Aug 09
The internet doesn’t just happen; it’s served up to us by thousands of miles of physical cabling
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Aug 09
This image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, depicts the Magellanic Stream: a long ribbon of gas which stretches nearly halfway around our galaxy. But it also solves a 40-year mystery of where the damn thing came from, too.
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Aug 08
It is a truth universally acknolwedged that anyone and everyone loves a good timelapse video
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Aug 08
This picture might look like some kind of tacky holiday decoration, but in fact it’s what you get if you manage to photograph a paint-covered balloon just milliseconds after it’s popped.
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Aug 07
When you stare at the sun it just looks like pain. But when the New Solar Telescope (NST) does, it can catch glimpses of truly mesmerizing solar activity, and all without going blind. Here, for example, is the most precise picture of a sunspot ever taken, in all its flaming glory. It’s like a solar black hole in a field of molten stained glass.
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Aug 06
This swirling mass may look like some kind of LSD trip, but it’s actually fractal artwork created using bacteria.
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Aug 06
When you’re floating in space, it pays to be prepared, so it’s perhaps no surprise that the International Space Station packs a pretty impressive tool kit. Those obsessed by workshops and making, prepare to drool.
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Aug 05
Very few people have ever stepped foot on a boat made by yacht design studio Wally—builder of the fastest yachts on the planet—and even fewer have stepped foot inside their loud, hot workshop in Monte Carlo. British photographer Benedict Redgrove is one of them. Here’s what a $33 million yacht looks like before the paint job and leather.
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Aug 04
This moon looks even more like it’s made from green cheese than ours does, but it’s not. Lame. Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system because of gravitational "tides" exerted by Jupiter and its other moons. And the constantly flowing lava gives Io’s surface frequent makeovers.
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Aug 03
Just after Mars rover Curiosity touched down, it sent home a selfie worthy of Instagram
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