The largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31.
It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars, thousands of star clusters in a section of the galaxy’s disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years.
Thousands of generations of humans lived and died never knowing what a sunset looked like anywhere but Earth.
You're in the first generation that doesn't have to.
This is a sunset on Mars.
140 million miles away from us.
@Erdayastronaut@thecyberfam This is why Rogan and others say “don’t read the comments”. I can’t imagine the rollercoaster this would put you on Tim. You’re great from my seat. Love what you do, be yourself, share your emotions and thoughts as always. In a world of NPCs be a human. You’re a great one.
Amity Warme is a rock climber. She lives in a van and spends much of the year traveling to various climbing destinations.
This clip shows her on the crux of this Yosemite climb, 150 feet in the air.
NASA posted an ARTEMIS II crew photograph that I think is one of the best I have seen. This is the continent of Antarctica.
The area around the continent is clear. This is the Southern Ocean that circles Antarctica. The cold air and water tend to rob the moisture in the air. No clouds.
In the middle left of the photo is the Antarctica Peninsula.
To the left of the peninsula is Tierra del Fuego. Continuing up the upper left of the photo is the Atlantic coast of South America.
The land mass in the lower right is probably New Zealand.
🚨: You are looking at NOBLE PRIZE WINNING work.
This is timelapse of stars orbiting the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of the Milky Way over a period of nearly 20 years.
When a nuclear reactor is switched on for the first time, an intense, almost hypnotic blue glow appears in the water surrounding the reactor core.
This light is neither fire nor heat; it is Cherenkov radiation, a physical phenomenon that occurs when charged particles, such as high-energy electrons produced during nuclear fission, travel through a transparent medium faster than light can propagate within that same medium.
While nothing can exceed the speed of light in a vacuum, light travels more slowly in materials like water.
When a charged particle surpasses this reduced speed, it emits a coherent shock-like electromagnetic wave, often described as an optical analogue of a sonic boom. This radiation produces the distinctive blue glow.
The colour arises because Cherenkov radiation is strongest at shorter wavelengths, which are dominated by blue and ultraviolet light.
The phenomenon was first observed experimentally in 1934 and later explained theoretically, work that led to the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958. Its explanation confirmed how relativity and electromagnetism operate in material media.
Today, this deep blue light is both a warning and a scientific tool. It signals the presence of intense ionising radiation, while also being exploited in particle detectors, nuclear reactors, and neutrino observatories. It provides a rare, visible manifestation of subatomic processes that are otherwise hidden from direct human perception.
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Did you know?
The International Space Station orbits at an average height of 408 km and at a speed of 28.000 km/h (7,66 km/s).
Astronauts on it do a full circle of Earth every 90 minutes and experience 16 sunsets and sunrises every day.