Fernando Mafra // i have no limits
Solar Stormwatch volunteers can spot these storms and track their progress across space towards the Earth. Such storms can be harmful to astronauts in orbit and have the potential to knock out communication satellites, disrupt mobile phone networks and damage power lines. With the public's help, Solar Stormwatch will allow solar scientists to better understand these potentially dangerous storms and help to forecast their arrival time at Earth.
The Heteropoda davidbowie is distinguished by its large size and yellow hair, and is only found in parts of Malaysia.Bowie was apparently selected for the honour because of his musical contribution to arachnid world – the 1972 concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
In a conversation today, Henry Gustav Molaison came up and became a topic. He was, according to wikipedia:
was a memory-impaired patient who was widely studied from the late 1950s until his death
He lost some memory after brain surgery and could not form new memories since. And became an important tool into how the human brain works. However, according to Tanaka, the big lesson to us all comes from this fact:
Henry loved to do crossword puzzles, play bingo, watch TV, and socialize with the people who took care of him.
He was willing to be studied and help in any way possible. He really lived in the moment. And enjoyed it. That doesn't mean he was reckless, he just like the people around him. And wasn't burdened by resentment or regret. A lot of positive lessons can be taken from that.
"Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science."
Kudos to us all, thanks to him.
More on Galileo at Wikipedia
20 years ago today Voyager 2 reached Neptune, marking (considering 2006's IAU decision to call Pluto a dwarf planet) the point when every planet in the solar system had been visited at least once by human spacecraft. More on Voyager 2 conquests at Wikipedia
Bowloftoast sez, "This is a short animation that takes the viewer through a progressive description of all (and all possible) dimensions, up to and including the 10th. It is an elegant introduction to the fundamentals of string theory and a mind-blowing toe-dip into the pool of the metaphysical."
Imagining the Tenth Dimension (Thanks, Bowloftoast!)
Diamonds in a Cloudy Sky Cloudy skies over Wuhan, China hid the delicate solar corona during July's total eclipse of the Sun. Still, the Moon's silhouette was highlighted by these glistening diamonds as the total eclipse phase ended. Caused by bright sunlight streaming through dips and valleys in the irregular terrain along the Moon's edge, the effect is known as Baily's Beads, named after Francis Baily who called attention to the phenomenon in 1836. The dramatic appearance of the beads at the beginning or end of a total solar eclipse is also known as the Diamond Ring effect. In this remarkable image, a small, pinkish solar prominence can also be seen along the edge, below the diamonds.