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How NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Will Touch the Sun
In the early hours of August 12, 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, beginning a historic seven-year journey to 'touch the sun.' From The New York Times: The P...
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...
NEBULAE – a cosmic meditation
Be sure to full screen this 10m42s computer-generated nebula by Teun van der Zalm, who creates 3D nebulae visualizations built from particle physics for VR games, visual effects films, and fulldome planetarium shows. ...
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...
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...
These Carnivorous Worms Catch Bugs by Mimicking the Night Sky
These slimy threads are 'fishing' lines in New Zealand's Waitomo Caves. The lures are the bioluminescent glow of Arachnocampa luminosa, or glow worms. Their carnivorous larvae create a starry night sky a half a mile d...
NASA’s SDO captures the Mercury Transit in time lapse
From 7:12am to 2:42pm ET on May 9, 2016, Mercury passed between Earth and the Sun, a rare occurrence called a transit. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured incredible footage of the closest planet to the s...