James Webb compared to Hubble. Space porn!
The James Webb telescope has started beaming back incredible pictures, and screensavers around the world are being updated. The new telescope is seen as a replacement for good old Hubble, … Read More
Tag: NASA
Curiosity Rover’s 1.8 Billion-pixel panorama of Mars
Recently, while all the NASA types were on holiday, the Mars Curiosity Rover got bored and took a panorama. You can’t really blame it, it went to Mars on a … Read More
VR Apollo 11 experience PS4
There are some interactive elements – such as docking (fairly easy) and landing (fairly impossible) – but this is essentially a documentary experience.
NASA Images and Video Library
NASA has opened an archive site that hosts 140,000 files of space-related awesomeness. It should keep you in screensaver images for a long time – possibly forever as they said they will continue to add to it.
What it’s like to land on Pluto
NASA has stitched together 100 photos from the New Horizons flyby in 2015 to give an idea of what it would be like to land on Pluto. In colour!
Every extraterrestrial body robots have landed on
I came across these pictures and they are amazing. Each one is a photo taken from an extraterrestrial body – i.e. not Earth – by robots. Lucky robots.
Chris Hadfield: the making of Space Oddity video
This is a ‘behind the scenes’ on the making of Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity video. Everything about this is great.
Tribute to Voyager space program is damn inspiring
Here is an amazing video made by a talented fellow called Santiago Menghini. It’s a tribute to NASA’s Voyager space program and combines real footage, recorded sounds, Voyager images, animation and more, into a very cool little film.
Welcome back Tim Peake
Here at the Word of Ward we are unanimous in our support of space exploration, ESA, NASA and the brave people who go into space in the quest for knowledge. … Read More
4 minute video of Space X launches is damned inspiring
(Feel free to skip my rant and just see the clip at the bottom. I apologise in advance.) I’m not going to tiptoe around this – we should go into … Read More
Pale Blue Dot Photo
25 years ago, Voyager 1 turned round and took a picture of the Earth from 3.7 billion miles away. It is known as the Pale Blue Dot photo and it’s amazing.
Time lapse video of Earth from space
This time lapse video of Earth from space is brilliant. It uses footage from NASA’s Johnson Space Center and makes the Earth look ever so pretty.
The Sound of Space – Voyager has left the system.
Voyager 1 was launched in September 1977, 36 years ago. I was 5 years old and it has remained an awe inspiring achievement throughout my life.
In Saturn’s Rings
Some obsessed young fellow, probably single, has spend the last 6 years splicing together actual photos from space missions to make a kind of animated photo flipbook thing that looks like a movie.
NASA videos Transit Of Venus and it’s astounding
This is great. NASA has released footage from its satellite the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). If you think money spent on space is a waste of time, please go elsewhere. Enjoy.