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inothernews: GREAT BALL OF FIRE    Pictured is an an exploding star, known as Type 1a supernova — the type used by physicists Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt to measure the expansion of the universe.  The trio were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics and will share a $1.4 million prize.  (Photos via the New York Times)

inothernews:

GREAT BALL OF FIRE    Pictured is an an exploding star, known as Type 1a supernova — the type used by physicists Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt to measure the expansion of the universe.  The trio were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics and will share a $1.4 million prize.  (Photos via the New York Times)

itsfullofstars:

ALMA Opens Its Eyes

The most powerful millimeter/submillimeter-wavelength telescope in the world opens for business and reveals its first image.

Humanity’s most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a telescope still under construction, reveals a view of the Universe that cannot be seen at all by visible-light and infrared telescopes. Thousands of scientists from around the world competed to be the first few researchers to explore some of the darkest, coldest, farthest, and most hidden secrets of the Cosmos with this new astronomical tool.

“We are living in a historic moment for science and particularly for astronomy, and perhaps also for the evolution of humanity, because we start to use the greatest observatory under construction at the moment,” said Thijs de Graauw, ALMA Director.

Keep reading.

discoverynews: The Weather On Other Planets We might be inclined to believe that the weather on Earth is sometimes less than hospitable to the life that inhabits it.But compared to other planets, stars and bodies in the cosmos, the weather on Earth is downright mild. In fact, the storms on this tiny brown drawf located approximately 47 light-years away blow any earth storm away. Here’s a look at the weather on planets and galaxies near and far.

discoverynews:

The Weather On Other Planets

We might be inclined to believe that the weather on Earth is sometimes less than hospitable to the life that inhabits it.

But compared to other planets, stars and bodies in the cosmos, the weather on Earth is downright mild.

In fact, the storms on this tiny brown drawf located approximately 47 light-years away blow any earth storm away.

Here’s a look at the weather on planets and galaxies near and far.

abigaildj:

Occupy Wall Street occupies Washington Square Park.

Photos by Nathaniel Garnick and Abigail Jones

mothernaturenetwork: Grim predictions say 9 more years of Texas drought possibleA drought that has caused more than $5 billion in damages could continue for another 9 years, a state forecaster said on Thursday.

mothernaturenetwork:

Grim predictions say 9 more years of Texas drought possible
A drought that has caused more than $5 billion in damages could continue for another 9 years, a state forecaster said on Thursday.

jtotheizzoe: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 goes to Israeli Dan Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals, which are trying so hard to be crystals but just can’t quite make it. Actually, quasicrystals are a form of crystal structure that is ordered but not repeating (as opposed to, say, table salt, which has a very ordered and repeating crystal structure). Above is a picture of a silver/aluminum quasicrystal (via Wikimedia)

jtotheizzoe:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 goes to Israeli Dan Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals, which are trying so hard to be crystals but just can’t quite make it.

Actually, quasicrystals are a form of crystal structure that is ordered but not repeating (as opposed to, say, table salt, which has a very ordered and repeating crystal structure).

Above is a picture of a silver/aluminum quasicrystal (via Wikimedia)

Herman Cain on #OccupyWallStreet: "If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself!"

aginghipsterking:

Awww, really? *sigh*

Well he has described the African-American community as brainwashed for voting overwhelmingly Democratic, so…

(Source: motherjones)

thepoliticalnotebook: #OccupyWallStreet: “This is what democracy looks like.”  [Via the DemocracyNow! Twitter feed]

thepoliticalnotebook:

#OccupyWallStreet: “This is what democracy looks like.” 

[Via the DemocracyNow! Twitter feed]

kilele: A pall of smoke covers the city of Tripoli, Libya, as it rises from the military warehouse belonged to the army of Libya’s ousted leader Muammar Qaddafi in the port area of the city, on September 24, 2011. A series of explosions rocked the military warehouse and a huge plume of smoke rose over the harbor on Saturday afternoon, although the cause of the blasts was not immediately known.   Photo by AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky via In Focus

kilele:

A pall of smoke covers the city of Tripoli, Libya, as it rises from the military warehouse belonged to the army of Libya’s ousted leader Muammar Qaddafi in the port area of the city, on September 24, 2011. A series of explosions rocked the military warehouse and a huge plume of smoke rose over the harbor on Saturday afternoon, although the cause of the blasts was not immediately known.  

Photo by AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky via In Focus

discoverynews: Martian Life’s Last Stand If there was life on Mars, scientists may have found its final resting spot. Read more

discoverynews:

Martian Life’s Last Stand

If there was life on Mars, scientists may have found its final resting spot.

Read more