In Case You Missed It Earlier In July, Here’s A Look At How Our View Of Pluto Has Changed Over The

Jupiter in infrared light, as seen by NASA’s InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF). The observations were obtained in support of NASA’s Juno mission by a team headed by Juno scientist Glenn Orton.

Daily reminder that we have a spacecraft orbiting Saturn—over one billion miles (1.636x10^9 km) away—and it transmits photos like these to us regularly. Thank you, Cassini–Huygens!

Image of the galaxy NGC 5866

Let’s learn something about rocket science

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can. If you think you can’t, almost surely you are not going to. Courage is one of the things that Shannon had supremely. You have only to think of his major theorem. He wants to create a method of coding, but he doesn’t know what to do so he makes a random code. Then he is stuck. And then he asks the impossible question, “What would the average random code do?” He then proves that the average code is arbitrarily good, and that therefore there must be at least one good code. Who but a man of infinite courage could have dared to think those thoughts? That is the characteristic of great scientists; they have courage. They will go forward under incredible circumstances; they think and continue to think.

“You and Your Research,” Dr. Richard W. Hamming of Bell Labs (via ryanandmath)

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