A while ago I wrote a post about what I believe the most spectacular waterfalls in the world are, but you guys gave me some excellent feedback and I fould out about more amazing waterfalls, so thanks a whole lot!! I’ve looked around and found something that really shocked me, and in a good way: Niagara [...]
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Clouds have inspired poets since immemorial times and they’ve even puzzled scientists, it almost seems like there’s something out of this world about them. Well, just wait until you see these amazing clouds. Mammatus clouds These pouch-like clouds seem to be the harbringers of thunderstorms and tornadoes and (in many cases) that’s exactly what they are. They [...]
Friday, March 27, 2009
Get your 3D pictures on and join the show; hundreds of amazing pictures made by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have been made, and despite the fact that this is not the first mission to take 3D pictures, HiRISE is by far the most powerful camera to do this, due to [...]
Friday, March 20, 2009
Near Tonga’s capital Nuku’alofa, an underwater volcano has been shooting smoke, ash, steam, etc for thousands of feet, and the good thing is the islanders are not threatened by this. Still, it remains such a spectacular phenomenon that scientists just had to inspect it and make a photo shoot. Pictures from boston.com. There’s also a [...]
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
A volcanic eruption is one of the most spectacular phenomena in nature, and despite the fact that they’re not even nearly as common as thunder or rainbows, there’s still a whole bunch of active volcanoes today that fascinate both scientists and tourists. But things get even more wicked when lava meets ocean water; really amazing [...]
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Two of the biggest and most impressive stars from our galaxy have been “surprised” in some really amazing poses by the the NASA/ESA Hubble telescope. Until now, a cloud of mystery surrounded them, but these pictures in greater detail than ever before. The pair of colossal stars (named WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open [...]
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Meet the world’s tiniest portraits of an elected president ever; meet the nanobamas. Each ‘Obama’ is made up of about 150 million tiny carbon nanotubes, which is about how many Americans voted in this year’s presidential election. An assistant professor professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, John Hart, along with [...]
Friday, November 7, 2008
In ancient times, people looked up to the sky and thought it was the home of the gods; they found divine explanation for natural phenomenae, and thunder was usually a tool of the gods. Strange enough, but today things aren’t really that different. Sure, it’s a discharge of electricity and not the hammer of the [...]
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Many people refer to these structures as “Meteorite Craters”, but that’s at least partially incorrect. Meteor is the term used to describe an object that goes through our planet’s atmosphere, and meteorite is used after the object hit the planet. These are just some of the most amazing ones, and easy to see for [...]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Every once in a while we get a sign that the weather around the planet is changing, and not for the good. This kind of rainbow needs very specific conditions to form, similar to those in the North Pole, and it appeared above Britain. Rainbows are formed in a very simple way (details), when light goes [...]
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