This Is Wonderful.

Taylor Swift “The Last Time” (Radio Edit – Premiere)

Here are ten thoughts that will change the way you think about existence.

“IC 1101 has spent most of its life colliding with other galaxies and owes its size to these collisions. Over billions of years, galaxies about the size of the Milky Way and Andromeda, have been merging together to sculpt and shape this titan of the cosmos. This galaxy is bereft of star making gases, here rapid star formation has long ago ceased.

IC 1101 is dying a slow death. While not entirely devoid of new stars, unless it continues to merge with newer younger galaxies, IC 1101 will slowly fade to oblivion.”

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Here’s how ridiculously fast we could visit everything in the solar system if we traveled at the speed of light.

My “Clean” Piano Cover (Originally by Taylor Swift)

For a moment, that black and white photo should seem like a full color image. (You have to keep both the image and your head very still).

This illusion was used in the new BBC Four series Colour: The Spectrum of Science.

It demonstrates a phenomenon called “cone fatigue.” When we stare at the purple hillside in picture above, photoreceptors in our eyes called cones are stimulated. They send a signal to our brains that says “You’re looking at something purple.” But the sensing ability of those cones decreases the longer we stare at the image - those receptors are, in a way, temporarily used up.

Then when we look at the black and white image, those same cones can’t detect any purple light. Instead they sense the color that remains: green.