Carl Sagan Talks To Sir Patrick Moore On Alien Civilisations
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Carl Sagan talking to Sir Patrick Moore in 1974, about the possibility of alien life in the Universe . Two Astronomical icons together –...
Monthly Archive: June 2012
Atmospheric Erosion On A Far Away Planet
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – An Exo-planet, HD 189733b, which is about 63 light years away and has repeatedly been studied by Hubble has for the first time given us a...
Rocket To The Future – Stephen Hawking
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Stephen Hawking examines how we may some day travel into the future. What sort of ship would we need and what would it need...
Water On The Moon
The LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission of 2009 was designed to look for water on the moon by crashing a probe into its surface at the south pole and then analyzing...
China Successfully Completes A Manual Docking
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Chinese astronauts successfully manually docked their Shenzhou 9 spacecraft with Tiangong 1 orbiting module on June 24, 2012. Although automatic docking is the norm, it...
The Amazing Northern Lights
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A time lapse video of the Northern Lights, also called the Aurora Borealis, taken from Norway. Auroras such as the Northern Lights are associated with...
More Facts About Gliese 581g
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Following on from my post last week on Gliese 581g, here are some more interesting facts about why this planet is considered suitable for...
The Gift Of Apollo
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The gift of Apollo by Carl Sagan. Here he discusses the drivers for the Apollo missions and what they actually meant to the human...
The Meat Planet By Carl Sagan
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is an extract of a never seen before episode of Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’. This was the 14th episode of the Cosmos series but...
Black Holes Warping Space And Time
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Experts explain the effects of Black Holes on the fabric of space and what happens if you stray too near to one. Black holes...
So You Think You’re Big?
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The distances and masses in cosmology are so enormously difficult to understand and comprehend. We know that the Earth could fit into the Sun...
Travelling to Gliese581g
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Gliese581g is a recently discovered Earth like planet. It is just the right distance from its Sun for water to exist. It is thought...
What Caused The Big Bang?
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The most accepted theory states that 13 billion years ago both space and time were born out of the Big Bang. But what caused...
The Sun Song
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Great facts about our Sun set to a groovy sound and lyrics. An excellent way to learn and teach children. This video is a...
The Planet Mercury
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – An introduction to the nearest planet to the Sun where temperatures vary from 427 degrees Celsius to -183 degrees Celsius. This video includes images...
Asteroid Streaks Past Earth
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The asteroid, 2101 LZ1 that I posted on yesterday streaked past Earth last night and was caught on film. It can still be seen...
