“It was a feeling that went throughout the world, almost like an electric bolt,” one woman remembers of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The lunar landing, which celebrates its 50th anniversary on July 20, is collectively remembered in the film by a handful of the 530 million people who watched the event live on national…
Space
Science/Nature, Space
The Search for a Ninth Planet
by JOHN ADAMS •
Space, Technology
How Advanced Would Aliens Need to Be to Contact Earth?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Nature, Space
The Night’s Sky for October 2016
by JOHN ADAMS •
Science/Nature, Space
The End of Darkness
by JOHN ADAMS •
Science/Nature, Space
A Simulation of the Milky Way
by JOHN ADAMS •
At Caltech, they’ve published a video simulation of the Milky Way: Animation of our Milky Way galaxy based on a detailed supercomputer simulation. The movie zooms in and out of the galaxy, showing what it would look like in visible wavelengths. Blue regions are young star clusters which have blown away the gas and dust…
Nature, Space
The Night’s Sky for September 2016
by JOHN ADAMS •
Nature, Space
Lost in Light
by JOHN ADAMS •
Nature, Space
The Night’s Sky of August 2016
by JOHN ADAMS •
Space, Technology
NASA Tests New Rocket Engine
by JOHN ADAMS •
NASA enjoyed a successful test of a heavy rocket, and both the federal agency and private enterprise are pushing ahead with rockets powerful enough to support a mission to Mars. A booster for the most powerful rocket in the world, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), successfully fired up Tuesday for its second qualification ground test…
Poll, Space
Friday Poll: Offer for a Meteorite
by JOHN ADAMS •
$20,000 for a Meteorite In Portland, Maine, the a police officer’s dashcam captured video of a meteorite streaking across the sky. A museum that plans to open next year has now offered a reward of $20,000 for anyone who can find and deliver to the museum a significant part of the meteorite. For today’s question:…
Space, Technology
Blue Origin Rocket Landing
by JOHN ADAMS •
New Shepard flight on April 2, 2016 showing flight of the booster from just ahead of reentry through descent and landing. Video is from the GH2 vent camera located just below the booster’s ring fin. Via Blue Origin YouTube Channel.
Nature, Space
Mercury’s Transit Across the Sun
by JOHN ADAMS •
NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory tracked Mercury making a rare transit across the face of the Sun [on May 9th]. The last time this event happened was in 2006, and NASA predicts it will happen again in 2019. Via CNN @ YouTube.
Space
360 View of SpaceX Rocket Landing
by JOHN ADAMS •
Using the direction pad in the upper left corner of the video, viewers can watch a SpaceX rocket landing from multiple angles, including watching from below as the rocket descends —
