Snowstorm on a Comet

It’s snowing… on a comet! Actually, this INCREDIBLE animation is a series images from the Rosetta spacecraft, taken from a distance of about 13 km from the comet 67/P Chuyurmov-Gerasimenko, and put into an animation by Twitter user @landru79. As the spacecraft moves around the comet we see the landscape change, but you can also see stars moving in the background, and flakes of ice and dust much closer to the spacecraft flying around! It’s like something from an old movie, *but it’s real*. The first two clips are at fast speed, the next two at medium, and the last two at slow speed, so you can track what’s going on.

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Finding The Speed Of Light… With Peeps

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The Infinadeck Omnidirectional Treadmill

Destin of SmarterEveryDay visits the makers of Infinadeck to try it out and talk shop.

 

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Tides

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Interviews Stephen Hawking

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Pic of the Day – 6/19/18

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, with a silhouette of North America for size comparison.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Shows Off Cool Random Stuff Around His Office

After his interview with Sunday TODAY‘s Willie Geist, renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson showed off some of the unique items around his desk in his office at the Hayden Planetarium, including his wooden Saturn lamp he made in seventh grade and a very tiny reproduction of The Starry Night. And he even gives Willie a science lesson on planetary scale!

Artificial Intelligence vs. Machine Learning

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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Thug Life and Funniest Moments

From ScienceToday.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Water Towers

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