Top Telescope Tips
This video shows some great tips to help you get the best from your telescope and enhance your enjoyment of the night sky.
Category: Astronomy
Exoplanets
In our search for planets like our own we have discovered an extraordinary zoo of planetary nightmares outside our own solar system, all of them truly wild worlds, a collection of monsters.
Twenty Five Incredible Nasa Pictures
From exploding supernovas to the northern lights flickering behind the International Space Station these are 25 incredible pictures of space taken by NASA.
Twenty Five Crazy Facts About Black Holes
Little is known about black holes but several scientists in history have developed their own theories about their properties and structures. Here is a list of 25 crazy facts about black holes.
Highlights of the Night Sky – March 2014
What will you be able to see in the night sky in March 2014? This short video gives you a great insight in what to look out for.
715 New Planets Discovered by NASA’s Kepler
Launched in 2009, the Kepler Space telescope mission is to find Earth-like worlds orbiting distant stars in the Constellation Lyra. It used the so-called transit technique – looking for the periodic dips in light as...
What’s A Supernova and Where Can I See One?
The galaxy M82 is filled with stars being created and dying. At present a star is exploding and you can see it.
The Most Deadliest Planets
This video examines the extreme surface conditions of the planets within our solar system, as well as some that lie beyond. Which of these could one day become inhabited by humans?
Hand of God – NASA Telescope
X-Ray telescope searching for black holes captures this awesome sight!
Highlights of NASA Ames Space Operations in 2013
Highlights of 2013 from the Ames Research Center. A look back at the space-related missions, research and technology demonstrations completed during 2013 by scientists, researchers and staff at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
Space Navigation (2) – 1967 NASA
Here is part 2 of a basic introduction to lunar and interplanetary navigation for manned spaceflight. The film was made in 1968 and the footage shows, through animation and live photography, the use of computers and...
Space Navigation (1) – 1967 NASA
Part 1 of an old NASA film on space navigation. Spacecraft navigation comprises two aspects: (1) knowledge and prediction of spacecraft position and velocity, which is orbit determination, and (2) firing the rocket motor...
Orbital Mechanics
This video details planetary motion or orbital mechanics. It explains Kepler’s and Newton’s Laws plus terminology including perigee, apogee, eccentricity, orbital inclination, launch window, etc.
Gaia’s 1 Billion Pixel Camera
ESA’s Gaia mission will produce an unprecedented 3D map of our Galaxy by mapping, with exquisite precision, the position and motion of a billion stars.
Gaia’s Mission To Solve The Celestial Puzzle
Following on from yesterday’s video on the Gaia launch, here we offer some background information on what Gaia hopes to achieve.
Jupiter Will Be at Opposition During January 2014 – NASA JPL
A look at the night sky this month with the main event being Jupiter at opposition, and Venus at conjunction. The Quadrantid meteor shower will put on a showing, as well.
