The first ever photograph of a black hole, and it looks like the Eye of Sauron
It looks like the Eye of Sauron due to a halo of superheated gas, glowing a dark red, falling into the inescapable hole at the centre of the phenomenon.
NASA highlights their favourite 3D-printed Mars habitats
NASA is running the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, paying out $3.15 million in prices to see what the best designs for buildings on other planets might be.
Mike McCraw’s Heliocentric
The Foil Four are Boxer, the dog, Campbell the hamster, Herman the tortoise and Verve the aloof monkey.
This d20 is forged from a meteorite
Gil Ramirez is a blacksmith known as the Vlogsmith on YouTube and he likes to make interesting dice. His most recent project took a meteorite and made a d20.
The dice was electro-etched to carve in the numbers on each face.…
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr and deadly space porn
Neocore’s forthcoming Warhammer 40K open RPG looks amazing. Inquistor: Martyr is set in the Caligari Sector of space, where whole regions can get blocked off from the rest of the Empire at times and where shadows lurk.
You’re an Inquisitor in this persistent and open world sandbox of an RPG.…
Short film: Death in Space
Thomas Lucas is onto a winner. This animation is a series of 2 second scenes and people die in each one. What’s not to like?
The whole video was put together by Tom in his spare time.…
This black velvet space cake is full of stars
It’s called a black velvet nebula cake, it’s made by Sprinkle Bakes and is full of stars.
Inspired by pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope the cake has 5 ounces of white confetti sprinkles in the batter.…
Short film: Lone
An astronaut sets off on a search for life another planet. With no sign of life anywhere nearby; what a gamble to make. This short animation does a great job at remind us how huge space it and how lonely a trip away from Earth would be.
Time to watch one more?…
New Shepard makes space history as the first reusable rocket ship
Sit back and watch New Shepard, 110,000 LBs of thrust, mach 3.72, 100 KM in height and a perfect landing.
The company Blue Origin is owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and they’ve just become the first to create a reusable space rocket.…
A look at Xtronaut: The Game of Solar System Exploration
This Geek Native post has a look at some of the Gravity Assist cards from the Kickstarting Xtronaut. Xtronaut is designed by Dante Lauretta who actually led NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return.…
