Various astronomy news

[impaktor]

Triton map and video restored from images from Voyager
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/m/news/news.php ... _ZyyGK9KSN

[FluffyFreak]

That's cool that they can reprocess old images and data with modern technique to extract new information from it.

[FluffyFreak]

Not so much "news" but some really cool photographs of clouds casting shadows thousands of miles long on Earth.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/09/a ... adows-iss/

[impaktor]

Star-within-a-star
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/astron ... -theorized

[impaktor]

OK, this is both Space related and game graphics related, two in one!

"Nvidia sinks moon landing hoax using virtual light"
http://www.cnet.com/news/nvidias-new-gp ... ual-light/

[FluffyFreak]

Scientists Discover 67P Comet Stinks and Has Dunes Just Like Earth

[FluffyFreak]

Art imitating life? Sci-fi film Interstellar leads to new scientific discovery

[impaktor]

That was seriously cool.

Now just wait for someone to open a feature request on this. ;)

I've been thinking we should recruit someone from some University video game program to give us cool looking stars as a diploma project. And clouds.

[bszlrd]

I love when filmmakers actually put in the effort in these kind of things. Like that spaceship in Avatar was thoroughly designed by some actual physicist as I heard.

And Space Engine actually has gravitational lensing.

[FluffyFreak]

Looks like orphan worlds might outnumber those belonging to stars by thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands.

Throwback Thursday: Most Planets in the Universe are Homeless