What ’s the oldest tree diagram on Earth ? What ’s a rainbow ? Is the Earth wobbling ? It ’s fun to ask these questions but trickier to serve them — in simple term , at least . Luckily , Viennese designerMichæl Pauknerhas done us all a Brobdingnagian favor by creating these lovely visual explanation .
Paukneris a graphic designer by trade , but a personal interestingness in Earth science consecrate his wonderfulFlickra celestial set — it ’s well deserving chequer out if you ’ve get a few minute of arc to masticate on a theory or two . In one illustration , he maps thePhantom Time Hypothesis , which fix that our calendar is wrong and 297 old age of the Middle Ages never happened . In another , he envisage if the bunk theory of aHollow Earthwere real .
you may buy most of these as prints on Paukner’sshop — in the interim , tick out seven of his adept computer graphic below .
confront by a dazzling double rainbow , most of us are too meddlesome completely gross out out to inquire about their relationship to the Earth . Paukner ’s graphic explain how the angle of the sun , the angle of the mist , and the slant of the looker ’s eye fuse to create a rainbow .
The Cataclysmic Pole - Shift Hypothesis posits that the earth ’s terminal shift or so one point every million year ( or 30 stage in the last 200 million years , according to some estimates ) . The theory goes that the earth ’s cheekiness is on the loose and liquid ( “ like an orangeness or avocado hide , ” says Pauken ) , and it ’s shifting every - so - slow around its core . It ’s wide debated amongst scientists , but some claim it explains everything from architectonic sack and utmost weather .
There are more than 300,000 particles of space debris orbiting the satellite right now — and NASA , the ESA , and other federal agency are doing their dear to map them , but for the safety of their spaceman . Here , a map of the defilement as well as the work satellite demo just how much dust we ’ve plunge up there .
The Redwoods are old , but the old tree on solid ground is , surprisingly , in Utah . Pando(also know as The Trembling Giant ) is a rhizome of Aspen trees in southern Utah that all share the same root . It ( he ? she ? they ? ) date back 80,000 year — and it ’s the heaviest living being on earth .
“ What is the stuff that makes up the absolute majority of the universe ? , ” writes Paukner . “ whiz and galaxies ? Hydrogen gas ? Planets like ours ? Nope . It ’s none of them . Here ’s a hint : we have absolutely no idea . ” This computer graphic shows the by and large accepted thinking of the moment . spare old thing ( like Earth and stars ) account for five percent of the universe . sinister topic account for 25 percent and dreary energy , seventy .
Earth Wobble was discovered in the 1890s by an American stargazer named Seth Chandler , who theorized that the earth ’s rotation in reality deviates a bit each year , slow changing its polar predilection ( a full rotation takes 26,000 twelvemonth ) . It was n’t clear why until 2004 , when group of scientistsprovedthat it ’s due to the redistribution of weewee and mass over the Earth ’s surface . “ Nothing ’s fix , ” says Paukner . “ Not even a specify star . ”
Most of Europe wo n’t see a full solar occultation — where the Moon pass between the Earth and the Sun — until 2026 , but central Asia and parts of the Arctic are in for a show .
Bonus : Make your own model of the Earth ’s Magnetosphere usingPaukner ’s template .
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