This photo from Astronomy Picture of the Day just blows my mind. In fact, the universe blows my mind. Click on the photo to see it larger. Arcing toward a fiery fate, this Sungrazer comet was recorded by the SOHO spacecraft’s Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on Dec. 23rd, 1996. … Positioned in space to [...]
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Sungrazer comet
Posted in Nature, Science and Technology, tagged astronomy, astrophotography, comets, science, sun, sungrazing comets, universe on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ONE MILLION WILD SPIDERS FROM MADAGASCAR!!!!1!
Posted in Historical Information, Nature, tagged American Museum of Natural History, Madagascar, spider silk, spiders, textiles on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A spectacular and extremely rare textile, woven from golden-colored silk thread produced by more than one million spiders in Madagascar, goes on display Wednesday, September 23 [2009] in the [American Museum of Natural History]‘s Grand Gallery. This magnificent contemporary textile, measuring 11 feet by 4 feet, took four years to make using a painstaking technique [...]
