MindBlowing

Mind-Blowing New Fossil Site Found in The ‘Dead’ Heart of Australia

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The arid heart of Australia may not easily support life now, but once, many aeons ago, it was lush and teeming. What is now arid desert and dry shrub- and grasslands was once thick with dense forests, alive with life.   In one of these grasslands, in the Central Tablelands of NSW, paleontologists have found … Read more

Stunning New Images Reveal The Chaotic Glory of The Sun in Mind-Blowing Detail

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You’re looking at a 300-megapixel photo of our Sun. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy used a specially modified telescope, taking over 150,000 individual photos and combining them into this magnificent image (see below).   “It took about 10 hours to stack all the data, and another 3-4 hours to get it from a raw stack to the final image,” … Read more