Some Crazy Laced Agate Under The Microscope….🔬

the space race may be the funniest point in history period and i'll stand by that. the US is like "yes whoever gets into space first will prove once and for all that our economic model is superior and that we are, in general, the superior country of superior and smarter people." then the soviets just went and did it and the US freaked out and needed to cover their ass so were like "WE MEAN THE MOON, WE MEAN THE FIRST TO LAND ON THE MOON."

We need to save our water from evaporation here in CA. We should be doing everything possible to store what rain we are lucky to get.

A Proton Arc over Norway

see you space cowboy

Unmute !

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.

What a terraformed Venus with realistic climates would look like 

by MrCactus04

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.

the fact elon mask genuinely might ruin the night sky for everyone makes me wanna sharpen my shovel and get to work