Science and popcorn (o Ciencia y palomitas)

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1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics. Photographed by Benjamin Couprie, Brussels, Belgium.

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Science and popcorn (o Ciencia y palomitas) turned 12 today!

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Streaked Spiderhunter (Arachnothera magna), Nectariniidae, order Passeriformes, India

photograph by Vipin Rajora

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Red-hooded Tanager (Piranga rubriceps) male, family Cardinalidae, order Passeriformes, Ecuador

Tanagers in the genus Piranga are not true tanagers, but are in the Cardinal family (along with Summer Tanager, Scarlet Tanager, Western Tanager, etc.).

photograph by Glenn Bartley

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Somehow this video captures the scale of whales better than any other video or photo I have ever seen.

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That is a humpback. If you think they are huge, I have some news for you…

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Me watching this video

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Fun fact: the blue whale is the biggest animal to ever live on earth. And they’re alive today.

The biggest isn’t some dinosaur or weird devonian fish, nope. It’s the blue whale, and you share a planet with them. How lucky is that?

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Amazing and enigmatic Pluto.

High resolution image.

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November 15, 1988: Soviet spaceplane Buran launches for the first and only time

Buran was a reusable Soviet spaceplane and spaceplane program very similar to the American Space Shuttle. Launched on an Energia rocket, the unmanned vehicle completed two orbits before returning to Earth for good. The Buran program was officially terminated in 1993, leaving behind the Buran, two other nearly-completed spaceplanes, and a number of test articles.

Learn more about the rise and fall of the Buran program here!

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Super-heavy rockets comparison.

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Jane Goodall

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1200 megapixel

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Dead at 91, Jane Goodall

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This is one slice of an incredible high resolution, enhanced color image of Pluto, recently released by NASA. You can see the full, larger version here. 

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

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The Apollo spacecraft

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ISS in Real Time, a new multimedia project where you can play back every day of the past 25 years aboard the International Space Station.

https://issinrealtime.org/

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The Hubble Space Telescope