50 Years of Space Travel
October 15, 2009 at 10:47 pm
The remaining systems within ten light years are the binary red dwarf system Luyten 726-8 (8.7 light years) and the solitary red dwarf Ross 154 (9.7 light years). Our closest solitary sun-like star is Tau Ceti, which lies 11.9 light years away. It has roughly 80 percent the Sun’s mass, but only 60 percent its luminosity. The closest known extrasolar planet to the Sun lies around the star Epsilon Eridani, a star slightly dimmer and redder than the Sun, which lies 10.5 light years away. Its one confirmed planet, Epsilon Eridani b, is roughly 1.5 times Jupiter’s mass and orbits its star every 6.9 years. - wiki
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” As Big as the Solar System ”
01. Luigi Nono - Liebeslied
Wien Modern (1990)
02. Kronos Quartet - Spem in alium “Sing And Glorify”, P. 299 (arr. Kronos Quartet)
Black Angels (1990)
03. Tarentel - Blessed|Cursed
The Order of Things (Neurot Recordings, 2001)
04. Fridge - Harmonics
Happiness (Temporary Residence, 2001)
05. Nels Cline/Greg Bendian - Venus
Interstellar Space Revisited (The Music of John Coltrane) (2005)
06. Slint - Washer
Spiderland (Touch & Go Records, 1991)
07. Rachel’s - Artemisia
Selenography (Touch & Go Records, 1999)
08. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Parallel Corners
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (Planet Mu, 2006)
09. Broadcast - Look Outside
Noise made by people (2000)
10. Ralph Towner - Piscean Dreams
Solstice (ECM, 1975)
Note: Wow, posting has been sparse. Here is a big one, try to make it last for a few days :D. It’s really big, I like it. A simple post-rock mix with few string tracks. Random really, I just need an excuse to post the above beautiful solar system exploration map. So, post rock with a tinge of spacey feel is in order. Float around the solar system for a moment. In the meantime, we still trying to sort things out. (no really…really really… )
image: National Geography via Gizmodo
btw, yess….I did try to look for Sun + 8 planets, but they don’t sound as cool as this one. so this is Sun + 8 planet + closing track/space beyond.
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The Virgo Supercluster (Virgo SC) or Local Supercluster (LSC or LS) is the irregular supercluster that contains the Local Group, which in turn contains the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. At least 100 galaxy groups and clusters are located within its diameter of 33 megaparsecs (110 million light-years). It is one of millions of superclusters in the observable Universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Supercluster
Our Solar System - Size Of Planets and Stars to Scale
How was our solar system created?
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I wonder why cosmic music sounds monumental.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE2WBSXJG8E
Hey! where have you been?
monumental cosmic music … cliche I guess. It’s very hard to do it in any otherway. It would be interesting to do it with various different beat… But don’t have time to think up some fancy list.
Well…Kubrick said so. Now it is like that :-)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk
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Topsy just beat me to saying that we RTed this very cool playlist & gorgeous picture…
Best,
Julian
LMYE
Hey look for some audio inspired by the Epsilon Eridani star on our next record, or online even sooner.
illicitizen