Saturday, April 30, 2011

Shrink-wrapped boats

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"Shrink-wrapped boat," Tim Connor, All rights reserved

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"Shrink-wrapped boat 2," Tim Connor, All rights reserved

These were sitting in the boat yards at Montauk a little more than a week ago.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Visualizing (a tiny part of) the Universe

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Courtesy "All That Is Interesting" from the PBH Network

Check out this fascinating sequential visualization of our Earth scaled against various objects in the near-universe. The final images in the post are from the Hubble telescope, which focused on an ink black area in the night sky for over 4 months to collect light that had spent 13 billion years reaching its lens.