In the past few years the rise of crowdfunding has allowed for some pretty cool stuff to start existing, and today the SciShow’s Hank Green is excited to announce another awesome Kickstarter. Planetary Resources (of asteroid mining fame), in partnership with the Museum of Flight and The Planetary Society, is Kickstarting a space telescope. F’real.
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Getting ready for the advent of 4k TV. Revel in some of the highest resolution images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Even now you can see the detail now in these inspiring images, but be sure to check back when you have lined up your 4k monitor or TV in the coming years.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and Hubblecast bring you a new and detailed look at the famous Ring Nebula. The Ring’s distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, Sun-like star reveal a new twist.
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Gravity holds most of our atmosphere in place, but lighter elements, such as helium and hydrogen, are able to escape, dodging into space en route to the stars. H/T MinuteEarth
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While you can’t look directly into the sun without damaging your eyes, the Solar Dynamics Observatory posts a dazzling array of solar images on its website. Alex Dainis of Bite Sci-zed offers an overview of what you’ll find if you visit http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Cosmic Journeys examines the immense promise of the Voyager mission and where it will lead us in our grand ambition to move out beyond our home planet. The two Voyager spacecraft are now tens of billions of kilometers from Earth. As the spacecraft streak out into the void, what will we learn about the galaxy, the universe and ourselves?
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A new paper describes the largest structure in the Universe. The structure: A collection of quasars. H/T SixtySymbols
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Why did Earth thrive and our sister planet, Venus, die? From the fires of a sun’s birth… twin planets emerged. Then their paths diverged. Nature draped one world in the greens and blues of life. While enveloping the other in acid clouds, high heat and volcanic flows. Why did Venus take such a disastrous turn?
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Mission specialists with NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory announced that they have found, for the first time, evidence of an ancient environment on Mars that could have sustained life. Hank Green tells us the specifics in this special, super-exciting episode of SciShow News.
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Just how big is the universe? MinutePhysics presents a quick video that visualizes the vast scope of the universe.
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