Galaxy print is one of the leaders of this season, and for good reason. Its innovation and originality lies in the fact that it is not just an image of the starry sky or constellations on a black background, but photographs of the universe printed on clothing and accessories, done space telescope Hubble.
Unlike ethnic prints, stripes, geometry and other colors dictated to us by the catwalk, space print has become relevant thanks to street-fashion and bloggers.
Christopher Kane
World fashionistas owe the appearance of the galaxy print to the star of British design Christopher Kane, creative director of the brand Christopher Kane. C light hand This man, models wearing dresses, skirts, trousers, tops and sweaters in cosmic colors appeared on the catwalk.
Then this idea was perceived as the designer’s desire to appeal to retro style, namely, to the popular in the 60s of the last century space theme. And I must say galactic colors appealed to many Western celebrities. Among the fans of this print were such stars as Alexa Chung, Anne Hattaway, Kerry Milligan, Claudia Schiffer, Sam Cameron and Katy Perry.
Amy Macdonald, Carey Mulligan
Jessie J, Nicki Minaj
After the release of the collection Christopher Kane, many other designers became interested in the galaxy print. The most daring of them was the American designer Setare Motarez, founder of the brand Setareh Mohtarez. Experimenting with form, the young designer created a collection of clothes for bright and out-of-the-box thinking girls who strive to go beyond generally accepted concepts of style and fashion in general.
As for shoes and accessories, the spring-summer 2013 season will delight us big amount sneakers, sandals, ankle boots and ballet flats with galaxy print. World famous brand of sneakers and ballet shoes Converse released a space retro collection this season. The classic high-top galaxy sneakers with thick rubber soles became a unique hit of the collection.
For fans of more feminine footwear than sneakers or rough boots, there will also be trendy space-style accessories for spring. First of all, it makes sense to pay attention to the brand’s collection Jeffrey Campbell. At first glance, the space ankle boots from this collection are not so much feminine as they are provocative, but next spring everyone will turn a blind eye to this, because the main motto of the coming season is “the brighter, the better!”
Timur Guchkaev
stylist, presenter of the program “Wardrobe Out”, “Beauty Demands!”
Space motifs in clothing have become fashionable relatively recently. For the first time, dresses on this theme were demonstrated in the Christopher Kane collection at London Fashion Week back in 2010. The space print won love instantly; at the beginning it could be found as accessories - bags, scarves, tights, but then the galaxy print conquered other wardrobe items. Even makeup and manicure began to be done in the style of galactic colors.
To begin with, the item of clothing you have chosen for the experiment needs to be slightly crumpled in the center or twisted, depending on what specific pattern you want to see in the end. Spray paint on the twisted item in any order. The choice of color (blue, purple, pink, yellow, cyan, white, lilac) is at your discretion.
In science, imagination is especially in demand. This is not only mathematics or logic, but something between beauty and poetry.
- Maria Mitchell
Looking at the vastness of the night sky, where there are a few clouds, no moon, in quite dark time day, you will see not just thousands of tiny white dots illuminating the black canopy of the night.
Although on average the stars white, there is an important reason for this. Our eyes, as a result of evolution, are accustomed to seeing a very narrow part of the spectrum, known to us as visible light, from purple with a wavelength of 400 nm, to red light with 700 nm. 
In fact, these wavelengths do not stand out in any way, it just happened that way. But this happened on the surface of the Earth, which is illuminated by the Sun during the day!
This means that stars that burn at temperatures higher than the Sun will appear blue to us, while cooler ones will appear yellow, orange, and even red as they get smaller. In the southern hemisphere, the appearance of the Southern Cross and the terminal stars demonstrates this contrast.
In both hemispheres, the great winter constellation, Orion (rising at 2 a.m. in September), contains stars ranging from the deep orange of Betelgeuse to the bright blue belt stars.
And although these stars are so colorful in the images, this does not explain much.
Long-lasting reddish regions can be found in both pictures. These are clearly not cold red stars. The "astronomical image of the day" picture that appeared just before this article was written showed a close-up view of that reddish region of the Orion Nebula from the image above.
This remarkable nebula has two colors visible to human eyes, like those found in dusty regions of space. The blue nebula on the left contrasts brightly with the large red glow on the right.
It turns out that areas of space that glow red are a little more common, but there are also plenty of blue areas. The question you are probably thinking about is – why is this so? Let's take a closer look at Orion's nearby belt.
Even if a star is not blue, its reflection nebula is usually blue color(with some exceptions), for the same reason why the sky is blue: cosmic dust, like the Earth's atmosphere, scatters blue better than red!
