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9 years ago

Micro Fungi Of Australia | Images By Stephen Axford

Micro fungi of Australia | images by Stephen Axford

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9 years ago

Astronomers Identify a New Mid-size Black Hole

Nearly all black holes come in one of two sizes: stellar mass black holes that weigh up to a few dozen times the mass of our sun or supermassive black holes ranging from a million to several billion times the sun’s mass. Astronomers believe that medium-sized black holes between these two extremes exist, but evidence has been hard to come by, with roughly a half-dozen candidates described so far. A team led by astronomers at the University of Maryland and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has found evidence for a new intermediate-mass black hole about 5,000 times the mass of the sun. The discovery adds one more candidate to the list of potential medium-sized black holes, while strengthening the case that these objects do exist. The team reported its findings in the September 21, 2015 online edition of Astrophysical Journal Letters. This image, taken with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, shows the central region of galaxy NGC1313. This galaxy is home to the ultraluminous X-ray source NCG1313X-1, which astronomers have now determined to be an intermediate-mass black hole candidate. NGC1313 is 50,000 light-years across and lies about 14 million light-years from the Milky Way in the southern constellation Reticulum. Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/astronomers-identify-a-new-m... Image credit: European Southern Observatory #nasagoddard #blackhole #space

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9 years ago

Why isn’t Pluto a planet?!?!?

Ahhhhh sweet cute innocent little Pluto, what did you do to deserve the demotion? How can we live in a world with only 8 planets? Were all those years of elementary school for nothing? Many people …

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9 years ago

Scientists in Japan, Russia and the US have discovered four new elements, which means the seventh row of the Periodic table is finally filled!! WAY TO GO SCIENCE!!

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9 years ago

50 Amazing Fact About the Moon

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9 years ago

The WMAP only had a 9 year mission. It was deactivated October 28, 2010 after 9 years, 1 month and 19 days in space collecting data to help Scientists make some of the most awesome discoveries in the last several decades of mankind.

http://astronomyisawesome.com/universe/the-age-of-the-universe/

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9 years ago

Reblog If You Can Take Off Your Bra Without Taking Your Shirt Off.

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9 years ago

Check out our 10 Facts About Mercury #Infographic!

http://astronomyisawesome.com/infographics/10-facts-about-mercury/

With #Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun, it’s very difficult to send spacecraft there to visit it, gather information and relay that back to us here on Earth. Nonetheless, we compiled all we know into this awesome infographic!

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9 years ago

Chasing Storms at 17,500mph

Flying 250 miles above the Earth aboard the International Space Station has given me the unique vantage point from which to view our planet. Spending a year in space has given me the unique opportunity to see a wide range of spectacular storm systems in space and on Earth.

The recent blizzard was remarkably visible from space. I took several photos of the first big storm system on Earth of year 2016 as it moved across the East Coast, Chicago and Washington D.C. Since my time here on the space station began in March 2015, I’ve been able to capture an array of storms on Earth and in space, ranging from hurricanes and dust storms to solar storms and most recently a rare thunder snowstorm.