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This Extragalactic Eye Is Hiding A Neutron Star
There’s something hiding in the centre of the red ring in this colourful circle of gas and dust. But it’s only hiding if you don’t know how to look for it. In fact, at the centre if this image is a tiny neutron star that is spewing out X-rays.
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Watching Flowers Blooming Is Never Not Beautiful
Yeah, yeah, watching petals unfold is a little on the nose — look at nature’s bounty in all its bright, life-affirming glory! — but seeing it all happen in one timelapsed swoop is pretty cool, not to mention something you don’t really have the chance to witness even smack-dab in the middle of spring.
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Dancing On Paper
Artist Heather Hansen thought it would be neat to cover her hands and feet on charcoal and transfer her body moves directly into paper, like a human plotter. She called it Emptied Gestures, an “experiment in kinetic drawing”.
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Who Needs Fireworks When You Have A Psychedelic LED Rave Plane?
Sure, light painting is awesome when you’re doing long exposure shots with a PixelStick or something, but that’s only one way to cover your world in glowing graffiti. Take, for instance, this LED-powered rainbow plane.