Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there’s nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”
— Richard Brautigan
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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there’s nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
Britain at night - a real photograph taken from the International Space station by astronaut Paolo Nespoli
Wow.
Solar System
Meteor Shower
Last night we went outside at about 11pm to see the Perseid meteor shower:
The Perseid meteor shower is caused by debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle.
Every 133 years, the huge comet swings through the inner part of our Solar System and leaves behind a trail of dust and gravel.
When Earth passes through the debris, specks hit our atmosphere at 140,000mph and disintegrate in flashes of light.
We saw about 5/6 shooting stars in the 10-15 minutes we were out. They went so fast that as soon as you saw one it was gone. I would have loved to have got some photos but they were far too fast, a long exposure might have worked but I only had my compact camera with me :(
1% of the static seen on any non-working tv channel is static from the radiation of the big bang.”
World's biggest beaver dam can be seen from space »
My shed can be seen from space, what’s your point?
Did you know that Jupiter has 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined?
