Most Detailed Map ever of our Universe
This image of our Universe acquired by ESA’s Planck space telescope, was just released revealing the existence of features that challenge the foundations of our current understanding of the Universe. Is the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang.
The Most Astounding Fact
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked in an interview with TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer…
Nomad Project- Mobile Skyscrapers to Terraform Mars
Nomad Project consisting of mobile skyscrapers to terraform Mars, by changing the atmospheric and soil chemistry of the Red Planet, to make it hospitable for human colonization.
How Big is the Universe?
How Big is the Universe? It has NO Edge. And NO Center… or does it? To find out, check out the video…
Clouds Comet and Crescent Moon
A magic moment. Colorful evening twilight, clouds, comet and crescent moon, captured by talented astrophotographer Babak Tafreshi. The scene captures naked-eye Comet PanSTARRS peeking into northern hemisphere skies on March 12. Image © Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)
How to see Comet PANSTARRS
For those in search of comet PANSTARRS, look to the west after sunset in early and mid-March. This graphic shows the comet’s expected positions in the sky. Check out the videos… Image © NASA
Evidence for a Habitable Ancient Mars by Curiosity
Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon – some of the key chemical ingredients for life – in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on Mars last month. Image © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Earth’s most Powerful ALMA Telescope goes online
On 13 March 2013 the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), most Powerful Telescope, the largest astronomical project in the world, will be inaugurated in Chile, celebrating ALMA’s transition from a construction project to a fully fledged observatory. Image © Almaobservatory
Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun
Eruptive events on the Sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material (called a coronal mass ejection – CME), and some with complex moving structures in association with changes in magnetic field lines that loop up into the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona. On July 19, 2012, an eruption occurred on the sun that produced all three. Watch the video…
PanSTARRS over Parkes
Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4), sweeping quickly through southern skies toward the western horizon in this twilight scene. The foreground is Australia’s CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, a 64 meter wide steerable dish. Image © John Sarkissian (CSIRO Parkes Observatory)
