This Is Alexandrite, It’s Also Called “emerald By Day, Ruby By Night”

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

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Excerpt from Juno Mission Trailer Video Credit: NASA, JPL, Juno Mission 

Watch the full 2 minute trailer on APOD here.

Vanadinite

Locality:  Mibladen, Morocco

Our Amazing Solar System

My eyes just aren’t sure how.

These are called RGB dispersion prisms

you can buy them here…

there IS actually a reason why seconds and minutes (and degrees for geometry) are in base 60 instead of base 10, and if you want to blame someone for that, blame the very specific way Babylonians counted with their fingers.

international friends: here’s the deal. South African scientists have been tracking the COVID genome and keeping an eye out for mutations. Most places in the world aren’t doing so. When we announce a new variant, it’s not necessarily from South Africa, we just publicised the fact that we detected it here. And yet, because we’re a country in the Global South, it doesn’t matter that our scientists are incredible and are doing the world a service by tracking and reporting these things, because our ordinary citizens are being blacklisted because of it and being prevented from entering other countries and placed on red lists for no reason