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Video: Exploding Universe
“Out of devastating events in the cosmos comes new creation. Explosive phenomena are responsible for the way we see the universe today, and not all of them happen on a grand scale. As the universe has transformed into the structure we live in now, even the most elementary particles have endured. This show follows the…
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Video: Earth Climate Models Bring Exoplanets to Life
“In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching. Day and night, they spit out five quadrillion calculations per second. Known collectively as the Discover supercomputer,…
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Resource: NASA Visualization Studio
“Explore the latest visualizations of NASA’s Earth Observing satellites and the data they collect. NASA researchers are constantly tracking remote-sensing data and modeling processes to better understand our home planet.” https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/WhatsNewwithEarthToday.html
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Resource: DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made In Space
“NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a “kit” of ready-made parts created in space and delivered to Earth by meteorite and comet impacts assisted the origin…
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Picturing particles
“Particle physicists study a field that is, by its very nature, invisible to the naked eye,” says Riccardo-Maria Bianchi, who works on ATLAS visualisation software. “That can make the task of visualising particle interactions very challenging.” https://atlas.cern/updates/news/picturing-particles
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How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics
“In the late 1940s, Richard Feynman invented a visual tool for simplifying particle calculations that forever changed theoretical physics.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-feynman-diagrams-revolutionized-physics-20190514/
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Data Visualization: Masses in the Stellar Graveyard
What are the densest objects that form when stars die? https://ligo.northwestern.edu/media/mass-plot/index.html
