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Hand Drawn Maze on A4 Paper Took 7 Years to Make

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Some people have hobbies. Other people are obsessive. But when the two cross paths, this is what you get. Japanese twitter user @Kya7y recently unearthed an incredibly detailed maze that her father created almost 30 years ago. When pressed for details, the father explained that he spent 7 years creating the map on A1 size paper, which is about 33 x 23 inches.

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INSECTES 

Women are often portrayed as being afraid of insects, so to combat this stereotype French photographer Laurent Seroussi mashed the two together. His immediate work stretches the imagination with playful visual tricks.

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archiemcphee:

Are these new images of distant planets and moons taken with a powerful satellite telescope? Nope! Proving that beauty can be found in the most unexpected and humble places, Norwegian photographer Christopher Jonassen photographed the well-worn bottoms of frying pans for an awesome series entitled Devour.

Head over to Christopher Jonassen’s website to view the entire series and more.

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Alien Auroras

Earth’s auroras are created by charged particles from the sun interacting with our atmosphere, but they’re not just earthly phenomenon—Saturn and Jupiter have their own, although they’re not created in the same way. Jupiter spins on its axis once every 10 hours, dragging its magnetic field around to create a crackling swirl of electricity of over 10 million volts at both of its poles. Then charged particles of oxygen and sulfur shoot from Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, and interact with this storm of electricity, sparking a spectacular light show. Jupiter’s auroras are like Earth’s on asteroids—they’re 100 times brighter than ours, they never stop, and they’re so big they could envelop our entire planet. But auroras don’t just stop at our solar system—researchers have now found evidence of polar lights on alien planets orbiting distant stars. Using the Low-Frequency Array radio telescope based in the Netherlands, the researchers observed radio emissions they believe are caused by auroras on exoplanets. Since the emissions are powerful enough to be detectable over interstellar distances, the auroras causing them would be 100,000 times brighter than Jupiter’s. The findings suggest that these auroras are likely not formed by charged particles from solar wind—instead, the exoplanets detected so far may actually be dim, ultra-cool brown dwarfs, which are basically failed stars. Their auroras would likely behave more like Jupiter’s than Earth’s, and by studying them, researchers hope to gain insight into the exoplanets’ magnetic fields, moons, and even how they interacts with their parent star.

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