solar system scope
Solar System Scope is a beautiful website where you can tour our solar system. This site gives the user the capability of viewing the movement of the planets through time lapse, measuring distances in astronomical units, and just absorbing the breathtaking views and beauty. I love this! Get lost in space! View the Site...
genetic portraits by collette.
Photographer Ulric Collete splices portraits of genetically related people together in an his ongoing Genetic Portrait series.
don’t miss this lunar eclipse.
Don't miss tomorrow's Lunar Eclipse or you'll have to wait until 2014! On Saturday, the moon will be eclipsed by the Earth's shadow, possibly turning it blood-red during totality.
our universe perspective.
Galaxies everywhere! NASA's Hubble Telescope captures the deepest image of our universe. Take a look at these amazing photos captured from the Hubble, located in our tiny, tiny Earth.
the bubble nebula.
NGC 7635 (Caldwell 11), the Bubble Nebula, is an emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia located at a distance of approximately 7800 light years. The relatively bright star at about the 11 o’clock position within the prominent bubble is known as BD +60°2522 or SAO 20575 and is the source of the bubble shape. The star...
sphere of chords.
Some argue that music is merely a side effect of traits that evolved for other functions. Our perceptual and cognitive abilities may have accidentally resulted in a system that finds pleasure and interest in musical stimulation. This idea should perhaps be the null hypothesis, and is by no means implausible. Music’s perceptual basis could derive...
gyro gravity.
One of the most perfect spheres ever created by humans. A fused quartz gyroscope for the Gravity Probe B experiment which differs from a perfect sphere by no more than a mere 40 atoms of thickness as it refracts the image of Einstein in the background. More. Share
buckminister fuller.
Project for Floating Cloud Structures (Cloud Nine), by Fuller and Shoji Sadao. Fuller envisioned a future, Kolbert writes, in which floating communities would “hover among the clouds.” Share
wait, so what’s pluto?
Here’s the article I read: Why Pluto is no Longer a Planet Pluto was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. Astronomers had long predicted that there would be a ninth planet in the Solar System, which they called Planet X. Only 22 at the time, Tombaugh was given...
octopus mimics 15 species.
The Indonesian Mimic Octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus. This fascinating creature was discovered in 1998 off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, the mimic octopus is the first known species to take on the characteristics of multiple species. This octopus is able to copy the physical likeness and movement of more than fifteen different species, including sea...
paul krassner: who’s to say what’s obscene?
Includes the obscenity in America today, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show’s influence on younger people, the Obama presidency and what it means for political satire, the state of the “underground press” today and much more. Share
