Perhaps you own a pair of bird watching binoculars to study all types of winged friends and get a better understanding of how they function everyday. Or maybe you have a telescope set up in your bedroom or on your back porch to get up close and personal with stars in galaxies far away. While these tools provide amazing views to what’s happening around us, imagine having the power of some of the world’s largest telescopes to probe even deeper. picked by kakana 5 months ago tags worlds largest telescopes bird watching |
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Researchers have found in Vietnam what they believe to be the world’s largest cave. 0 comments edit related share plime.comAt 262-by-262 feet (80-by-80 meters) in most places, the Son Doong cave beats out the previous world-record holder, Deer Cave in the Malaysian section of the island of Borneo. (disappointed there are so few pictures - but click on link on the right to see them) picked by Bingo 4 months ago |
Remember the guess-what games where you see close-ups of everyday objects and you have to guess what it is? Well, this is one of those. picked by Bornbad 9 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Bird watching might not seem the kind of hobby to attract the Indiana Jones type, but Gerry Nicholls is what you might call an extreme bird watcher. This year he and his friends set out on an international treasure hunt for a very mysterious bird. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a stunning rare case of a triple merger of galaxies. This system, which astronomers have dubbed 'The Bird' - albeit it also bears resemblance with a cosmic Tinker Bell - is composed of two massive spiral galaxies and a third irregular galaxy. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share science |
An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies. Named the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-sequence Cluster Survey, "SpARCS" detects galaxy clusters using deep ground-based optical observations from the CTIO 4m and CFHT 3.6m telescopes, combined with Spitzer Space Telescope infrar... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
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The Southern Cassowary may not be as much of a household name as its cousins the Ostrich and the Emu, but even though it is classified as "only" the third largest bird on the planet it has a less welcome claim to fame. Take a look at officially the most dangerous bird on the planet. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago 7 comments edit related share science |
See a bird and have no clue what it is? This website is a fantastic search engine for wild birds and guides you through choosing its shape, colour, habitat and call and helps you identify the bird! 5 comments edit related share scienceI find this site super useful and always refer to it when I venture out of my province. "That Bird is a Liar!" picked by chinook 2 years ago |
The new bird, Eoconfuciusornis is the oldest known confuciusornithid, a group unique to China. It therefore represents an early stage in bird evolution. Confuciusornithids lived from 120-131 million years ago and include the oldest birds with horny beaks. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share science |
A spectacular new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope uncovers a small group of young stellar "siblings" in the southern portion of the Serpens cloud – located approximately 848 light-years away from Earth. Scientists suspect that this discovery will lead them to more clues about how these cosmic families, which contain hundreds of gravitationally bound stars, form and intera... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A wild bird is little worse for wear after being hit by a car while crossing a road, then spending two days trapped behind the car's grille. Connie Ankli said she unknowingly drove around with the bird, believed to be a quail, inside her vehicle's front end. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
Astronomers believe they've glimpsed light from some of the universe's first stars through the world's largest telescope on the Big Island. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Fears of bird flu thwarted the flight, and the vulture was freed in northern Thailand on Thursday, thousands of miles from home. China and South Korea refused to let the bird be flown through their capitals, despite tests showing it did not have bird flu. picked by suebe 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Signs of life on planets beyond our own solar system may soon be in our sights. Experiments and calculations presented at an astrobiology meeting last week reveal how the coming generation of space telescopes will for the first time be capable of detecting "biosignatures" in the light from planets orbiting other stars. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Soar to new heights of fun with FlightSuits. This reusable bird diaper collects droppings in the patented poop-pouch and keeps droppings away from you and your bird anywhere, anytime. With FlightSuits picked by Bornbad 11 months ago 7 comments edit related share weird |
A Maori legend about a giant, man-eating bird has been confirmed by scientists. 1 comments edit related share plime.comScientists now think the stories handed down by word of mouth and depicted in rock drawings refer to Haast's eagle, a raptor that became extinct just 500 years ago, shows their study in The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. picked by Bingo 2 months ago |
An international collaboration of scientists and physicians have gotten together to undertake the largest study of near-death experiences. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share science |
Tripp Isenhour has been charged in Orlando with intentionally killing a protected bird with a golf shot. 17 comments edit related share plime.comHe apparently was pissed off because it was squawking while they were trying to film a video segment. So yea, he was totally justified. picked by moe 2 years ago |
A new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy. The research shows that radiation from massive stars may trigger the formation of many more stars than previously thought. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
'Isaac Newton knew that any liquid, if put into a shallow container and set spinning, naturally assumes a parabolic shape, the same shape needed by a telescope mirror to bring starlight to a focus. This could be the key to making a giant lunar observatory.'" picked by bernardblack 1 year ago 5 comments edit related share science |
It may be hard to believe that watching TV can damage our health, especially the health of kids, and disturb daily life, but there are many reasons that this is true. picked by karenben 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share science |