Galileo’s Sketches From Sidereus Nuncius (1610), The First Published Scientific Work Based On Observations

Sometimes… there’s more than meets the eye. 👀 You’re looking at two very different takes on an iconic image. ⁣

Human eyes can see only a small portion of the range of radiation given off by the objects around us. We call this wide array of radiation the electromagnetic spectrum, and the part we can see visible light.

In the first image, researchers revisited one of Hubble Space Telescope’s most popular sights: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. Here, the pillars are seen in infrared light, which pierces through obscuring dust and gas and unveil a more unfamiliar — but just as amazing — view of the pillars. ⁣ ⁣ The entire frame is peppered with bright stars and baby stars are revealed being formed within the pillars themselves. The image on the bottom is the pillars in visible light.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team⁣

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Quite an amazing moment patiently watching this big guy fish for his dinner. 

This assumes that I, as a girl, am not also obsessed with these themes. "Girl " movies vs "boy " movies is so ancient thought.

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Crow having fun by himself at a children’s playground

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That’s a totally straight way of eating a pie, right? 

I mean… Right?

Yeah… right… ;)

*gifs credits to @onceland

Ben Bova published Jupiter in 2000. The storyline involves huge aliens swimming in its depths, that he termed leviathans, with a follow-up book titled Leviathans of Jupiter. If you'd like to read what a scifi master thinks of our solar system, try his Grand Tour series.

It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.