• What Would It Be Like To Travel Into A Black Hole?

    Updated: 2012-01-31 18:44:27
    Home Blog Articles Videos About Contact What Would It Be Like to Travel Into a Black Hole Download this video mov 1280x720 472.34MB Black holes are among the simplest objects in the universe . They are simpler than stars , much simpler than planets , and vastly simpler than human beings . Black holes are what is created when matter is compressed into a very small place . They are General Relativity's most extreme prediction . They are commonly created from the violent deaths of stars many times the size of our sun , usually forming from the collapsed core of a supergiant star after it explodes . At the heart of a black hole is a singularity . An infinitesimal point in space where the pull of gravity is infinitely strong and spacetime infinitely curved . At the singularity , space and time

  • Breathtaking View

    Updated: 2012-01-30 15:00:26
    Oh, man!  You have to look at this: Here’s the text from NASA: With hardware from the Earth-orbiting International Space Station appearing in the near foreground, a night time European panorama reveals city lights from Belgium and the Netherlands at … Continue reading →

  • Launching a Mars Rover

    Updated: 2012-01-29 17:27:42
    Here is an interesting fact sheet you might be interested in (a pdf file). Source  

  • Mesmerizing, towering loops of solar magnetism

    Updated: 2012-01-29 14:02:58
    I know I’ve been writing about the Sun quite a bit lately, but I have a followup to yesterday’s cool video of the big solar flare… and you’re gonna like it. I was fooling around with helioviewer.org, watching the flare in different wavelengths of light detected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics observatory, when I switched to [...]

  • Where in the cosmos? All over!

    Updated: 2012-01-28 04:16:52
    Scientists showed off the largest-scale color map of the universe in 3-D this month, as part of an effort to determine how matter has clumped together over the past few billion years.

  • Weekly Space Roundup for January 26, 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-27 14:05:59
    Yesterday was the weekly live video Space Roundup, run by Fraser Cain from Universe Today. This week we had Pamela Gay, Alan Boyle, Nicole Gugliucci, and Ian O’Neill. We talked about the solar storm, black holes, arsenic life, Newt Gingrich, Phobos-Grunt, and answered some questions from the listeners. Here’s the video: We do these every [...]

  • Suomi NPP

    Updated: 2012-01-26 19:58:46
      Just have a look at this amazing image of us from one of our newest satellites! A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This … Continue reading →

  • This is a galaxy

    Updated: 2012-01-26 19:23:16
    I have nothing to add to this, except to say it’s great, and I saw it because Brian Cox mentioned it on Twitter. Oh yeah: one more thing; watch it in HD and full screen. Coooool.

  • Two lovely aurora time lapse videos

    Updated: 2012-01-25 21:54:16
    The solar storm that impacted Earth Tuesday produced a lot of auroral activity, though it’s hard to say if it was really that much stronger than usual. Still, any aurora is better than none… and I have two videos to show you! The first was taken on January 22, and shows the effects of an [...]

  • 2012 ESA Missions Preview

    Updated: 2012-01-25 19:25:54
    A good preview of ESA missions with (IMHO) terrible audio quality. I thought it was just the version I was watching but no, they are all the same. Audio aside, I can’t wait to see that Vega launch coming right … Continue reading →

  • Spectacular site for Supernova 2012A

    Updated: 2012-01-25 14:00:04
    The first supernova of the year was spotted a couple of weeks ago: Supernova 2012A, in the galaxy NGC 3239 in the constellation of Leo. Adam Block of the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter took a phenomenal image of it: [Click to corecollapsenate.] Funny, the supernova isn’t what you’d expect; it’s not that really bright star (which [...]

  • Interview on KPCC about the flare and aurorae

    Updated: 2012-01-25 02:59:02
    I was interviewed by Patt Morrison on NPR’s KPCC radio in Los Angeles today about the solar storm. It’s online for your listening pleasure, or you can grab the MP3 directly. We talked about the event itself, how it was not nearly as strong as it was thought it would be (though still producing some [...]

