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The photo above is the closest humanity has ever come to creating Medusa. If you were to look at this, you would die instantly. 

The image is of a reactor core lava formation in the basement of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. It’s called the Elephant’s Foot and weighs hundreds of tons, but is only a couple meters across.

Oh, and regarding the Medusa thing, this picture was taken through a mirror around the corner of the hallway. Because the wheeled camera they sent up to take pictures of it was destroyed by the radiation. The Elephant’s Foot is almost as if it is a living creature.

VIDEO FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET

This is truly incredible.

Details:

Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.

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Locality: Diana Maria Mine, Rogerley Quarry, Frosterley, County Durham, United Kingdom

Size: 2.6 × 2.2 × 2 cm

Exoplanets seen orbiting alien sun for first time.

For the first time in history, a telescope has directly observed the orbital motion of planets in a solar system other than our own.

Using the W.M. Keck observatory in Hawaii, Dr. Christian Marois of Canada’s Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics photographed the star HR 8799 periodically between 2009 and 2015.  Jason Wang of UC Berkeley combined the eight images into an animation showing the relative motion of the star’s four planets. The planet closest to the star has an orbital period of 40 Earth years, while the furthest away is over 400. Three of the four planets were photographed directly in 2008, and were among the first exoplanets to be directly imaged. Because exoplanets are so far away from our solar system, light from their parent star is too bright to separate them in telescopic observations. Only recently has technology been developed to block out the parent star’s light.  UC Berkeley is part of the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science, or NExSS, a NASA-sponsored group which aims to stimulate academic science into exoplanets and exoplanetary solar systems. The HR 8799 system is over 129 light years away.

More information here. P/C: UC Berkeley.

12 Fundamental Graphs  (with three of my favorites for a closer view of the details)

Stitches calculated to the 0.125 for graph accuracy  📈😉👌🏻

The Evolution of Dice ! I’ve been wanting to do this one for a long time. Is it pretty understandable? Crits welcome!

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