Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is a wonderful photo of a blue Sun (our Sun). The photo is converted blue to highlight the rapidly moving gases that end up looking like bristles on a carpet.
The description on the photo is particularly interesting, mainly this part:
Our Sun glows because it is hot, but it is not on fire. Fire is the rapid acquisition of oxygen, and there is very little oxygen on the Sun. The energy source of our Sun is the nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium deep within its core. No sunspots or large active regions were visible on the Sun this day, although some solar prominences are visible around the edges.
I have always thought of the Sun as an object that was on fire, but now it actually makes sense to read that the sun is almost never on fire. It’s just very hot.
Josh Horton of the Fellowship Memphis church created these amazingly simple and effective graphics to promote their Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Resurrection Sunday services this year.
I’ve been following John Carroll as he writes about serving at Fellowship Memphis and heading up Fellowship Downtown as it prepares to open later this year. It’s great to see him on his journey and to know that he is working with very talented people to spread the message of Jesus Christ.
Check out the other two service graphics below and see how wonderfully they connect with each other.
Anybody who has used The Internet Archive knows that there’s a wealth of information and data stored there that is seemingly unfathomable to the average person. Essentially, it acts as a sort of Time Machine for the web allowing you to view just about any page on the internet beginning around 1996 until now. And even with a few pages missing here and there, the infrastructure needed to hold The Internet Archive together must be pretty impressive.
The Internet Archive grows at a rate of about 100TB every month.
The Internet Archive currently fits into one 20-foot shipping container, but additional containers can be added on the fly.
The Internet Archive database is currently about 3 petabytes in size.
The Internet Archive is one of the largest (if not the largest) digital archive in the world.
It’s a bunch of nerdy stuff I guess, but you have to admire how crazy and awesome these people must be to want to archive ALL digital data on the internet.
Astronomy Picture of the Day posted this fantastic time-lapse video of over 7000 images that collectively make up the sky in motion. It’s absolutely beautiful from start to finish and I recommend that everyone take some time out to view this 4-minute view of nature at its finest.
