animation
Pale Blue Dot: an Animated Contemplation
Every now and then, someone takes Carl Sagan's wonderful reading of his iconic "Pale Blue Dot" narrative and turns it…
Unraveling the Secrets of Type Ia Supernovae: a New Two-Minute Thesis
The folks over at PHD Comics have put together a new video in their Two-Minute Thesis series, this one featuring…
Incredible Video of Sandy’s Swirling Progression
Just released, this mesmerizing animation was created by Kevin Ward from images acquired by NOAA's GOES-O/14 satellite. It shows the…
How Many Asteroids Are Out There?
Answer: a LOT. And there's new ones being discovered all the time, as this fascinating animation by Scott Manley shows.…
Curiosity Captures a Martian Eclipse
Yes, Mars gets eclipses too! This brief animation, made from ten raw subframe images acquired with Curiosity's Mastcam on September…
What If All of Kepler’s Exoplanets Orbited the Same Star?
That's exactly the scenario shown by a mesmerizing animation called "Worlds" by Alex Parker -- a single system containing 2299…
CGI Movie From 1963 Shows Satellite Orbit
In what may very well be the world's first computer-generated animation, this video shows the motion of a box-like "satellite"…
A Shimmering, Simmering Sunspot
This quick animation made by astrophotographer Alan Friedman shows a 30-minute view of sunspot 1520, a large region of magnetic…
What’s a Higgs Boson, Anyway?
With the science world all abuzz in anticipation of tomorrow's official announcement from CERN in regards to its hunt for…
What Will Happen During Tomorrow’s SpaceX Launch:
With less than a day left before SpaceX's historic launch of the first commercial vehicle to the ISS, slated for…