ZecOO, an electric motorbike

•April 29, 2012 • Leave a Comment
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Now we’re talking!

(C) Jason Fullington And Anthony Hardie

Eye of the storm

•April 16, 2012 • Leave a Comment
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(C) Professional storm chaser Jim Reed

Cygnus X-1 Black Hole

•February 22, 2012 • Leave a Comment

The “wind”, a high-speed stream of material that’s being drawn off a star orbiting the black hole and ejected back out into space, has been clocked at a staggering 20 million miles per hour — 3% the speed of light! That’s ten times faster than any such wind ever measured from a black hole of its size!

Illustration of Cygnus X-1, another stellar-mass black hole located 6070 ly away. (NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)

Most Detailed Look Ever Into the Carina Nebula

•February 9, 2012 • Leave a Comment
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This broad panorama of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars, have emerged.

Credit: ESO/T. Preibisch

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•February 9, 2012 • Leave a Comment
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Condo Cloud Burst Explained

•February 8, 2012 • Leave a Comment
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Marina Bay Sands Casino In Singapore

•January 27, 2012 • Leave a Comment
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