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archiemcphee:

Czech photographer Miloslav Druckmüller from the Brno University of Technology reveals the awesome beauty of the solar corona with these amazing composite images that he created by using 47 photos taken during a total solar eclipse.

To achieve the crystal clear effect the shots are comprised from some 40+ photos taken with two different lenses. Additional clarity was achieved due to the incredibly remote location chosen to view the eclipse from, a pier just outside the Enewetak Radiological Observatory on the Marshall Islands, smack dab in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You can see several more images from the project at Druckmüller’s website and don’t miss this much higher resolution version including some 209 stars.

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05/20/13

jtotheizzoe:

We never sit here under the weight of all this air, the 5 x 10^18 kg of atmosphere that sits above everyone on Earth, and say “Gosh, that sure is heavy!”

You don’t realize just how powerful that 1 bar (~100 kPa) of pressure is until a train car is filled with steam, allowed to cool, and then implodes ohmygod did that just happen?

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05/20/13

Great tie-in with metric units, the definition of a kilogram and why they’re important.

05/20/13

crookedindifference:

ACRE Units of Measure Calendar Poster

It beautifully features traditional units of measure like degree celsius, kilogram and hectare as well as less well-known units of measure like astronomical unit, decibel and aperture.

Get a better view here. Purchase them here.

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05/12/13

chartier:

zkarl:

Final touch

(Vovinam)

This is how I plan to negotiate the price if we ever buy another car.

Maaaan. “Mr. G, I can’t come to class because I had an AP test earlier in the day.” This is what’s gonna happen. And then I’m going to the hospital to get my back and hip fixed.

05/6/13

Tech usage in the classroom Gaskell style.

05/6/13

purpleisbliss:

digatisdi:

thetruthisviral:

Hubble has spotted an ancient galaxy that shouldn’t exist

This galaxy is so large, so fully-formed, astronomers say it shouldn’t exist at all. It’s called a “grand-design” spiral galaxy, and unlike most galaxies of its kind, this one is old. Like, really, really old. According to a new study conducted by researchers using NASA’s Hubble Telescope, it dates back roughly 10.7-billion years — and that makes it the most ancient spiral galaxy we’ve ever discovered.

“The vast majority of old galaxies look like train wrecks,” said UCLA astrophysicist Alice Shapley in a press release. “Our first thought was, why is this one so different, and so beautiful?”

Read more: here

“It’s called a “grand-design” spiral galaxy, and unlike most galaxies of its kind, this one is old. Like, really, really old.”

Old as BALLS.

SCIENCE!

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04/30/13

trss:

ピタゴラスイッチ

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04/30/13

malformalady:

Two tiny gobies, no bigger than an inch, spotted on a dive near Marsa Alam, Egypt. A fleeting encounter of two translucent goby fish won the top prize at the 2011 Annual Underwater Photography Contest, hosted by the University of Miami.

Photo credit: Tobias Friedrich

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04/23/13

laxidasical:

nevver:

Gravity

And you thought it was the man holding you down.

04/23/13

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