Watch in full HD! From youtube description "Full night and full horizon (360º) night time lapse movie of ESO-Paranal observatory (Chile) during observations. Laser guide star used for adaptive optics... continue reading

posted by krazyety 1 decade 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,659 views

"The Cassini orbiter mission has revealed some absolutely stunning pictures of Saturn and its moons, and now it's branching into video as well. Here's color video of Hyperion, a very strange moon located... continue reading

posted by vaporlock 1 decade 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 864 views

Neutrinos - Sixty Symbols

posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 3 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 990 views

Building on decades of research and mountains of data, scientists and animators are now recreating in vivid and sometimes jaw-dropping detail the complex inner machinery of living cells.

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 1 decade 3 years 7 months ago • 1,147 views

User gluonium recently turned us on to the interview shown at the start of this excellent Horizon special. Here's the whole thing. From Wikipedia: Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist... continue reading

posted by wazant 1 decade 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 7,408 views • 49:37

Sixty Symbols takes on the question of if electrons would move around the atom at absolute zero. The answer surprised me a bit, but makes sense and is sort of a slap yourself in the head and of course... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 4,670 views

A poetic video that pretty much sums up the way I've come to understand things. Which I owe in part to Video sift/youtube for taking a great part in by sifting these types of videos.

posted by redyellowblue 1 decade 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 3,646 views

Wait! The universe is flat? Flat here doesn't mean it doesn't have depth or volume, but it doesn't have a curve. Tony explains in this video. We really need an astronomy channel.

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 3,419 views

With our own search for planets orbiting far away stars it begs the question: Would alien civilizations looking at our sun see there were planets orbiting it?

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 2,219 views

Via Neatorama: Astronaut and educator Don Pettit recorded this time-lapse video from the International Space Station. It shows day turning into night as the Earth rotates beneath him.... continue reading

posted by lucky760 1 decade 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 2,775 views • 38 secs

Does this make you more, or less space sick??

posted by mintbbb 1 decade 3 years 10 months ago • 3,647 views

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park was rated highly among best places to watch the meteor shower and I'll somewhat agree, however, it was not a great place to photograph it. To say that the perpetual stream... continue reading

posted by geo321 1 decade 3 years 10 months ago • 1,667 views • 1:10

So yeah, there it is. All hail the Dark Side!

posted by Throbbin 1 decade 4 years 2 months ago • 1,130 views

Video of the Antoniadi crater on the moon. - Wiki

posted by thegrimsleeper 1 decade 5 years 1 week ago • 1,596 views

Marvel at Hubble's successor: The James Webb Space Telescope!

posted by Ornthoron 1 decade 4 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,072 views

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18607 Fabric spacecraft are now being scaled up as they gain interest from NASA.

posted by BicycleRepairMan 1 decade 4 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 616 views

By taking one single picture of Jupiter each time it rotates, the planet appears to sit still, while the motion of all the cloud layers becomes evident. From Youtube: This is the original Voyager... continue reading

posted by deathcow 1 decade 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 3,731 views

A hexagonal cloud formation has been observed at Saturn's North Pole. Though most scientists are unsure what is causing it, some have a simple theory (Link). Some of the usual nutjobs are saying it's... continue reading

posted by kronosposeidon 1 decade 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 7,408 views