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more about #europeanspaceagency braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: OH MY GOD I AM MAKING THE PLANCK AND HERSCHEL VAUDEVILLE ACT RIGHT NOW! more » crashedpc - Haifisch: "What the! I have a black ring around my eye!" "Oh, Herschel!" more » GreyHammer: cool thing about space is that if you point a telescope far enough away you are actually looking back in in time due to the time it took for the light... more » -
#radiationcountersinspace
Space Telescopes To Reveal History Of The Universe
Planck and Herschel might sound like a particularly nerdy Vaudeville act, but they're actually two new space telescopes that scientists are hoping to use to discover the origins of the universe as we know it. More » -
#extremelife
Meet the Tardigrades: The Solar System's Most Extreme Survivors
There is an organism living on this planet who can travel through space without a suit. Cute, unassuming little invertebrates, these organisms are called tardigrades, or water bears, and usually spend their days crawling around on a piece of nice wet moss in a forest, or meandering through our vast oceans. They only grow to be about 1.5 millimeters long, but over 1,000 species of them inhabit the planet, and they all have a superpower unmatched by any other species on Earth. No now knows why, but tardigrades can withstand temperatures as cold as liquid nitrogen, radiation doses that would kill a human 100 times over, thrive in an outer-space-like vacuum, and survive without water for years. More » -
#spaceporn
NASA's Probe Will Buzz Titan Landing Site
NASA may have failed to prove there's an underground ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus, but now scientists claim they've found outstanding new evidence that there may be a vast ocean under the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. In this newly released image, Titan peeks out from behind Saturn while another moon, Tethys, streaks past the planet's shadowy rings. Click through for a gorgeous Titan gallery. More »
