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astronomyblog:
“ This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the center of the Lagoon Nebula, an object with a deceptively tranquil name, in the constellation of Sagittarius. The region is filled with intense winds from hot stars, churning...
astronomyblog

This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the center of the Lagoon Nebula, an object with a deceptively tranquil name, in the constellation of Sagittarius. The region is filled with intense winds from hot stars, churning funnels of gas, and energetic star formation, all embedded within an intricate haze of gas and pitch-dark dust.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ESA/J. Trauger 

Source: astronomyblog
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todropscience

Ocean sunfish (Mola mola) at Caupolican shipwreck, Valparaiso, Chile

todropscience

Do you remember a recently described ocean sunfish, the Hoodwinker Sunfish (Mola tecta). Well, this one is!! I did this gif a time ago when Mola tecta it was not described, and was not even recognized as a different species.

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-(here a small diagram, the detail of this species is in the tail, slightly different)

And now that I see this gif again, I realize that even though we see things, we do not even notice the differences, how many new species we have seen in front of our eyes, and we haven’t even noticed it?

Source: todropscience
astronomyblog
astronomyblog

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO)

Located in a cave more than a mile underground in Canada, SNO can be thought of as a type of telescope, though it bears little resemblance to the image most people associate with that word. It consists of an 18-meters-in-diameter stainless steel geodesic sphere inside of which is an acrylic vessel filled with 1000 tons of heavy water (deuterium oxide or D2O). Attached to the sphere are 9,522 ultra-sensitive light-sensors called photomultiplier tubes. When neutrinos passing through the heavy water interact with deuterium nuclei, flashes of light, called Cerenkov radiation, are emitted. The photomultiplier tubes detect these light flashes and convert them into electronic signals that scientists can analyze for the presence of all three types of neutrinos. 

Berkeley Lab