ScienceShot: Pac-Man Gobbles the Death Star – ScienceNOW <– Click for pic!
The Cassini spacecraft must have known April Fool’s Day was coming up. It returned this temperature map—released yesterday—after its closest flyby ever of Saturn’s icy moon Mimas last month. Shaped into the likes of the Death Star of Star Wars fame by the giant crater Herschel, 396-kilometer-diameter Mimas… (click on the link for more)
Holographic principle – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is fascinating, but a little hard to follow. If you’ve ever heard about the universe being a virtual representation of a brane interface or a boundary interface, this is the article that explains it. If you have no idea what im talking about, heres a teaser, in my own words:
>The information capacity of a black hole is equivalent to the surface area of the event horizon. In non degenerate (non-black-hole) space, information capacity is equivalent to volume. The event horizon is a third boundary that changes the capacity.
A planet that rocks : Examiner.com
Imagine the following scenario:
You are preparing to leave for work, and shout down the hall to your significant other. “Honey, what’s the weather supposed to be like?”
And the reply: “50% chance of rock.”
This page has a neat screensaver for you astronomy buffs, and on the right hand side is a set of the Apollo moon landing audio tapes in digital format.