NASA has detected this unusual molecular phenomenon called a buckyball. Many of us have seen the magnetic and metallic game sets with the similar name: The Spitzer Space Telescope has located some elusive carbon molecules floating in space. Called “Buckyballs,” due to their resemblance to architect Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, these three-dimensional, spherical structures are…
Cool Video On The “Invisible Universe”
Using the Hubble space telescope we have been able to view formations that were previously impossible to detect: Twenty-five years ago, NASA launched one of the most ambitious experiments in the history of astronomy: the Hubble Space Telescope. In honor of Hubble’s landmark anniversary, NOVA tells the remarkable story of the telescope that forever changed…
Record Breaking Flare From Black Hole
Black holes can shoot out jets of energy and they may have detected a record breaking amount: On June 14, record-breaking high energy light was detected by sensors on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. This event was caused by a disturbance, 5 billion years ago, near 3C 279’s supermassive black hole and it’s just reaching…
New Horizon Makes Its Closest Fly By To Pluto Today July 14
Clearer pics of the mysterious planet at the edge of our solar system have been taken and sent back to earth! The shape on the surface looks like a heart wow. Here is more about the news happening today July 14: The New Horizons spacecraft has made its closest approach to Pluto – and by tonight,…
Big Bang Evidence Is Examined…But What Came Before The Big Bang?
This video debates and presents some interesting evidence about gravitational waves, which have implications about a possible big bang. The question always comes up though, what created the big bang and what came before it, and before it etc.? BICEP2 has recently uncovered direct evidence for gravitational waves. What are gravitational waves and why is…
Is There Life on Pluto?
The first pics from the New Horizon mission are starting to come in and they are showing some unexpected formations. The closest fly by is happening tomorrow: New Horizons conducts humanity’s very first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moons. The closest approach for New Horizons is set for Tuesday, July 14th at 11:49 UT/7:49 AM…
Our Solar System From An Alien’s View
We have all seen models of our solar system, and with the new pics from Pluto sent by the New Horizon, even more detail of the planets themselves. What would our solar system look like from an alien point of view though? From NASA Astrophysics… a supercomputer simulation shows how alien astronomers might have seen…
This Black Hole Is Absolutely Enormous
Everyone does know that black holes are the super large matter and light eaters at the center of galaxies (or at least that’s what many think they are). This recent spotting of a certain black hole is so big, astronomers are having to change their theories and equations regarding what they think they know to…
NASA May Want To Put Robots On The Moon
Is this a good idea? NASA wants to potentially not just put a robot or robots on the moon but actually “terraforming” part of the surface: Located on the moon’s South Pole, Shackleton Crater isn’t just prime real estate for terraforming experiments, it’s Optimus Prime real estate. NASA wants to fill the crater with solar-powered…
Is This The First Image Of An Alien Friendly Planet?
wait…WHAT? This video examines the spotting of an “alien planet”. That doesn’t mean they have seen aliens, it implies that it could be habitable by life forms (at least by our limited understanding of biology). It is from ESA’s Hubblecast and it is incredible that they are able to share pictures that were previously unattainable!…
What’s The Smallest Thing In The Universe?
Many videos cover the largest distances that we can even imagine measured in light years! However this one examines: the smallest unit of measurement in the Universe, the Planck Length. What is Planck Length? Is this just a subatomic particle, theory or something else? Here is a wikipedia excerpt about Max Planck: Planck made many contributions…
Huge Universal Explosions Powered By Magnets
This new observation and theory about gamma ray bursts is fascinating and it involves magnetism: Observations from ESO’s La Silla and Paranal Observatories in Chile have for the first time demonstrated a link between a very long-lasting burst of gamma rays and an unusually bright supernova explosion. The results show that the supernova was not…
Pluto’s First Pic From New Horizon
The first incredible images from the Horizon Probe albeit small have been taken of Pluto by NASA: Pluto is over 3 billion miles away from Earth, smaller than the moon, has an average surface temperature over 200 degrees below freezing (in Celsius!), and isn’t even really a “planet” anymore, technically. But pretty soon you’re going…
NASA Conceptual Images From Our Sun’s Core
This is an awesome video that examines not just light from the sun, but from its core: These exquisite images are a must see at full resolution. Space imagery from NASA’s Conceptual Image Lab. An elegant interaction powers the sun, producing the light and energy that makes life possible. That interaction is called fusion, and…
Building Blocks of Planets Have Been Spotted – First Time Ever
Wow the building blocks of planets before they form have been discovered for the first time ever. We all know planets as spherical, rock/gas formations and this is an incredible breakthrough: A team of astronomers led from St Andrews and Manchester universities today (6 July) announced the discovery of a ring of rocks circling a very…
Evidence of Two Large Planets Near Pluto
Astronomers have found an earth like planet at an incredibly close distance to Pluto: Two newly found large Planets in the solar system revealed a Massive”Super-Earth” x10 Beyond Pluto – New Evidence It’s certain that there is a massive object up to ten times larger than our planet.just beyond Pluto. It sort of shows how…
Will The Universe Ever End?
This video debates a very interesting question about space: The End of the Universe: Big Crunch, Big Freeze or Big Rip? The universe seems to be expanding by red shift observations and observing through radio telescopes. And there is the theory that there is so much dark matter that it will eventually come back in and…
Does This Comet Show Evidence of Alien Life?
some of the findings may surprise you… Many have seen the pyramid like shape on the Ceres mini planet/asteroid in the last few weeks and taken that as a sign of possible alien life. This discovery here may even be stronger evidence suggesting that we are not alone! Evidence of alien life is “unequivocal” on…
Mars Atmosphere – Was It Once Like Ours?
Why has the planet Mars generated so much interest compared to others in our solar system? The theories that it once (or even currently) has some organism on the surface or below are abundant. Here’s some info on the video and about the MAVEN mission: News from NASA on the upcoming Mars mission, MAVEN. While…
How Big Is The Universe?
Incredible philosophical and astro physics question. Does the universe go to infinity? Many will reference the big bang but what about the creation of the big bang itself? What about before the big bang? This video examines these questions: How far do the stars stretch out into space? And what’s beyond them? In modern times,…
