5 Amazing Facts about Black Holes
The following video lists 5 most amazing facts about black holes and their gravitational force. They represent the largest and densest objects in the universe, with a huge mass.
Monthly Archive: January 2015
Closer View of Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon
In the following video, we can see dark brown and light brown regions as dune fields and mountains spread on the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan. If we want to go deeper and take...
Earth’s Twin Planet
In March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope launched in order to hunt exoplanets, or planets that orbit around distant stars. Till now, Kepler has found about a thousand planets and 21 planets that resemble...
How Do Comets Get Their Tails?
In order to find an answer to this question, scientists explored short-period comets, comets that come from the Kuiper Belt and need 20 to 200 years to finish their orbit around the Sun. These...
Eagle Nebula: Amazing Pillars of Creation
The Hubble Space Telescope has revisited its most famous image, The Eagle Nebula. In this video, we can see the pictures of Eagle Nebula, or Pillars of Creation, made by using infrared light and...
The New Dwarf Galaxy Has Been Discovered
By using Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, astronomers have found a new galaxy in our closest neighborhood. This galaxy is one-thousandth of the Milky Way galaxy’s mass that has no shape and...
Beautiful Comet Lovejoy Has a Long, Blue Tail of 7 Million Km
Comet Lovejoy was closest to Earth on January 7th, and it now travels to its brightest position – to perihelion, the closest approach to the Sun. The comet will reach its brightest point on...
New Secrets of the Most Massive Star, Eta Carinae – NASA
Eta Carinae is the binary star system that represents the most massive stellar system 10.000 light-years away from Earth. In the XIX century, Eta Carinae generated an out of proportion eruption that creates huge...
The 5 Intriguing Space Events in the Coming Year
In the following video, Dr. Ian O’Neil from DNews explores the new space events that will happen in this year. The space exploration in 2015 begins with the New Horizons mission to Pluto and...
What Are the Sky Highlights for January 2015?
One of the biggest highlights for this month is the alignment of Jupiter’s moons. The video gives us detailed information on where to look for Jupiter in the night sky during this month.
The Oort Cloud Mysteries
The Oort cloud is a vast, distant sphere that contains billions of objects with a vast space between them. Even though scientists have never captured an image of the Oort cloud, they have firm...
Lunar Base Using 3D Printing
Lunar Base Using 3D Printing. Could astronauts one day be printing rather than building a base on the Moon? Recently, the London based architectural firm, Foster and Partners teamed up with the European Space Agency...
Earth Timelapses – Alexander Gerst
Earth Timelapses – Alexander Gerst. Earth timelapses in 4K created using photos taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst during his Blue Dot mission to the International Space Station that took place between May and November 2014.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Christmas Day Tweet
Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Christmas Day Tweet offends christians and this becomes his most ever retweet.
China and India Space Programs
A brief look at the history and future plans of the China and India space programs.
