Showing posts with label nasa. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 2, 2010

NASA Releases Amazing New Footage of Our Dynamic Sun [VIDEO]

NASA has been wowing us with beautiful imagery from Mars and of our own planet’s volcanic activity, and now the space agency has released some spectacular photos and videos of our sun; we’ve included a few below.The recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory has been taking some unique portraits of our solar companion using four telescopes looking at the sun in different wavelengths.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Photographs That Changed the World

The Atomic Bomb August 9, 1945 The picture was taken from one of the B-29 Superfortresses used in the attack on Nagasaki. The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion rises 18 km from the point of impact. Over 50 million people died in the Second World war, but, the atomic bomb left humanity fearing the next world war could be utterly devastating.