July 3, 2018 at 1:12 pm
Putting the Pillars of Creation Into Perspective
You know it’s big when a little dot is a 170 billion kilometres long..
You know it’s big when a little dot is a 170 billion kilometres long..
Seeing the northern (or southern) lights is a bucket list for many (myself included)
Planetary science professor Sarah Hörst has an out of this world experience
Take a virtual tour of the Moon in 4K thanks to data by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
He went around LA to give strangers an up-close look at a familiar object; one we might sometimes take for granted
The castings of the 15-metric ton, off-axis mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope forced engineers to push the design and manufacturing process beyond all previous limits
‘Powers of Ten’ (1977) is an award winning film that takes you on an adventure in magnitudes
Just when you think it’s going to stop, they keep getting bigger. Earth for scale.
Spoiler alert: it’s pretty sweet
Photo taken November 9, 1967; 10,000 miles from Earth
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