And when light collides with a neutral, non-ionized gas, the red light simply passes through, with only a small part of it reflected, and the blue light is scattered in all directions, including ours!
Therefore, looking at the huge complex of molecular clouds in the constellation Orion - hundreds of light years across - you can see that it is filled with both emitting and reflection nebulae, as well as dark streaks of absorbing dust!
This is how hot stars, hydrogen, heavier elements and light-scattering dust, along with the light coming from all the surrounding stars, work together to illuminate the depths of space with the entire spectrum of visible light!
If you're starting to imagine what we could see if, instead of just a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, we could see everything from gamma rays to radio waves, congratulations! You just understood why we need telescopes that are sensitive to such a variety of wavelengths, and why we use false color compositions with all this information.
The wide variety of information visible to our eyes covers only 1/60th of all the wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum on a logarithmic scale! So enjoy what you see and the reasons why it is the way it is, but don't believe that only what you see exists. There is a whole Universe, and every day science helps us see it and understand it a little more. Don't forget how important it is to look.
A typical example of a misconception created by cinema for the sake of entertainment. You know, those eyes popping out of their sockets and the body swelling, after which the person bursts like soap bubble. Blood and guts in all directions are added optionally if the film's age rating allows. Getting into outer space without a special spacesuit really kills, but not as spectacular as we see in the movies.
In fact, an unprotected person can stay in outer space for about 30 seconds without suffering irreversible health damage.
It will not be an instant death. The person will die from suffocation due to lack of oxygen. If you want to see how this really happens, watch Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. In this film the theme is revealed quite realistically.
When it comes to space colonization, then there are two candidates for the role of a new home for humanity: Mars or Venus. Venus is called Earth's sister, but only because of the similarity of these planets in size, gravity and composition.
It is unlikely that we will like living on a planet with thick dense clouds of sulfuric acid reflecting the entire sunlight. Atmosphere - almost clean carbon dioxide, Atmosphere pressure 92 times higher than ours, the surface temperature is 477 degrees Celsius. Not a very friendly sister.
The sun is burning
In fact, it does not burn, but glows. You might think that there is not much difference, but combustion is chemical reaction, and the light emitted by the Sun is the result of nuclear reactions.
The sun is yellow
Ask a child or even an adult to draw the Sun. The result will definitely be a yellow circle. Indeed, you can look at the Sun with your own eyes - it is yellow.
We actually see the Sun as yellow because of the Earth's atmosphere. Here you can argue by pointing to photographs of the Sun from space, where it is also yellow. Indeed, only often such images are pre-processed to make our star recognizable.
The real color of the Sun is white. And to be convinced of this, it is not at all necessary to fly into space, you just need to know the temperature. Cooler stars glow brown or dark red. As the temperature increases, the color shifts to red. The hottest stars, with a surface temperature of 10 thousand degrees Kelvin, emit light close to the opposite end of the visible light spectrum and produce a blue color.
Our Sun, with a surface temperature of 6 thousand degrees Kelvin, is approximately in the middle of the spectrum and produces a pure white glow.
In summer the Earth is closer to the Sun
It seems quite logical that the temperature on the surface of the Earth is higher, the closer it is to the body that gives heat, that is, to the Sun. But the reason for the change of seasons lies in the fact that the Earth's axis of rotation is tilted. When the axis coming out of the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun, it is summer in that hemisphere, and vice versa. This is why they say that in Australia it is winter in summer.
At the same time, it does not become a delusion that the Earth periodically moves away from the Sun and approaches it. The Earth's orbit is elliptical, like most other planets. The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is considered to be 150 million kilometers. However, at the moment of the planet’s closest approach to the star, the distance decreases to 147 million kilometers, and when greatest distance increases to 152 million kilometers. That is, the Earth really happens closer and further from the Sun, but this fact does not affect the seasons.
Dark side of the Moon
The Moon really always faces the Earth with one side, because its rotation around its own axis and around the Earth is synchronized. However, this does not mean that the other side of her is always in the dark. You've probably seen lunar eclipses. Guess, if the side always facing us covers part of the Sun, then where does the star's light fall at this time?
The Moon always faces one side towards the Earth, but not towards the Sun.
Sound in space
Another cinema myth, which, fortunately, not all directors use. In the same “Odyssey” by Kubrick and the acclaimed “Interstellar” everything is correct. Space is an airless space, that is, there is simply nothing for sound waves to propagate through. But this does not mean that the Earth is the only place where you can hear sounds. Wherever there is some atmosphere, there will be sound, but it will seem strange to you. For example, on Mars the sound will be higher.
You can't fly through the asteroid belt
Hello " Star Wars" There we saw the asteroid belt as a very dense cluster, through which only such cool pilots as Han Solo could pass.
