Maxifound

Lost & Found on the Web. History, future, science, space, IT, geek culture, fun stuff, and design.

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#Space #Art: this artist's illustration shows two #colliding #NeutronStars, the super-dense cores left behind after stars undergo supernova explosions https://bit.ly/3pqCJbx via @SpaceDotCom https://bit.ly/2H5qH68

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#Space: NGC 4565, the Needle #Galaxy and its spectacular dust lanes https://bit.ly/3pqsfJ6 via @eso https://bit.ly/2ICVZlx

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#Space: the Tarantula #Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is more than *a thousand light-years in diameter*, a giant #StarForming region within nearby satellite galaxy the #LargeMagellanicCloud https://bit.ly/3eZbmAu via @apod https://bit.ly/36wg1Gl

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#Space: #Saturn? No! #Uranus & its 'Shakespearian' satellites! https://bit.ly/36yAYjJ via @sagansense https://bit.ly/3nrBMxT

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RT @tomgauld: To support UK bookshops during lockdown, I'm taking part in #SignForOurBookshops. If you buy any of my books from an independent/local bookshop before 2nd December I'll send you one of these signed postcards. Visit https://bit.ly/2IDf5r7 for details https://bit.ly/3ltNCad

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RT @thonoir: Cool video time. A Goshawk and a Tawny Owl pass through an illuminated sheet with neutrally-buoyant bubbles, leaving wingtip-trailing vortices in their wake. Video from this paper: https://bit.ly/3lwBwgf #birds #ornithology https://bit.ly/3lv5LV2

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RT @ridingrobots: Again near the south pole, cracked terrain that almost looks like neurons. This view is a few kilometers across. https://bit.ly/38Eg4Cr https://bit.ly/2IxzWfS

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#Space: strange as it may seem the #Universe is getting steadily #hotter, according to new research — turns out that the ongoing process of creating new galaxies also heats up everything around it 👁‍🗨 https://bit.ly/36wFnDX via @futurism https://bit.ly/38FqPVa

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#Science: scientists discovered an ancient #lakebed under #Greenland’s ice 👁‍🗨 https://bit.ly/2UpX9mG via @Gizmodo https://bit.ly/3eZoHsk

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#Space: #water may be naturally occurring on all #RockyPlanets: it may emerge in connection with the formation of planets 👁‍🗨 https://bit.ly/3kCnKaZ via @ScienceDaily https://bit.ly/2IqwPXn

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#Science: scientists are tracking down #DeepSea creatures with #FreeFloating #DNA — bits of #GeneticCode in #seawater can help scientists study fish that we rarely see 👁‍🗨 https://bit.ly/3nsDuPD via @PopSci https://bit.ly/2JXEDQu

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#Space: #planets that orbit even really old #RedDwarfs can still get viciously zapped by #HighEnergy #radiation from #flares, making it difficult for them to support #Life — #BadNews 👁‍🗨 https://bit.ly/3lGHY4k via @BadAstronomer https://bit.ly/32HE589

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#Future #Design: 'Poseidon's Realm' #aquarium, nestled into the landscape https://bit.ly/38G0RRC via @DesignBoom https://bit.ly/2IAk4c6

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#Science #History #Art: scientific #engravings from 1850 by John Philipps Emslie https://bit.ly/2UqF8Vc via @sagansense https://bit.ly/3niSYFG

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#Space: #ExplosiveBirth of #magnetar from #ColossalCollision potentially spotted for first time — #NeutronStar #merger results in magnetar with brightest #kilonova ever observed 👁‍🗨 https://bit.ly/3nkK9eC via @keckobservatory https://bit.ly/3kobsmp

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#History: #vessel in the shape of an #owl, #bronze, #China, late 14th-13th century BC https://bit.ly/32IdtDP via @artsmia https://bit.ly/3nqNngJ

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#Space: the #MilkyWay seems to emerge from the #ocean. #GoodMornng! https://bit.ly/3nj1QuN by @MikkoLagerstedt https://bit.ly/36ue0KJ