space

Time-Lapse: Earth

May 7, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter If you couldn’t tell, we love time-lapse videos… whether they’re made of photos looking up at the sky from Earth or looking down at Earth from the sky! This latest assembly by photographer Bruce W. Berry takes us on a tour [...]

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This Week in Space Pics – April 5, 2013

April 5, 2013

So much space awesomeness this week. Satellites collect more than just pretty pictures. NASA’s Earth Observatory website released this temperature anomaly map above, based on data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite, shows how this affected temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere. See more of this week’s best images, below: Remove [...]

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How Far Away is Mars?

April 4, 2013

How far away is Mars — or, looking at it another way, how close is it? The exact answer varies, of course, as both it and our planet are constantly moving along their own orbits around the Sun. At the time of this writing Mars is on the other side of the Sun from us, [...]

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What Keeps Neil deGrasse Tyson Awake at Night?

March 29, 2013

This: And now it keeps me — and most likely you — awake at night too. But in a good way. (Right?) “Imagine another life form that’s one percent different from us, in the direction that we are one percent different from the chimps. Think about that — we are one percent different and we’re [...]

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Book Review: Vistas of Many Worlds

March 27, 2013

While many astronomy books are based around images that show us how the Universe appears to us right now, as seen through the sensitive electronic eyes of powerful space telescopes and observatories around the world, Erik Anderson’s Vistas of Many Worlds: a Journey Through Space and Time takes a different, but no less fascinating, approach [...]

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