February 2012
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True wisdom comes to us when we realize how little we know about life,...
– Socrates (via observedintoexistence)
January 2012
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expose-the-light asked: Amazing blog :)
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Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we...
– Phil Plait
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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There's a full moon tonight!
fuckyeahtheuniverse:
It looks lovely. Take a minute to go watch it!
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While Earth’s magnetic field irregularly reverses its north-south polarity...
– Bob Berman - The Sun’s Heartbeat: and Other Stories From the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet
September 2011
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Every day, a ball of fire crosses the sky. This bizarre reality was so...
– Bob Berman - The Sun’s Heartbeat
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“Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer...
– Kurt Vonnegut , American writer (1922-2007), The Sirens of Titan, Dell, 1959 (via amiquote)
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Eyes on the Solar System →
Eyes on the Solar System is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It’s up to you. You control space and time. This is awesome.
August 2011
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Earth may not have needed moon for life after all. →
weareallstarstuff:
Scientists have long believed that without the moon’s stabilizing gravitational influence, variations in Earth’s tilt would have caused climate change too dynamic for complex life to evolve. Not so, concludes a new study that has implications for understanding conditions for life elsewhere in the solar system.
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July 2011
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June 2011
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