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enimie:

Gravitational lensing is so much fun! (it really is :P)

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nationalpost:

Shuttle Endeavour returns after final mission
The space shuttle Endeavour touched down at its Florida home base early on Wednesday, capping a 16-day mission to deliver a premier science experiment to the International Space Station on NASA’s next-to-last shuttle flight.

“Your landing ends a vibrant legacy for this amazing vehicle that will long be remembered. Welcome home, Endeavour,” astronaut Barry Wilmore radioed to Kelly from NASA’s Mission Control in Houston.

“It really is an incredible ship,” Commander Scott Kelly replied. “It’s sad to see her land for the last time but she really has a great legacy.”

Photo: Space Shuttle Endeavour is escorted back to a storage building following it’s last mission before being retired, at Kennedy Space Center, on June 1, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images)

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physicsphysics:

Scientists About to Find The Force

If confirmed next week, this will be the biggest news in the history of physics since the birth of the Theory of Relativity: CERN scientists may have already found evidence of the existence of the elusive Higgs boson. THE FORCE, dudes.

A respected scientist from the Cern particle physics laboratory has told the BBC he expects to see “the first glimpse” of the Higgs boson next week.

physicsphysics:

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS (by Michael König)

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Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS (by Michael König)

thescienceofreality:

M1 - The Crab Nebula

I’ve not yet been lucky enough to look at this cloud of ionized gas, but this mosaic of pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope definitely suffices.

The Crab Nebula is all that is left from SN 1054, a supernova recorded in 1054 CE by Chinese astronomers. The event was said to be so bright that it was even visible during daylight hours for 23 days.

M1 truly is a beautiful corpse of a star that met its violent end.

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alphabet-of-thorn:

“In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn drifted in giant planet’s shadow for about 12 hours in 2006 and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn, slightly scattering sunlight, in this exaggerated color image. Saturn’s rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the image. Seen in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn’s E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, at the left, just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.”

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mdt:

I wish I had enough wall space for the whole solar system…

Beyond Earth: A Poster Series // by: Stephen Di Donato

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