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Our Sun Like You Have Never Seen It Before [Video]
NASA just sent me this beautiful video of the Sun. "There's no science behind it," says Scott Wiessinger, Helio and Astrophysics Video Producer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, "but it's very pretty." You got it, Scott. It's also very trippy.More »
Did You Miss the Solar Eclipse? Check Out This Gorgeous Time Lapse Video [Video]
Cory Poole—science teacher at University Preparatory School in Redding, California, and Gizmodo reader—has composed this 60-second time lapse video made from 700 frames captured by a Coronado Solar Max 60 Double Stacked Hydrogen Alpha Solar Telescope. His words:More »
NASA Captures the Sun's Most Striking Photo Yet [Astronomy]
You are looking at the Sun's Evil Eye. Or the Death Star ready to shoot its planet-destructing laser. Or Jean Grey turning into the Phoenix. Actually, I really don't care about what the hell is going on here—it just looks amazing.More »
A Black Hole Devouring a Star Is One Hell of an Amazing View [Astronomy]
Look at this star turned into a fire dragon by a single point of nothingness with the mass of three million suns—its body twisted and deformed as a black beast 2.7 billion light-years away devours it with infinite hunger.More »
Are These the Gates of Heaven or a Deep Space Lighthouse? [Astronomy]
It's always the same. Just when I'm thinking that I couldn't be surprised by the Hubble Space Telescope anymore, it captures another image that leaves me in awe. Like this searchlight-like beams in space. It's what I'd imagine the doors to heaven would look like if I believed in such things.More ...
A Mind-Breakingly Massive Image of 25,000 Stars Being Born [Image Cache]
Images of deep space are serenely beautiful. So much so that it's easy to forget just how immensely violent and massive everything is out there. Over at the Bad Astronomy Blog, Phil Plait shares an incredible image of the Carina Nebula, a window into the heart of the Milky Way:More »
Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe iPad App Is Just Heavenly [Review]
Celebrity physicist Brian Cox is famous in the U.K. for making physics accessible to the public through bestselling books and several popular TV series. Now he brings elements of both to a gorgeous new iPad app:Brian Cox’s Wonders of the Universe. Featuring amazing animations and lush, hig...
The Holmdel Horn: The Most Important Radio Antenna Ever [Monster Machines]
In 1964, two researchers at Bell Telephone Laboratories were desperately attempting to pin down a source of interference that their antenna kept encountering. Little did they know that their antenna, the Holmdel Horn, was picking up the first observable evidence of the Big Bang—cosmic backg...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Made James Cameron Update the Stars in Titanic 3D [Movies]
No one asked James Cameron to trot out Titanic again with an annoying 3D makeover. But at least this time around the stars in scenes where the night sky is visible will all be in the right place.More »
Astronomers Found the Star Wars Galaxy [Astronomy]
Those people who play with the Hubble telescope say that this galaxy looks "like a UFO." I call bollocks. This doesn't look like a UFO. This looks like the galaxy from a long, long time ago, the Star Wars galaxy!More »
