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John Glenn [INFOGRAPHIC]
Mars Rover [INFOGRAPHIC]
Space Launches, 1957-2010 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Space Poncho [PRODUCT]
Space Shuttle Power [INFOGRAPHIC]
3D Galaxy [MAP]
A new 3-D map of our corner of the universe includes 45,000 galaxies within about 380 million light-years from Earth. Read the rest at Discovery News.
Space Waste [INFOGRAPHIC]
Janna Levin: The Universe Sounds Like Keith Moon [VIDEO]
We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic composition that records some of the most dramatic events in outer space. (Black holes, for instance, bang on spacetime like a drum.) An accessible and mind-expanding soundwalk through the universe.
Amazingly Detailed Picture Of The Sun [PHOTO]
This picture was taken by Alan Friedman, who is no stranger to this blog: his picture of the boiling Sun last year was hugely popular, and so amazing I featured it as one of my top pictures of 2010.
And with this he’s done it again… and maybe even topped it.
Alan used a filter that lets through only a very narrow wavelength of light emitted by hydrogen (called Hα for those of you keeping track at home), so this tracks the activity of gas on the solar surface. He also inverts the image of the solar disk (makes it a negative) to increase contrast. Somehow this adds a three-dimensional quality to the picture, and reveals an amazing amount of texture. Read the rest at Discovery Magazine.
