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Dark Moon, Dramatic Plume
Below a darkened Enceladus, a plume of water ice is backlit in this view of one of Saturn’s most dramatic moons. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Feb. 20, 2012 from a distance of approximately 83,000 miles (134,000 kilometers) from Enceladus.
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World first: Images of atoms moving in a molecule
Scientists recorded the first real-time image, which is a feat that captured movement lasting less than one millionth of a billionth of a second.
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Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.
Charles Bukowski, Women (via philphys)
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Karl Popper (via philphys)
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Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987A
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
What’s causing those odd rings in supernova 1987A?
Twenty five years ago, in 1987, the brightest supernova in recent history was seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. At the center of the above picture is an object central to the remains of the violent stellar explosion.
Surrounding the center are curious outer rings appearing as a flattened figure 8. Although large telescopes including the Hubble Space Telescope monitor the curious rings every few years, their origin remains a mystery.
Pictured above is a Hubble image of the SN1987A remnant taken last year. Speculation into the cause of the rings includes beamed jets emanating from an otherwise hidden neutron star left over from the supernova, and the interaction of the wind from the progenitor star with gas released before the explosion.
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