Peer into the universe’s deep unknowns to explore the mysteries of dark matter and energy. Premiering May 30, 2018 at 9/8c on PBS The universe is hiding something. In fact, it is hiding a lot. Everything we experience on Earth, the stars and galaxies we see in the cosmos—all the […]
Planet Nine’s existence is not the first time astronomers have predicted a planet they couldn’t see. Clyde Tombaugh was looking for Planet X when he accidentally found Pluto. After Voyager 2 flew by Neptune in 1989, new calculations determined there was no Planet X. But three years ago, a disturbance […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/the-james-webb-space-telescope-and-what-it-means-for-humanity Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch The James Webb Space Telescope, JWST for short, has been designed to look more than 13.5 billion years into the past to study the farthest and oldest regions of space, peering back into the early days of the Universe. Its aim is to look […]
Some things I learned while on vacation. Watch me die to death at the end. ** LINKS ** Turtle BUTT BREATHING (my sister taught me about this while we were in Hawaii): http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2325/is-it-true-turtles-breathe-through-their-butts The best turtle butt-breather: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzroy_River_turtle
The gas phosphine, made on Earth by microbial life forms, was found in Venus’ atmosphere. Could this mean there’s life in our planetary neighbor’s clouds? Get the inside story from scientists Sara Seager and Clara Sousa-Silva on how the discovery was made, what it means, and what comes next. Produced […]
This is a sci-fi documentary, looking into the future and what happens if the James Webb Space Telescope were 2x, or even 100+ times larger. How could larger space telescopes be built (in orbit assembly, spider fabrication, lunar construction yard, self-assembling robots). And what kind of new images would they […]
The infrared James Webb telescope is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope. It has 18 separate mirror segments made of ultra-lightweight beryllium. This telescope launched into space on December 25th, 2021. The mission of the James Webb Telescope? To study the history of our Universe from the afterglow […]
635 light-years from where you are sitting, way out in outer space, lies a planet. The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is located within a star’s habitable zone, it means that there is a […]
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Some of these galaxies are mind-blowing, some of them are beautiful, and some of them are both. “A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek galaxias (γαλαξίας), literally ‘milky’, a reference to […]
