spaceplasma:

A run on Fusor V showing X-rays effecting the CCD

Fusor V: X-ray and Neutron Emissions

The fusor, is an apparatus designed to create nuclear fusion. Unlike most controlled fusion systems, which slowly heat a magnetically confined plasma, the fusor injects high energy ions directly into a reaction chamber, thereby avoiding a considerable amount of complexity. The approach is known as inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC).

Regardless of its possible use as an energy source, the fusor has already been demonstrated as a viable neutron source. Fluxes are not as high as can be obtained from nuclear reactor or particle accelerator sources, but are sufficient for many uses.

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Credit: Robert Tubbs

 

moebius-stripper:

Studying for my final test next week. This also applies to me, saddly.

rowanhenry:

wow!

Piton View

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lvndscvpes:

Breakwater by atoulmin on Flickr.

jtotheizzoe:

crookedindifference:

First Solar Eclipse Photograph

Berkowski made the first solar eclipse photograph on July 28, 1851, also using the daguerrotype process, at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kalinigrad in Russia). Berkowski, a local daguerrotypist whose first name was never published, observed at the Royal Observatory. A small 6-cm refracting telescope was attached to the 15.8-cm Fraunhofer heliometer and a 84-second exposure was taken shortly after the beginning of totality.

Daguerreotype astronomy. That’s a new one for me.

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adrfabrika:

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In my opinion, one of the best things humanity has captured on video. Done in 1979 by Voyager 1 as it approached Jupiter. 

‘I saw this image when I was a kid: the photograph of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Voyager. Beautiful – but nothing special until shown in rapid succession.

Suddenly, Jupiter was alive… Breathing.

I was hypnotised.’

(Hey, you. You should watch Another Earth.)

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