Dane). During conversation Dane asked about the meaning of the images on the front of his tee-shirt (right). Dane had figured that parts of the imagery were related to the zodiac and the months of the [...]

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The image above shows detail of the interacting portion of two colliding galaxies: NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, otherwise known as the Antenna Galaxies. This is an extract of an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Antenna Galaxies get their name from their appearance in optical images taken from the ground. Visible [...]

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The image above shows the Valles Marineris (Mariner Valley) canyon system. At over 3000 kilometres in length, up to 8 kilometres deep, and Valles Marineris absolutely dwarfs Earth’s Grand Canyon. In contrast, the Grand Canyon is a mere 446 kilometres long and 1 kilometre deep.
The two Viking Mars missions each consisted of [...]

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The Hubble Space Telescope image above is of the region surrounding the star V838 Monocerotis. V838 is the large orange-red star, which lies about 20000 light-years away towards the edge of our galaxy. The naming of this star betrays it as a variable star, the 838th found in the constellation Monoceros. This [...]

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On June 28, 1997 the Galileo spacecraft was directed to take a series of photographs of Jupiter’s moon Io. Of interest were the volcanic features glimpsed by the two Voyager spacecraft as they flew past nearly twenty years earlier in 1979. The image above is an extract from the resulting mosaic image showing [...]

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