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Lick 36 inch refractor. Engineered & built in 1888 before electricity! Super cool!
Beautiful Ijen (by tropicaLiving - Jessy Eykendorp)
Ijen Crater is a nature reserve Ijen Park is located between Banyuwangi and Bondowoso District, East Java, Indonesia. This crater exactly located at the top of Mount Ijen which is one of a series of volcanoes in East Java such as Bromo, Semeru and Merapi. Another uniqueness of this crater has a level of acidity is very high with almost close to zero and the temperature of the water is 20° Celsius. In addition to elevation 2,799 m (9,183 ft) Posis crater is located in the middle of the largest caldera on the island of Java. The caldera size about 20 miles. The crater size is about 960 meters x 600 meters with a depth of 200 meters. This crater is located at a depth of more than 300 meters below the caldera wall.
The South Pole Observatory and Southern Lights
Two new elements in the periodic table
Say hello to number 114, flerovium (Fl), and number 116, livermorium (Lv). The two newbies will sit “down in the lower-right corner of the periodic table.”
Clothes influence race perception
What you wear can influence what race others perceive you to be, a new study finds.
New "Super Earth" Found at Right Distance for Life
A new planet—probably a rocky super-Earth—has been found squarely within its star's habitable zone, making it one of the best candidates yet to support life, its discoverers say. FROM: news.nationalgeographic.com
Coccolithophores
Tiny coccolithophores have had a big impact on the planet over time. Though they are single-celled, these photosynthesising organisms are enclosed in a mosaic, or cage, of microscopic plates that make many very beautiful to look at. The plates are made of calcium carbonate, which the coccoliths pull from the surrounding water. As these small organisms live and die in their trillions, they bequeath their tiny plates to the ocean floor where they form rocks such as chalk. Over geological time, coccoliths have removed significant amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping to keep Earth cool as the sun grew hotter. from bbc.co.uk
A year in space: 30 pictures of Earth taken from the International Space Station in 2011 - Telegraph
A year in space: 30 pictures of Earth taken from the International Space
Amazing Material - Aerogel
Despite its incredibly low density, aerogel is one of the most powerful materials on the planet. It can support thousands of times its own weight, block out intense heat, cold and sound – yet it is 1,000 times less dense than glass, nearly as transparent and is composed of %99.8 air. The lowest-density silica-based aerogels are even lighter than air.
Orionid Meteor Shower to Peak This Weekend
Although the meteors may be modest, the Orionid shower has a claim to fame: The sky show is the product of Halley's comet. FROM: news.nationalgeographic.com
Massive Black Hole Yields its Mysteries to Astronomers
To strive for the most complete understanding of a black hole, astronomers have turned their telescopes to the double-star system Cygnus X-1, which boasts the first of these discovered oddities.
White Holes
A white hole, in general relativity, is a hypothetical region of spacetime which cannot be entered from the outside, but from which matter and light may escape. In this sense it is the reverse of a black hole, which can be entered from the outside, but from which nothing, including light, may escape. (However, it is theoretically possible for a traveler to enter a rotating black hole, avoid the singularity, and travel into a rotating white hole which allows the traveler to escape into another universe.)
Tibetan Halo
The particularly colorful halo featured above was snapped at Yamdrok Tso Lake, Tibet. This is a 22-degree halo — the radius of the inner ring to the Sun.
Down is Up - Poor Kitten
The November 17, 1958 issue of LIFE found naval researchers testing the effects of being upside-down for prolonged periods of time on animals in an attempt to learn about the disorientation astronauts would likely experience on space flights. The research included using magnets to affix animals to the ceiling. Unsurprisingly, one key finding of the study was that the adorable kitten was "extremely fatigued" by the experience of walking upside-down.
A coral grouper being cleaned by a clear cleaner shrimp
Picture: Scubazoo/Barcroft
Picture: Scubazoo/Barcroft
Why physicists hate calling Higgs boson the God particle
The term ‘God particle’ came from a publisher looking to shorten the title of a book concerned with the search for the Higgs boson. mnn.com
Happy New Year!
A year is a unit of measure used to describe the revolution of a planet around its star-in our case this is usually given as 365 days or occasionally as 365.2429 days and some years (2012 for example) we actually say a year is 366 days. But first, the history: the word year comes from Old English gē(a)r, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch jaar and German Jahr, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek hōra meaning year, season, any part of a year, also any part of a day, hour, and the Latin word hornus meaning of this year. The root probably came from the verbal root *ei- meaning to do or make a complete cycle.
New Internet On The Rise: Open Technology Initiative takes to Occupy
The idea is that the system will automatically set itself up. Drop a unit near another unit and they’ll start talking to one another and trading data. Add another and all three will talk to one another. Add a thousand and you can cover a whole city. Then if one of those routers is hooked up to an internet connection, everyone on the network can connect. If that connection disappears, users can still try to update an application like Twitter or send e-mail to the larger internet and the outgoing notes will go into a holding pattern until the mesh network finds another connection to the greater net.
Air-breathing fish that can hop and walk across the floor on their fins hint that walking may have evolved underwater before such animals began migrating on to land, scientists find.