Space is a pretty colourful place, isn’t it? I mean, look at all the amazing images we’ve got from Hubble over the years, and now the James Webb space telescope, but how is it that when you look up at the stars you just see blackness with the pinpricks of …
Could We Really Stop A Big Asteroid Hitting The Earth?
What is the biggest asteroid we could stop? Well, if you believe the movies, in Armageddon it’s an asteroid the size of Texas and it’s only 18 days away, mmmm well, if it were that big there is no way that we could stop it in time with the tech …
Strange Lights, Weird Gravity, What did NASA Find Before Apollo?
For as long as humans have looked up, the Moon has refused to be just one thing. To some it was a god. To others, a calendar. To sailors, a guide. To farmers, a clock. To astronomers, a world. And to NASA, just before Apollo, it became something even stranger, …
Could Anti-gravity Really be Possible?
Over the decades antigravity has been the stuff of science fiction, but with the recent government releases of video showing UAPs doing things they we can’t explain and even congressional meetings on the subject, one of the fundamental features of these craft, objects or whatever they are, is their seeming …
How Big is the Solar System, Really?
When we look up at the night sky with the unaided eye, we see stars that are up to about 1000 light years away, depending on their brightness. We also see objects which are much closer, in our celestial backyard so to speak, which only reflect light from the sun …
What Would Happen if you fell into 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 is NASA Hearing Stars?
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 …