Stunning Video: 3 Years Of The Sun In 3 Minutes : NPR
Mesmerizing. Dazzling. Gorgeous. Pick your word. NASA’s collection of images taken of the sun over the course of three years is getting rave reviews.
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The mesmerizing cosmic dance of our solar system.(via +Juliette Melton)
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I know I'd be out looking for a piece.
Russians Prospect for Meteorite Fragments
On Friday, terror rained from the skies in Siberia, but by Monday, what fell from the sky had turned to gold for people who rushed to retrieve meteorite fragments.
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Several reports are out there about how the U.S. will be energy independent in the near future. U.S. oil import levels are down to 42 from 60 percent, and dropping; much of this is due to fracking for oil that is happening in North Dakota, which has seen 41,000 new jobs since 2008. Fracking is controversial, but one side effect I wasn't aware of was that you can see all the 'extra' natural gas being burned off from space.
A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark : NPR
If you are up in space looking down on America west of the Mississippi, one of the brightest patches of light at night is on the Great Plains in North Dakota. It’s not a city, not a town, not a milita…
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Lawmakers want NASA center renamed after Neil ArmstrongAn effort to rename a NASA flight research center in southern California after the late moonwalker Neil Armstrong was relaunched this week in Congress.
Do you think they should rename the center after Armstrong? Why or why not?
Read more: http://nbcnews.to/Vfl4Nw
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Space in all its glory. Via National Geographic.
Galaxy Photos, Galaxies Pictures, Images — National Geographic
See galaxy photos from National Geographic.
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Nine Billion Pixels
Ah, there's no place like home.
9-Billion-Pixel Photo of Milky Way’s Center Is Full of Stars | Wired Science | Wired.com
Containing more than 84 million stars, this nine-gigapixel shot of the Milky Way’s central bulge will help astronomers unravel the complex history of star formation in our home galaxy.
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Bits can go squirrelly when X-class flares, well, flare up.
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The sun belted out the most powerful type of solar flare Monday night, known as an X-class flare (the weaker flare classes are M-class, medium-sized, and C-class, small-sized). It was the latest in a …
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Amazing image. A 2 million year time lapse photo.
2-Million-Light-Year-Long Galactic Emission Looks Like Jet Afterburner | Wired Science | Wired.com
An extended jet of material traveling near the speed of light emerges from a distant galaxy, looking quite similar to the afterburner pattern of a jet engine on Earth. This galactic jet flow is more t…
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Planetfall: Snapshots from the solar system
Book turns planetary science into art
Spacecraft engineers may not think of themselves as artists, but in the right hands, the fruit of their labors can be as artistic and as revolutionary as Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical sketches — as e…
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