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Video: Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet’s jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth’s atmosphere and influences the weather. http://youtu.be/YHAPD4ACf7U
Venus and Jupiter: how to spot them
March 13, 2012
Read also: EARTHLINGS DAZZLED BY VENUS-JUPITER CLOSE ENCOUNTER The two planets will appear side-by-side in western skies for the next two evenings – offering a dazzling spectacle. So where and how can you best see them? After the moon, they are the two brightest objects in the night sky, and for the next few evenings they […]
The origins of a torus in a galactic nucleus
March 13, 2012
Quasars are among the most energetic objects in the universe, with some of them as luminous as ten thousand Milky Way galaxies. Quasars are thought to have massive black holes at their cores, and astronomers also think that the regions around the black holes actively accrete matter, a process that releases vast amounts of energy […]
Albert Einstein: Why Light is Quantum
March 13, 2012
Ever wonder what Einstein really did? He showed that light was a particle! http://youtu.be/hSgIDgGpRpk
March 13, 2012
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