Happy New Year from the ISS
Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA wish the world a happy New Year. Wilmore has been aboard the research lab since late September and Virts arrived at the...
Monthly Archive: December 2014
Titan’s Alien World
Titan, as the largest moon of Saturn, resembles on our planet Earth. This orange satellite is bigger than Mercury. Its atmosphere covers a network of lakes that contains liquid methane.
Top 10 Pictures of Cosmos in 2014.
This video is a collection of the 10 most beautiful space photographies captured in 2014.
The Night Sky Compilation by Mark Gee
Mark Gee, an astrophotographer, shares with us the highlights of his year. The video is a compilation of his best photography of the night sky taken from different places during 2014.
A Planet with Two Sunsets
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered many exoplanets candidates, and is technically equipped to find the planets as small as our Earth, orbiting around the star the size of our Sun. Throughout this mission, astronomers...
Collision of Galaxies Has Been Often Inevitable
This video represents a collection of images that show galaxies engaged in collisions, or are about to collide. Because of the pull of gravity, the expansion of the Universe is not helping them; gravity...
The List of the 10 Most Incredible Space Discoveries in Our Universe
The following video shows the 10 most fascinating space objects found in the cosmos. The list starts with an Earth-like planet, Gliese 581c, and finishes with the large quasar group found in our Milky...
Mind Blowing Speeds of Space Objects
In our Universe, everything is moving – our planet, our Solar System, our galaxy. The speeds they are moving we can hardly imagine. Compared to them, we are living in a slow-motion world.
Saturn Close-Up
This video represents the collection of astonishing Saturn’s images captured by Cassini probe in 4K. Images are followed by scientific details that help us to understand the whole picture of this amazing planet.
The Moon Had a Strong Magnetic Field Long Ago
Billions of years ago, the Moon had a magnetic field, much stronger than the Earth’s is today. However, the Moon does not have any magnetic field today, but it rocks show magnetic activities. Scientists...
Close Encounter with Pluto – NASA
After 9 years of travelling, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is preparing to encounter Pluto on January 2015. The closest approach has been expected to happen on July 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft reaches...
Could Enceladus Contain Any Life Form?
In search for new life forms outside the Earth, scientists explore the conditions of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. Enceladus is very small, icy moon, which size is about the size of North Dakota. A huge...
Flight over Mars’ Becquerel Crater – ESA
This video clip is a compilation of images of Mars’ Becquerel crater, captured by high resolution cameras. Becquerel crater is located in the Arabia Terra region on Mars. The images clearly show structure and...
Stars and Their Variety: Red Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs, Binary Stars and Triple Star Systems
The years of exploration of the Milky Way have discovered that many stars are not a single star like our Sun, but binary or triple star system, red dwarfs or brown dwarfs. Even the...
Newly Discovered Comet Lovejoy Will Be Visible in January 2015
An Australian amateur, Terry Lovejoy discovered the new comet C/2014 Q2. It is estimated that Lovejoy comet will reach an excellent position on the Northern hemisphere, where it will be visible to a naked-eye...
Mars’ Gigantic Volcano – Olympus Mons
Tharsis Montes is a volcanic region on planet Mars, which is known for Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in our Solar System. Its surface is about the same size as Arizona and is three...
