Last week I posted a picture of the fiery re-entry of a Progress re-supply ship as seen by Mike Fossum on board the space station. It was one of several pictures he took, and via Universe Today is a video of the descent of the spacecraft! Holy wow! You can see the trail of plasma Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 03/11/2011 18:28 Number of articles : 2
On September 24th, Active Region 1302 — a cluster of enormous sunspots — popped off an X-class flare, a powerful event that caused some beautiful aurorae here on Earth. But the flares don’t have to be so powerful to generate ethereal, magnificent beauty. A day after that biggish event, those sunspots burped again, this time Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 10/10/2011 09:27 Number of articles : 2
“We went into the garage when we were two young people with no money.” — Woz Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : MAKE: Blog Discovery Date : 06/10/2011 14:16 Number of articles : 2
Light pollution — wasted light that gets thrown up into the sky instead of down onto the ground where it’s actually useful — is the enemy of every sky watcher, from the professional astronomer to the some time star gazer. It overwhelms fainter objects, and in bad cases even the brightest stars, reducing the glory Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 06/10/2011 19:28 Number of articles : 2
I love astronomy (duh), I love geology, and I love meteorology, so if you combine all three in a high-definition time lapse video , well, I’ll love it: Very pretty! It’s by someone who goes by the name Metron, who also has a pretty cool video of lava flowing from Kilauea . I like watching the stars move in sweeping arcs in these videos. So that’s why at about three minutes in, when the video shows… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 23/07/2011 15:14 Number of articles : 2
The Discovery Channel’s 24th annual Shark Week premieres July 31, and Gossip Cop got hold of the very first promo, featuring Lady Gaga’s “Teeth.” Check it out here! Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gossip Cop Discovery Date : 05/07/2011 18:03 Number of articles : 2
As something of a palate-cleanser — along the lines of Boing Boing’s famous unicorn chasers — here is a magnificent time lapse video of the sky over Australia: Ocean Sky by Alex Cherney: Due to the tilt of the Earth and geometry of the Sun-Earth-galaxy alignment, the Milky Way only gets high in the sky if you’re south of the Equator, and can set parallel to the horizon as seen in these shots. When… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 05/07/2011 18:34 Number of articles : 4
A few days ago I posted a video by José Francisco Salgado showing the sky over telescopes in Chile. He’s just put up another one, this time showing the motion of the sky over several observatories: “Sidereal Motion” . Sidereal motion is literally the movement of the stars; the apparent rising and setting caused by the rotation of the Earth. You don’t notice it second-by-second as you watch the sky,… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 25/02/2011 14:56 Number of articles : 2
Late Monday night—well, actually, early Tuesday morning— the moon will move into the earth’s shadow, causing a lunar eclipse visible to anyone in North America. Even better, it’s happening on the Winter Solstice , for the
Late Monday night—well, actually, early Tuesday morning— the moon will move into the earth’s shadow, causing a lunar eclipse visible to anyone in North America. Even better, it’s happening on the Winter Solstice , for the