Tag: Space
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Tuesday April 12th Open Comments
April 12th. Lots of big stuff has happened on April 12th. April 12, 1861 – Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter, starting the US Civil War. After many hours of heavy bombardment and with minimal casualties, France Union forces surrendered. April 12, 1961 – Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, orbiting the…
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Friday Big-A$$ Explosion Open Comments
About 3.8 billion years ago, things in the constellation Draco (the Dragon) got a little bit interesting. Although research is ongoing, astronomers say that the unusual explosion likely arose when a star wandered too close to its galaxy’s central black hole. Intense tidal forces probably tore the star apart, and the infalling gas continues to…
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Wednesday Space Pr0n Open Comments
This video was made with no CGI and no animation. It is composed of a series of images captured by the Cassini space probe as it approached and passed the planet Saturn. It is pure awesomeness. 5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo.