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Incredible Images of our Amazing Star: 5 Years & 2,600 Terabytes

By Ben | science, space

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is celebrating its fifth year of continuously observing the Sun. [&hellip

Animation: Pollution is never a local issue

By Ben | environment, maps, science, weather

[Researchers] found that pollution from China affects cloud development in the North Pacific and strengthens [&hellip

Saturn is Beautiful.

By Ben | photography, science, space

Holy Saturn, Batman! In perhaps one of the most beauteous pictures ever, this image was [&hellip

The Pale Blue Dot: The 2013 Cassini Edition

By Ben | photography, space

On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took images "using the red, green, and blue [&hellip

Wringing out Water from a Washcloth in Zero G

By Ben | science, space

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TssbmY-GM] My initial thoughts on what would happen were pretty wrong- though once I [&hellip

The NorthEastern United States at Night

By Ben | photography, space

by ISS Expedition 30, NASA via

Sitting Ringside with Rhea

By Ben | space

Taken by the Cassini spacecraft in April 2011, the Saturnian moon Rhea sits on [&hellip

Spacebat: A Tribute

By Ben | animals, inspirational, internet culture, space

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gZgdlYGNJs&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0] by Diego Camarotta, via

Exoplanets Are As Plentiful As Weeds

By Ben | infographics, science, space

"NASA's Kepler mission has already found more than 100 planets, along with strong hints of [&hellip

Mars Curiosity takes its Profile Pic

By Ben | science, space

This is totally Curiosity's version of the duck face. APOD: 2013 February 22 - Curiosity [&hellip

Why the World Didn't End Yesterday

By Ben | science

by NASA on YouTube

Neil Armstrong narrowly avoids death. Returns quietly to his desk to do paperwork.

By Ben | amazing tales, history, science

from the Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine via Boing Boing "In his Armstrong biography First [&hellip

Keep Calm & Land on Mars

By Ben | pop culture, science, space

via blog.makezine.org

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