Amazing Universe Around Us

Many science fiction films show an asteroid belt as a densely packed, dangerous place for a ship to travel through. However, the main asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter, contains 2 million asteroids of about 1km size or larger, and hundreds of millions smaller objects. How densely are these objects located? Well, the average distance between them is about 1 million km, or 600,000 miles. To put that into perspective, that’s about 2¼ times the distance of the earth to the moon. So, when the navigator says, “captain, we’ve entered the asteroid belt,” the captain looks out the window, takes a bite from a banana, yawns and says, “the asteroid belt, such a dull place.”

"Aliens? Vegetables? Nope, vegetable and animal bridge mushrooms. They're the myxomycetes, and they can move and hunt for prey or look for the best environment for them. They are born from spores, like mushrooms.
Myxomycetes move like huge amoebas, like pulsating masses; their movements seem to be dependent on microfibrils that remember the fibers of the muscles. These "blobs′′ crawl (at a speed of 1 cm per hour) phagocusing bacteria, algae, yeasts, protozoa and other organic material as they go; they digest them and expel the remains outside. Not randomly, mixomycetes proliferate where there are plenty of prey - on decomposing logs or on carpets of dead, wet leaves. And so they're often found in the woods, yellow, purple, blue, red, thanks to the pigments they contain."

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Blue hairy frogfish..

Look!!! It’s a chemistree!!! 😃

Front row seat. The aurora from the International Space Station.

So here I am, Ms. Science Nerd and Science Tutor and I slept right through the most amazing natural phenomenon last night!
Thankfully, y'all here on FB showed me the spectacle with so many amazing pictures!

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When you're useful and adorable.

Mystery solved.

Do our individual actions really make any difference to the climate? We asked Professor Mike Berners-Lee.

Equations that changed the world.

Great link to an awesome experiment. Part of the result is that you'll see that shadows don't happen instantaneously.

From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: Capturing how light works at a trillion frames per second Explore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community

I caught myself looking for patterns in the safety ratings, to discover periodic trends. 🤦‍♀️
The lab rule is (drum roll): assume it's all a deep purple 'No'.

April 8, 2024 eclipse photo from Tignish, Prince?Edward Island, Canada. Photo by Gilbert Katerynych

People often look at me, sigh and shake their heads, saying "Why don't you take my word on anything? Why can't you just let it rest?"
Because I Science. Sorry. I question everything. (But, as a Canadian, Indo it politely.)
If this is you, too, you're in good company.

Eclipse behind CN Tower, Toronto, Canada, April 8, 2024,

Can vampires take advantage of a solar eclipse to work on their tan? Or is it the corona and UV rays they're vulnerable to?