Hurricane Sandy As Seen By The ISS
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is a spectacular view of Hurricane Sandy as seen by the International Space Station. Sandy has become the largest Atlantic Hurricane in diameter on record,...
Monthly Archive: October 2012
Formation Of The Solar System – Stephen Hawking
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – In this short video Professor Stephen Hawking describes how the solar system and the Earth were formed. Unfortunately he does not narrate this video but...
Red Giant Devours Planet
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Astronomers have observed a Red giant in the process of devouring one of its planets. something similar could happen to Earth when our Sun...
Formalhaut b May Be Reclassified
When Formalhaut b was first discovered it was hailed as the first exoplanet to have been found by means of visible light. However shortly afterwards research seemed to indicate that Formalhaut b wasn’t a...
Working With Curiosity’s Chemcam – 26th October 2012
-” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” Here is the latest update from Curiosity. This week Curiosity delivered its third sample and one analysis has been performed. ChemCam will tell us what the...
Did We Have Two Moons? – Project GRAIL
– ” For You to Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Some researchers believed we once had two moons. Nasa launched project GRAIL in September 2011 to investigate this theory and gather more information...
Unidentified Object Probably From Curiosity Says Nasa
-“For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Unidentified objects were spotted by Curiosity almost two week sago. T he object has been determined by Nasa to probably be a piece of plastic from...
Endeavour in Los Angeles
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Great footage of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on its two day trip from the two-day trip from Los Angeles International Airport through the streets of...
New Trio To Join The ISS
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” The launch of the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the three crew members who will join expedition 33 aboard the International Space...
Soyuz Joins Booster For Expedition 33/34
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft was mated to its booster rocket on Oct. 20. Here is great back room...
More About Jupiter And Its Moons
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – More on Jupiter and its Moons including how Jupiter was originally used to determine the speed of light and the collision of the comet,...
Dark Energy & Dark Matter -1
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” Dark matter are invisible objects that react with matter by gravitational force. In physical cosmology, dark energy is an exotic form of energy that permeates...
Measuring Ripples in Space-Time
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Following on from yesterdays post on gravitational waves we present a video on new techniques to measure these tiny ripples in space. With researchers...
What are Gravitational Waves
“For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Gravitational Waves are predicted in Einsteins General Theory of Relativity. Here is an easy to understand introduction to gravitational waves. Sources of detectable gravitational waves...
Space Shuttle Atlantis’s Boosters Fall Back To Earth
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Spectacular footage of the space shuttle Atlantis blasting off into space and the dramatic return of the solid rocket boosters back down to Earth....
A Brief Introduction To The Chinese Space Programme
– ” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A brief introduction to the Chinese space programme and their achievements to date. At a time when the US appears to be cutting...
