How Far Away is the Sun? Another Visualization. - Brad BlogSpeed

Alright, this one’s a doozy. After the reasonable popularity of last week’s scale picture that illustrated the distance between the Earth and the Moon, I just had to take things to the next logical level. Today I’ve reduced the scale, and increased the image size dramatically, to represent one astronomical unit (AU), or the distance between the earth and the Sun So allow me to just say ahead of time that I apologize if this post breaks anyone’s computer. I also realize that this down scrolling visual device, one that worked so well on the moon example, strains its usefulness here. But try not to, at least for a while. I had a thought while working on this today, the kind of thought that always gives me pause. If you enjoyed this post, please consider: Vidpicks is where I aggregate all the cool science/art videos I either create or scour up from across the web, and is filled with interesting, informative, and inspiring content. Cheers! *The mean distance of course. <<back to blog

Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence--In Space... - StumbleUpon Scientists have found the biggest and oldest reservoir of water ever--so large and so old, it’s almost impossible to describe. The water is out in space, a place we used to think of as desolate and desert dry, but it's turning out to be pretty lush. Researchers found a lake of water so large that it could provide each person on Earth an entire planet’s worth of water--20,000 times over. Yes, so much water out there in space that it could supply each one of us all the water on Earth--Niagara Falls, the Pacific Ocean, the polar ice caps, the puddle in the bottom of the canoe you forgot to flip over--20,000 times over. The water is in a cloud around a huge black hole that is in the process of sucking in matter and spraying out energy (such an active black hole is called a quasar), and the waves of energy the black hole releases make water by literally knocking hydrogen and oxygen atoms together. The new cloud of water is enough to supply 28 galaxies with water.

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