• What Would It Be Like To Travel Into A Black Hole?

    Updated: 2012-02-08 12:01:52
    Home Blog Articles Videos About Contact What Would It Be Like to Travel Into a Black Hole Download this video mov 1280x720 472.34MB Black holes are among the simplest objects in the universe . They are simpler than stars , much simpler than planets , and vastly simpler than human beings . Black holes are what is created when matter is compressed into a very small place . They are General Relativity's most extreme prediction . They are commonly created from the violent deaths of stars many times the size of our sun , usually forming from the collapsed core of a supergiant star after it explodes . At the heart of a black hole is a singularity . An infinitesimal point in space where the pull of gravity is infinitely strong and spacetime infinitely curved . At the singularity , space and time

  • Science Getaways: Update

    Updated: 2012-02-07 16:36:40
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Exoplanet in a triple star system smack dab in the habitable zone Science Getaways : Update I love science . OK , duh , but I really do . And when I go on vacation , I can’t help but see science everywhere , and in every case it makes the trip more fun for me . Seeing local geology , biology , how the stars might look different at a different latitude it adds to the vacations , makes it . better That’s why my wife and I started a company called Science Getaways We figured there are lots of other folks out there like us who would really enjoy taking a vacation that has bonus

  • IBEX

    Updated: 2012-02-05 17:44:27
    This Super Bowl will be (hopefully) will be a LOT more fun than it was last year!!  Source

  • An astronomer’s paradise

    Updated: 2012-02-05 14:00:39
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Get Scott Sigler’s The MVP for 3 off Superbowl science 2012 An astronomer’s paradise Cerro Paranal , in the high , dry , Atacama desert in Chile , is where some of the best astronomy in the world is done . It’s graced with incredibly dark and steady skies , and a view of the southern hemisphere skies that , frankly , makes me . jealous So it’s hard to argue with the title of this short time lapse video , An Astronomer’s Paradise This was taken by photographer Babak Tafreshi who alerted me that he had put it online . Watch it to 1:30 in if only to watch Orion rise upside down ,

  • Space caturday

    Updated: 2012-02-04 14:00:54
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Video of the lunar far side from GRAIL Ebb Get Scott Sigler’s The MVP for 3 off Space caturday This is cute and all , but I was debating whether to run it on the blog or not when I got to the 1:05 mark or so , and decided to go ahead . Why : Watch Did you get the joke It’s a Chandra X-ray Observatory image in the background if that helps . Note the . cat Also , the next shot shown of a cat batting at Io was also pretty . funny They did miss a sure bet , though : Cat’s Eye and the Cat’s Paw nebula Neither of which , I’ll note , is in . Leo Share February 4th , 2012 7:00 AM Tags

  • Video of the lunar far side from GRAIL/Ebb

    Updated: 2012-02-03 17:49:19
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS In the dark abyss , a slightly warped mirror on the Milky Way Space caturday Video of the lunar far side from GRAIL Ebb This is so cool : NASA’s twin GRAIL spacecraft now named Ebb and Flow have cameras on board to take images of the lunar surface , and an animation has been put together of Ebb’s view of the Moon’s far side Pretty neat . I love the wide-angle view the individual images were taken while Ebb was still over a thousand kilometers from the Moon The huge circular feature you can see on the right 30 seconds into the video is Orientale Basin an impact so huge it

  • In the dark abyss, a slightly warped mirror on the Milky Way

    Updated: 2012-02-03 14:00:31
    , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS East of the Blue Marble Video of the lunar far side from GRAIL Ebb In the dark abyss , a slightly warped mirror on the Milky Way There is just something wonderful when Hubble points to nearby spiral galaxies . Sprawling and detailed , we get both great resolution on smaller features as well as a jaw-dropping overview of a grand spiral like , say , NGC : 1073 Yeah , I know Click to galactinate I had to shrink it to fit here , and it lost a lot of the coolness when I did or grab the 3900 x 3000 pixel version NGC 1073 is a decent-sized spiral galaxy about 60 million light years

  • Amazing moonset video taken from space!

