Mar 15
This truly outstanding photo taken from the International Space Station shows the Japanese HTV-4 spacecraft illuminating the Earth’s clouds as it disintegrates in the atmosphere during re-entry. Unbelievable shot.
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Mar 15
Not only is Titanfall, the video game that everyone can’t stop talking about, an incredibly fun game that surpasses the hype
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Mar 14
As attempts at getting people to pay attention to your crowd-funding venture go, aiming for a world record with the Guinness book of world records isn’t the worst idea you … Continue reading
Mar 14
Crowdsourcing already gets products off the ground and figures out where traffic congestion is, but CosmoQuest is turning the power of group-work to map the moon. Using high-resolution images beamed … Continue reading
Mar 13
If you crossed Hunger Games with Oblivion, mixed in some feelings of Moon, sprinkled a little of action from that Bourne movie without Matt Damon and shook it all up with astronaut suits, futuristic guns, another planet and an eerie death match you would get Project Skyborn, a heart pumping short by Marko Slavnic. It’s amazing.
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Mar 12
This simulation of a flight through the known universe shows "the real positions and images of the galaxies that have been mapped so far" according to the Galaxy and Mass Assembly catalogue.
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Mar 12
Forget IMAX 3D. If you really want to see Gravity
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Mar 12
The European Southern Observatory has imaged the largest yet-discovered yellow star, the HR 5171 A. The star turned out to be quite a bit larger than estimated upon its discovery, … Continue reading
Mar 12
Satellite images of cities at night look wonderful—until you zoom in and realize that they’re a big, blurry mess. These gorgeous city images, made by Marc Khachfe, solve that problem—because they’re actually computer generated from OpenStreetMap data.
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Mar 12
The international Astronomical Union or IAU is the authority that assigns the official names to celestial bodies and the surface features of those bodies. It is the only recognized naming … Continue reading
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