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It’s tornado season in the United States. We can now answer questions about tornado activity in the US from 1950 to 2011 (with data for 2012 coming soon).
For good measure, we’ve also added data on worldwide volcanic eruptions to our knowledge base.
Today’s the 60th anniversary of Jonas Salk’s announcement of the first vaccine against polio. This discovery drove a once crippling disease to miniscule levels.
The biggest comet this year will be ISON in late November.
If our wonderful followers decided to reblog this with an adorable cat and/or dog gif to show their pet preference, we totally wouldn’t be mad. It is for science. Plus, we could all use a little cuteness on a Monday.
Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, has nearly half the radius of Pluto.
We keep improving our information on astronomy. See at a glance the phases a star will go through over time with the phrase “schematic evolution”.
The closest planet to the Sun actually gets pretty cold.
Saturn could float on water if there was an ocean big enough.
