The Mother Nature Network posted a gallery of images collected by Mariner 10, the NASA space probe launched in 1973.
Source: 8 images of Mercury: Revealed by Mariner 10 | MNN – Mother Nature Network.
The galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (Pandora’s Cluster), was formed by a massive cosmic collision of at least four separate galaxy clusters. Images of the collision were captured and pieced together using the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, the Japanese Subaru telescope, and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Source: Massive Cosmic Collision Captured By Telescopes via Geekosystem.
800,000 frames from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope used to create an infrared portrait of the inner Milky Way:
Source: Spitzer Finds Clarity in the Inner Milky Way – NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.
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SuperScholar.org recently listed it’s 20 Most Influential Scientists Alive Today. Anyone missing?
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Noam Chomsky
- Richard Dawkins (pictured above)
- Persi Diaconis
- Jane Goodall
- Alan Guth
- Stephen Hawking
- Donald Knuth
- Lynn Margulis
- Gordon Moore
- Roger Penrose
- Allan Sandage
- Frederick Sanger
- Charles Townes
- Craig Venter
- James Watson
- Steven Weinberg
- Andrew Wiles
- Edward O. Wilson
- Edward Witten
Gorgeous Milky Way time lapse shot in South Dakota:
Source: Plains Milky Way on Vimeo on Vimeo
