Tag Archives: space
Get Off
at
A short from Korean animation studio Altered Image Works featuring Johnny – the laziest interplanetary delivery man ever to hit the autopilot button.
The short answer is never.
The slightly longer answer, courtesy of this clip from a Q&A session last year by charismatic astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, is infinitely more fascinating.
Previously: That’s Just deGrasse Talking
Starshade
at
A wise man once said something like ‘There is life on other planets, only not to see’.
It might have been Aidan Walsh. And how right he was.
It’s all down to the blinding glow of stars, which obliterates the ability of distant viewers to see the planets orbiting them.
In this TED talk, Princeton University astronomer Jeremy Kasdin explains a new technology which may change all that: the Starshade – a flower petal-shaped screen that allows a telescope (located up to 50,000km from said Starshade) to photograph previously invisible planets trillions of kilometers away.
(Thanks Helvick)
Astronomer Liz (there are no second names at this, the adorable level of learning) from the Royal Greenwich Observatory explains the scale of just about everything with the help of a nifty animation created for the Observatory’s educational programme by London studio Beakus.
Show it to a small child. Or revert to being one.
On Sunday, just before Gravity won its expected slew of Oscars, NASA tweeted stunning pictures of the real thing.
More at NASA’s Flickr stream.
A faux documentary written by London-based VFX supremo Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull (The Dark Knight, Prince Of Persia) detailing mankind’s first interstellar travel in the not-to-distant future.
As the mission unfolds with extraordinary results, the scientists find themselves dealing with a much bigger agenda.
Since the film was released last week, Dulull has been signed by Hollywood to develop and direct a feature-film version.