This is a photo of the sun taken at the wavelength of hydrogen alpha light. Source: Kotke
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Back in 2007 a gigantic hexagonal weather pattern was observed forming over Saturn’s north pole during a storm (see still…
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“Cold, dark matter” has a certain ring to it, but new simulations of our corner of the cosmos suggest that…
A faint glow first spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope belongs to a galaxy that is the most distant object…
Researchers at Fermilab are building a holometer, the most precise clock ever built, which will attempt to determine if the…
Alan Taylor at The Big Picture has a great piece on the National Ignition Facility: “Creating a miniature star on…