Magnifying the Universe Embed this infographic on your site! <iframe width="500" height="323" scrolling="no" src=" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Copyright 2012. <a href=" the Universe</a> by <a href=" Sleuth</a>. The above is an interactive infographic. Introduction: This interactive infographic from Number Sleuth accurately illustrates the scale of over 100 items within the observable universe ranging from galaxies to insects, nebulae and stars to molecules and atoms. While other sites have tried to magnify the universe, no one else has done so with real photographs and 3D renderings. We hope you have a blast magnifying the universe, know that each time you zoom in a depth, you're magnifying the universe 10x ... and every time you zoom out, the bigger objects are 1/10th of their prior size. How To Use: Credits:
Wounded QR code How do QR codes work? Before we break things it’s probably best to have a quick look at how QR codes work. It don’t want to duplicate the excellent resources already out there, so here is just a brief explanation. (For full details, check out the specifications of the standard ISO/IEC18004). On three corners of a QR code are square blocks that the reader uses to coarsely identify and then align the code. A correctly rendered code also has a “Quiet Region” (Ideally, at least four 'pixel' elements wide) all around the edge of the code to help the reader disambiguate between the code and any other background image. The masks alter the appearance of the code (toggling elements to make canonical versions that represent the same data, but are rendered in different ways). A larger format QR code is shown below showing multiple alignment blocks. The payload for the code (data and checksum data) is then zig-zagged through the grid around the control elements. Error Correction Quiz Update articles here.
The Planets Today : A live view of the solar system How to Change the Default Dull Looking Textarea with CSS? | Top Blogging Ideas Textarea is an HTML tag which is usually used in forms, editors, comment box or anything which involves writing something on the web. Recently one of our readers asked us how to change the look of the textarea from the default dull look. Customizing the textarea with CSS is pretty easy and it doesn't need any great knowledge of CSS. This is a quick tutorial and you may play with the CSS provided to create something different and if you don't want to sit and bang your head on the table trying to figure out what all that big chunk of code mean, you can just copy and paste the CSS in your stylesheet. Have a look at the demo and thenlet's get on with it. Demo: Get latest Blogger Widgets, Blogging Tips, Blogging Ideas, Blogger Gadgets, Free Blogger Templates, Plugins and SEO tips to Optimize Your Blogs. The HTML Basically for creating an area where a user can enter some text, the textarea tag is used. <textarea class="tbi-textarea">Enter text here... The CSS Need Help?
Solar System Scope Your Age on Other Worlds Want to melt those years away? Travel to an outer planet! <div class="js-required"><hr> This Page requires a Javascript capable browser <hr></div> Fill in your birthdate below in the space indicated. The Days (And Years) Of Our Lives Looking at the numbers above, you'll immediately notice that you are different ages on the different planets. The earth is in motion. The top-like rotation of the earth on its axis is how we define the day. The revolution of the earth around the sun is how we define the year. We all learn in grade school that the planets move at differing rates around the sun. Why the huge differences in periods? Johannes Kepler Tycho Brahe Kepler briefly worked with the great Danish observational astronomer, Tycho Brahe. Here you see a planet in a very elliptical orbit. Kepler's third law is the one that interests us the most. Let's just solve for the period by taking the square root of both sides: The Gravity Of The Situation Isaac Newton ©2000 Ron Hipschman
The Milky Way Project Across Our Blogs: Mars Curiosity Rover Moonrise, New Rover, Billion Pixel Marsscape Seems the Mars Curiosity Rover has been a busy little six-wheeled fellow these past few weeks. Here's a roundup of news related to the rover, from top Technorati listed science blogs... From ArsTechnica - Curiosity rover shoots video of Martian moonrise - NASA released a time-lapse video of the Martian moon Phobos, as it ascends into view. From GizMag - Curiosity begins long trek to uncover Red Planet's secrets - the rover has begun a multi-month journey to Mount Sharp, where it will dig in to find signs of past life. From The Huffington Post - Mars Water? From Engadget - NASA makes billion-pixel Mars panorama out of photos captured by Curiosity - NASA stitched together almost 900 images to create a 1.3 billion pixel landscape panorama of the Mars surface, as taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover. Does the Curiosity Rover still hold your attention, as it continues to send back images and information from our distant planetary neighbor? image credit: NASA/JPL
collect space space history and space artifacts news Long before the first Instagram from space, the first check-in from orbit, or even the first astronaut's tweet, John Glenn sent an email to Bill Clinton. The reply it prompted was the very first email transmitted by a sitting U.S. president — it just happened to be to space. April 18, 2014SpaceX launches science-packed Dragon capsule on space station supply run A commercial cargo spacecraft loaded with more than two tons of scientific experiments and equipment lifted off for the International Space Station on April 18, after more than a month of delays. SpaceX's Dragon launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. April 17, 2014John Houbolt, NASA engineer who fought for Apollo moon landing method, dies Were it not for John C. April 14, 2014NASA signs over historic Launch Pad 39A to SpaceX One of NASA's most historic launch pads is now under new management. April 9, 2014Houston, we've got an auction: Apollo 13 astronaut's mementos to be sold
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