Scientists have long used balloons to carry certain types of telescopes way up into the air to the stratosphere to get a better view of whatever they are trying to … Continue reading
Right now the only way you can truly sleep among the stars is to suit up in a spacesuit and have somebody push you out into the black and that ain’t cool. The next best thing is to lie in a sleeping bag in the darkened countryside and stare up, but a bear might eat you. Well, The Cosmos Bed is a remarkably safe way to sleep among the stars.
This bed designed by Natalia Rumyantsev will make you feel like you are drifting in space while you are safe in your bed. It’s almost like a mini holodeck for tired star-loving humans.
The idea here is that it is an alternative to pitching a tent and sleeping under the stars. It features twinkling starlight along with the sounds and scents of the forest. Thankfully there are no animal sounds. Unfortunately, The Cosmos Bed is just a concept for now, but maybe one day we can buy it.
[via Incredible Things via Nerd Approved]
NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back some impressive photos from its time on Mars – selfies, moon timelapses, and billion-pixel panoramas – but its latest helps put the plucky rover’s … Continue reading
Yeah, I can totally see it! How can you miss that? It’s right there. Clear eyes, full Earth, can’t miss. Wait, really? No of course not. Anyone who tells you that is either a liar or a hawk. Earth looks incredibly tiny up in that Martian sky. Sure, if you squint hard enough and fake it long enough, you’ll spot it the dot but it’s not unlike looking for dust on a wall.
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This image of twinkling stars is the first picture to be beamed back to Earth by the Gaia telescope—whose mission is to scan the entire sky
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Scientist and astronomers are discovering a large number of new planets using the Kepler Space Telescope. One of the latest planets discovered by the space telescope is called Kepler-413b. The … Continue reading
NASA’s efforts on the Red Planet have resulted in thousands of images, some more mystifying than others, but few quite as powerful as a high-resolution photograph taken of a fresh … Continue reading
Venus’ perpetually overcast skies had long obscured our view of the planet, making it appear nearly featureless when viewed in the visible light spectrum. But when viewed through Mariner 10’s ultraviolet-filtered camera lens, the second planet from the Sun can be seen in unprecedented detail. See what Venus looks like normally below. [NASA]
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Nothing lives forever, not even our universe. Eventually it’ll go kaput and be destroyed… but how? Smart people have wrapped their heads around the universe’s destruction and have come upwith three different theories. The Big Rip, Heat Death (or the Big Freeze) and the Big Crunch and Big Bounce. They all sound like they’re going to hurt.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) does sound like quite a fun place to work at, as it has been revealed that the agency itself happens to be in possession of the most powerful sound system of all across Europe. I know that there might be naysayers out there, but just to get an idea on the ESA’s sound system and its capabilities, think along the lines of the Sonic Tank in the original Dune 2 game, where a single blast of sound is capable of killing even a human. Yes, it is that deadly. Thankfully, this sound system is not meant to be used as a weapon, but rather, the Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF) as it is known has been set up to stress-test satellites.
ESA Sound System Could Kill A Human original content from Ubergizmo. 
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