About 7,000 years ago, a vast lake spread hundreds of square kilometers across north-central Africa. Known to scientists as Lake Mega Chad, it covered more than 400,000 square kilometers at […]
Mega Chad
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Surface of the Sun
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This is the first image from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope of the sun’s surface. Released 30 January 2020. This picture is showing the highest ever […]
Meteor shower from space
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Every January, bits of asteroid 2003 EH1 cross paths with Earth’s orbit to create a beautiful annual meteor shower: the Quadrantids. As the fragments collide with our atmosphere, they disintegrate […]
Concorde at Mach 2
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Shock between two neutron stars
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Porpoise Bay, Antarctica
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The incredibly smooth surface of the sea ice indicates that it is topped with ample snow—possibly as much as tens of meters—which also drifted onto the berg’s left side. “That […]
Hindenburg Disaster, Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1937
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The giant airship Hindenburg made history with its first transatlantic flight in May of 1936. Nearly the size of the Titanic, it was the largest airship ever built and a crowning […]
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, Tonga
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The recently formed volcanic island unofficially known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai in Tonga, Oceania, was not expected to survive the erosive and relentless lashing of the sea. But against the […]