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archive for 'wonders'
a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific island of Papua, New Guinea has revealed many new discoveries and wildlife never seen before. A team of scientists from Britain, the United States and Papua New Guinea found more than 40 previously unidentified species when they climbed into the kilometre-deep crater of Mount Bosavi and explored a pristine [...] photo – Derick Rethans Noctilucent clouds, or ‘night shining’ are becoming more common, attracting the attention of photographers, environmentalists, scientists and other sky-watchers… The clouds might be beautiful, but they could portend global changes caused by global warming. Noctilucent clouds are a fundamentally new phenomenon in the temperate mid-latitude sky, and it’s not clear why they’ve [...]
500,000 kilometers per hour and a mere 800 light-years away
man of many talents, his paintings are dreams… all save one have disappeared and no wonder – all rope, grass and wood… the suspension bridges were familiar and vital links in the vast empire of the Inca, as they had been to Andean cultures for hundreds of years before the arrival of the Spanish in 1532. The people had not developed the stone arch [...]
Our son, Emmett, just turned one year old this Sept, and he is a beautiful and busy boy. Is this what a sonic boom looks like? When an airplane travels at a speed faster than sound, density waves of sound emitted by the plane cannot precede the plane, and so accumulate in a cone behind the plane. When this shock wave passes, a listener hears all at once the sound emitted over a [...]
a spire formation of gas and dust forms in the Eagle Nebula. |
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