If you live in a city, ever wondered what the night sky would have looked like before all the city lights drowned out the stars?
This compelling video shows the night sky from various locations and should remind us all of what we’re missing because of the light pollution that’s being coughed up into the sky:
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The Bolshoi Simulation is a massive, incredibly detailed model of everything, providing a comprehensive simulation of the universe’s 14 billion year history. Scientists are now exploring the simulation, and her are some of the most breathtaking results of their efforts.
The image above is just one many stunning images to come out of this new simulation. This particular image shows … Read the rest of this article
On October 8th Earth is going to plow through a stream of dust from Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, and the result could be an outburst of Draconid meteors.
“We’re predicting as many as 750 meteors per hour,” says Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. “The timing of the shower favors observers in the Middle East, north Africa and parts of Europe.”… Read the rest of this article
The Guardian newspaper in the UK reported that China’s state run television, CCTV, and China’s space agency released a video animation prior to the recently launched Tiangong 1 miniature space station showing extensive footage of rendezvous and docking maneuvers in Earth orbit that is inexplicably set to the tune of “America the Beautiful”, a patriotic hymn that many American’s regard … Read the rest of this article
This is the Orion Nebula, a vast stellar nursery located 1,500 light-years away. We have the Spitzer Space Telescope and its infrared camera to thank for this incredible image.
There’s just so much to love about this image – the swirling interplay of reds and greens, the hidden constellations peeking through the clouds, the little dots of blues and violets, … Read the rest of this article
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, the first to achieve orbit around Mercury, is providing scientists new information about the planet. The data show widespread flood volcanism similar to Earth, clearer views of Mercury’s surface, the first measurements of its elemental composition, and details about charged particles near the planet.
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Here a high-resolution monochrome image has been combined with a lower-resolution enhanced-color image. …
China has launched a rocket marking its first step towards building its own space station. Tiangong 1 was launched from the Gobi Desert. The space module lab is called “Heavenly Palace” or Tiangong 1 and will remain in orbit for docking missions
It is a mission that is generating huge national pride and is being seen as a symbol of … Read the rest of this article
A fleet of spacecraft including ESA’s XMM-Newton and Integral have shown unprecedented details close to a supermassive black hole. They reveal huge ‘bullets’ of gas being driven away from the ‘gravitational monster’.
Active galaxy Markarian 509 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope’s WFPC2. Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Kriss (STScI) and J. de Plaa (SRON)
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Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission indicate the family of asteroids some believed was responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs is not likely the culprit, keeping the case open on one of Earth’s greatest mysteries.
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Scientists think that a giant asteroid, which broke up long ago in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, eventually …
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