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unknownskywalker:

Placid Awe by Zachary Caron

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matthewpetz:

Totoro Knight!

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cwnl:

Very First Image of the Earth from the Moon

Pictured above is the first image ever taken of the Earth from the Moon. The image was taken in 1966 by Lunar Orbiter 1 and heralded by then-journalists as the Image of the Century.

Credit: NASA/LOIRP

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the-star-stuff:

New results show neutrinos still faster than light

(November 18, 2011)

A new experiment appears to provide further evidence that Einstein may have been wrong when he said nothing could go faster than the speed of light, a theory that underpins modern thinking on how the universe works.

 

The new evidence, challenging a dogma of science that has held since Albert Einstein laid out his theory of relativity in 1905, appeared to confirm a startling finding that sub-atomic particles called neutrinos could travel fractions of a second faster.

 

The new experiment at the Gran Sasso laboratory, using a neutrino beam from CERN in Switzerland, 720 km (450 miles) away, was held to check findings in September by a team of scientists which were greeted with some scepticism. (read more)

Other articles about Neutrino being faster than the speed of light:

[1] New tests show neutrinos still faster than light (irishtimes.com)

[2] Neutrinos still faster than light in latest version of experiment (guardian.co.uk)

[3] New results show neutrinos still faster than light (newscientist.com)

cwnl:

Neutron Suns

This is one of several possible scenarios that happen to a star of either types (I, II, IC). You’re left with a stripped solar mantel, leaving this gorgeous neutron star and or pulsar.

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scipsy:

The photo above shows a chunk of scalloped ice, about 65 ft (20 m) in width that broke off from the Sawyer Glacier near Tracy Arm Fjord in southeastern Alaska.

geneticist:

A scientist suspends animals by magnets to study disorientation of space flight. LIFE 1958.