I’ve added more info into the Good Global Citizens, and it looks really good now. Go and have a looksy! I’ve made a new web art showing you Space Fleet’s The Explorer, and her captain giving a salute, at an expedition above Saturn. And I’ve changed the two GB’s Guns logos, from white to black. […]
I am tormented with an everlasting itch, for things remote. I love to sail, forbidden seas. Carl Edward Sagan1934 – 1996
The first four will be the new Good Global Citizens images, aren’t they amazing? And the last three will join GB’s flag of Earth. Updates: Another choice.
Stephen William Hawking1942 – 2018
Jan Fröjdman has made this amazing short movie that you’ve just got to see! He choose some interesting locations of Mars’s anaglyph images, taken by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and processed them into panning video clips. The anaglyph images are based on grayscale images, so he has therefore colour graded the clips […]
Jupiter‘s clouds are amazing, it’s like watching a painting move. The thing you will remember most about Jovian is its Great Red Spot (GRS). It’s a massive anticyclonic storm that’s existed for more than 350 years. On 3 April 2017, the GRS was measuring 16,350 km (10,159 mi) in width, or about 1.3 times as wide as Earth. […]
Put a camera on a tripod, point at a dark starry sky, and hold the shutter open for about 10 minutes, and the image will show stars as circular arcs. But what happens if you do it in space? In 2012, Donald Roy Pettit, better known as Don Pettit, did just that, and made beautiful images from the […]
If you would travel to the galactic centre of the Milky Way, you would come across a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the location of Sagittarius A*. SMBHs are found in the centre of almost all massive galaxies. Their masses range from hundreds of thousands to ten billion solar masses. Anything beyond that, however, is […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed stunning light shows on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. The extraordinary vivid glows shown in the photographs are known as auroras. They are created when high-energy particles, from solar wind or other sources, enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with […]
Mercury is one of the least explored planets in the Solar System. It’s the smallest one, with a diameter of 4,879 km (3,032 mi), whereas, in comparison, Earth has a diameter of 12,742 km (7,918 mi), and it’s the closest planet to the Sun. It orbits the sun in 88 Earth days, which is faster than any other planet, and has an average […]
NASA’s space probe New Horizons sent back the best close-ups of Pluto mankind will probably see for decades. They are the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby. They’ve made a mosaic of the images, which you can find below. The images form a strip 80 km (50 mi) wide on a world 3 […]
We might want to travel the universe to discover alien worlds, but what if I told you, you don’t have to go that far to see some alien landscapes. There are many places on Earth that boggle the mind, and the Dallol volcano in Africa is one of them. When I first saw it, I […]
You won’t believe what kind of mess we’ve made up into our atmosphere! As of 2013, more than 500,000 pieces of debris, the size of a marble or larger, travelling at speeds up to 28,164 km/h (17,500 mph), are orbiting our planet. More than 20,000 pieces are larger than a softball, and millions more are […]
We’re humans from Earth, but in a lot of English sci-fi movies and games, Earth is often referred to as Terra, and humans are subsequently known as Terrans. Sometimes they use the name Gaia, where we would be called Gaians.
NASA’s space probe New Horizons made some images of Pluto at a distance of around 50 million km. The colour movies below, assembled from the images, show Pluto and its largest moon Charon in motion and colour. New Horizons is on its way to Pluto, and will make its closest approach on 14 July, flying by around 12,500 km (7,800 […]
I know it’s an oldie, but I just had to share this amazing video of Earth, seen from the International Space Station, with you. The video is made by Michael König, and consists of time-lapse sequences of photographs taken with a low-light camera by the crew of expeditions 28 and 29 aboard the ISS, from August to […]
NASA recently released the sharpest large composite image ever taken of a portion of our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda. It’s the largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled. Below is an amazing video of that image, the amount of stars is simply mind-boggling. The Andromeda galaxy has an estimated 1 trillion stars. Just imagine what’s out there. Gigapixels […]
This free little universe viewer is quite amazing. It’s called Mitaka, and it’s made in Japan. It’s actually pretty old, the latest version was released on 26 May 2008, but it still looks very good. The download is around 35 MB, and it works straight out of the box, no install required. I recommend it, the sheer size of the […]