Multiverses – Brian Greene
Brian Greene explains how trying to answer the unanswered questions of the Universe has led to the theory of the ‘ Multiverse’. The ‘Multiverse’ is made up of many Universes like our own.
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The Strangest Things In The Universe – 2013
The more we learn the less we know. The strangest things in the Universe including alcohol clouds and comets which may have seeded our planet for life. httpv://youtu.be/-ffhp3COlgY Including organisms which may have survived...
First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013 – NASA
On May 12-13 the Sun erupted with an X1.7-class and an X2.8-class flare as well as two coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. Solar flares are classified as A, B, C, M or X according to...
Curiosity Rover Report – May 9, 2013
Here’s an update on Curiosity given by a Curiosity project team member. Mars has been on the other side of the Sun compared with Earth making communications difficult hence Curiosity has been having a...
Space Walk to Fix Ammonia Leak
Astronauts complete space walk to fix ammonia leak. A coolant pump was replaced and appears to be working fine. This video also includes an update from the NASA centres.
Planck Satellite Maps The Dawn Of Time
Just after the ‘big bang’ light was closely linked to matter, mapping light can tell us a lot ab out the structure of the early Universe. It turns out that the light map fits...
NASA Update – 11th May 2013
The latest update from the NASA centres with information on an ammonia leak on the ISS. Also included is information on the ‘Humans 2 Mars’ summit, which discussed the policy and technological challenges associated...
The Planet Mercury
An introduction to Mercury, the innermost planet in the Solar System and which orbits the Sun once in about 88 Earth days, completing three rotations about its axis for every two orbits. Mercury is one of...
Heliophysics Fleet Captures May 1, 2013 Prominence Eruption – NASA
Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). An active region just around the East limb (left edge) of the sun erupted with a huge cloud of solar material — a heated,...
When Two Galaxies Collide
The Chandra X-Ray Telescope has been used to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. Each of the galaxies is as big as our own...
IC 1101, The Largest Galaxy in the Universe
The smallest galaxies can be 200 million light years across. The largest galaxies in the Universe are ellipticals and can contain as many as a trillion stars. The largest galaxy we have ever seen...
Fermi’s Close Call With A Soviet Satellite – NASA
In 2012, the Goddard CARA team participated in collision-avoidance maneuvers for eight missions, which included the Fermi spacecraft which was in danger from being in collision with a Russian satellite. Fermi rockets were designed...
ESA, The Space Agency For Europe
An introduction to ESA, The European Space Agency. The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation, a cooperative coming together of its twenty Member States in their national interest and common good. Even though a...
The Journey of Light Through Time and Space
The Planck spacecraft scans the skies for the afterglow of the big bank that created the Universe. Here we follow the life of a proton as it travels through space and time. Planck is...
Mysterous Giant Hurricane on Saturn
A member of the Cassini imaging team talks about the mysterious hexagon that we posted about a couple of months ago. It appears that the centr eof the Hexagon is a hurricane that is...
China Launches ChinaSat 11
China successfully launched the ChinaSat 11 communications satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center with a with Long March 3B rocket and successfully entered it into geosynchronous orbit. httpv://youtu.be/hCrS0B3MvRM The communications satellite consists of C-band...
Astronomical Sights In May 2013
What’s happening in the sky this May 2013 by Jane Houston Jones from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Information on which astronomical sights will be available for viewing.
Strange Goings On Regarding Comet ISON!?
Is there some sort of coverup going on regarding comet ISON? When ISON was discovered it was being hailed as the Comet of the millenium. Could it be comet of the millenium in more...
