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These Crazily Detailed Anatomical Images Are Made With Curled Paper

Called the Tissue Series, artist Lisa Nilsson has constructed a range of anatomical cross sections of the human body using rolled pieces of Japanese mulberry paper. It’s a technique known as quilling, or paper filigree, and each piece takes weeks to assemble.



Magnetic Typography

UK designer Dominic Le-Hair made this slick magnetized poster by cutting rubber magnets into letters with an x-acto knife and sandwiching them between sheets of paper before dusting it with iron fillings. See more of the project here.

(watch the video here.)




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Celebrating 50 Years of Space Flight with Corn Mazes (2011)

Space Farm 7, as the program’s called, has enlisted seven of the top agritourism farms across the country to each create a unique, elaborate corn maze that highlights the progress and successes of the agency since it put a man into orbit. The mazes are strategically located near NASA’s research centers, and each design represents the unique contributions made by each location.

 [NASA Space Farm 7 via Craft]



the-star-stuff: HD 162020 b HD 162020 b is a brown dwarf with a mass of 15.0 Jupiters. This planetar orbits very close to the star at a distance of 0.075 AU. The distance from the star ranges from 0.054 to 0.096 AU. In 2002, Stephen Udry discovered HD 162020 b in California. Udry was the same person who discovered two super-Earth planets orbiting around Gliese 581. Image: Dallas1200am/Flickr

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HD 162020 b

HD 162020 b is a brown dwarf with a mass of 15.0 Jupiters. This planetar orbits very close to the star at a distance of 0.075 AU. The distance from the star ranges from 0.054 to 0.096 AU.

In 2002, Stephen Udry discovered HD 162020 b in California. Udry was the same person who discovered two super-Earth planets orbiting around Gliese 581.

Image: Dallas1200am/Flickr



the-star-stuff: Huge Solar Eruption Sparks Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years This SDO image (AIA 193) shows an M9-class solar flare erupting on the Sun’s northeastern hemisphere at 03:49 UT on Jan. 23, 2012… just 4 days after a previous strong CME that sparked aurora around the world on the 22nd. More geomagnetic activity is expected for the 24th. CREDIT: NASA/SDO and the AIA Consortium/Edited by J. Major 

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Huge Solar Eruption Sparks Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years

This SDO image (AIA 193) shows an M9-class solar flare erupting on the Sun’s northeastern hemisphere at 03:49 UT on Jan. 23, 2012… just 4 days after a previous strong CME that sparked aurora around the world on the 22nd. More geomagnetic activity is expected for the 24th.

CREDIT: NASA/SDO and the AIA Consortium/Edited by J. Major 



the-star-stuff: The Cave Nebula by Bob Fera from Foresthill, California The Cave Nebula — also known as Sharpless 2–155 and Caldwell 9 — is an emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus the King. This object makes a better target for imagers than observers, but a 16-inch or larger telescope equipped with a nebula filter will bring it into view. This nebula’s moniker arises from the wide, dark region easily visible on images. The dark nebulosity appears like the mouth of a cave, thus the name.

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The Cave Nebula

by Bob Fera from Foresthill, California

The Cave Nebula — also known as Sharpless 2–155 and Caldwell 9 — is an emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus the King. This object makes a better target for imagers than observers, but a 16-inch or larger telescope equipped with a nebula filter will bring it into view. This nebula’s moniker arises from the wide, dark region easily visible on images. The dark nebulosity appears like the mouth of a cave, thus the name.


the-star-stuff: Black Hole Dead Ahead If you could get up close and personal with a black hole, there might not be much to see. You couldn’t observe the black hole itself, and instead would only glimpse its event horizon — a spherical boundary inside of which nothing can escape. The black hole itself would sit at the event horizon’s center as a point of infinite density known as a singularity. The great amount of mass at this point would stretch the fabric of space-time, bending light coming from behind and creating a gravitational lens. If you were at a distance of about 375 miles, a black hole 10 times the mass of the sun might appear like the above image. Light from the background Milky Way galaxy is highly distorted, revealing the location of the black hole. Image: Ute Kraus, Physics education group Kraus, Universität Hildesheim, Space Time Travel, (background image of the milky way: Axel Mellinger)

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Black Hole Dead Ahead

If you could get up close and personal with a black hole, there might not be much to see. You couldn’t observe the black hole itself, and instead would only glimpse its event horizon — a spherical boundary inside of which nothing can escape.

The black hole itself would sit at the event horizon’s center as a point of infinite density known as a singularity. The great amount of mass at this point would stretch the fabric of space-time, bending light coming from behind and creating a gravitational lens.

If you were at a distance of about 375 miles, a black hole 10 times the mass of the sun might appear like the above image. Light from the background Milky Way galaxy is highly distorted, revealing the location of the black hole.

Image: Ute Kraus, Physics education group Kraus, Universität Hildesheim, Space Time Travel, (background image of the milky way: Axel Mellinger)