I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun.
The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇
Successful stage separation test campaign ✅ We're validating stage separation for Neutron, one of the most novel rocket separation systems ever designed.
From sep system design, component testing and qualification, GSE design, manufacturing, commissioning, and operations planning through to test execution - we're proving out the technology behind one of Neutron's most critical events for mission success.
Up next: moving into intentional off-nominal separation events with non-flight test articles to further push the system's resilience.
This is a single human cell. The white tubes are microtubules. The colored beads are ribosomes. You have 37 trillion of these.
Every cell in your body is a manufacturing plant running 24/7 without supervision.
Each ribosome (the colored beads) is assembling a protein right now. A single ribosome chains together about 20 amino acids per second. A typical mammalian cell contains millions of ribosomes. Every cell in your body is forming hundreds of millions of peptide bonds per second. Continuously.
The white worm-like tubes are microtubules, the cell's internal highway system. Motor proteins called kinesin walk along them on two protein legs, carrying cargo from one end of the cell to the other at around 800 nanometers per second. Each cell has thousands of these tracks with thousands of motor proteins walking on them simultaneously.
The blue mesh on the outside is the actin cortex. It holds the cell shape against pressure. It's also being torn down and rebuilt constantly. Every cell rewrites its own structural skeleton every few minutes.
Now scale that.
37 trillion cells. Each running millions of ribosomes. Each running hundreds of mitochondria producing ATP at roughly 100 million molecules per second. Your total daily ATP turnover is around your full body weight. You synthesize and consume your bodyweight in ATP every 24 hours.
The DNA in a single cell stretches 2 meters uncoiled. End to end across all 37 trillion cells, that's enough to reach the sun and back 250 times.
None of this is voluntary. None of it stops. It started when you were one cell and hasn't paused since.
Mod TapePunk doczekał się właśnie potężnej aktualizacji – twórca spędził miesiące na analizowaniu starych kamer, żeby idealnie oddać brudny klimat lat 80. i 90.
Cyberpunk 2077 z filtrem VHS wygląda obłędnie (o ile jesteś boomerem).
When IDF soldiers murdered Polish chef Damian Soból for cooking meals to starving refugees in Gaza, the world barely cared.
This man had spent his entire life showing up for strangers including during an earthquake in Turkey. Every time the world broke, Damian was there.
@NASA has just released some EXTRAORDINARY tracking footage from Artemis II's launch just one week ago.
Mesmerizing exhaust flow interaction between all four RS-25's & twin SRB's.
“You can see the surface of the Moon…we just went sci-fi.”
On flight day seven, images from our @NASAArtemis II crew amazed, turning science fiction to reality. From the lunar far side to a solar eclipse from the Moon, the views are EVERYTHING. No pressure to pick a favorite.
Oh I love reaction it’s infectious!! That’s how excited you should be!!
It’s also so nice to see someone speaking and acting in a positive way on the news ❤️🙏👏
Love that Emotion!