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
How could someone so bad at math be so interested in Astronomy?
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"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 vaporlockNeutrinos - Sixty Symbols
posted by BoneRemakeBuilding 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. HaleUser 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 wazantSixty 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 RFlaggA 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 redyellowblueWait! 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 RFlaggWith 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 RFlaggVia 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 lucky760Does this make you more, or less space sick??
posted by mintbbbAnza-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 geo321So yeah, there it is. All hail the Dark Side!
posted by ThrobbinVideo of the Antoniadi crater on the moon. - Wiki
posted by thegrimsleeperMarvel at Hubble's successor: The James Webb Space Telescope!
posted by OrnthoronRead more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18607 Fabric spacecraft are now being scaled up as they gain interest from NASA.
posted by BicycleRepairManBy 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 deathcowA 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
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