Apr. 13, 2012
Jupiter Aurora This is a spectacular NASA Hubble Space Telescope close-up view of an electric-blue aurora that is eerily glowing one half billion miles away on the giant planet Jupiter. Auroras are...
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Hottest Place on Earth According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest temperature ever measured on Earth came on September 13, 1922, when the thermometer at a weather station in...
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Planet Ring This view shows a new picture of the dust ring around the bright star Fomalhaut from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The underlying blue picture shows an earlier...
View ArticleFerroux and Ferreum
Ferroux and Ferreum Artist Afiq Omar created two gorgeous videos for an installation featuring ferrofluids. The first, Ferroux, fills the screen with shallow ferrofluid and mirrored sequences. It’s a...
View ArticleDusty Dance
Dusty Dance Particles containing iron dance and whirl across a surface in this clip from Robley McDonnell. Video: Robley McDonnell/Vimeo
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Magnetic Metal Different metals are used to channel ferrofluids in this video from Gary Johns. The results, which were displayed at the Johns Hopkins 2011 Physics Fair, look like something out of a...
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Magnetic Chaos This kinetic video features multiple forms of magnetism and different liquids set to a high-energy soundtrack. Video: Ramajac/Vimeo
View ArticleBrenner Beast
There is no CG in the video above. What you’re seeing is pure, awesome science. The black liquid mixture is known as a ferrofluid, and is made up of nano-sized, iron-containing particles suspended in...
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