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Topic: milky way
Aurora Australis in the polar night sky
As of 2018, astrophysicist Robert Schwarz has spent eight winters in a row at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, 14 in total, where he works as a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observatory operator and technici...
Voyage To the Core, a 4K Milky Way time lapse
There’s something fascinating about our own home galaxy... To me the central part of the milky way is the most spectacular sight of the night sky. It’s something you can clearly see with the naked eye when you are awa...
How NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Will Hunt Exoplanets
Since the 1995 confirmation of exoplanet 51 Pegasi b, the word exoplanet—a planet orbiting another star—has become a part of the vernacular. And thanks to technologies like the 2009-launched Kepler spacecraft, we've c...
The Big Dipper Through Time
Stars aren’t still--they move through space. Our Sun and the seven stars that form the Big Dipper in the constellation Ursa Major all orbit the center of the Milky Way at different speeds. So why do today’s constellat...
FlightLapse #01 – MilkyWay, a time lapse view from the cockpit
On a flight from Zurich, Switzerland to Sao Paulo, Brazil, airline pilot and film producer Sales Wick captured a stunning flight time lapse view from the cockpit of a Boeing 777. FlightLapse #01 - MilkyWay begins over...
POLI’AHU, a time lapse at Mauna Kea’s Astronomical Observatories
SkyGlowProject.com presents POLI'AHU, a time lapse trip above the clouds to Mauna Kea in Hawaii, an inactive volcano 14,000 feet above sea level. Much of the mountain is under water; when measured from its oceanic bas...
On Light Pollution: The End of Darkness
What is it like to be really in the dark? Not the dark of your closet, or the dark of your room at night, but the deep darkness of there being no electricity for miles and miles around you. If there was no light pollu...
The Blind Astronomer of Nova Scotia
Tim Doucette is legally blind, yet he sees the stars better than most people. A childhood diagnosis of congenital cataracts forced doctors to remove Doucette's lenses and widen his pupils. That left the amateur astron...
How Far Can We Go? Limits of Humanity – Kurzgesagt
Is there a border we will never cross? Are there places we will never be able to reach, no matter how hard we try? It turns out there are. Even with science fiction technology, we are trapped in our pocket of the univ...
Why every picture of a black hole is an illustration – Vox
No one has ever seen a black hole. There have been illustrations and computer simulations, but not even astronomers have seen a black hole... yet. In the spring of 2017, we might see... something. As a part of...
The GPS-navigated rolling of the dung beetle
From all across the galaxy, the light of billions of stars finds its way to Earth, passes through our atmosphere, and enters the eyes of a small South African beetle rolling a ball of dung. The beetle’s eyes are not s...
Taking the very first picture of a black hole – Black Hole Hunters
From the excellent Out There series from The New York Times: Black Hole Hunters, the story of the Earth-sized array of observation stations synchronized to capture Sagittarius A*, the astronomical radio source at the ...
Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea: Our home supercluster
Our home planet, Earth, circles the sun. The sun, our star, is but one of billions of stars in the Milky Way, our home galaxy... and beyond that? Where on the map of the cosmos is the Milky Way? For the first time, we...
The Solar System — our home in space
Take a trip through The Solar System — our home in space in this Kurzgesagt animation by information designer Philipp Dettmer.
How our Earth and solar system were formed
How our Earth and solar system were formed, from The Universe With Stephen Hawking - The Story of Everything. (Narrated by Stephen Hawking and Benedict Cumberbatch.)
Alien Matter in the Solar System
“Alien matter" detected by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Earth shows that the chemical make-up of our solar system differs from that of the surrounding galaxy. Watch more vi...
A night time lapse of Comet Lovejoy
Night Time Lapse of Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) rising above the Andes near Santiago de Chile, 23rd December 2011, just before sunrise. Set of 4 sequences taken with different lenses “...
Landscapes – Exploring Arizona and Utah in time lapse
Landscapes: Volume Two — the second of three, with notes here — features stunning images of Arizona and Utah, including time lapse skies filled with stars. Via @brainpicker.
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