How to Understand the Size of the Milky Way?
This video gives us interesting perspective of the size of the Milky Way. The question is – if we take the size of our Sun as the size of a bacterium, how long should...
Monthly Archive: June 2016
The Milky Way as Seen from the Inyo National Forest, California
This time-lapse video contains images of the Milky Way taken from the Inyo National Forest, California. The video is created by Jeremy Evans, an astrophotographer.
Planets, Constellations, and Events in July’s Night Sky
During July, we can observe three evening planets – Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn. Jupiter will be visible in the western sky while Mars and Saturn can be seen in the southern part of the...
New Infrared Image of Jupiter
Using the VISIR instrument on the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, scientists have taken a new infrared image of Jupiter that shows turbulence in the planet’s atmosphere.
Star Trails Captured by International Space Station in 4K
This time-lapse video contains 5000 images captured by astronomers at International Space Station (ISS). All images are taken in 4K resolution.
Scientists Confirm Neptune Has ‘Dark Vortex’
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the new image of Neptune that reveals ‘dark vortex’ on its atmosphere. Namely, scientists confirm that the Neptune’s dark spot is, in fact, a huge gas mountain that appears...
Best 25 NASA’s Images of Our Universe
This video contains the best 25 NASA’s images that portray different objects in space. The list shows the Sunflower Galaxy, The Carina Nebula, Nebula NGC 604, and so on.
Origin of Early Supermassive Black Holes
The question of the origin of supermassive black holes baffles scientists for years. Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope, they have discovered what seems to be...
Stereoscopic View of Earth, Mars, Pluto and Milky Way
This time-lapse video is created from data sent by the NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Ahead (STEREO-A) spacecraft. The video shows a stereoscopic view of the Earth, Mars, Pluto and the Milky Way.
Electric Field of Venus
This video shows us what influences the climate of Venus. Namely, scientists consider Venus’ electric field responsible for its dry atmosphere. According to them, its electric field is 5 to10 times stronger than Earth’s.
NASA’s Discovery of Young Exoplanet Gives New Clues About Planet Formation
Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, scientists have detected one of the youngest exoplanets named K2-33b, orbiting around a young star. They estimate that the planet is between 5 to 10 million years old.
The Milky Way Time-Lapse
The following time-lapse video contains the images of the Milky Way, taken from the Maroon Bells. The images were taken by an astrophotographer Akin Bilgic.
Jupiter, Saturn, and early Solar System
The following video reveals what has happened in the early Solar System and how two largest planets – Saturn and Jupiter – became thus big and occupied the places they still hold today.
Mediterranean Area as Seen from Space
This time-lapse video contains images of the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding countries as seen from space. The images were taken on May 22nd and 23rf, 2016.
Tour of Comets ISON and PanSTARRS
The following video shows the graphics of two comets – C/2012 S1 or Comet ISON and C/2011 S4 or Comet PanSTARRS. The images were taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The Clouds of Venus
Japanese scientists have released a new image of Venus and its clouds, taken by their spacecraft Akatsuki. The image shows the mysterious cloudy world of Venus.
