IMAGE: The cryostat houses a sapphire cryogenic mirror. view more Credit: ICRR The world’s three principal gravitational-wave detectors — LIGO in the U.S., Virgo in Italy, and now KAGRA in... Read more »
NASA Exoplanet Archive: Visualisation of ALL the Confirmed Exoplanets Read more »
IMAGE: This is an image from the Romulus simulation portraying the network of structures that put together on intergalactic scales, exposing where the galaxies hosting black holes type. More enormous... Read more »
Alternatively, this is what the southern lights look like from space (computerized) Read more »
IMAGE: PlaneEnglish, developed by 2 Purdue University alumni, has actually gotten a $50,000 SBIR Stage I award, sponsored by the Air Force and AFWERX. view more Credit: Purdue University/Chris Adam... Read more »
The rotation of Eros, a near-earth asteroid visited by spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker in the year 2000 Read more »
How the Northern and Southern lights are formed (X-post from /r/weathergifs) Read more »
Time is a primitive human experience, and yet it stays a secret. It is a fundamental part of our every day lives and of practically every clinical discipline. This... Read more »
Liquid ping pong on the International Space Station (X-post from /r/Gifs) Read more »
IMAGE: ESO’s VISTA telescope exposes a amazing image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our nearby stellar neighbours. VISTA has actually been surveying this galaxy and its brother or... Read more »