I am Your Knight in Plaid Armor

fuckyeahspaceexploration:

Life magazine, special edition, 1969.

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ifuckinglovespace:

Apollo 15 Commander David Scott tests Galileo’s theory of objects in gravity fields in a vacuum by dropping a hammer and feather while on the lunar surface.

goodluckmrgorsky:

This photograph was taken by James McDivitt from the command seat of Ed White sitting in the pilots seat to McDivitt’s left during their Gemini IV Earth orbital mission.

myampgoesto11:

Images from Harmonia Macrocosmica, a celestial atlas by Andreas Cellarius published in 1660

myampgoesto11:

Microscopic landscapes created using various crystalline chemical compounds. Check out the entire collection here.

thestuntkid:

“Odonata” ( dragonflies and damselflies ) featuring my homeslice, Miss Jenny Crandall

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myampgoesto11:

Anatomical illustrations by Sanja Jezdik

staceythinx:

Some eerie work by Javier Perez

Andromeda Galaxy by Abby Moore

iliveinaspiralgalaxy:

myampgoesto11:

Felix Baumgartner’s Space Jump in Lego Form

laboratoryequipment:

Nanoflowers Promise Energy Storage, Solar Cells

Researchers from North Carolina State Univ. have created flower-like structures out of germanium sulfide (GeS) – a semiconductor material – that have extremely thin petals with an enormous surface area. The GeS flower holds promise for next-generation energy storage devices and solar cells.

“Creating these GeS nanoflowers is exciting because it gives us a huge surface area in a small amount of space,” says Linyou Cao, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper on the research. “This could significantly increase the capacity of lithium-ion batteries, for instance, since the thinner structure with larger surface area can hold more lithium ions. By the same token, this GeS flower structure could lead to increased capacity for supercapacitors, which are also used for energy storage.”

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2012/10/nanoflowers-promise-energy-storage-solar-cells

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