There will be a blood moon tonight – a total lunar eclipse. It will be a long one too, lasting for about 100 minutes, that’s the longest since the year 2000. The ecplise starts at about 6:20pm BST (for UK readers) and about 11:20am PDT (for US readers) but, of course, there’s a catch. In […]
Impressive Star Wars galaxy map
This map is worth checking out. It’s not often you get sci-fi maps and even less often do they attempt to chart out a whole galaxy. That whole maps are 2d and galaxies are 3d thing tends to be the problem. Back in 2009 Dark House and LucasFilms tackled this challenge for Star Wars: The […]
Dear Pluto
I hope you’re not reading this from work because there are swear words here. You do have to feel for Ceres though. It’s had a tough ride over the last hundred or so years. If only it had a Twitter account when it mattered. What do you think? If you were Ceres PR agent what […]
Zoom towards the Orion Nebula
Just how good are the cameras and telescopes we have pointed into space? If you’re curious about the trip then we start off with a wide view of the constellation of Orion, move in through Orion’s sword and conclude with a detailed image of nebula itself. This image only managed to win seventh place in […]
Project Space Planes: 200 paper planes launched from space!
Geek Native first wrote about Project Space Planes back in October 2010. Back then Samsung had the plan of collecting messages on to SD cards, sticking them on paper planes and then dropping those planes from space. The goal? Show how robust the Samsung memory cards are by letting people find the planes and cards […]
Project Space Planes
Samsung really want to convince the world that their SD cards are worth paying attention too. In particular, they want to show you how indestructible they are. They’ve previous form here on Geek Native as this video that features a shark attack shows. The current plan is to make use of a weather balloon to […]
Magnetic map of the sun – amazing image
This was photo was taken by NASA. No surprise, huh? It was the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Compan, in fact, and it shows the magnetic field lines on the sun on August 20th in 2010. NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) is focused on helping us understand more about the sun. If you look at the […]
Our first spaceship shields are likely to be magnetic
Magnetic energy is pretty strong. We’ve all see it overcome gravity. In fact, as New Scientist is quick to point out; it’s a magnetic force that shields the planet from solar destruction. Since magnetic forces are something we understand, can manipulate and are powerful it seems like it’s not too crazy to speculate that the […]
NASA’s breathtaking Aurora Autralis observed from space
On their Earth Observatory site NASA have published a spectacular picture. Viewed from Earth the Aurora Australis is fantastic. Can you imagine what it would look like from space? This picture was taken from the International Space Station and is simply spectacular! Clicky, clicky to enjoy a larger picture.
Google impresses with Hubble Tour in Google Earth
Search engine Google has given all space geeks a real treat. They’ve combined their awesome map technology with footage from the Hubble Telescope. If you’re a Google Earth fan download the tour straight to your machine. With a flirt towards Star Trek fans Google describes this as the Final Frontier.
