This is an 8-hour Youtube video just released by NASA in the form of a traditional yule log video, except it’s an untraditional rocket engine instead. I’m already warming my hands against my computer screen! Just what you need for the holidays… the coziness of a crackling and roaring rocket

This is a visualization created by Red Side comparing the speed of the fastest manmade vehicles and other objects in different categories (e.g. fastest motorcycle, fastest jet aircraft, fastest space probe). It provides both 1st and 3rd person views, and begins with the fastest vehicles ever driven on Mars, the

This is an informative video from Peter Schmiedchen of What If? detailing how many Earths could fit inside the planets in our solar system that are larger than Earth, and how many of Earth’s moons could fit inside the planets that are smaller than Earth. I learned a lot by

Gatsby, a rescue cat affectionately known as Galaxy Kitty (links to his Instagram with a million videos), is a tuxedo cat with vitiligo, an autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose their pigment, resulting in Gatsby’s galactic coloration. Gatsby and his sister (with normal coloration) were rescued together

This is a video from Youtube channel What If detailing the science of what life would be like on Earth if it was somehow shaped like a giant pizza slice. Apparently life would not be that great. Thank goodness it’s shaped like an entire pizza, am I right?! “Tell me

Because space is totally nuts (I know because I’ve been there), this is a timelapse video of the aurora borealis as viewed from the International Space Station. FUN FACT: did you know the Northern Lights are actually the souls of everyone who died recently escaping the planet? Thanks for coming

These are charts of all the movies in the Star Wars saga (the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, and the sequel trilogy) detailing how much screentime each major character got. There’s also a chart at the very bottom with the characters’ screentimes across ALL the movies. I learned a lot

A Chinese Tianlong-3 rocket was recently undergoing a stationary engine test when it became unmoored from the test platform and took to the skies. “But I thought this is what you wanted!” I imagine it thinking to itself. The rocket blasted off beautifully before its onboard computers were remotely shut