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A frightening simulation shows what would happen if the world was to stop spinning. As we all know (and if you don’t, give ...
But what if the Earth did stop spinning. To put it mildly, it would be terrible and mean almost certain death for all humans and almost all animals. If you are at the equator, you ...
The video shows the Earth over the course of an entire year, and it’s mesmerizing. I suggest you listen to the narration while you watch, done by EPIC lead scientist Jay Herman.
This animation shows Earth spinning through space at 1.3 million mph. Here's an animation of how fast Earth is rotating relative to the Sun, Milky Way galaxy and the Cosmic Microwave Background.
The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...
Gif animation showing Earth spinning, there is a little graphic in the top right corner that reads "space mysteries". 35,725 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster ...
Earth's inner core may have paused and reversed its spin, a new study suggests.; Earthquakes and nuclear blasts can send seismic waves through the mysterious solid-iron core. Those waves hint that ...
This animation shows a Sun-like star orbiting Gaia BH1, the closest black hole to Earth, located about 1600 light-years away. (Credit: T. Müller [MPIA], PanSTARRS DR1 [K. C. Chambers et al. 2016 ...