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The Story of Earth (in 2 Minutes and 20 Seconds)

March 23, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter How old is the Earth, how long did it take for life to appear, and how long would it take for your hair to grow to the Moon? Find out in this video from MinuteEarth (a new project by MinutePhysics’ Henry [...]

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Our Retro-Future Life on Mars

March 7, 2013

I don’t know exactly what our presence on Mars will look like 50, 100, 200 years in the future, but I sure do hope that it’s popularized here on Earth like in this awesome animation by Czech artist Lukas Vojir. I’m ready to pack my fedora and Burma-Shave right now. HT to Gizmodo. Video by [...]

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What is the Universe?

February 19, 2013

What do you get when you mix physics, math, semantics, astronomy, cosmology, philosophy, and a lot of markers? This. See more videos by MinutePhysics here. Remove this ad

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How Long is a Day on Mercury?

December 28, 2012

1/3 the distance from the Sun than Earth, it should be no surprise that a day on Mercury is a real scorcher with temperatures soaring over 400 ºC. But in addition to its solar proximity it also has an extremely slow rotation: a single day on Mercury is 58.6 Earth days long… and you thought your [...]

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The Rings on the Planet Go ‘Round and ‘Round…

December 23, 2012

Raw wide-angle Cassini image of Saturn’s rings (NASA/JPL/SSI) Recently I posted an image of two of Saturn’s shepherd moons, Pandora and Prometheus, captured by Cassini in a face-off across the spindly F ring. Now here’s a much wider-angle view of the gas giant’s rings, seen by Cassini  two days later on December 20, and the same [...]

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