barackobama:

The official White House response to a petition to secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016:

By Paul Shawcross

The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn’t on the horizon. Here are a few…

There are dorks in my government. :’)

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MIT creates camera that shoots 1 trillion fps and can see light in motion

MIT has created a camera that can actually view light in motion. By firing trillions of pulses of light and syncing their cameras shutter, they can create a video that shows how light moves through space and reacts to mass. By recording this amazing detail, these cameras can actually see into objects and around corners by monitoring the way the light bounces off and around an object.

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Eclipse on the Beach

Credit & Copyright: Guillaume Blanchard 

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The Red Rectangle Nebula from Hubble

Credit: ESA, Hubble, NASA 

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Dark Clouds in Aquila

Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona 

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Star Cluster R136 Bursts Out

Credit: NASA, ESA, & F. Paresce (INAF-IASF), R. O’Connell (U. Virginia), & the HST WFC3 Science Oversight Committee 

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Crescent Neptune and Triton

Credit: Voyager 2, NASA 

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The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared

Credit: R. Kennicutt (Steward Obs.) et al., SSC, JPL, Caltech, NASA 

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The Colors of IC 1795 

Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman