The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.
— G.K. Chesterton
Jupiter looks like a living watercolor from space 🎨🪐
But those beautiful swirls are actually massive storm systems made of ammonia and water clouds racing across the planet at incredible speeds.
Beneath that stunning surface, powerful hidden superstorms and lightning far stronger than Earth’s are constantly raging.
What looks soft and peaceful is actually one of the most violent atmospheres in the solar system.
One line of code spins a snowflake fractal… that’s secretly a galaxy forming!
The universe runs on the same fractal math; hypnotic cosmic beauty
Snowflake or galaxy? Tell me what do you see first?
Each second, the Sun blasts about 1.5 million tons of matter into space at speeds of hundreds of miles per second, while Earth’s magnetic field shields the planet from this solar wind.
Credit: NASA Goddard