The Planet Neptune
Basic information and interesting facts about the Planet Neptune. This planet was hypothesised to exist before actually being seen. By observing the motion of Uranus, it was deduced that the gravitational effects of another...
Monthly Archive: July 2012
The Backbone of Night By Carl Sagan
Another masterpiece by Carl Sagan. This time he discusses cosmology through the ages up to the present time. The excerpts are taken from the episode of ‘Cosmos’, The Backbone of Night. Lookout for the...
Why The Universe Is Probably Flat
A very interesting presentation describing why the Universe is thought to be flat. Another reason not mentioned is that in a flat Universe the total energy would be zero as gravity can have negative...
Kepler-22b, Another Earth Like Planet
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Kepler-22b is an Earth like planet orbiting the star Kepler-22. It is approximately 600 light years away in the Cygnus constellation. It was discovered...
Carl Sagan On Black Holes
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here Carl Sagan discusses black holes and the gravitational effect on light. He also touches on wormholes, which may be gateways to future interstellar...
Walking On The Moon – Apollo 11
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A tribute to the crew of the Apollo 11 mission, that landed the first men on the moon, played to the background song, ‘Walking...
The Dwarf Planet Pluto
– ” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A great introduction to the ‘dwarf’ planet Pluto to background music by Mike Oldfield. We do not know a lot about Pluto simply...
Orion Test Flight Animation
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – An animation of the first test flight of Orion, Nasa’s next multi-purpose crew vehicle scheduled for 2014. This will provide Nasa with an affordable...
‘This is Our Planet’ ISS Time-Lapse Video – Mind Blowing!
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A quite spectacular time lapse video of our Planet created with photos and video from the ISS by 18 year old Tomislav Safundžić. This video...
International Space Centre Update – July 5th 2012
– ” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The International Space Station (ISS), is a joint venture between five space agencies, NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency, the Japanese or JAXA, the...
Mars ‘Curiosity Rover’ Mission Animation
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A quite amazing animation of the ‘Curiosity Rover’ mission. ‘Curiosity’ is the next planned visitor to Mars by NASA and is scheduled to land...
Venus and Jupiter Sky Show – July 2012
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – This July the brightest stars in the sky, Venus and Jupiter will be very close and on July 7th will line up, in almost...
July 2 2012 Class M5.6 Solar Flare
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The sun erupted with a powerful solar flare on Monday 2nd July and a wave of plasma from the flare could reach Earth by...
Chinese Space Walk
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Space walks are another part of the learning curve that you must go through if you are serious about space travel and construction in...
A Vision Of Deep Space
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is a stunning compilation video of original paintings by amateur astronomer and astrophotographer Philip A Cruden. Philip A Cruden professionally works as a...
So What Is The Universe Expanding Into?
-“For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends”- We are told that scientists believe that the Universe started with the Big Bang and then started to expand outwards. We know the Universe is expanding...
