NGC 7635, also known as the bubble Nebula.
December 13, 1965 – Truly spectacular images of our planet captured by the astronauts of Gemini 7 as they zoomed around the Earth. In this era when we receive a daily dose of awesomeness from hi-res cameras on the ISS and various satellites, it’s easy to take beautiful Earth images for granted. I will never cease to be amazed by the stunning photography produced during the Project Gemini missions.
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NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a significant solar flare as seen in the bright flash on the right on Dec. 19, 2014. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares
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A large void has been discovered inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, thanks to cosmic rays. If the large space turns out to exist, its function — which could be anything from new chamber to sealed-off construction passage — is likely to be the source of much archaeological debate.
An international group of researchers reported today (Nov. 2) in the journal Nature that by tracking the movements of particles called muons, they have found an empty space more than 98 feet (30 meters) long that sits right above the granite-walled Grand Gallery within the massive pyramid. The Great Pyramid, also known as Khufu’s pyramid, was built during that pharaoh’s reign between 2509 B.C. and 2483 B.C. No new rooms or passages have been confirmed inside the pyramid since the 1800s.
“The void is there,” said Mehdi Tayoubi, the president of the organization Heritage Innovation Preservation and a leader of the ScanPyramids mission, an ongoing effort to bring new technology to bear on Egypt’s most famous structures. Read more.
Oct. 4, 1957 - Sputnik, the Dawn of the Space Age via NASA http://ift.tt/2hNf1Yq
Low genetic diversity is a problem when you’re founding a new colony, so how would we avoid that on another planet?
This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It’s inside a turbulent birthing ground for new stars known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light-years away.
In the center of the image, partially obscured by a dark, Jedi-like cloak of dust, a newborn star shoots twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe
Credit: NASA/ESA
“4.) In most approaches to quantum gravity, space-time is not fundamental but made of something else. That might be strings, loops, qbits, or some variant of space-time “atoms” which appear in condensed-matter based approaches. The individual constituents, however, can only be resolved when probed with extremely high energies, far beyond what we can achieve on Earth.”
What is the fundamental nature of the Universe? When it comes to General Relativity, our answer is matter and energy on one hand, and spacetime on the other. But there’s another side to that story: a quantum one. While matter and energy can be discretized into quanta, our notion of spacetime is purely classical. But depending on what our true, fundamental theory of quantum gravity actually is, it could have incredible implications for our Universe. Perhaps we have tiny little black holes popping in and out of existence on a continuous basis; perhaps the vacuum of space isn’t entirely transparent to light; perhaps time turns into space at some level; perhaps wormholes and baby Universes are real. These are mysteries that are currently unresolved, but quantum gravity could provide the answer.
What are the mysteries, and what does it all mean? Sabine Hossenfelder explores, with a fantastic video!
Space Station flight from a clear North Africa over a story Mediterranean
Apollo 11 Launch
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