Astronomers turn detectives when trying to figure out the cause of startling sights like NGC 1316. Investigations indicate that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started, about 100 million years ago, to devour a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor, NGC 1317, just on the upper right. Supporting evidence includes the dark dust lanes characteristic […]
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Quesst is what NASA is calling its mission to enable supersonic air travel over land. via NASA https://ift.tt/kSo4NUa
Quesst is what NASA is calling its mission to enable supersonic air travel over land. via NASA https://ift.tt/kSo4NUa
“A good garden may have some weeds.” – Thomas Fuller
“Anything simple always interests me.” – David Hockney
Real castles aren’t this old. And the background galaxy is even older. Looking a bit like an alien castle, the pictured rock spires are called hoodoos and are likely millions of years old. Rare, but found around the world, hoodoos form when dense rocks slow the erosion of softer rock underneath. The pictured hoodoos survive […]
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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” – Philip Johnson
“Shadow owes its birth to light.” – John Gay