Cool Infographs about Science, the Universe and other cool stuff.

[Auroria]

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This phenomenon called "Manhattanhenge" occurs in Manhattan twice a year.

[BaitongBoy]

The first pic is pretty cool...

The next one is "doom & gloom"...

[Auroria]

Modern age pagans.

[David48atTD]

[BaitongBoy]

Nice one, David...

[crackerjack101]

www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

[PlanK]

^^^

Nice zoom on that camera.
Is that the new Huawei phone?

[Auroria]

Somebody was asking for a gif to show the phases of the Moon for their kid I think.

This is a good little project.



I would add a piece of string attached to two pins, and stick one into the Earth to represent where we are, and the other into the middle of the Moon, the string would then represent our line of sight. Can move it to each Moon as that time comes, for a lunar month.

[David48atTD]

Hearing that our solar system is pretty big probably doesn’t come as groundbreaking news.

But now an animation has illustrated just exactly how expansive that space is, and it is pretty mind-blowing.

http://i.imgur.com/oB6Njk6.mp4
(It's a small clip ... certainly worth a look)

The visual simulation, shows the orbits of all eight planets in our Solar System – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - as well as thousands of dwarf planets beyond.

These smaller planets, which now famously includes Pluto, are located in a region beyond the icy planet known as the Kuiper Belt.

There are so many that they may actually outnumber our own planets by as many as hundred or thousand to one. In fact it is estimated that they are closer to over 10,000 dwarf planets past Neptune.
Huffington
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[David48atTD]

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A rare photographic trifecta including space lightning, streaking meteors, and the southern lights has been captured by
Kiama astrophotographer David Finlay over the far south coast of New South Wales.

Lightning sprites are a phenomenon best described as a form of space lightning that occurs high above a thunderstorm.

They appear as luminous reddish-orange columns of flashing light with tendrils, and capturing one has been on the
bucket list of the astronomy enthusiast for more than a decade.

Not only did Mr Finlay successfully photograph them, he also shot the beautiful Aurora Australis and
a variety of meteors in the one session.



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