December 2009 Archives
Look up to the skies tonight and you'll see a once-in-20-odd-years event - a full moon on New Year's Eve.
It's a blue moon, which happens every two and a half years. For more info, click here.
I've never been lucky enough to see the Northern Lights - and this photo just makes me want to start the car running and just head on up right now.
The photo was taken on the island of KvalÃÅŸya, near TromsÃÅŸ, Norway, earlier this month.
It also captures the sudden flash of a fireball meteor from the Geminid meteor shower.
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No home is complete without a nuclear reactor wall chart!
Click on the pic to embiggen and then click here for more reactor goodness.
You can't see any man-made structure from space - unless you have a really good camera!
This shot of the Great Pyramids was taken from the International Space Station. I guess the astronaut knew how to use the zoom function.
Click on the pic to embiggen!
Just thought I'd pop up a post to wish all Weird Science readers a happy holidays.
I'm going to be taking a well-earned rest next week but don't worry - there will still be fresh posts every day so don't forget to check them out if you get the chance.
I searched for 'christmas' and 'science' into Google and one of the first pix to come up was the world's most implausible nuclear scientist... Dr Christmas Jones.
If you ever need to disarm an atom bomb in double-quick time, accept no substitute.
The fantastic shot taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the shadow of the moon titan falling on Saturn.
For the latest on Cassini, click here.
Here's one of my favourite ever shots from our exploration of the solar system so far.
Taken by NASA's Spirit rover, the image shows the sun setting below the Martian horizon.
We humans are nothing but not resourceful - and now we've harnessed the might of microbes for our own ends.
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory working in collaboration with Northwestern University have developed bacteria-powered microgears to further develop "hybrid biomechanical systems".
This Japanese video shows us what would happen if a dinosaur-killer asteroid hit the Earth.
It's pretty scary stuff - although they may have over-egged the size of the rock. It looks like a small moon!
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