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Chalktrail: Bike add-on combines cycling and sidewalk chalk art
Posted by: | CommentsKids love creating art almost as much as they love getting out on their bikes, but with this approach choosing what to do doesn’t have to be an either/or decision. The Chalktrail is an add-on which turns any bike or scooter into an artistic tool by holding a stick of chalk which is pressed to the ground behind you as you ride, leaving a colorful trail showing where you’ve been.
Massive solar eruption expels a beautiful prominence
Posted by: | CommentsYesterday–at least in the northeast U.S.–was a picture-perfect, sun-shiney day. But as many of us took a few extra minutes at lunch to soak up one of the first nice spring days of the season, the sun overhead was in the midst of some serious violence. At roughly 1:45 p.m. EDT yesterday, a huge and beautiful eruption took place on the east limb of our local star, sending a massive prominence looping out into space.
The Viking Mars missions may have discovered life in 1976
Posted by: | CommentsSince the Viking Mars probes traveled to the red planet back in 1976, NASA has sent several more probes, landers, and rovers to the Martian surface to study the planet’s geology and search for signs of microbial life. But the evidence for life may have been hidden in Viking’s data all along. A new analysis of the data collected by probes Viking 1 and Viking 2 suggest the missions found evidence of microbial life more than three decades ago.
Nasa’s Hubble telescope captures ‘face of God’ in plumes of space dust
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The bearded face of the deity appears to shine out of the space dust of distant galaxy NGC 1316 in this image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Medieval Christians believed heaven was a physical place above the clouds – but Hubble seems to have pinpointed ‘Cloud Nine’ a little further off, in an elliptical galaxy 75 million light years from Earth.
If the ghostly face is in fact the Heavenly Father, he may be trying to communicate with his children on Earth – NGC 1316 is one of the most powerful radio sources in the sky.
