Science is rad.
Sit Back and Let the Cascading Magnetic Arches on the Sun Be Your Moment of Zen for the Day
What are these glorious golden space swirls? According to NASA, who captured this video with the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), this happened when a dark solar filament erupted and caused a chain reaction.They call these cascading magnetic arches because what you see here is a lot of particles spinning around the sun’s magnetic field lines.
Here’s a video where you can see what a dark solar filament looks like. The darker area, almost in the shape of a circle is it. Filaments are plasma held above the sun’s surface by magnetic forces.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Just Tried to Ruin 'Star Wars'
Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Twitter recently to toy with some earthlings, challenge, nitpick, and critique a series of scientific inaccuracies in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens.’
In @StarWars #TheForceAwakens, BB-8, a smooth rolling metal spherical ball, would have skidded uncontrollably on sand.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
In @StarWars #TheForceAwakens, if you were to suck all of a star’s energy into your planet, your planet would vaporize.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
In @StarWars #TheForceAwakens, the energy in a Star is enough to destroy ten-thousand planets, not just a few here & there.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
He’s done this in the past with other movies like ‘Interstellar,’ and quite frankly, it’s a bit of an unbecoming buzzkill. Tyson doesn’t care though, and claims some of the audience will watch sci-fi films for ideas on what to invent for future days.
Here's a picture of my grandfather liberating Mars from the Ruskies in 1956
18 hours of data of the Rosette Nebula processed in a modified Hubble palette
Hubble just released this awesome new image of a star 1800 light years away called V1331 Cyg, which resides within a dark nebula.
Couldn't have put it better.
"The Pillars of Creation" as seen in near-infrared light
A Storm On Saturn
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