Perspective In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it’s unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system,…
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The SpaceX Grasshopper achieved a test height of 744 metres. http://youtu.be/9ZDkItO-0a4 Links SpaceX Elon Musk
Just another addition in a series of stunning images of Earth. http://vimeo.com/knatephoto/iss This was produced by Knate Myers using footage from the International Space Station.
Planck Sees Light Billions Of Years Old. The Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe. [ScienceDaily: Latest Science News]