The Last Star in the Universe – Red Dwarfs Explained
The last star in the universe will be a red dwarf. Red dwarfs in general might be great places to look for aliens – or planets for humans to find a new home after...
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How Close Can You Get To The Sun?
How close could you get to the sun using today’s spacesuits or spaceships? [via scishow space]
How To Go To Space
Do you want to go to space? Do you want to learn about bending computers and boxes that make clothes smell better and sky boats with turning wings? [via minutephysics]
Floating Along the Milky Way
Youtube user daveachuk pasted a bunch of images from the Spitzer Space Telescope together into a 4k tour through the Milky Way. [via daveachuk]
The Fermi Paradox
The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where...
Is It Irrational to Believe in Aliens?
Aliens! Could humans really be alone in this expansive universe? And if we’re not, how come we’ve never made contact with other intelligent life? Everyone’s thought about it; especially members of the scientific community....
How Small Is An Atom?
Atoms are very weird. Wrapping your head around exactly how weird, is close to impossible – how can you describe something that is SO removed from humans experience? But then again, they kind of...
Superman Space Travel
DesignSpark sent a Superman action figure to the edge of space and back for Mattel Toys Italy. This video shows the launch. Special thanks to Dave Akerman, Jude Pullen, RLab and Pete Wood for...
Dropping Feathers and a Bowling Ball in a Vacuum
Brian Cox from the BBC programme Human Universe visits NASA’s Space Power Facility in Ohio to see what happens when a bowling ball and a feather are dropped together under the conditions of outer...
Moment of Science: The Smallest Star in the Universe
SciShow Space takes you to the smallest star in the universe, and explains how astronomers figured out that’s what it was! [via scishow space]
