It is quite interesting that while we look at stars unfathomable distances away, we have little detail on the bodies in our solar system. But then again, we don’t know much about what goes on under the Earth’s crust, well not at least as much as we would like to know. Finally, we do know a little bit more about Mercury, the planet in our solar system closest to the sun.
Mystery of the universe and the beauty of space has always been captivating to us, looking into the huge expanse is what humans have been doing since forever. Modern technology means we can afford better looks at the universe the likes of which were entirely unavailable to our ancestors, and there still is a lot more to know. The video here gives us an excellent look at the known universe, mapped in 3D and covering the area of 120 million light years that we can observe.
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The moon witnesses an ungodly number of meteorite strikes every year, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year. This video from NASA shows the largest observed explosion on moon from a meteorite that hit the satellite on March 17. The meteorite was the size of a small boulder and hit somewhere in the Mare Imbrium region of the Moon.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has done some amazing things on the International Space Station, and we have all enjoyed watching the simple experiments he did in space. This video is a revised version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and makes it the first ever music video in space. Commander Hadfield returned to Earth a few hours ago.
NASA’s Opportunity rover has been on Mars since 2003, and it seems to have completed its “true” mission after a decade on the red planet. The robot has beamed back a picture of a giant dick it drew on the surface of Mars, probably as a message to someone about all the fun the rover’s been having.
Via Gizmodo
This video shows three years of the sun in a time lapse that goes three minutes. Apparently, there’s a lot of beautiful looking stuff going on in the sun. The video shows two photographs for every day, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The idea was to document the Solar Maximum, a time during an 11 year solar cycle where the solar activity is at its peak.
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Space. It makes everything weird/awesome. Thankfully, we have astronaut Chris Hadfield to demonstrate the effects aboard the ISS.
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Photographer Bruce W. Berry created this time lapse of earth, as seen from the International Space Station using a plethora of images from NASA. Images such as those used in the video often come along and are readily available from NASA, but stitching them together to create a view so lovely does require a whole lot of talent and skill.
It might be a while before us humans get to set foot on the red planet, but thanks to modern technology, we can take a good look at it as if we were standing there. Estonian photographer and editor Andrew Bodrov stitched together 407 images captured by Curiosity to create a panorama that gives you the same view you would have standing next to Curiosity on Mars. The panorama is a full 90,000 x 45,000 pixels and the images used have been slightly retouched.
When we can imagine clouds we see in the sky into various shapes, I’m sure we could look at the photographs of nebulae and galaxy clusters through the same lens. Illustrator Chris Keegan plays around with photographs captured by Chandra X-Ray Observatory through the Hubble Telescope and gives them a twist to show the creatures lurking in space. We would suggest someone keep an eye out for Galactus.