In reality, space is different. He's bigger. Much more. Incommensurably more. And the distance between objects in the asteroid belt is also much greater. In fact, to fly through the belt and crash into at least one asteroid, you need to be the unluckiest person in the Universe.
For example, we can look at the asteroid belt in our system. Most large object in it is Ceres, dwarf planet- has a diameter of only 950 kilometers. The distance between two objects in the belt varies within hundreds of thousands of kilometers. On this moment 11 probes have already been sent to study the belt, and all of them passed it safely without any incidents.
The Great Wall of China visible from space
The myth appeared even before man visited space. And even before the first flight to the Moon, someone claimed that the wall would be visible from natural satellite Earth. Well, here’s a picture not even from the Moon, but from a fairly low orbit. Find the Great Wall of China.
A quarter of the country's budget is spent on space technology
Of course, not here, but in the USA, but this is nonsense. Yes, the costs of the space program in the United States are higher than those of any other country, but we are not talking about any 25%. Here is a link to NASA's proposed 2015 budget. This is 0.5% federal budget USA. The largest amount of money was invested in the industry during the space race in the sixties, but even then expenses reached an average level of only 1% of the federal budget. The record is 4.41% in 1966, but those were very specific times.
We hope that this collection turned out to be interesting and informative. Suggest topics for the next collections in the comments.
A typical example of a misconception created by cinema for the sake of entertainment. You know, those eyes popping out of their sockets and the body swelling, after which the person bursts like a soap bubble. Blood and guts in all directions are added optionally if the film's age rating allows. Getting into outer space without a special spacesuit really kills, but not as spectacular as we see in the movies.
In fact, an unprotected person can stay in outer space for about 30 seconds without suffering irreversible health damage.
It will not be an instant death. The person will die from suffocation due to lack of oxygen. If you want to see how this really happens, watch Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. In this film the theme is revealed quite realistically.
When it comes to space colonization, there are two candidates for the role of a new home for humanity: Mars or Venus. Venus is called Earth's sister, but only because of the similarity of these planets in size, gravity and composition.
We wouldn't enjoy living on a planet with thick, dense clouds of sulfuric acid reflecting all the sunlight. The atmosphere is almost pure carbon dioxide, the atmospheric pressure is 92 times higher than ours, the surface temperature is 477 degrees Celsius. Not a very friendly sister.
The sun is burning
In fact, it does not burn, but glows. You might think that there is not much difference, but combustion is a chemical reaction, and the light emitted by the Sun is the result of nuclear reactions.
The sun is yellow
Ask a child or even an adult to draw the Sun. The result will definitely be a yellow circle. Indeed, you can look at the Sun with your own eyes - it is yellow.
We actually see the Sun as yellow because of the Earth's atmosphere. Here you can argue by pointing to photographs of the Sun from space, where it is also yellow. Indeed, only often such images are pre-processed to make our star recognizable.
The real color of the Sun is white. And to be convinced of this, it is not at all necessary to fly into space, you just need to know the temperature. Cooler stars glow brown or dark red. As the temperature increases, the color shifts to red. The hottest stars, with a surface temperature of 10 thousand degrees Kelvin, emit light close to the opposite end of the visible light spectrum and produce a blue color.
Our Sun, with a surface temperature of 6 thousand degrees Kelvin, is approximately in the middle of the spectrum and produces a pure white glow.
In summer the Earth is closer to the Sun
It seems quite logical that the temperature on the surface of the Earth is higher, the closer it is to the body that gives heat, that is, to the Sun. But the reason for the change of seasons lies in the fact that the Earth's axis of rotation is tilted. When the axis coming out of the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun, it is summer in that hemisphere, and vice versa. This is why they say that in Australia it is winter in summer.
At the same time, it does not become a delusion that the Earth periodically moves away from the Sun and approaches it. The Earth's orbit is elliptical, like most other planets. The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is considered to be 150 million kilometers. However, at the moment of the planet’s closest approach to the star, the distance decreases to 147 million kilometers, and at the greatest distance it increases to 152 million kilometers. That is, the Earth really happens closer and further from the Sun, but this fact does not affect the seasons.
Dark side of the Moon
The Moon really always faces the Earth with one side, because its rotation around its own axis and around the Earth is synchronized. However, this does not mean that the other side of her is always in the dark. You've probably seen lunar eclipses. Guess, if the side always facing us covers part of the Sun, then where does the star's light fall at this time?
The Moon always faces one side towards the Earth, but not towards the Sun.
