July night sky: see planets and constellations
See when to see the Venus and Saturn, as well as constellations in the night sky, in July 2013 in this skywatching video guide.
Tagged: space
Is there a center of the universe?
It’s been a long road to the discovery that Earth is not the center of the Solar System, the Milky Way, or the universe; great thinkers from Aristotle to Bruno have grappled with it for millennia. But if we aren’t at the center of the universe, what is? Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens discuss where we stand in the (very) big scheme of things.
Saturn’s Hyperion: a Moon with odd craters
What lies at the bottom of Hyperion’s strange craters? Nobody’s sure. To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn swooped past the sponge-textured moon in 2005 and2010 and took images of unprecedented detail. An image from the 2005 pass, shown above in false color, shows a remarkable world strewn with strange craters and a generally odd surface.
The Earth-like planets
The Earth-like planets that have been discovered since the launch of the Kepler probe.
Edge-on NGC 3628
harp telescopic views of magnificent edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3628 show a puffy galactic disk divided by dark dust lanes. Of course, this deep galactic portrait puts some astronomers in mind of its popular moniker, The Hamburger Galaxy. The tantalizing island universe is about 100,000 light-years across and 35 million light-years away in the northern springtime constellation Leo.
It’s fun to be an astronaut! Great Chris Hadfield’s movies from space (14 videos)
1. Sleeping in Space It’s bedtime on the ISS. CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield shows us how astronauts sleep in space.