Even if you don’t know or care to know anything about outer space, you can still appreciate the zoom effect on this video: The tiny little red blob of a galaxy is known as MACS0647-JD, and is 13.3 BILLION light years away. Because we are actually seeing it as it looked 13.3 billion years ago,…
21st Century Commuting
The ‘Megaregions’ aren’t coming, they’re already here. Whether or not most people understand the concept in their daily routines, the Megaregions of the United States (areas defined not by state or even city borders, but rather by more intrinsic socio-economic similarities and shared concepts of place), are becoming a much clearer representation of how all…
Viewing another planet whose inhabitants are possibly viewing us.
Since 1995, over 3,000 exoplanets have been discovered orbiting other stars in our Milky Way galaxy. While this is surely just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how many total planets (habitable or otherwise) are in our galaxy, they may as well not exist at all, since it will be next to impossible…
Our planet produces some weird stuff
For as long as some of you can remember, volcanic lava has always been red/orange, etc in color. Even when playing silly games as a kid, the physical color of lava (at least, how it’s imagined in your head) has always had a warmer tone. And then you see CRAZY stuff like this and you…
No denials, anymore
Climate change is real, and while it’s long-term effects on our planet may not yet be fully understood, science is providing unprecedented insight into the short-term movements of perhaps the biggest factor contributing to our world’s climate issues: Carbon dioxide. Using a combination of satellite data and high-powered computer simulations utilizing predictive atmospheric models, scientists…
