Europe’s 50-Years Of Space
In this video we look back at the past 50 years of space in Europe; five decades of discovery, drama and innovation that have had a profound impact on how we see ourselves and our...
Monthly Archive: April 2014
Space Travel and Prospects of Discovering Alien Life
A look at the future of space travel and the prospects of discovering Alien life. The belief now is that Earth like planets are as common as dust and many planets have been discovered...
Finding And Travelling To Exoplanets
Ond day, if the human race survives that long, we will have to leave Planet Earth and find another home. We are already searching for Earth like planets but finding such planets is not...
Russian Meteor Over Murmansk – April 2014
A huge meteorite has reportedly been captured streaking through the night’s sky above Russia, before disappearing in a blaze of light. People living in the northern city of Murmansk spotted the object exploding in the...
Jewel Box Sun – NASA
This video of the sun based on data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, shows the wide range of wavelengths — invisible to the naked eye — that the telescope can view. SDO...
Stellar Evolution Explained
A great videos that looks at stellar evolution; how gravity causes hydrogen gas to coalesce under friction and pressure to ignite in a flash of nuclear fusion, the energy and glow lasting billions of years,...
Planet Earth 100 Million Years In The Future
A look at what the Earth will look like in 100 million years. This is a probable future but as we know a lot can happen in 100 million years!
The Dark Side of Time
A great video that asks the question whether space-time is fragmented, segmented into quantized bits of information, or causal sets? Or is space-time smooth and continuous, with curves, bends, and warps; just as Einstein had predicted? Is...
Star Clusters Examined
A look at star clusters and how each star within a cluster is formed from the same material and is approximately the same age. There are two kinds of clusters. A “globular cluster” which...
Exoplanets
In our search for planets like our own we have discovered an extraordinary zoo of planetary nightmares outside our own solar system, all of them truly wild worlds, a collection of monsters.
Launch of SpaceX’s Dragon CRS-3 Spacecraft on Falcon 9v1.1 Rocket
The fourth SpaceX Falcon 9v1.1 rocket to launch successfully lifted off of Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida on April 18th 2014 at 19:25 UTC. The rocket carried the fourth ISS-bound Dragon Spacecraft...
Will Russia Annex the ISS?
The International Space Station is home to Russian and American astronauts. Author and space analyst Rand Simburg breaks down the situation on the ISS. Could the conflict in Ukraine spread to space? The U.S....
CHINA’S CUTTING EDGE “SPACE WARFARE” PROGRAMME
Space will increasing become a theatre of war as technology of the super powers porgresses. In what state media called a response to the increasing military use of space by the United States and...
The Universe and Local Bodies
Is it possible that the Universe is expanding faster than the speed of light? Is it possible to observe this? Interesting video that explains the answer to both questions is yes.
Extreme Orbits
Earth has a very stable orbit and that is why life as we know it has evolved here. However other planets in the Universe have very violent and chaotic orbits as explained in this...
‘Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse – 15th April 2014
Here is a great blood moon’ video, a rare total lunar eclipse caught on tape. The first total lunar eclipse in two and a half years is taking place on April 15th.
