Tag: space
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Wanderers
A friend posted this amazing video, based off real places in the solar system, more about each location on his website (spookily I looked at the star formation early in the film and went ‘oh that’s a long time ago’ – turns out, 10,000 BC) My friend said that we or our children won’t be…
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Philae O’ Fish harpoons a Soup Dragon
Rosetta are you better are you yeah, yeah, yeah…well hanging on a falling star, well Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko I guess it is! (Philae and Rosetta are great names, Karamazov-Geriactrico 69/P less so, can’t you call it Boris or Moby Dick or Space Nugget or something?). Wow and the comet double-barrelled is a Singing Comet? Sounds more…
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The NoMen On E
I love this – partly because the first thing you hear is one of the old sounds from an old Casio SA-1 (ours was called Garfield, random fact fans!) but also the KLF Chill Out meets psych Spacemen 3 style drone rock and kids toys in Space ‘Magic Fly’ costumes, how could you not like…
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Hubble 3D Deep Space Field
Amazing and humbling stuff…Hubble has over the last few decades pointed into what seems dark and uninhabited space and picked up 10,0000 new points of light. Each of these isn’t a star, but a galaxy like our own made up of many stars – all from areas in the sky previously thought to be empty.…
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Santa’s Satellite: Soviet Space Age Festive Cards
Now as you might have guessed from the latest Radio Clash I’m on a Space Age Santa tip inspired by Mr Fab’s compilation, I didn’t realise that over the Cold War border Santa – or ‘Father Frost’ was also going into space in Soviet Russia. Not Christmas cards as such but New Year ones, and…
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The view from the space station
This one you need to crank up large as possible and watch…it’s amazing NASA footage from the International Space Station showing the world at night, massive electrical storms, aurora borealis, and the lights of the world whizzing by set to music from Sunshine. The beauty of this small blue dot moved me to tears –…