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• Extremophiles

  

  Forty years ago researchers at the University of Wisconsin, led by Professor Thomas D. Brok, in the hot springs of national park Yellowstone discovered... Read more

  The 02 June 2011 by   Gabe12logan
  Science

• Solar Prominence

  

  Solar prominence are purple jets of heated matter that during the full eclipse can be observed by the edge of the Sun. Prominence are of the different shapes,... Read more

  The 09 June 2011 by   Gabe12logan
  Science

• Dwarf Planet Eris

  Eris, 136 199 Eris, is the largest known dwarf planet and for now the largest body found in Kuiper Belt. Although his discoverers initially declared him as the... Read more

  The 08 June 2011 by   Gabe12logan
  Science

• Huge Explosion On The Sun

  The Sun let loose with an enormous explosion on the morning of June 7, 2011. The entire eruption was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Read more

  The 09 June 2011 by   Gerard
  Humor,  Random,  Science

• Time Lapse Video Of The Earth's Rotation

  Filmed at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope located in the Atacama Desert, Chile, by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado. Read more

  The 01 June 2011 by   Gerard
  Random,  Science

• One Year Of The Moon In 2.5 Minutes

  The animation shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2011, at hourly intervals. Read more

  The 19 June 2011 by   Gerard
  Humor,  Random

• What Is Equinox

  Equinox is the phenomena in astronomy when the Earth's axis is perpendicular to the plane in which the Earth moves around the sun, and in the broader sense,... Read more

  The 03 June 2011 by   Gabe12logan
  Science

• What Is Solstice

  ? Solstice is the moment at which the Sun, in the apparent motion around the Earth, reached the highest positive or negative slope, and then a day in which it... Read more

  The 05 June 2011 by   Gabe12logan
  Science

• Adrastea and Metis

  Adrastea is the Jupiter's second closest known satellite. Orbiting Jupiter at a distance of 129 000 km and go around it in just 7 hours and 9 minutes. Read more

  The 01 June 2011 by   Gabe12logan
  Science

• Weightlessness

  is a consequence of the equality of centripetal and centrifugal forces. During the levitation bodies lose its weight, but not the mass and inertia. Read more

  The 06 June 2011 by   Gabe12logan
  Science