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Nov 9, 2013

Mesmerizing Northern Lights From Around The World

Though Alaska’s Northern Lights are some of the most beautiful natural occurrences in the universe, relatively few people have observed their beauty, and even less understand how and why they appear. People can see the auroral lights above the magnetic poles in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Known as...

Nov 9, 2013

Mesmerizing Northern Lights From Around The World

Though Alaska’s Northern Lights are some of the most beautiful natural occurrences in the universe, relatively few people have observed their beauty, and even less understand how and why they appear. People can see the auroral lights above the magnetic poles in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Known as...

By Kiri Picone
Nov 4, 2013
Mars Landscapes Horizon

Kees Veenenbos’ Amazing Mars Landscapes

Kindled by his love of topography, Dutch artist Kees Veenenbos’ career started as hobby and eventually transformed into a grand portfolio of digital imagery. His Mars surface renderings are filled with such an amazing degree of realism that they have been used by NASA as a vital part of its...

Nov 4, 2013

Kees Veenenbos’ Amazing Mars Landscapes

Kindled by his love of topography, Dutch artist Kees Veenenbos’ career started as hobby and eventually transformed into a grand portfolio of digital imagery. His Mars surface renderings are filled with such an amazing degree of realism that they have been used by NASA as a vital part of its...

By All That's Interesting
Mars Landscapes Horizon
Oct 18, 2013
Russia Gay Rights Rainbow Sickle

What We Love This Week, Volume XXXV

Anthony Howe’s Mindblowing Kinetic Sculpture GIFs Believe it or not, what you see moving on this screen can actually be witnessed in real life, not just in the vacuum of a fancy computer animation program. Bored with the stilted movement of common paintings, artist Anthony Howe resolved to create works...

Oct 18, 2013

What We Love This Week, Volume XXXV

Anthony Howe’s Mindblowing Kinetic Sculpture GIFs Believe it or not, what you see moving on this screen can actually be witnessed in real life, not just in the vacuum of a fancy computer animation program. Bored with the stilted movement of common paintings, artist Anthony Howe resolved to create works...

By All That's Interesting
Russia Gay Rights Rainbow Sickle
Sep 5, 2013

The Most Important Image Captured By Hubble

In 1996, scientists took a huge risk when they pointed the Hubble telescope to an inky field that they believed to be void of stars and planets. As images from Hubble are in constant demand, the worry was that devoting so much time to a black space would prove futile....

Sep 5, 2013

The Most Important Image Captured By Hubble

In 1996, scientists took a huge risk when they pointed the Hubble telescope to an inky field that they believed to be void of stars and planets. As images from Hubble are in constant demand, the worry was that devoting so much time to a black space would prove futile....

By All That's Interesting
Jun 4, 2013
Neil Armstrong Heart Rate During Apollo 11

Neil Armstrong’s Heart Rate During The Apollo 11 Mission

The eagle may have landed, but not without some incredible heart palpitations. As evidenced from the ECG above, Neil Armstrong felt his “small step” with his feet as much as he did with his heart.

Jun 4, 2013

Neil Armstrong’s Heart Rate During The Apollo 11 Mission

The eagle may have landed, but not without some incredible heart palpitations. As evidenced from the ECG above, Neil Armstrong felt his “small step” with his feet as much as he did with his heart.

By All That's Interesting
Neil Armstrong Heart Rate During Apollo 11
Mar 29, 2013

The Most Important Things You Should Know About The Big Bang

The name was initially meant to be a dismissal The term “big bang” was coined live on BBC radio in 1949 by Fred Hoyle, a scientific opponent to what was then the fringe “primeval atom” hypothesis proposed by Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre. Hoyle’s equally alliterative Steady State theory had been...

Mar 29, 2013

The Most Important Things You Should Know About The Big Bang

The name was initially meant to be a dismissal The term “big bang” was coined live on BBC radio in 1949 by Fred Hoyle, a scientific opponent to what was then the fringe “primeval atom” hypothesis proposed by Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre. Hoyle’s equally alliterative Steady State theory had been...

By All That's Interesting
Mar 27, 2013

The Mounting Environmental Crisis In China

Global concerns have grown steadily over China’s increasingly perilous environmental problems. A country with as many people as every Western power combined, China has muscled itself into international relevance by becoming the world’s biggest exporter. But its meteoric economic rise has sunk China chin-deep into an environmental crisis that is...

Mar 27, 2013

The Mounting Environmental Crisis In China

Global concerns have grown steadily over China’s increasingly perilous environmental problems. A country with as many people as every Western power combined, China has muscled itself into international relevance by becoming the world’s biggest exporter. But its meteoric economic rise has sunk China chin-deep into an environmental crisis that is...

By All That's Interesting