Posts Tagged ‘space exploration’
The Brightest Explosion Ever Recorded!
NASA Scientists Observe The Brightest Explosion Ever Where can an explosion be 35 billion times brighter than visible light? In space of course. NASA scientist recently observed an explosion about 3.6 billion light-years aw...
TED-Ed | Dark Matter: A Video Lesson
The Greeks had a simple and elegant formula for the universe: just earth, fire, wind, and water. Turns out there’s more to it than that — a lot more. Visible matter (and that goes beyond the four Greek elements) com...
NASA Video – 3 Years of the Sun in 3 Minutes
NASA squeezes three years of solar activity into a three minute time-lapse video Three years ago the Solar Dynamics Observatory(SDO) beamed back to earth its first images of the sun. The SDO is possibly the most important part...
Saturn’s Rings Seen from a Helicopter (Video)
Yep, you read that right. Should we be concerned? Is saturn going to crash into earth any day now? Has earth been thrown out of its orbit and does that explain where we had such a looong winter? Nope but it’s fun to prete...
NASA lets us watch the Voyager spacecraft as it leaves our solar system
So space exploration is awesome. What’s even more with the awesomeness is how interactive we can be with NASA missions. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are deep-space probes launched in 1977 by NASA to study the outer planet...
Stephen Hawking Says We Need to Get Off this Planet in the next 1000yrs
That’s if we don’t get the hell of this rock we will all be dead. By the way…how amazing is that picture up there?! Speaking at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center he recommends we drastically increase our i...
EU-Backed ‘Electric Sail’ Could Get You To Pluto in 5 Years
We got the lower orbit travel down now. We eve have been to the moon a few time and will be back soon. We have a few robots on Mars and so the logical next step is getting me on another planet. Well me or a highly trained pro...
The Best Pictures of Every Planet
Today we offer up something amazing we find at Popsci.com. They have assembled the best photos of all planets in our solar system taken through out the best years of space exploration. They call it Space Marbles We have a cou...
Voyager 1 Leaving Our Solar System (Video)
Launched in 1977 Voyager 1 traveled through our solar system capturing some of the best data and images ever recorded in space exploration and is soon leaving the outer most boundaries of our solar system. It is now nearly ...
How The Universe Works – From Nothing to Everything (Video)
Check a clip from then amazing show on Discovery called “How the Universe Works” Not only is this series full of beautiful animations and filled with commentary from the likes of Dr. Michio Kaku, Stephen Hawking, ...
Space in 3-D (Video)
Found on virgin.com/richardbranson/blog. See more images via Wired.com. Bubble Nebula Veil Nebula Messier 27 Fly Trough
The ALMA Radio Telescope is On and Listening
The ALMA Telescope is a powerful new radio telescope that some are calling the best ground-based observatory in the world. It will be listening to the stars for faint radio signals from deepest space, affording an unprecedent...
NASA Says Life On Mars Existed In Ancient Times
While this is not official news that life has been discovered outside of our own little tiny planet, it certainly backs up what most scientist now agree on. We are not alone. The universe has the potential to be full o...
Is 670 million mph Fast? Said the guy who is terrible at judging speed
This illustration, released by NASA, shows a supermassive black hole in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1365. A study published Thursday in the journal Nature calculated the spin rate of the black hole and found it’s rotating cl...
Kirobo the Space Robot (Video)
If you haven’t noticed, we like robots. We also like space. How about a story on a Space Robot!!! This little guy will be joining the crew on the ISS as a communication robot. Gizmag.com has the story: The Kibo Robot P...
Sending a Married Couple to Mars
I hope my wife is reading this one. Probably not since I keep telling her how cool my website is and how popular it is getting and she usually just kinda says “cool” while playing words with friends. This is why I...
