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A Quick Overview As aspiring astrophysicists we like to explore theory about how our universe behaves. By now it is no secret that astrobiologists believe that life outside of our own home planet may exist in the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn. The amazing fact about this is that we currently have the technology … Continue reading »
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Fifty years ago, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Continue reading →
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The Andromeda Galaxy
One of the stranger concepts in modern astronomy is Dark Matter. Developed to explain certain discrepancies in the motions of stars within galaxies, it says that there must be a significant mass of material distributed widely through and around galaxies which we cannot detect from here on Earth - it's "dark". There is another theory, though, called Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). The idea is that Newton's laws of gravity, accurate and reliable as they are, are
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Former Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, David Kappos, addressed the so-called “patent wars” impacting the software industry before he left the office. With fresh court decisions on this matter, I thought it was time to re-address this issue as well. In his remarks he acknowledged several concerns about patent quality, he also … Continue reading »
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Over the past half a century, duct tape has been keeping NASA's astronauts alive, putting airplanes back together, making race cars speedier and patching up millions of fix-it projects. It's even been used to remove warts. But the makers of duct tape aren't resting on their stick …
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There has been a lot of talk about Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, over the last few decades being the best candidate for life in the solar system (other than earth of course). Researchers at NASA/JPL and the Angstrom Space Technology Centre (ASTC) of Uppsala University in Sweden have announced the concept of a tiny submarine, […]
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Enjoy some of the most inspiring, beautiful and down-right stunning photos from our adventures in space this past week.
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Lake Vostok is one of the largest, coldest, and deepest lakes on Earth, located underneath a Russian research station in Antarctica. This lake is considered one of the few primordial lakes in existence Furthermore, the lake is kept safely under a thick layer of ice, a few kilometers deep. The temperatures are so extreme in … Continue reading »
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I can remember at the beginning of this solar cycle everyone was complaining about the lack of activity. Well, there is activity in spades right at the moment. The number of solar flares and sunspots increase and decrease approximately every 11 years (one solar cycle). The Sun is currently moving towards solar maximum sometime in … Continue reading »
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Stop whatever you are doing, make this full screen, and prepare to be awed: This time-lapse video of a supercell storm cloud rotating over Texas is far and away the most amazing thing you’ll see today.
Yes, that’s real.
A supercell is a rotating thundercloud; the spinning vortex in the middle is called a mesocyclone. Conditions need to be just so to create one. First you need a wind shear, where wind blows faster in one spot than another, so a blanket of air is flowing over another one.
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Our Fulldome Video Wins an Award
Last week I was in Germany at the international Jena Fulldome Festival, held at the Zeiss Planetarium. The Festival is a great way to see lots of fulldome videos (my company, Loch Ness Productions creates fulldome videos as part of our work in science and astronomy outreach).
This year we entered [...]
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Podcaster: Fraser Cain, David Dickinson, Jason Major Title: Weekly Space Hangout: Astronomy Highlight on June 7th Link : http://cosmoquest.org You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/fSxl-v6teMA This audio has been aired in live streaming on June 7th, 2013 Description: The Weekly Space Hangout is your round-up of the top news stories in space and astronomy from our expert journalists, scientists, and space aficionados. Bio: Fraser Cain, Publisher of Universe Today; David Dickinson, […]
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The House Science Committee’s space subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for the morning of Wednesday, June 19, titled “NASA Authorization Act of 2013.” The two scheduled witnesses are familiar faces for the committee: retired Lockheed Martin executive Tom Young and Cornell University planetary scientist Steve Squyres, who also chairs the NASA Advisory Council. The House [...]
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Sometime in the early afternoon on Tuesday, a fire started northeast of Colorado Springs, Colo., in Black Forest. It grew rapidly, and as I write this, it has consumed well over 15,000 acres of forest—that’s more than 60 square kilometers or 20 square miles. Two people are confirmed dead, and the fire has destroyed 360 homes, making it the most destructive in Colorado history. (Last year’s devastating Waldo Canyon fire destroyed 347 homes.) About 38,000 people, an immense number, have
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this is a very nice piece of art, which must have required steady skill and patience to create. i also like the sense of humor shown in the last image of "the moon".
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Today is brought to you by caffeine, vitamin D, and serotonin. That is all.
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Even by celestial standards, the span between a newly found suspected baby planet and its host star is astronomical. Continue reading →
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Nel libro che mi piace segnalare oggi, Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe, edito dalla Princeton University Press, gli autori Jeremiah P. Ostriker e Simon Mitton descrivono l’incredibile saga che […]
