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Check out this picture of lightning over the Grand Canyon, from http://www.danransom.com/TripReports/ Stunning. Tweet
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Occasional non-medical science stuff to make you go ‘Wow!’
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Astronomy photographer of the year
Click below to see the BBC’s report of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011 winners. Some gorgeous and awe-inspiring […]
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The hunt for Earth-like planets
Using the prolific planet hunting Kepler spacecraft, astronomers have discovered 1,235 candidate planets orbiting other suns since the Kepler mission’s […]
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Get some perspective
How’s your sense of the scale of the universe? Where do you fit in size-wise compared with, say, a galaxy […]
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Time lapse: The spinning Chilean sky
From the wonderful Bad Astronomy blog: This timelapse video shows four of the ALMA microwave antennas in Chile as they […]
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Oldest observed galaxy
From World News Australia Astronomers said they had snared an image of what may be the oldest galaxy ever seen, […]
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Most detailed image of night sky unveiled
From New Scientist 18:30 11 January 2011 by David Shiga, Seattle It would take 500,000 high-definition TVs to view it […]
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Ferrofluid
A drop of this fluid containing magnetic nanoparticles is placed in a magnetic field. The peaks and troughs result as […]
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Huge Solar Flare
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory observed this ultraviolet image of one of the most intense solar flares witnessed in the past […]
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Sliding Scale
How can an X chromosome be nearly as big as the head of a sperm cell? And how does that […]