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by the way did I ever tell y’all about the time I got a blank message from nobody, sent on new year’s eve in 1969, when the internet didn’t exist?

because that happened

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NASA’s New Horizons Glimpses Pluto’s Dark Side

New Horizons looked back at Pluto around midnight on July 15, when the dwarf planet’s atmosphere was backlit by the sun. Taken by the New Horizons spacecraft, this image was delivered to Earth on July 23.

Photo Credit: NASA

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The ISS travelling above Caldey Island in Pembrokeshire

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The Constellation of Cygnus where the Kepler-452 system is located! http://space-pics.tumblr.com/ source:http://imgur.com/r/space/YCQrg8M

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Eye of God

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Zeta Oph: Runaway Star : Like a ship plowing through cosmic seas, runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi produces the arcing interstellar bow wave or bow shock seen in this stunning infrared portrait. In the false-color view, bluish Zeta Oph, a star about 20 times more massive than the Sun, lies near the center of the frame, moving toward the left at 24 kilometers per second. Its strong stellar wind precedes it, compressing and heating the dusty interstellar material and shaping the curved shock front. Around it are clouds of relatively undisturbed material. What set this star in motion? Zeta Oph was likely once a member of a binary star system, its companion star was more massive and hence shorter lived. When the companion exploded as a supernova catastrophically losing mass, Zeta Oph was flung out of the system. About 460 light-years away, Zeta Oph is 65,000 times more luminous than the Sun and would be one of the brighter stars in the sky if it weren’t surrounded by obscuring dust. The image spans about 1.5 degrees or 12 light-years at the estimated distance of Zeta Ophiuchi. via NASA

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Point Nemo: the point in the ocean farthest from land. Here you are surrounded by nearly 9 million square miles of water.

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Someone asked that why are my ferrocene containing compouns so red, while these type of molecules are usually orange….

The answer is simple: I usually work with protonated compounds and if a ferrocene containing compound is acidified it turns red/black/purple depending on the substitution. Here on the gifs I added sodium hydroxide solution to the ferrocene containing methylene chloride layer. When the ferrocene salt reacted with the lye in the water it turned back to “normal” orange color as seen on the gifs. 

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Pi explained visually.

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Hawking Spearheads New Hunt for Intelligent Aliens

On Monday, famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking announced the launch of a new $100 million effort to track down an alien civilization within the next decade.

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*grabs your face* DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND HUMAN INNOVATION

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Nikola Tesla Murals

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TESLA: I wanted to illuminate the whole earth. There is enough electricity to become a second sun. Light would appear around the equator, as a ring around Saturn. Mankind is not ready for the great and good. In Colorado Springs I soaked the earth by electricity. Also we can water the other energies, such as positive mental energy. They are in the music of Bach or Mozart, or in the verses of great poets. In the Earth’s interior, there are energy of Joy, Peace and Love. Their expressions are a flower that grows from the Earth, the food we get out of her and everything that makes man’s homeland. I’ve spent years looking for the way that this energy could influence people. The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food. Life has an infinite number of forms, and the duty of scientists is to find them in every form of matter. Three things are essential in this. All that I do is a search for them. I know I will not find them, but I will not give up on them.

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           ALMA Witnesses Assembly of Galaxies in the                         Early Universe for the First Time

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to detect the most distant clouds of star-forming gas yet found in normal galaxies in the early Universe. The new observations allow astronomers to start to see how the first galaxies were built up and how they cleared the cosmic fog during the era of reionisation. This is the first time that such galaxies are seen as more than just faint blobs.

When the first galaxies started to form a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the Universe was full of a fog of hydrogen gas. But as more and more brilliant sources — both stars and quasars powered by huge black holes — started to shine they cleared away the mist and made the Universe transparent to ultraviolet light [1]. Astronomers call this the epoch of reionisation, but little is known about these first galaxies, and up to now they have just been seen as very faint blobs. But now new observations using the power of ALMA are starting to change this.

Read more ~ ESO.org

Credit: ESO/R. Maiolino

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This infrared image from NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix Nebula, a cosmic starlet often photographed by amateur astronomers for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye.

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