Just what does the Earth look like from 240 kilometres in space? This video, taken with footage from the International Space Station, shows the Northern Lights, lightning flickering in storm clouds and the bright lights of the big cities … Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König […]
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Video of the Day: 30 years of space travel
Today is the official end of NASA space shuttle program. Here’s a wonderful video tribute to all the NASA missions, from the joys of floating in space to the horror of the two missions that didn’t make it home.
The last Space Shuttle re-entry seen from orbit
In addition to last night’s ethereal moonlit landing of the last Space Shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Centre, NASA has tweeted this image of the space craft’s plasma trail, writes Ben Sandilands.
The end of Discovery
After 27 years of being the workhouse of NASA’s shuttle fleet, the Discovery landed from its final mission yesterday. Peter Spotts looks back at the shuttle that brought the Hubble Telescope into being and delivered astronauts to space stations for decades.
Space: the final frontier of industry
Forget the moon race of half a century ago: the new space race is to lead the space industry, designing, making and selling space ships and cleaning up space junk, says Ben Sandilands.
The death star that may kill us
Meet T Pyxidis, a double star, hidden from clear view by a veil of dust in an obscure constellation that rides high in southern hemisphere skies. According to astronomers, it might be planet earth’s executioner.
The earth-asteroid collision that didn’t make headlines
On October 8, a mini-asteroid screamed into the upper atmosphere over the Indonesia and exploded with the force equivalent to two to three times that of the atom bombs that incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
NASA bombs the moon
NASA is about to launch a bombing raid on the moon, firing two space missiles at the lunar surface in an effort to look for more water. Space colonies, here we come!
The “other” moon landing speech
What if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin never made it off the moon? How would the public have been told? Following on from the recent death of President Nixon’s speech writer, William Safire, here is his most eloquent speeches that never was.
This will hurt your brain: time is slowing down, apparently
A decade ago, measurements of the light from distant exploding stars showed the universe to be expanding at an accelerating rate.
Physicists gave it the name “dark energy”. But a new theory suggests we’ve been fooled … because time itself is slowing down.
