The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean (1) – Carl Sagan
The late great Carl Sagan introduces his iconic series ‘The Cosmos – A Personal Voyage’. This is part 1 of 6 parts of episode one.
Category: The Cosmos
Has Dark Matter Been Discovered?
There has been recent speculation that ‘Dark Matter’ has been found but nothing official. Dark Matter is an illusive form of matter which is said to make up much more mass than all of...
Hubble And Black Holes
An introduction to black holes and how the Hubble is being used to study them. One of Hubble’s main objectives was the identification of giant black holes.
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...
The Monster At The Centre Of The Galaxy
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A discussion of the black holes at the centre of galaxies. The Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy is a million times...
Beyond Einstein – (2)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – We continue looking at the experiments that are being performed to go beyond Einstein’s theories. Here dark energy, black holes and space and time...
Beyond Einstein – (1)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – We look at the new mysteries of the Universe and the experiments that are being performed to go beyond Einstein’s theories. Such things as...
The Day Galileo Changed The Universe
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – An introduction to Galileo and his re-invention of the telescope that changed the way humans looked at the Cosmos forever and gave him...
How We Evolved From Star Stuff – Carl Sagan
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The late great Carl Sagan on how we evolved and how we are on our way back to our origins in the stars. This...
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...
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...
