This is a video featuring the late great astronomer Carl Sagan reading the popular excerpt from his 1994 book ‘Pale Blue Dot’, set to the classical music piece ‘Spiegel im Spiegel’ by Arvo Pärt for extra poignancy. The original photo, which features earth as seen from a distance of some
This is a timelapse video from Youtube channel Star Wars: Tales Untold imagining how a Death Star might be constructed, using the computer magic of Kling AI. Or, who knows, maybe many Bothans died to bring them the actual schematics. I zoomed and enhanced the whole video, and now I’m
Seven years in the making, this is a video of BuildsByBaz’s lifesize (28-foot) replica of a Colonial Viper Mark II spaceship from Battlestar Galactica. It’s glorious. Could you imagine sitting in the cockpit of that thing making pew-pew noises to yourself? That’s what my dreams are made of. Just kidding,
To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in service, this is a video detailing a 2.5-billion pixel composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy, stitched together from 600 individual photos take by the telescope over ten years. Absolutely stunning (like you, or if you’re a dude: total stud). The Andromeda
Rarely captured on camera (and even more rarely heard — this is possibly the first), this is a home security camera clip of a meteorite crashing into a home’s stone walkway on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Is the sound as cool as I’d hoped it would be? EVEN COOLER.
This is a 3D visualization created by Global Data featuring the scale of various objects in the universe, beginning with subatomic particles, then covering animals and manmade objects and landmarks we’re all familiar with here on earth before traveling into space, ending with the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. The Great
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 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