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NASA’s latest mission won’t actually reach space – but it will come very close, with a massive observation craft made up of a football stadium-sized high-altitude balloon, along with a special stratospheric telescope instrument that can observe wavelengths of light blocked by Earth’s atmosphere, cast from newly-formed stars. The mission is called the ‘Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths,’ but shortened to ASTHROS.
December 31, 2016
Tumblr is the home of GIFs, artful Photography, Video and Illustration. But it’s also home to Science, Tutorials and just about any learned pursuit you can imagine. Dive in. Home to ‘no sweat’ blogs, Tumblr has been around for a while in internet terms (founded in 2007). Yahoo snapped it up in 2013 for a […]
July 3, 2016
Ever seen fireworks on Jupiter? It’s quite something. Astronomers have released breathtaking photos, taken with the Hubble space telescope, of Jupiter’s gigantic auroras, which are light shows caused by high-energy particles entering the planet’s atmosphere near the poles and colliding with gas atoms. They are hundreds of times more powerful than Earth’s, due largely to… via […]
December 24, 2015
One of my favourite stories of 2015 was the report from two Chinese cities of a mirage, a mysterious ‘city in the sky’ that appeared out of nowhere. Residents of Foshan, near Hong Kong, and Jiangxi – 500 miles to the north – spoke of a surreal sky city that suddenly appeared above the clouds. […]
December 4, 2015
Get your tickets for the Principia Mission Launch LIVE at Newcastle’s Life Science Centre on Tuesday 15 December. Newcastle’s Centre For Life will host an all-day live video event covering British astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia mission to the International Space Station on 15 December. Peake is a European Space Agency astronaut whose background is as […]
October 8, 2015
Indulge your inner astronaut and Halloween delights with Newcastle Centre For Life’s autumn exhibitions and workshops. On All Hallows’ Eve groans and moans are guaranteed as otherwise sane people don the gore and get ready for Halloween Late’s horrifying antics. Saturday 31 October will be the chance for fans of the Walking Dead to go […]
December 23, 2014
Surveillance has been one of the big stories this year but do not assume it is only big government in action, corporates who covet personal data are just as intrusive. Companies who want to couple themselves to us by using personal details to market to us individually are big data snatchers too. In an excellent BBC […]
May 19, 2014
Maker Faire 2014 shed some light on the world of cinehacking: building your own equipment to create cinematic video. The University of Newcastle’s CultureLab team talked about their Cinehack movement and WeLove Digital catalogued some incredible photography and film-making techniques. Cinehack is an initiative set up by Dave Green and colleagues at the CultureLab, a […]
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