#science gifs

child-of-thecosmos:

Learning the age of the Earth or the distance to the stars or how life evolves… what difference does that make?

Well, part of it depends on how big a universe you’re willing to live in. Some of us like it small. That’s fine. Understandable. But I like it big. And when I take all of these into my heart and my mind, I’m uplifted by it. And when I have that feeling, I want to know that it’s real, that it’s not just something happening inside my own head! Because it matters what’s true, and our imagination is nothing compared with nature’s awesome reality.

- Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, Episode 13: “Unafraid of the Dark”

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Introducing ISafeHQ (Internet-Safe Illustrations HQ)

There are wonderful scientific animations on the internet but it is many a times very hard to discern if they can be used anywhere you like without copyright infringements.

ISafeHQ is a project that was started in October 2019. The aim of this project is to build a database of high quality (mainly astronomy and physics) illustrations, animations  and demonstrations that educators/teachers/science-communicators can use for any purpose (class, lectures, talks, etc) for FREE.

Check out the project page here for more details. (Would love to hear your feedback :))

So far, we are happy to announce that the project has reached a total of 50 illustrations (images: 18, gifs: 26, videos: 6) and is expected to reach 250 illustrations by June of 2020 with the help from some close collaborators.

Happy New Year 2020 everyone.

Thanks for the constant support that you guys have been showering us with. Cheers!