Space Oddity
Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level
[big]DarkSide-50.jpg
NDT moonwalk
Mars Desert Research Station
[big] Initial Planck Cosmic Background result
http://www.esa.int/Our_Acti...
http://arstechnica.com/science...
Depending who you ask, interesting results here are a) it's still weirdly lumpy, and has weird hot- and cold-spots; b) the age of the universe is now estimated at 13.81 Byr, not 13.7; c) apparently they excluded a 4th flavor of neutrino; and d) they revised down the dark energy % mass-energy estimate (from 72.8% to 68.3%) and upped the dark matter and ordinary matter estimates.
http://arstechnica.com/science...
Depending who you ask, interesting results here are a) it's still weirdly lumpy, and has weird hot- and cold-spots; b) the age of the universe is now estimated at 13.81 Byr, not 13.7; c) apparently they excluded a 4th flavor of neutrino; and d) they revised down the dark energy % mass-energy estimate (from 72.8% to 68.3%) and upped the dark matter and ordinary matter estimates.
tonyb 
2 months ago
2 months ago
wow - yeah, that's way more detailed than previous CBR images I've seen
Human DNA
I'm willing to wager that at least 75% of the people pictured used the 'if I were an enzyme, I'd be DNA helicase so I could unzip your genes' pickup line at this event.
Our solar system from a non-fixed perspective.
source: http://i.imgur.com/Z7FpC.gif
Phil Plait picks it apart:
http://www.slate.com/blogs...
http://www.slate.com/blogs...
@usernameguy Well that's disappointing.
@bergus well, if it's any compensation, it's just off in the details. The planets stay on the same rough plane as the Sun moves; the plane isn't tilted 90 degrees, it's tilted ~60 degrees like a windshield; the outer planets move a lot slower than the inner planets. Wish the guy just did his homework, is all.
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