“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
– Albert Einstein
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The spinning vortex of Saturn’s north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second).
Date: 19 Apr 2013
Satellite: Herschel
Depicts: Orion B
Copyright: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/N. Schneider, Ph. André, V. Könyves (CEA Saclay, France) for the ‘Gould Belt survey’ Key Programme Continue Reading
“You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back.”
– Beverly Rubik
Physicists at CERN have sent a ping-pong ball around the Large Hadron Collider in order to test for defects. However, this is no ordinary ping-pong ball, it is ultra-clean, smaller than regulation size and fitted with a radio transmitter. This so called radio-frequency ball was used to test that the connections between the magnets are free from any defects.
The Comprehensible Universe 