This Is a Picture of the Sound a Helicopter Makes

This Is a Picture of the Sound a Helicopter Makes

This might look like the cut-stick project of a small child, but in fact this image visualizes the noise that a helicopter makes as it tears through the air. Really.

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Gemini’s First Image Shows a Planet Orbiting a Star 63 Light Years Away

Gemini's First Image Shows a Planet Orbiting a Star 63 Light Years Away

It might not be much to look at, but this image is insanely exciting. You’re looking at the first ever image of a planet, orbiting a star, over 63 light years from Earth.

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This Could Be the Biggest Amazon Package Ever

This Could Be the Biggest Amazon Package Ever

Amazon is well-known for its habit of delivering small items in gigantic packages. But this parcel has to be perhaps the biggest that Bezos & Co. have ever had to ship.

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Nvidia took to the fields to help publicize its new Tegra K1 chip, its first with a staggering 192 C

Nvidia took to the fields to help publicize its new Tegra K1 chip, its first with a staggering 192 CUDA cores. The result is this deliciously geeky crop circle, cut into a field two hours south of San Francisco. [Nvidia]

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The European Space Agency’s Gaia Telescope–which is set to scan the entire sky and change our under

The European Space Agency’s Gaia Telescope—which is set to scan the entire sky and change our understanding of the universe—successfully launched yesterday morning at 09:12 GMT. [ESA]

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Just Look at What Saturn’s Moons Do To Its Rings

Just Look at What Saturn's Moons Do To Its Rings

Saturn’s moons do more than just orbit the planet: they interact with its rings, too. In this image, you can see the moon Prometheus’ gravitational field gently sculpting the planet’s F ring.

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The Crab Nebula Is a Swirling Cloud of Electric Purple Light

The Crab Nebula Is a Swirling Cloud of Electric Purple Light

The Crab Nebula never fails to disappoint—and that’s particularly true in this image, a view by the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope of the swirling cloud of dust and gas.

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The Entire East Coast Looks Like It’s Under a Massive White Blanket

The Entire East Coast Looks Like It's Under a Massive White Blanket

Did you have a hard time getting to work today? Probably so, if you live anywhere from the Tennessee Valley all the way up to New England. Just look at this image from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center—everything is white.

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On this day in 1972, the Apollo 17 crew snapped this photograph, later dubbed “The Blue Marble.”

On this day in 1972, the Apollo 17 crew snapped this photograph, later dubbed "The Blue Marble." Photographed using a 70-millimeter Hasselblad camera with an 80-millimeter Zeiss lens, and credited to all three Apollo 17 astronauts (Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Jack Schmitt), this rare image of a fully-illuminated Earth has become one of the world’s most recognizable photographs. No human has since traveled far enough into space to see such a full view of earth, though similar shots have since been taken by unmanned spacecraft. [NASA History Office; image: Wikimedia]

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Antarctica Looks Like a Mystical Land Shrouded in Lenticular Cloud

Antarctica Looks Like a Mystical Land Shrouded in Lenticular Cloud

This might look like result of some pro-level CGI, or perhaps even a glimpse into your imagination, but in fact it’s a photograph taken in Antarctica just this last week.

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