The best Pictures of Mars Taken by Orbiter (12 pictures)
The most beautiful pictures of Mars taken by the NASA’s Orbiter. It has transmitted more than 70,000 images during the past five years.
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Water Found On Mars… FOR REAL!
They’ve found water on Mars… AGAIN! But we promise, this time it’s different. Anthony explains why this is such a big deal.
World’s Largest Radio Telescope (21 pictures)
The mighty Arecibo Radio Observatory is one of the most powerful radio telescopes ever built. It’s certainly the larger single aperture radio telescope on Earth, nestled into a natural sinkhole in Puerto Rico.
Winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 (10 pictures)
Feast your eyes!! Every year of the “Astronomy Photographer of the Year” competition provides incredible images of our night sky — whether they are striking pictures of vast galaxies millions of light years away, or dramatic images of the night sky taken much closer to home — and this year is no different. The awards were just announced at a special presentation at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England for this fifth year of the competition, which is run by the Observatory in association with Sky at Night Magazine.
Stephen Hawking’s big ideas… made simple
No time to read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time? In just two and a half minutes, Alok Jha explains why black holes are doomed to shrink into nothingness then explode with the energy of a million nuclear bombs, and rewinds to the big bang and the origin of the universeâ?
25 Crazy Facts You Didn’t Know About The Sun
We see it every day (unless you live near one of the poles, in that case you have our condolences). But how much do we actually know about? Ok, so you probably know at least a few things. It’s big, orange…wait a minute. You’re already wrong. The sun isn’t orange. And it’s not yellow either.