In news that’s surely been highly anticipated by the alien hunting community, NASA has just revealed the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, capable of capturing incredibly distant galaxies only visible in the infrared spectrum (you can read more about the select images HERE). How about that! So,
This is a video of Paul Stuart providing a fascinating and informative in-depth tour of the Space Shuttle Discovery, including what everybody REALLY wants to see: the interior, AKA where all the magic happens. Not unlike my bedroom. *wink* Honey, back me up. “He tries to impress me with his
Note: Video is not for the easily motion sick. This is a first person POV video from a projectile launched by SpinLaunch, an upstart company that aims (for the heavens!) to shoot small satellites and other space-bound equipment into the atmosphere using a giant centrifuge (aka suborbital mass accelerator). The
This is a timelapse video captured from the backyard of a stargazer in the White Mountains of Arizona featuring the Milky Way moving across the sky (plus some shooting stars!) over the course of an evening. Their living room light is also heavily featured, and more than a little distracting.
This is a computer simulation of a pallet of wood being dropped on a car to visually compare the effect of gravity on different planets in our solar system. Is it accurate? Hell if I know. It was fun to watch though. And if it is accurate, I actually learned
Five college friends in Arizona launched a GoPro into space via weather balloon from the rim of the Grand Canyon, planning to track its location when it returned to earth via an attached phone’s GPS. Unfortunately, at some point during its 1 hour 38 minute trip to an altitude of
Because a television character is only as good as their best catchphrase, this is another Star Trek compilation video assembled by Youtuber John DiMarco (previously), this time featuring all the “I’m a doctor, not a…” lines in Star Trek: The Original Series, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, First Contact, and Enterprise.
This is an absolutely magnificent 4K video of earthrise as seen from the moon, created by Youtube user Seán Doran using images captured by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kaguya Orbiter. It features several different angles too. What a trip — Earth looks so small. If you squint though you