black hole sun; won't you come?
Is This the Trippiest Image Ever Taken In Space? Most Probably
The image was made by Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit, who composited it from 18 different shots:
My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure.
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Designed for the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. The Map of the Universe is a fictional visualization of routes to different planets, galaxies, nebulas, and more across the known universe.
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ain’t no party like a science party cause the scientists are probably working on a perpetual motion engine to make sure it don’t stop
AHHHHHHH THIS!!! <3
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Front view of the semiconductor trackers for ATLAS, one of the four enormous detectors for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (via Fermilab)
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International Space Station: Find the Astronaut
Credit: STS-126 Shuttle Crew, NASA
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confession: whenever I get less scared of taking engineering it’s because of tony stark.
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“Hydrogen: A colorless, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.”
Well ain’t that something to get your day off on the right foot?
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“Beautiful” New Particle Found at LHC
Xi(b)* a “brick in the wall” for solving how matter’s made, expert says.
An atom-smashing experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has detected a new subatomic particle—and it’s a beauty.
Known as Xi(b)* (pronounced “csai bee-star”), the new particle is a baryon, a type of matter made up of three even smaller pieces called quarks. Protons and neutrons, which make up the nuclei of atoms, are also baryons.
The Xi(b)* particle belongs to the so-called beauty baryons, particles that all contain a bottom quark, also known as a beauty quark.
The newfound particle had long been predicted by theory but had never been observed. Although finding Xi(b)* wasn’t exactly a surprise, the discovery should help scientists solve the larger puzzle of how matter is formed.
I don’t understand most of this but AAAHH THIS IS EXCITING
LHC LET ME LOVE YOU
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our sun [x]Maybe one day I’ll have enough money for an H-Alpha filter
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The Milky Way as a subway map, and other creative derivatives of the London Tube map
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- Parents: Your room is a mess.
- Me: Actually according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the universe tends toward disorder so it's not really my fault.
Stuart Firestein, author of ‘Ignorance,’
In his new book, Stuart Firestein makes the case that what drives scientific exploration is a sort of informed ignorance. Not the ignorance of the dimwitted, but the realization that we are driven by the excitement of being on the edge of knowledge, of constantly revising what is known, and that our endeavors are those who venture into the dark instead of describing simply what we see.
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