I enjoy watching documentaries on a wide variety of topics. This visual medium is more concise than reading books but imparts a lot of information through two senses simultaneously – sight and hearing. Books, at best, can provide only static images whereas documentaries provide sweeping vistas, views from a distance as well as close-up, words in people’s own voices and … Read the rest of this article
This timelapse video was made from images taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst orbiting Earth on the International Space Station.
The video is offered in Ultra High Definition, the highest available to consumers. Be sure to change the settings in YouTube if your computer or television can handle it for the full effect.
The montage is made from a long … Read the rest of this article
This documentary chronicles the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo and features interviews with leading astrophysicists and cosmologists from around the world, who explain concepts ranging from Galileo’s first use of the telescope to view the moons of Jupiter to the latest discoveries in space.
The documentary was created to coincide with the International Year of Astronomy … Read the rest of this article
This fantastic time-lapse video, created by Daniel López, shows the night-time weather and skies above various parts of La Palma in the Canary Islands. Watch it in full-screen mode and turn up the volume on your speakers!
The island is also home to the world-class Roque de los Muchachos Observatory. There are several webcams dotted around the observatory … Read the rest of this article
For hand towels, astronauts get those little vacuum-packed pucks that you kind of have to unravel into a towel. But what happens when you actually put the towels to use?
Two Nova Scotia high school students, Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner, submitted this experiment to Canadian Space Agency and got to see astronaut Chris Hadfield actually test it out on … Read the rest of this article
The Mars Science Laboratory, nicknamed “Curiosity,” was a feat of passion and engineering unparalleled for some time. As the space shuttles retired from service and NASA struggled to find a direction (publicly speaking) this newest Mars rover plummeted toward the surface of The Red Planet with a novel and complex landing system. The rover’s size and intricacy was a big … Read the rest of this article
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