Massimoさんのイラストまとめ

30 years ago #Today, astronomers Alex Wolszczan and Dale Frail published a paper in the journal Nature announcing the discovery of two planets circling an incredibly dense, rapidly rotating stellar corpse known as a pulsar [read more: https://t.co/rJLkD9pq5h] #exoplanets

A remarkable link between the number of nearby supernovae and life on Earth has been discovered. Evidence demonstrates a close connection between the fraction of organic matter buried in sediments and changes in supernovae occurrence [read more: https://t.co/2e2PaMokJQ]

Some 2,000 kilometers beneath our feet, there are enormous masses of hot mantle material the length of continents and stretching 100 times higher than Mount Everest. And, We literally don’t know what they are, where they came from, or what they do https://t.co/DsO1tRnjTh

Have you ever wondered what prevents your stomach from effectively digesting itself under the action of the acid and digestive enzymes? Gastric mucus, bicarbonate secretions and the epithelial cells (which secrete the mucus) do that [read more: https://t.co/P2B54OwCUB]

False color image of Saturn's north pole from @CassiniSaturn, taken 8 years ago #Today https://t.co/Ch7Hv2ss3n

This brilliant gif by Eleanor Lutz shows how different animals breathe through a visualization of the process for different species. Hi-res version and more animations on her website: https://t.co/nveW0oIUIO

At first glance this photos by Andre Ermolaev looks like a twisting abstract painting, but in reality it's an aerial photo of rivers flowing through Iceland’s endless beds of volcanic ash [source, more pictures: https://t.co/Yylzwx7oUk]

Bats and dolphins evolved echolocation in the same way (down to the molecular level). An analysis revealed that 200 genes had independently changed in the same way and this is an extreme example of convergent evolution [read more: https://t.co/dK4loFbuEe]

This is what the inside of the mouth of a leatherback sea turtle looks like [read more: https://t.co/fGebkfgptt]

The number of finger joints on each hand (excluding the thumb) makes it possible to count to 12 by using the thumb. Egyptians and Babylonians were fond of counting in base twelve like this and this is why we have 24 hours in a day & 60 minutes in an hour https://t.co/zIZ5sMvBZq