Sound in space
Another cinema myth, which, fortunately, not all directors use. In the same “Odyssey” by Kubrick and the acclaimed “Interstellar” everything is correct. Space is an airless space, that is, there is simply nothing for sound waves to propagate through. But this does not mean that the Earth is the only place where you can hear sounds. Wherever there is some atmosphere, there will be sound, but it will seem strange to you. For example, on Mars the sound will be higher.
You can't fly through the asteroid belt
Hello Star Wars. There we saw the asteroid belt as a very dense cluster, through which only such cool pilots as Han Solo could pass.
In reality, space is different. He's bigger. Much more. Incommensurably more. And the distance between objects in the asteroid belt is also much greater. In fact, to fly through the belt and crash into at least one asteroid, you need to be the unluckiest person in the Universe.
For example, we can look at the asteroid belt in our system. The largest object in it - Ceres, a dwarf planet - has a diameter of only 950 kilometers. The distance between two objects in the belt varies within hundreds of thousands of kilometers. At the moment, 11 probes have already been sent to study the belt, and all of them passed it safely without any incidents.
The Great Wall of China visible from space
The myth appeared even before man visited space. And even before the first flight to the Moon, someone claimed that the wall would be visible from the Earth’s natural satellite. Well, here’s a picture not even from the Moon, but from a fairly low orbit. Find the Great Wall of China.
A quarter of the country's budget is spent on space technology
Of course, not here, but in the USA, but this is nonsense. Yes, the costs of the space program in the United States are higher than those of any other country, but we are not talking about any 25%. Here is a link to NASA's proposed 2015 budget. This is 0.5% of the US federal budget. The largest amount of money was invested in the industry during the space race in the sixties, but even then expenses reached an average level of only 1% of the federal budget. The record is 4.41% in 1966, but those were very specific times.
We hope that this collection turned out to be interesting and informative. Suggest topics for the next collections in the comments.
In science, imagination is especially in demand. This is not only mathematics or logic, but something between beauty and poetry.
- Maria Mitchell
Looking at the vastness of the night sky, where there are a few clouds and no moon, when it is dark enough, you will see more than just thousands of tiny white dots illuminating the black canopy of night.
Although on average stars are white, there is an important reason for this. Our eyes, as a result of evolution, are accustomed to seeing a very narrow part of the spectrum, known to us as visible light, from violet light with a wavelength of 400 nm, to red light with a wavelength of 700 nm.
In fact, these wavelengths do not stand out in any way, it just happened that way. But this happened on the surface of the Earth, which is illuminated by the Sun during the day!
This means that stars that burn at temperatures higher than the Sun will appear blue to us, while cooler ones will appear yellow, orange, and even red as they get smaller. In the southern hemisphere, the appearance of the Southern Cross and the terminal stars demonstrates this contrast.
In both hemispheres, the great winter constellation, Orion (rising at 2 a.m. in September), contains stars ranging from the deep orange of Betelgeuse to the bright blue belt stars.
And although these stars are so colorful in the images, this does not explain much.
Long-lasting reddish regions can be found in both pictures. These are clearly not cold red stars. The "astronomical image of the day" picture that appeared just before this article was written showed a close-up view of that reddish region of the Orion Nebula from the image above.
This remarkable nebula has two colors visible to human eyes, like those found in dusty regions of space. The blue nebula on the left contrasts brightly with the large red glow on the right.
It turns out that areas of space that glow red are a little more common, but there are also plenty of blue areas. The question you are probably thinking about is – why is this so? Let's take a closer look at Orion's nearby belt.
Even if a star isn't blue, its reflection nebula is usually blue (with some exceptions), for the same reason the sky is blue: cosmic dust, like Earth's atmosphere, scatters blue light better than red!
And when light collides with a neutral, non-ionized gas, the red light simply passes through, with only a small part of it reflected, and the blue light is scattered in all directions, including ours!
Therefore, looking at the huge complex of molecular clouds in the constellation Orion - hundreds of light years across - you can see that it is filled with both emitting and reflection nebulae, as well as dark streaks of absorbing dust!
This is how hot stars, hydrogen, heavier elements and light-scattering dust, along with the light coming from all the surrounding stars, work together to illuminate the depths of space with the entire spectrum of visible light!
If you're starting to imagine what we could see if, instead of just a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, we could see everything from gamma rays to radio waves, congratulations! You just understood why we need telescopes that are sensitive to such a variety of wavelengths, and why we use false color compositions with all this information.
The wide variety of information visible to our eyes covers only 1/60th of all the wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum on a logarithmic scale! So enjoy what you see and the reasons why it is the way it is, but don't believe that only what you see exists. There is a whole Universe, and every day science helps us see it and understand it a little more. Don't forget how important it is to look.