  • Aurora Possible

    Updated: 2012-01-24 18:58:26
    A quick note: You might keep an eye to the sky after dark if it is clear, a pretty decent Aurora could show itself.  Not saying it will of course but the potential is there. Going to be cloudy here … Continue reading →

  • Klu Klux Klan style Hooded Astronomers Jacket

    Updated: 2012-01-23 22:17:30
    I don’t think I have mentioned before that I’ve got an astronomers jacket made in the USA by a firm called Dark Skies Apparel. It is brilliant, and probably one of the most useful astronomy “accessories” I have purchased. Made out of thick black cotton material (totally light-proof), it is deliberately oversized to go over your normal [...]

  • The Planck Mission

    Updated: 2012-01-23 08:40:47
    Most of us think of the Planck Mission as either an extension of the WMAP, or as the answer to (and correction of) the WMAP.  It’s not used to unseat WMAP, but to serve as the next step. Launched in … Continue reading →

  • Is some poor planet getting blasted?

    Updated: 2012-01-21 03:51:49
    Did you hear the one about the planet that's boiling away? Astronomers working with data from NASA's Kepler planet-hunting telescope say they're seeing evidence that a star system 1,500 light-years from Earth has a "super-Mercury" orbiting less than a million miles from its sun.

  • Window on the universe: The view from La Palma's space volcano | Brady Haran

    Updated: 2012-01-16 16:13:00
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  • Playing with the Moon

    Updated: 2012-01-16 01:21:35
    Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive Particle Battleships An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name Particle Battleships All the buzz in physics today is around results from CERN Have they found a hint of a Higgs particle , have they found a hint of no Higgs particle It is difficult to tell on a very broken-up webcast but , from what I can gather , there may be a hint of something with an energy of 126 GeV with a level of confidence that doesn't let them claim a discovery yet Earlier , John Humphreys on the Today programme seemed to suggest that if nothing was found today the whole exercise ATLAS CMS had been a waste of time . This view he may have been playing devil's advocate misunderstands how

  • Comet Lovejoy from the space station

    Updated: 2011-12-23 17:06:28
    Mega Cool. –Ben Comet Lovejoy from the space station International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Burbank described seeing the comet as “the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space,” in an interview with [...]

  • CASSINI DELIVERS HOLIDAY TREATS FROM ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM

    Updated: 2011-12-22 22:38:15
    Holiday Greeting from your favorite ringed planet. –Ben IMAGE ADVISORY: December 22, 2011 CASSINI DELIVERS HOLIDAY TREATS FROM ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM No team of reindeer was necessary for these holiday treats from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. A beam of radio signals, from clear across the solar system, has delivered a Christmas package of glorious images [...]

  • Cosmic Treat

    Updated: 2011-12-21 15:30:30
    Thanks to the nice folks at Snag Films, I learn that yesterday was the fifteenth anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death. You can watch the first episode of the famous COSMOS series here. It starts with an advert, but thats why its free folks. Carl Sagan ain’t as pretty as Brian Cox, and I would say [...]

  • Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel

    Updated: 2011-12-16 17:21:45
    fyi: Be sure to check out the zoom in video from entire galaxy to HST shot. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/38/video/b/ –Ben Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel December 15, 2011: The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched “wings” of the nebula record the contrasting [...]

  • Particle Battleships

    Updated: 2011-12-13 14:02:00
    Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive Astronomy Pantomime An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name Astronomy Pantomime In the UK we have a tradition of pantomime Although the origins may extend to the ancient Greeks , modern pantomime originates in the Victorian era and is a comedic performance of a children's story usually performed in December or early January . They are mostly aimed at children but with some jokes for their parents too . A curious part of pantomime is that the lead male character is usually played by a young woman and there is always an elderly mother-figure called the Dame who is always played by a . man Back in 2006, the Jodcast the UK's first regular astronomy podcast decided to

  • Astronomy Pantomime

    Updated: 2011-12-03 13:04:00
    Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive Spot the mistake An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name Spot the mistake I discovered the OnOrbit website this afternoon . It seems to have been co-founded by the man behind NASA Watch and claims to be a social networking site for space . In reality it seems to be more of a blog than a social network like Facebook or Twitter . Anyway , the page I stumbled upon was a page from 2009 about the cooling systems on Planck It has a fairly glaring mistake on it . Can you spot it Tags : Planck Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Friday 02nd Dec 2011 18:14 GMT 2 Comments Permalink Comments : Spot the mistake that's not planck . Posted by adam on Friday 02nd Dec 2011 18:19 UTC

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