    Updated: 2012-02-01 01:32:31
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Q BA : What happens if you are exposed to the vacuum of space What caused the Little Ice Age Amazing moonset video taken from space Thanks to astronaut Ron Garan on Google+ I was alerted to some amazing footage of the Moon setting as seen by astronauts on board the International Space Station . I uploaded it to YouTube and added some comments to show you something really cool Set it to high-def and make it full screen Astonishing , isn’t it As the Moon sets , you’re seeing it through thicker and thicker air . The air acts like a lens , bending the light upward . The part of the

  • Breathtaking View

    Updated: 2012-01-30 15:00:26
    Oh, man!  You have to look at this: Here’s the text from NASA: With hardware from the Earth-orbiting International Space Station appearing in the near foreground, a night time European panorama reveals city lights from Belgium and the Netherlands at … Continue reading →

  • Launching a Mars Rover

    Updated: 2012-01-29 17:27:42
    Here is an interesting fact sheet you might be interested in (a pdf file). Source  

  • Mesmerizing, towering loops of solar magnetism

    Updated: 2012-01-29 14:02:58
    , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Real time footage of aurora shows them dancing and shimmering Dione and Mimas have a mutual event Mesmerizing , towering loops of solar magnetism I know I’ve been writing about the Sun quite a bit lately , but I have a followup to yesterday’s cool video of the big solar flare and you’re gonna like . it I was fooling around with helioviewer.org watching the flare in different wavelengths of light detected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics observatory , when I switched to 17.1 nanometers in the far ultraviolet . At that wavelength , the glowing plasma that flows along the Sun’s magnetic

  • Where in the cosmos? All over!

    Updated: 2012-01-28 04:16:52
    Scientists showed off the largest-scale color map of the universe in 3-D this month, as part of an effort to determine how matter has clumped together over the past few billion years.

  • Klu Klux Klan style Hooded Astronomers Jacket

    Updated: 2012-01-23 22:17:30
    I don’t think I have mentioned before that I’ve got an astronomers jacket made in the USA by a firm called Dark Skies Apparel. It is brilliant, and probably one of the most useful astronomy “accessories” I have purchased. Made out of thick black cotton material (totally light-proof), it is deliberately oversized to go over your normal [...]

  • Window on the universe: The view from La Palma's space volcano | Brady Haran

    Updated: 2012-01-16 16:13:00
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  • Playing with the Moon

    Updated: 2012-01-16 01:21:35
    Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive Particle Battleships An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name Particle Battleships All the buzz in physics today is around results from CERN Have they found a hint of a Higgs particle , have they found a hint of no Higgs particle It is difficult to tell on a very broken-up webcast but , from what I can gather , there may be a hint of something with an energy of 126 GeV with a level of confidence that doesn't let them claim a discovery yet Earlier , John Humphreys on the Today programme seemed to suggest that if nothing was found today the whole exercise ATLAS CMS had been a waste of time . This view he may have been playing devil's advocate misunderstands how

  • Comet Lovejoy from the space station

    Updated: 2011-12-23 17:06:28
    Mega Cool. –Ben Comet Lovejoy from the space station International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Burbank described seeing the comet as “the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space,” in an interview with [...]

  • CASSINI DELIVERS HOLIDAY TREATS FROM ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM

    Updated: 2011-12-22 22:38:15
    Holiday Greeting from your favorite ringed planet. –Ben IMAGE ADVISORY: December 22, 2011 CASSINI DELIVERS HOLIDAY TREATS FROM ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM No team of reindeer was necessary for these holiday treats from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. A beam of radio signals, from clear across the solar system, has delivered a Christmas package of glorious images [...]

  • Cosmic Treat

    Updated: 2011-12-21 15:30:30
    Thanks to the nice folks at Snag Films, I learn that yesterday was the fifteenth anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death. You can watch the first episode of the famous COSMOS series here. It starts with an advert, but thats why its free folks. Carl Sagan ain’t as pretty as Brian Cox, and I would say [...]

  • Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel

    Updated: 2011-12-16 17:21:45
    fyi: Be sure to check out the zoom in video from entire galaxy to HST shot. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/38/video/b/ –Ben Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel December 15, 2011: The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched “wings” of the nebula record the contrasting [...]

  • Particle Battleships

    Updated: 2011-12-13 14:02:00
    Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive Astronomy Pantomime An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name Astronomy Pantomime In the UK we have a tradition of pantomime Although the origins may extend to the ancient Greeks , modern pantomime originates in the Victorian era and is a comedic performance of a children's story usually performed in December or early January . They are mostly aimed at children but with some jokes for their parents too . A curious part of pantomime is that the lead male character is usually played by a young woman and there is always an elderly mother-figure called the Dame who is always played by a . man Back in 2006, the Jodcast the UK's first regular astronomy podcast decided to

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