What if we could make a spaceship that is capable of leaving the solar system at the speed of light? How much time would it take to enter interstellar space?
Our Solar system is big, and vast, despite it being really small compared to our galaxy, not to mention the complete universe. To put this into perspective, you can
In this video published by BBC One channel, monkeys accidentally kill the robot baby monkey that researchers put among them. Then, something amazing happens: the members of the tribe get very sad because of the accident and mourn for the robot baby monkey’s “death”.
The video below offers an extraordinary glimpse into the rarely-seen world of Nile crocodiles. As a female crocodile named Ganda tenderly transports her newborn babies to the water, we witness a moment of surprising gentleness from a creature often only associated with ferocity. This intimate footage was made possible by innovative research techniques: days before the hatching, scientists strategically placed a robot baby crocodile equipped with cameras where its eyes used to be, ingeniously designed to resemble crocodile hatchlings, near Ganda’s eggs.
That robotic imitator captured this heartwarming event, providing a unique perspective on the nurturing behavior of one of nature’s most formidable predators. This video not only showcases the maternal instincts of the Nile crocodile but also demonstrates the ingenious methods researchers use to study wildlife.
Two stars may collide into a stunning “red nova” in 2022 (or a few months earlier, most probably between September 2021 and September 2022), and for a few weeks become one of the brightest objects in Earth’s night sky, scientists predict. When two stars merge, they increase in brightness 10 thousandfold.
NASA published an amazing image of Earth (and the Moon) from Mars, taken on November 20, 2016, by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The image is so incredibly detailed that we can see even the continents and clouds of Earth.
Here are the top ten most beautiful Earth photos taken by the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2016.
In the last few thousand years, humans have had a powerful impact on Earth. Within a geological blink of an eye, we exploded out of Africa to colonize virtually every inhabitable space on the planet. We dammed the rivers, domesticated animals, deforested many areas, changed the chemistry of the atmosphere and the seas… the list goes on. But, what would happen if humans became extinct in the future?
One may think “humans are so intelligent, so it’s very unlikely that
Andromeda Galaxy is the farthest object in the sky that we can see with the naked eye. But if you don’t know where to look, you won’t notice it. If it was much brighter, its appearance in the sky would be sensational. The moon is a good reference for what we’d see if our galaxy’s neighbor was much brighter in the image below:
Have you ever wondered how big is the Earth compared to other planets? Or other stars? Or even the Universe itself?
When it comes to big numbers, very big numbers, the human brain is weak. In fact, our brains cannot deal with really large numbers. That’s why when the subject is Earth, planets, Solar System, galaxies, and in general, the Universe, we cannot truly conceptualize the things. A lot of people think we’re “conquering” space (we are far, far away from that – and maybe we never will), or the “aliens” are regularly visiting Earth as if it is just an hour’s drive from there.
In fact, these people don’t truly understand what are they talking about, how big is the universe, how far even the nearest stars are, and how the Earth is a tiny, tiny spot in a vast space we are still striving to understand.
If the population of the world was only 100 people, instead of 8+ billion, while the statistics remain the same, what would today’s society look like? A video published by GOOD Magazine (produced and written by Gabriel Reilich, animation by Jake Infusino) answers that question.