The VeinViewer is a medical device that uses infrared light to detect veins underneath the skin and then projects an image of them in place over the skin, enabling health professionals to see under a patient’s skin.
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The South Pole is warm…
… on Neptune, that is.
Giant’s Causeway
The Giant’s Causeway in Ireland is made up of more than 40,000 interlocking hexagonal basalt crystals.
Optical illusions
From the awesome Bill Nye:
A star with a comet’s tail
Mira (pronounced “my-rah”) is a red giant star over 400 light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer probe recently took the amazing ultraviolet picture below:
Over the last 30,000 years Mira has been throwing off layers of stellar material as it runs out of fuel, creating a tail thirteen light-years long. That’s a tail more than 76,000,000,000,000 miles long!