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name: jack friday sex: male current city: omaha, ne birthday: 04.13.1987 hometown: hastings, ne **- please note that i do not claim any of the images, quotes, songs, etc. as my own unless it is tagged as "original"

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PHOTOGRAPHER RANDY P. MARTIN

American photographer Randy P. Martin. You can view more of Martin’s work on tumblr and flickr.

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Martian sunrises, as seen by the HiRISE orbiter

These aren’t actual images from HiRISE orbiter camera. They are topographical renderings made by Dutch artist Kees Veenenbos using data from NASA’s Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, an instrument aboard the space agency’s Mars Global Surveyor that mapped the planet from 1997-2006. More information here at huffpostscience.

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Want to build your own space agency? Well, now you can, because NASA’s about to give away a whole bunch of their code for free! You’ll have access to the coding behind robots, cryogenic systems and climate simulators. There’s even code for running rocket guidance systems.

Read more: http://wrd.cm/1i5Q3H9 via Wired, Science Alert/fb

Image: NASA

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A technical glitch causes the Hubble Space Telescope, which ordinarily captures magnificently crisp scientific imagery of the cosmos, to lose balance and create this inadvertent piece of modern art.

It is suspected that in this case, Hubble had locked onto a bad guide star, potentially a double star or binary. This caused an error in the tracking system, resulting in this remarkable picture of brightly colored stellar streaks. The prominent red streaks are from stars in the globular cluster NGC 288. 

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Digitally colored image of black and white photographs.

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Typewriter Series #332 by Tyler Knott Gregson

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Lion By: Olechka

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Elements By KcD Studios - on tumblr

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These are the characters that illustrate the comic book of life, one chemical at a time.

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via infinity-imagined:

City lights photographed from the International Space Station and Neurons imaged with fluorescence microscopy.

Source images; Cities (1) (2) (3) (4) (5), Neurons (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

We can explore this at another level by remembering our old friend slime mold (see my previous slimy posts here), which give us reason to believe that some of the branching patterns and efficient pathways of connecting complex systems are sort of, well, inherent in nature.

It’s equal parts “amazing” and “not at all surprising” to find them here in neurons and cities, no?