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There’s A Tumour In My Brain, But It’s Dead (The Tumour, Not The Brain)
I made this GIF from the slices of a recent CT scan of my head. The small white dot in the green circle is a tumour in my pineal gland. Fortunately, it’s now calcified and requires no intervention — it stopped growing the same way it started*. I just thought it would be cool to…
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This Star Is About To Explode
The Hubble space telescope has captured “a lidless purple eye, staring back at us through space” — a star 20,000 light-years away from us that is ready to explode at any time now, according to NASA.
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Most Failed Stars Have Clouds And Rain, Says NASA
The scene seems like a storm over a sea of lava somewhere in Mordor, but you are looking at the surface of a failed star — the weather on a brown dwarf based on new data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. It’s spectacular. Even more so when you think that’s not water falling from the…
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This Truck Is Made Of Ice, And You Can Actually Drive It
Behold the first self-propelled ice sculpture ever — a truck made of ice that actually works! It’s a real truck, using 5000kg of ice over a regular truck chassis complete with engine and electrical system. Check out the videos to see how they built it — and how it melted.