Watching this makes you feel like a spiritual being travelling through the cosmos. Amazing how even a galaxy as big as our own can just be a point of light in the sky.
Watching this makes you feel like a spiritual being travelling through the cosmos. Amazing how even a galaxy as big as our own can just be a point of light in the sky.
Recently news broke out when a martian meteorite (founded in the Moroccan dessert in 2011) revealed information about water on Mars. Professor Agee (lead scientist on this research paper) is arguing that this meteorite, nicknamed “Black Beauty”, is a very special rock because it has characteristics of a basaltic breccia rock (or a rock that has fragments of other rocks combined together by a volcano) and that there is 10 times amount of water bounded to the rock than what is normally found in other Martian rocks. This meteorite has also been classified to date back to 2 billion years old which gives us an idea of when there could have been water. However, how do we know this rock truly indicates these findings? Well other martian rocks found back in 2005 have shown how they can be chemically altered by liquid water. Black Beauty matches those findings as well. This is the...
How humble a beautiful gas cloud in space looks. Amazing. This is one of the most beautiful space pictures I have seen. To be honest I haven’t seen even that many animations of gas clouds but just wow. What makes this really cool is that you are looking at a gas cloud that expands over 100 light years! This is where the birth of a star begins. This is its story that has yet unfolded. The attraction of the gravity from the mass of the hydrogen gas and the dirt will form a star. Depending on how much clumps together will of course depend on the size of the star. This is how it starts. This is how we started. Our humble beginnings.
Tonight and tomorrow night you will be able to see the Geminids meteor shower. It’s where we see a meteor shower pass through the constellation Gemini. You can see anywhere from 60-120 meteors per hour! Here let’s get started with some interesting facts about why I LOVE the Geminids meteor shower: 1) An Unexplained Meteor Shower One mind boggling thing about this meteor shower is that it’s UNLIKE no other! Usually most meteor showers are caused by debris from comets passing by (far away). This one has a parent asteroid called 3200 Phaethon. You would think that it’s this strange rock that’s causing all these meteors but actually it only makes up a very small fraction. It’s very very strange. They believe that this rock might have been broken off another larger asteroid and all the debris may have came along for the ride....
Here are the Coolest Science Videos of the day: The first one was shown to me by my favorite @BadAstronomer or Phil Plait. This is a video by a young guy in London. His videos are fun and random and it’s hard not to enjoy them. Check this out: Also the picture of Saturn’s eclipse he was talking about. You can even see Earth in the background photo bombing the picture haha. Click to enlarge! Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_eclipse.jpg This next video is for anyone who wants 1.5 hours of official Apollo footage. Check it here: http://www.dvidshub.net/unit/NASA#.UMOE2ZPjnvZ Last but not least I couldn’t help but post this awesome Carl Sagan video that recently popped up. It’s done with some great animation. Short but sweet. Pale Blue Dot from ORDER on Vimeo....