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Perseid's Meteor shower over Stonehenge
APOD: 2024 August 12 – Perseid Meteors over Stonehenge
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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Aerogel is the lightest solid material on our planet, being made out of 99.9% air. It's strong enough to support 2,000 times its own weight.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0HfmYBlF8g
The "Palace of Salt" in Bolivia is the world's first hotel made of salt
Palacio de Sal – A Bolivian Hotel Made Entirely Of Salt
Building materials are scarce around here so the hotel is built entirely from salt. They used over one million 14-inch blocks of solid salt to build the hotel. But don’t lick the walls as this is prohibited (I know, party-poopers huh?).
36 years ago, a dog fell from a 13 floor killing a woman. Another woman approaches to help, gets run over by a bus. A man witness the whole incident, dies of a heart attack.
Three dead after dog falls 13 floors - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 24 Oct 1988
BUENOS AIRES: A dog which fell from a 13th-floor balcony on Friday night triggered three deaths in a row in central Buenos Aires. The dog, a poodle named Cachi, hit 75-year-old Marta ...
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October 24, 1917 | The first known evidence of exoplanets is unknowingly recorded at the Mount Wilson Observatory
It's a map of the different intensities of the different wavelengths (colours) of light emitted from a white dwarf (the core of a dead star that used to be roughly the same size as our sun. very small and not that bright, but extremely hot). Every element when in a gaseous or vapour state (or a fine enough dust) emits and absorbs light in very specific wavelengths, known as it's emission or absorption spectrum. You'd expect a white dwarf to emit mostly white light (not in vapour state), but that map shows that there's some dips, or 'fangs'. This is caused by debris ( from an exoplanet in this case) containing calcium absorbing some wavelengths of light unique to calcium, turning the spectrum from the expected spectrum of a white dwarf to end up with these 'fangs'.
Overlooked Treasure: The First Evidence of Exoplanets - NASA Science
The Mount Wilson telescopes were ahead of their time – in one case, capturing signs of distant worlds that wouldn't be recognized for a century.
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The Persian princess: In 2000 Pakistani scientists announced the discovery of a mummy thought to be a daughter of Xerxes I. The find caused a diplomatic dispute, with both Pakistan and Iran claiming ownership. Museum curators later found out that she was a murder victim...hit by a car in 1996
The Edhi Foundation took custody of the body, and on 5 August 2005, announced that it was to be interred with proper burial rights. However, police and other government officials never responded to numerous requests, and it was not until 2008 that the foundation finally carried out the burial.
Weapons confiscated by police after the infamous "Battle of Glasgow" (March 9, 1914), when police constables and detectives battled a team of martial arts trained radical suffragette bodyguards on the stage of St. Andrew's Hall in Glasgow, before a stunned audience of about 4000 witnesses.
The immediate aftermath was that the police succeeded in arresting Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst - who had been a fugitive from the law under the so-called "Cat and Mouse Act" - and the meeting carried on without her, after which a large party of Suffragettes and audience members marched from the hall to the local jail Pankhurst had been taken to and staged a massive protest there, which was eventually broken up by mounted police.
Zoom right in for some 1940s vintage cameltoe!
A woman getting disapproval looks, Miami Beach, 1940s
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Assuming there's no topological weirdness in our Universe, its Unobservable section must be at least 23 trillion light years in diameter, and contain a volume of space that's over 15 million times as large as the Observable Universe
...if that's the unobservable section, how are we observing it in that pic?
RIP Maxine Waters.
Elizabeth Francis, the oldest person in the US, has died in Houston at the age of 115.