When you look up at the stars, what do you think about? That we may be not be alone? The vastness of it all?
There’s a lot to wonder about space. The fact is we don’t know all the answers about it. We know it’s vast and beautiful, but we’re not reall…
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The Matrix PowerWatch 2 is a vampiric timepiece that sucks your life-force
When Matrix came out with its first PowerWatch the watch world was enamored. The self-powered smart watch would suck energy from your skin by using the temperature differential between your skin and the air, allowing it to run indefinitely without charging. Now the team has added a solar feature to their latest PowerWatch 2 which […]
View More The Matrix PowerWatch 2 is a vampiric timepiece that sucks your life-forceNASA probe speeds through the sun’s atmosphere, captures scorching photo of Mercury
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe recently dove deeper into the sun’s atmosphere than any spacecraft before. And it has the photos to prove it.
Launched four months ago, the heavily-shielded probe — an exploration craft that will swoop progressively closer to the sun over the next six years — came within 16.9 million miles of the sun’s surface when it captured this orange-tinged image on November 8.
Here, the probe was well inside the sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere, a difficult-to-visit place that’s still largely a mystery to astronomers.
The dominant part of the scene is a horizontal bright streak emanating from the sun. On November 8, the probe approached this beam of energized particles, called a “coronal streamer,” that had been blasted out from our medium-sized star. Read more…
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View More NASA probe speeds through the sun’s atmosphere, captures scorching photo of MercuryAstronomers are out looking for the sun’s long-lost siblings
The sun has siblings out there, and astronomers are looking for them.
Astronomers have surveyed and collected the “DNA” of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way, which will help them understand how galaxies formed and evolved over time.
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This artist doesn’t use paint or brushes — he uses the sun
Michael Papadakis is not an ordinary artist and he doesn’t paint in a studio. In fact, he doesn’t even use paint or brushes.
He uses reflection and refraction to paint with the sun. Read more…More about Art, Sun, Painting, Artist, and Reflection
Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains what ‘shoot for the moon’ actually means
StarTalk Radio Host Neil deGrasse Tyson knows a thing or two about the cosmos. He explains what ‘shoot for the moon’ really means and offers a more accurate alternative.
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These polarized sunglasses want you to glow for a good cause
The Radioactive line of Nectar sunglasses are handmade and created for a good cause. For each pair of glasses purchased, Nectar donates a portion of the proceeds to help save beehives. The glasses are also polarized, blocking the glare from the sun fo…
View More These polarized sunglasses want you to glow for a good causeIt would take a pretty self-confident person to rock this bike visor
Bouclier is an attachable bike visor that can snap on and off your existing helmet. It reportedly blocks 98% of harmful UVA rays as well as protect your face from wind, rain, and bugs. A visor costs $54.99. Read more…More about Sports, Sun, Cycling…
View More It would take a pretty self-confident person to rock this bike visorSee the Northern Lights shimmer over Michigan in hypnotic time-lapse
It’s that time of year again: the leaves are falling, your breath frosts on the air, and, in some parts of the country, the Northern Lights shimmer in corners of the night sky.
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