via mymodernmet.com Twice a year in Manhattan, New York, for about 20 minutes, the sunset aligns precisely with the city's street grid to simultaneously illuminate both the north and south sides of every cross street. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson of the American...
My sadness over the death of the space shuttle program is that I consider it the last bastion of scientific discovery in this country. Targeted research gets all the attention now, but great discoveries are rarely targeted. Penicillin and x-rays were not; the fact is...
via apod.nasa.gov Completely immersed in Earth's cone-shaped shadow during the total eclipse phase, the lunar surface is still illuminated by sunlight, reddened and refracted into the dark shadow region by a dusty atmosphere.
via adventure.howstuffworks.com What's the most remote inhabited location on Earth? A place called Tristan da Cunha. The approximately 270 residents of this archipelago see a mail ship only once a year
via apod.nasa.gov Beautiful image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of a dying sun-like star.
via wired.com The black hole gobbled up its last available meal of gas and dust as a quasar between 45,000 and 70,000 years ago, ionizing oxygen in distant gas clouds into a bright green glow before fading back into darkness. My love of space exploration didn't...
That's what I immediately thought of when I saw this photo. They're actually wind-blown sand dunes. This is one of seven great photos from the NASA probe Mars Odyssey.
via apod.nasa.gov The Moon passed in front of the Red Planet, and here you see it as a speck of light on the sunlit side just as it becomes visible again.
via i.imgur.com I love high-magnification photography, but it can be deceiving. You wouldn't want to poke yourself with that last needle any more than the first. It'll pierce the skin just as easily as when it was new.
