Science is awesome
Mother nature is awesome

This is so awesome

Nadie_AZ: Science is awesome
Mother nature is awesome

This is so awesome

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Nadie_AZ: Science is awesome
Mother nature is awesome

This is so awesome

It will soon be vaporized by the Ringworld's defense system.

dragonchild is reading my mind. That was my immediate reaction to the picture. In 9 solar months there's going to be a giant eruption.

ZAZ: That was my immediate reaction to the picture.

Except comet tails ALL point away from the sun at all times.

The photos were about as awesome as flat grey paint with lens flare, but at the very least you know that the comet wasn't traveling towards the sun, but rather being bombarded by a constant stream of ions from the sun that result in the "tail" which points the same way regardless of travel.

Here's a video from the Space Station: Link (new window)

Ringworld reference in place.

Leaving like a Kzin hunting a leaf eater.

GypsyJoker: [www.universetoday.com image 640x960]

As seen from Earth.

YOu can see it?

Ain`Soph: FTFA: encomanate

Phil, you have certainly embiggened my vocabulary.

Did a google search for that word. I think he just made it up.