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What happens if you expose a Peep to vacuum?
- Published_at:2014-04-16
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- Channel:TheBadAstronomer
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- description: It's Easter time, which of course means it's time to find out what happens to a Peep when you suck all the air out of a room. The results are... interesting. More info:...
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Snow that doesn't melt! Is it a government conspiracy?! (Hint: no.)
- Published_at:2014-02-03
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- description: I've seen some bizarre conspiracy theories in my time, but this may be the plain old weirdest: The snow that paralyzed Atlanta, Georgia in January of 2014 was not *really* snow: It was some sort of chemical that didn't melt, and scorched when held to...
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Twisting solar eruption
- Published_at:2013-05-04
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- description: On May 3, 2013, a magnetic "active region" on the Sun erupted in a small solar flare. This triggered a towering prominence, a huge blast of superheated plasma into space. This footage, created from ultraviolet observations by NASA's Solar Dynamics...
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Weather satellite footage of Russian meteor trail from Feb. 15, 2013
- Published_at:2013-02-15
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- description: The European weather satellite Meteosat-9 caught the train - the technical term for the trail - of the huge meteor that burned up over Russia on Feb. 15, 2013. You can even see the shadow on the ground! The images span the time range of 03:15 to 04:30...
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Fireworks from a century-old nova
- Published_at:2013-01-24
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- description: Nova GK Persei is a white dwarf star that threw an epic fit. It steals material from its companion star, and this material piles up on its surface, heated and hugely compressed. All at once it underwent catastrophic nuclear fusion, detonating like a...
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