The first episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, narrated by astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson, will be airing on Fox on Sunday, March 9th, at 9pm. This is indeed the follow-up to the 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, presented by Carl Sagan, and with Neil deGrasse Tyson at the helm, it can’t...
Douglas Adams once said, “Space is big. Really big. ” And the following interactive should help demonstrate “just how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” (Just use the scroll bar to zoom in and out, and you can click on things too). Interactive by Cary Huang — be sure to...
NASA has released some new Hubble deep field images (apparent done in conjunction with Spitzer), which once again goes to show that, in the immortal words of Douglas Adams, space is big… really big. These images show a vast number of galaxies (every point of light is, in fact, a galaxy)...
Gemini cricket! This is the first image of an extra-solar planet taken by the Gemini Planet Imager. It is a 10 million year old planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris, which is about 63 light years from Earth. Called Beta Pictoris b, the planet is a “super Jupiter” gas giant, several times the...
Check out this video ,”The World Outside My Window”, a time-lapses of Earth from the International Space Station. Epic. Beautiful. Majestic. And if you liked that one, you’ll also like this one, “All Alone in the Night”:
At last, one of science fiction’s greatest classics (modern classics anyway) comes to the big silver screen! Come this November, I think we’ll be seeing what a real far future space war would be like. Orson Scott Card is said to be a co-producer, so here’s hoping that Ender’s Game...
In 1980, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos aired on PBS — a phenomenal and ground breaking science show which brought knowledge of the universe to millions (or dare I say… “Billions and Billions…”). In 2014, Cosmos shall return again, hosted by famed astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson. Check it out!
Check out this great 40 minute interview and Q&A with famed astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson. And if you still haven’t gotten enough of Neil deGrasse Tyson, take a look at these great StarTalk videos.
The White House has just rejected a modest proposal to secure resources and funding to begin construction of a Death Star by 2016. White House science and technology adviser Paul Shawcross shot down the idea sighting the $850 quadrillion dollar price tag, plus pointing out that the Death Star has...
The year 2012 marked the first achievement for private space ventures with SpaceX’s docking of their Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station (which they in fact did twice). This year (2013), private companies like SpaceX, Sierra Nevada, XCOR, and Virgin Galactic are gearing up to make even greater...
