What is Space?
A look at what our ‘reality’ really is and answering the question is empty space really empty? A newly discovered ingredient of space that actually makes up 70 percent of the universe.
Category: Our Universe
The Origin And Creation Of Stars
An interesting video on the creation of Stars and the Solar System with great animations. A good explanation of how life could have began on Earth.
Beryllium And The James Webb
Why the element beryllium is being used in the James Webb telescope. The James Webb telescope is the successor to Hubble and will allow us to see the furthest back in time than ever...
Multiverses – Brian Greene
Brian Greene explains how trying to answer the unanswered questions of the Universe has led to the theory of the ‘ Multiverse’. The ‘Multiverse’ is made up of many Universes like our own.
The Strangest Things In The Universe – 2013
The more we learn the less we know. The strangest things in the Universe including alcohol clouds and comets which may have seeded our planet for life. httpv://youtu.be/-ffhp3COlgY Including organisms which may have survived...
Planck Satellite Maps The Dawn Of Time
Just after the ‘big bang’ light was closely linked to matter, mapping light can tell us a lot ab out the structure of the early Universe. It turns out that the light map fits...
When Two Galaxies Collide
The Chandra X-Ray Telescope has been used to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. Each of the galaxies is as big as our own...
IC 1101, The Largest Galaxy in the Universe
The smallest galaxies can be 200 million light years across. The largest galaxies in the Universe are ellipticals and can contain as many as a trillion stars. The largest galaxy we have ever seen...
More On The Two New Planetary Systems Found By Kepler
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might...
New Earth-Like Planets Discovered by NASA’s Kepler
Kepler finds new Earth like planets in the habitable zone of their Sun. This means the it is possible for liquid water to exist on the planets. Which means that life as we know...
NASA Launches Two New Projects With Help From Google And MIT
NASA is set to launch two missions and has enlisted help from MIT and Google. One project involves the discovery of exoplanets and the other will be analysing matter found in neutrostars.
IBEX Observes Interstellar Medium – NASA
IBEX, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explore, has captured the best and most complete picture yet of what lies beyond the boundary of our solar system. The new data give indications about how and where our...
New Star System is Closest Found in a Century – NASA
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope have found a pair of stars which are now the third-closest star system to our sun. They are the closest stars discovered since 1916, when Barnard’s star...
Wonders Of The Cosmos
A short video for high school kids that gives a great introduction to astronomy and the wonders of the Cosmos. The video also shows a glimpse of the Starship Enterprise. Once the big problem...
When Will Time End?
The answer to this question may depend on whether Stephen Hawking was right in his theory that describes how black holes shed mass and eventually decay. It now appears the entire cosmos is...
Fermi Traces a Celestial Spirograph – NASA
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends”- A Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope scientist has transformed data from a famous pulsar, Vela, into a mesmerizing movie that visually encapsulates the spacecraft’s complex motion....
Fermi Proves Supernova Remnants Produce Cosmic Rays – NASA
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A new study using observations from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals the first clear-cut evidence that the expanding debris of exploded stars produces...
Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting Twin Stars
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The Kepler Mission is specifically designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in or...
