Historical Landing of Space X Falcon 9 Stage 1

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SpaceX's Monday December 21, 2015 launch of the Falcon 9 rocket made history. Apart from carrying and successfully deploying 11 satellites for ORBCOMM, in its first time SpaceX successfully landed its first stage. (CLICK HERE for more details at the SpaceX site). Watch the full webcast below from the launch to land of the stage 1 and successful deployment of 11 satellites from stage 2 below.

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The flight plan of the launch and separation of the stage 1 and stage 2 can be seen below.

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The shorter version of the launch and landing of the stage 1 of the Falcon 9 can be seen below.

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The vertical landing of the Stage 1 boosters have brought in a level with reduction in costs at some rough estimates at 40% (Not confirmed). 

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The following video is the landing of the Stage 1 taken by a helicopter giving a clearer view.

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The Sun in UHD 4K

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The Sun in Ultra High Definition - 4k Resolution (2160 pixel). NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) keeps an eye on our sun. In Space, the observatory captures 10 different wavelength of our sun, each of which help highlight a different temperature of the solar material. (Naturally just pointing the camera to the sun is just like pointing a camera to a bright light bulb). The amazing thing is that a team of media specialists worked ten hours to create one minute of the footage. The following video is for the people who are solar or sun enthusiast and want to get up close and personal with the sun and understand how the sun behaves, this is the video. Also for those people who want to test their Ultra HD TV or 4K TV can have an amazing experience seeing this on it. (CLICK HERE for the NASA website) By the way it is a 30 minute footage.

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Amazing Sun TimeLapse NASA SDO

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NASA SDO

In honor of SDO's fifth anniversary, NASA has released a video showcasing highlights from the last five years of sun watching. Watch the movie to see giant clouds of solar material hurled out into space, the dance of giant loops hovering in the corona, and huge sunspots growing and shrinking on the sun's surface. February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly detailed images of the whole sun 24 hours a day. Capturing an image more than once per second, SDO has provided an unprecedentedly clear picture of how massive explosions on the sun grow and erupt ever since its launch on Feb. 11, 2010. The imagery is also captivating, allowing one to watch the constant ballet of solar material through the sun's atmosphere, the corona.

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Sharp View of Andromeda Galaxy

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This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31.

This is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 billion pixels. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image.

It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years.

The Actual size of the Image is 4.3 Gb and can be downloaded from the website for Space Enthusiasts. (CLICK HERE for the page on which the Links are provided)  The above image was released on 5th January 2015. The actual pixel size of the image is 69536 x 22230 pixels.

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The video was compiled and present by Daveachuk on his Youtube channel.