2012 March 12 - The Scale of the Universe Interactive. Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 12 The Scale of the Universe - Interactive Flash Animation Credit & Copyright: Cary & Michael Huang Explanation: What does the universe look like on small scales? On large scales? Humanity is discovering that the universe is a very different place on every proportion that has been explored. Tomorrow's picture: dust before galaxies Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important NoticesA service of:ASD at NASA / GSFC& Michigan Tech. A Review of the Universe.
Astronomer: Could Cameron's asteroid-mining project really work? Phil Plait is an astronomer and major sci-fi geek. He writes the Bad Astronomy Blog for Discover Magazine and is also the host of the Discovery Channel's science show "Phil Plait's Bad Universe. " You can follow him on Twitter at @BadAstronomer. One of my favorite clichés in movies—and by "favorite" I mean "makes me want to fly to the screenwriter's house and stab them in the eye with a red editing pen"—is when a character comes up with a ridiculously top-heavy and overly complex scheme, and another character says, "That's so crazy it just might work!
" A couple of weeks ago, a company called Planetary Resources announced it was planning on mining asteroids. My first thought was "That's crazy. " Then, after talking with their chief engineer, so help me my next thought was "...but it just might work. " I sit here with a red editing pen metaphorically sticking out of my eye. So what's the deal? Instead, Planetary Resources has an incremental plan to tap into, um, dwarf planetary resources.
Moonset. By Rob Waugh Published: 16:33 GMT, 13 April 2012 | Updated: 23:08 GMT, 16 April 2012 An astronaut on the International Space Station has designed a 'tripod' for taking spectacular night-time pictures of Earth - quite a technical feat when you're on board an orbiting craft that moves at more than four miles a second. Andre Kuipers installed 'Nightpod' - a motorised camera that compensates for the hurtling speeds of the ISS, by tracking points on Earth's surface.
The results are some of the most spectacular pictures ever taken from space. Moonset, captured by ESA astronaut, Andrei Kuipers Europe at night, as seen from 250 miles up Down under, from very high up: Christchurch, New Zealand UK and Ireland by night, with the Aurora Borealis Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are regularly treated to a spectacular view of cities on Earth lit up at night - ut the relative speed of the space station meant any photos taken at night were blurred.
Kuipers inside the Space Station. Evol_massive5.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) Antennae_1680.jpg (JPEG Image, 1680 × 1050 pixels) - Scaled (69%) Carina_optical. FYI: Can Anything Move Faster Than Light?