In where’s double rainbow guy when you need him news, this is a video of a rainbow that appeared during a lightning storm when the whole sky was pink. So — what DOES it all mean? “The end of the world.” *hugging lightning rod* It’s the only answer.
This is a video of Youtuber Kurtis Baute using a 13,799 piece, 300-meter long domino maze to tell the history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the present, sad bang. Obviously, the dominos are a metaphor for time, with each individual piece falling representing the passing of a
This is a video of “Celui qui tombe” (“He Who Falls”) by Yoann Bourgeois, a piece of acrobatic performance art that takes place on a giant rotating turntable, set to Frank Sinatra’s rendition of ‘My Way’. It’s a little weird, but I believe it’s a representation of life and the
This is a very worthwhile video of the first ‘footage’ of Mars rendered in 4K resolution, using composite images captured by Mars rovers Spirit and Curiosity to create panoramas of the red planet. It is really something. SOMETHING FULL OF ALIENS. Quick, toss me my laser blaster! *fumbles with blaster,
This is a video created by Dr James O’Donoghue of the relative sidereal rotation periods of planets in 2-D. Sidereal meaning relative to background stars, of course. “Of course.” As you can see– “Uranus is backwards.” Like a front-butt? I don’t think so. No, what I was going to say
Using data collected from the eROSITA (Extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) instrument aboard the German–Russian satellite Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma over the past six months, a group of researchers have created this x-ray map of the universe in an attempt to help calculate how fast the universe is expanding. Some
This is ‘A Decade Of Sun’, a timelapse of the sun using photos captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Each day of the past ten years is represented by a single second of footage, with 24 frames/second (each frame one real-time hour), for a total of 61-minutes of retina-melting
This is Starsounds, an ambient music track created by composer Brian Eno (who, FUN FACT: actually coined and popularized the term ambient music) using the infrasound acoustic waves stars produce, which have been sped up to be heard by human ears. That’s cool. You know what would be even cooler?