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Category Archives: Astronomy
Explore the Sun with Helioviewer
As you might have seen elsewhere, there was a spectacular solar flare on June 7 caught on camera by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Unusually for such a powerful event, the ejected material fell back onto the surface of the … Continue reading
Astronaut’s view of the Earth
In this breathtaking video tour of the Earth, Dr Justin Wilkinson, from the Crew Earth Observations Office at the NASA Johnson Space Center, offers a personal view of the incredible landscape and weather features astronauts notice from space. The seven … Continue reading
Time lapse of Earth rotating under the night sky
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an array of four, movable optical telescopes operated by the European Southern Observatory in Chile. According to its Wikipedia entry the array is capable of seeing the gap between the headlights of a car … Continue reading
Most detailed 3-D map of the local universe unveiled
Smithsonian Science reports on the most complete map of local galaxies compiled thus far – in galactic terms local means within 380 million light years of us. Astronomers at the University of Portsmouth, England spent 10 years scanning the entire … Continue reading
Incredible high-res panorama of the night sky
The Photopic Sky Survey is an astonishingly detailed 360 degree panorama of the entire night sky. The 5 giga-pixel photo consists of 37,000+ exposures stitched together. Amazingly, it was all put together by just one person, Nick Risinger, who describes … Continue reading
Track the Space Shuttle in Google Earth
Endeavour is fuelled and scheduled for lift-off at 8:56 am EDT (1256 GMT) today, May 16, for what will be the penultimate space shuttle flight. To coincide with this NASA has rolled out a new, real-time tracker for Google Earth. … Continue reading
Shadows at the Moon’s south pole
This amazing image from NASA is a result of combing 1,600 photographs of the lunar south pole taken by the wide angle camera (WAC) on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. Described as a multi-temporal illumination map it illustrates the … Continue reading
50th anniversary of the first man in space
Today marks 50 years since Yuri Gagarin’s first orbit of the Earth. Released to coincide with this, First Orbit is a feature length movie using original footage and mission audio, combined with film looking at the Earth, taken from the … Continue reading
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