Glowing Samples
We did a cool experiment last Wednesday about the UV properties of various liquids. It yielded this very cool picture which looks like something from science fiction.
Tag Archives: Cool
The Font Sizes of the Planets
A nifty graphic showing the sizes of the planets, moons, comets, asteroids and plutoids in relative font sizes. Best viewed very large!
Photo of a Light Wave
Researchers have found a way to generate the shortest-ever flash of light. It was just 80 attoseconds long. That’s 80 billionths of a billionth of a second.
A 6,000 Mile Telescope
May 22 marked a live demo of the first four-continent, Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations.
“VLBI uses multiple radio telescopes to simultaneously observe the same region of sky. Essentially creating a giant instrument as big as the separation of the dishes. VLBI can generate images of cosmic radio sources with up to 100 times better resolution [...]
IYA 2009 Trailer
Trailers seem to be the ‘in thing’ these days. There is a (very long) trailer for the BLAST experiment’s movie somewhere out on the internet. Today, this very nice trailer popped up in my Twitter feed from Stuart at Astronomy Blog. It’s for the International Year of Astronomy, also known as 2009. This is going [...]
Nebulae in 3D
This is more art than science, but it is very pretty. Stereoscopic 3D images give full colour and allow each nebula to show another dimension of beauty.
Eagle Nebula in Two Wavelengths
We just had a great star formation talk from Professor Ralf Klessen from the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the Center for Astronomy at Heidelberg University. During that talk he put up a great slide showing the famous Pillars of Creation from the Eagle Nebula (M16) in both infrared and the optical.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=k31QZcQK6SA[/youtube]
Inspired, and looking for [...]
10 Awesome Space Wallpapers
Here are some of my personal favourite wallpapers for your desktop (and iPhone). Sizes 1900×1200, 1024×768, 1280×800 and 800×600 are all here to fill your eyes with spacey goodness. Let your own scattering of icons sit amongst glorious nebula and spectacular scenes!
I usually have a nice space picture as my computer’s desktop wallpaper. Today someone [...]
SpaceShipTwo Unveiled
Yes, I’m little last to the game on this one, but since loads of kids have asked me about it this week, I thought I’d post. Virgin has revealed the design on SpaceShipTwo (hint: it looks like a big version of SpaceShipOne) which will be flying paying customers into sub-orbital flight very soon.
Starting in 2010, [...]
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