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Top: Space Shuttle Enterprise going over NYC in 1983. It was on its way back from the Paris Air Show.
Bottom: The Space Shuttle Enterprise rides atop a NASA modified 747 plane over New York on April 27, 2012. The Space Shuttle Enterprise officially arrived in New York to be placed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
![How Sharks Look Like Without Skin via [Natural History Museum and Body Worlds of Animals]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1zm1g5yUo1qzrr0co1_1280.jpg)
How Sharks Look Like Without Skin via [Natural History Museum and Body Worlds of Animals]
Yodalution by Terry Fan
First amateur image of another solar system captured by New Zealand man
A NEW Zealand man has been hailed as the first amateur photographer to capture an image of another solar system, after he photographed the star Beta Pictoris using a 10-inch (25cm) telescope at his home in Auckland.
The photo shows the protoplanetary disk surrounding the star. The disk represents a developing solar system, and the material inside the disk could develop into planets and asteroids.
“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
There’s No Such Thing As The Colour Pink
Want to have your brain blown for a few minutes today? Dip your head in some physics, and realise that there’s no such thing as pink. Scientifically speaking, that is: it’s just something our brain makes up.
MinutePhysics puts it in predictably concise terms: all colours correspond to wavelengths of light. But there’s no wavelength in there for pink! Instead, it’s a combination of neural trickery — our brains strip green out of the spectrum to fill in for pink.
The Ever-Gorgeous Aurora Australis (Southern Lights)
This short-yet-mesmerising video of the Aurora Australis, captured from the International Space Station as it orbited 320km above Australia and New Zealand, shows that Earth is more than willing to put on a show for our off-planet explorers.
Scientists Reconstruct Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment
UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Eventually, this process will allow you to record and reconstruct your own dreams on a computer screen. Read more here.
Photographs of Icebergs
Icebergs are large pieces of ice that broke off from a snow-formed glacier or an iceshelf. Where a glacier meets the sea, humongous chunks of ice break off from the face of the glacier; this is known as “calving” and this is how many icebergs are “born.” Old icebergs may be hundreds of thousands of years old. Many years of falling snow, consisting of snow crystals by the countless billions, act like tiny mirrors and reflect the light. Some icebergs are also formed by freezing ocean water instead of snow and those areas are full of tiny air bubbles. Beautiful bluish streaks that appear in some icebergs are caused by the refreezing of melt water that previously filled very old glacier ice crevasses. The very dense, very old ice captures the sun’s light and allows only the high-energy blue wavelengths to escape. The beautiful blue icebergs change colour and intensity according to the position of the sun.
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Campaigners recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s famous sketch in the Arctic sea.
Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Vitruvian Man becomes half the man he used to be - as part of his body melts into the sea. The enormous version of the Italian painter’s famous sketch was created by artist John Quigley who used copper pipes stretched out on the iceberg in the Arctic.
