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Bolshoi Simulations
This is a visualization of the Bolshoi Simulation, an attempt to chart the evolution of the large-scale structures in the universe using the data from the cosmic background radiation. (“Bolshoi” means “great” or “grand” in Russian.) From i09: The Bolshoi … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Videos
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Beautiful Scenery, from Above and Below
Patryk Kizny, Robert Paluch and Fabian Weber put together a timelapse view of the Swiss Alps titled Altissimo. It is utterly gorgeous. However, the music detracts a bit – European tastes just seem different from mine. Scott Bailey felt the … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Videos
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The Moon in HD
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been orbiting the moon for the past two years, taking images and creating a 3D map of the lunar surface. One of the results is this HD video of the valleys and ridges that span … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Science, Videos
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Free Science
Open Culture has put together a list of its top 125 science videos. These range from full science lectures, to documentaries, to the short time-lapse videos I like so much. Here’s one of my new favorites: Earth-rise as seen from … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Science, Videos
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Cassini Probe Images
Here are a series of black & white images taken by the Cassini-Huygens Imaging Science Subsystem (iow the “camera” aboard the Cassini probe) as it orbits Saturn. Chris Abbas has strung the images together into a pseudo-animation and set the … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Science
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The Milky Way
Nick Risinger has been traveling North and South America and snapping picture of the night sky as he goes. He fused these images – 37,440 exposures – into a single Panoramic Sky Survey. You can view the Milky Way as … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Science
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Perspective
The Australian branch of the Gemini Observatory held a contest for Australian high school students, in which teams selected objects for the Observatory to photograph. The winning entry would be both scientifically important and stunningly gorgeous. I think they succeeded. … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Pictures, Science
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NASA Records Massive Solar Flare
From NASA: When a rather large M 3.6 class flare occurred near the edge of the Sun on Feb. 24, 2011, it blew out a gorgeous, waving mass of erupting plasma that swirled and twisted for 90 minutes. NASA’s Solar … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Science
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Degrees of Wrongness
Duane over at Abnormal Interests talks about people who refuse to trust the experts. Along the way he quotes the famous Isaac Asimov piece The Relativity of Wrong: John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Oh the Stupidity!, Science
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Man hit by six meteorites; blames 'aliens'
I normally wouldn’t rip a headline (or even a story) straight from the Micro$haft Network, but this one was such a doozie that I thought it would be fun to share anyway: A Bosnian man insists he is being targeted … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Conspiracy Theories, Humor, Oh the Stupidity!, Paranormal, Pseudoscience, Science, Weird
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