This jacket was made by a company called BioCouture, using a symbiotic mix of yeast and bacteria. These living creatures produce bacterial cellulose, which is kind of like a vegetable leather. The clothing is 100% compostable, which means when you're done with it, you can throw it on the compost heap and it'll release nutrients into the soil just like your vegetable scraps.
A new species of stripy reef fish has been found in the southern Red Sea in Africa. Described by an Australian scientist, it was named by school students at a science expo in Sydney. The genus was named Gymnoxenisthmus, which means 'naked', because the fish has no gills, and the species name is tigrellus, which means 'little tiger'.
Known as 'frozen smoke', aerogel is made by extracting the liquid component of alumina, chromia, tin oxide, or carbon gels through supercritical drying. Around 99.8% of aerogel is just empty space, but this incredible material can singlehandedly shield you from a flamethrower attack.
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Taken by Hinode on Jan 12 2007 this image reveals the filamentary nature of the corona.
Filament erupting during a solar flare, seen at EUV wavelengths (TRACE).
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the Sun's atmosphere, the Corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT
TRACE 171Å coronal loops.
During a total solar eclipse, the solar corona can be seen by the naked eye.
Montage of Jupiter's four Galilean moons, in a composite image comparing their sizes and the size of Jupiter. From top to bottom: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.
The Voyager spacecraft.
Titan in natural color. The thick atmosphere is orange due to a dense organonitrogen haze.
Titan in false color showing surface details and atmosphere with Xanadu in the bright region at the center-right.
Hubble Space Telescope image of a small region of the Crab Nebula, showing Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities in its intricate filamentary structure. Credit: NASA/ESA.
The Crab Nebula seen in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer image NGC 1952.
Plutonium pyrophoricity can cause it to look like a glowing ember under certain conditions.
