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Massive Sun Halo Coronal Ejection Just Needs Some Interstellar Marshmallows

3:20AM August 14, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Last week, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) detected a full halo coronal mass ejection. Fortunately, the sun didn’t actually burp straight into our direction, so we were safe. This is the video of it: More »


Science

The Sun Eats A Comet

9:00AM January 4, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Maybe the little guy is safe. Maybe he went… around back? In any event, this senseless celestial murder was captured by SOHO today. The dirty deed gets done toward the end, coming from left to right. More »


Cars

Say Goodbye to Bike Chains; Say Hello to Belt Drives

1:50AM September 5, 2008 | Adam Frucci

Bikes with chains may be becoming an endangered species. Belt-driven bikes, which were introduced by boutique bike makers a couple of years ago, are just starting to hit the mainstream. Trek has introduced two new urban bikes for 2009 with belt drives rather than chains, and they look pretty sweet.

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