Gravity: I wish it wasn’t so strong on earth. But only for me, I wish it was doubly strong for everyone else. But enough daydreaming about me leapfrogging over everyone all day, this is a visualization created by planetary space scientist James O’Donoghue comparing the gravity on various bodies of
Seen here channeling his inner Dog The Bounty Hunter, this is a video of billionaire Richard Branson delivering an inspirational message to children from his recent trip to suborbital space aboard the Virgin Space Ship Unity. In his own words while I daydream about floating in space instead of a
These are a couple beautiful timelapse videos released by the European Space Agency (ESA) of astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough spacewalking while installing new solar arrays on the International Space Station. Thank goodness neither one of them got hit by one of those rotating arrays and got booted out
This is a video captured by Eagle, Idaho resident and stargazer Jordan Ragsdale of a blazing meteor that briefly lights up the 11PM night sky even brighter than daylight. Pretty wild, right? Of course that wasn’t really a meteor, that was aliens. And it makes sense they’d want to land
Because rich people have nothing better to spend their money on, a bottle of 2000 Pétrus merlot is expected to fetch around a cool million from the Private Sales auction website operated by Christie’s. The bottle (which typically sells for around $6,000) was among 11 others that spent 14 months
Because who can ever get enough visual asteroid size comparison videos, this is another from MetaBallStudio featuring a bunch of different sized asteroids, some real, some fictional, but all pale in comparison to the size of Uranus. Literally — the largest asteroid in the video is the fictional Texas-sized one
This is an animation created using several real satellite images captured by the DSCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and telescope as the moon transitions earth. The images were taken at a distance of approximately 1,000,000 miles from the planet and feature a glimpse of the far side (aka
This is another size comparison video from MetaBallStudios (previously), this time comparing the size of various fictional planets found in popular culture from smallest to largest diameter. And also to things that actually exist in reality, like “New York City, Earth, the Earth’s moon, other planets in our solar system,