This garden universe vibrates completeSome, we get a sound so sweetVibrations reach on up to become lightAnd then through gamma, out of sightBetween the eyes and ears there lieThe sounds of colour and the light of a sighAnd to hear the sun, what a thing to believeBut it’s all around …
Proving the Big Bang and beyond with Planck
Ever since we came up with the theory of the big bang, we been looking for evidence to back it up. Put simply, The big bang theory is the leading explanation of how the universe came to be, from an infinitely small but equally high density and temperature point that …
ESA’s million-year time machine
This is not a photo of the Milkyway or an artist’s impression, this a map made up of approximately 1.8 billion data points collected by the Gaia satellite, each one not just representing a star but also comets, asteroids and other astronomical objects in the Milkyway and beyond. But its …
How could anyone believe the moon is hollow?
As conspiracy theories go, believing that the Moon is hollow is up there with thinking its made out of cheese. The Hollow Moon hypothesis suggests that the moon might be the product of an alien civilisation and could be a giant spacecraft or space station. However, as with all the …
How are we searching for Extra Terrestrial messages ?
We have been searching for signs of extra-terrestrial life for over 100 years, and so far, we have found no evidence of anything beyond our planet. Out of all the billions of stars just in our own galaxy, the Milkyway, with all the billions of associated planets, let alone the …
How Long Could You Survive in a Black Hole?
Imagine we are at some point in future on a mission to study black holes and orbiting near the photon sphere, an area just far enough away where photons of light travel fast enough to settle into an orbit and don’t get pulled into the event horizon. However, through no …
How Do We Know What the Milky Way Really Looks Like?
This is what our galaxy looks like and where we are in it, or so we are told because this is a side on view from what would be about a million light years away. Now clearly we have a problem here because the farthest manmade object capable of taking …
How NASA’s New Spacesuit Could Stall the 2024 Artemis Moon Landings.
They are as important as the rockets the astronauts fly in and a miracle of materials and clothing engineering. Without them, we would not have been able to walk on the moon but the current generation of spacesuit’s or Extravehicular Mobility Units which were designed in the late 1970s are …
How Did Apollo Avoid a Radiation Disaster?
Niel Armstrong, the first man on the moon said the thing he feared the most about the Apollo 11 mission was a solar flare, this solar weather is a much an issue for the upcoming Artemis program in 2024 as it was for the Apollo missions, in fact in August …
The Scale of Everything – The Big, the Small and the Planck
There is something both calming and therapeutic about looking up at the night sky and even though the milky way makes for a stunning view of the heavens its easy to forget that what we can see with the naked eye is an incredibly tiny, tiny fraction of the Universe …