Measuring the Universe from Royal Observatory Greenwich on Vimeo. This is the film from our micro exhibition ‘Measuring the Universe: from the transit of Venus to the edge of the cosmos’, showing 1 March–2 September 2012 at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. rmg.co.uk/visit/events/measuring-the-universe You can follow our astronomers on Twitter: twitter.com/ROGastronomers Credits: Design and direction: Richard [...]
Have you ever wondered when we will be able to travel to distant stars as easily as in science fiction stories? NASA Glenn’sMarc Millis, who has taken a break from Project Management for NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP) Project to return to conducting research, offers this assessment of the prospects for achieving the propulsion breakthroughs that would enable such far-future visions of interstellar travel.
This image of a planetary nebula, which may suggest a rose to some, was obtained with the wide-field view of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Mosaic 1 camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Sh2-174 is an unusual ancient planetary nebula. A planetary nebula is created when a low-mass star [...]
An international team of astronomers, led by David Sobral from Leinden University of the Netherlands used three telescopes located across the globe to study the trends in star formation, from the earliest stars that made up the first galaxies in the universe, up until now. Their findings suggests something quite shocking .. almost 95% [...]
In space no-one can hear you scream… but it is still a noisy Universe. We are familiar with the many stunning images of space, but these are only part of the whole human experience. This lecture takes a new approach to appreciating the Universe, through the vehicle of sound. Once we understand how sound is [...]
Earth and other plantets Solar System Sun and other stars The biggest known stars
The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the birth of the universe in the first instant of time. The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it stretch? Where does it end… and what lies beyond its star fields… and streams of galaxies extending as [...]
Filmed near Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories, this video is a compilation of thousands of time-lapse photographs of AuroraMAX’s most magical moments in 2010 and 2011. When charged particles from space travelling at hundreds of kilometres per second collide with oxygen and nitrogen in our atmosphere, the night lights up with the dance of the [...]
The White Mountain from charles on Vimeo. *New* Extended version here: http://vimeo.com/10116116 Thanks for all the kind words! Location: Mauna Kea, Hawai'i Camera: 5D MK2 Lenses: Tokina ATX-116 Sigma 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L EF 24-105mm f/4L EF 17-40mm f/4L Music: "That Is Why I Am On This Porch" from the movie "The Village" [...]
Here is a minor edit to the excellent video by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado, posted at Nicolas Bustos channel. Visit http://eso.org for more about the European Southern Observatory. Credits for original video: ESO/José Francisco Salgado (http://www.josefrancisco.org) ESO/S. Guisard (http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/) The time-lapse starfield has been edited to show the rotation of the Earth from the [...]
