Thanks to the awesome dudes and dudettes at New Scientist we’ve got YouTube access to some pretty breathtaking new pictures of the sun. Close up pictures. Pictures that show the swirl of super heated gas, flares and features. IO9 would call this “sun porn”.
An introduction to inflatable spacecraft
“You can think of it as going from a pencil to a coke can after expansion,” says one of the experts promoting the idea of inflatable spacecraft. No prizes for guessing that the next question from the lips of the New scientist reporter is, “Is it safe?” Turns out, the argument is, that inflatable fabric […]
Take a tour of a black hole
This video comes to us care of New Scientist. They’d call it an education. I call it space pr0n! If you do want to see what it would like to fly torwards a black hole, using rockets to try and slow your approach, then I recommend you go with the simulation option!
What if? … the Earth had rings like Saturn
I do like geeky what if scenarios (What if I invented a what if machine…). Here’s a good one. What would it look like if the planet Earth had rings like Saturn? This video shows you. If the Earth had rings like Saturn then the sky at night would look cool. You might sometimes think […]
Awesome new photographs of our solar system
The Big Picture has published a collection of new photographs taken of our solar system. Some of the photographs have been made by the Cassini spacecraft, as it orbits Saturn and looks back towards the sun and others come from the SOHO satellite.
Hubble upgraded: fantastic new images
Servicing Mission 4 was a dramatic makeover for the Hubble telescope. How dramatic? The following pictures speak for themselves as they let you compare like-for-like shots taken 7 years apart. The upgrade makes the telescope far more sensitive to light. The result is pretty clear; Hubble becomes a much better telescope. Hat to tip to […]
