This amazing picture was taken on June 3, 1964 which is before I was born. The development of human society has been extraordinary these last few hundred years and to prove it where is one of many amazing pictures of great deeds. Just before the time we were getting color TV we also had men’s [...]
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Last shuttle launch
The pinnacle of our technology is present in our space exploration activities. One of the most amazing things that we now easily do is to get into space and that’s why I selected this video of the latest launch of a shuttle. This one is going to our space station to deliver a Japanese lab. [...]
Check out how your eyes can trick you
Amazon.com Widgets This amazing gravity hill is actually a simple phenomenon were your eyes make you think the car is going up while it’s going down. The trick it’s at the surroundings that make you think that the car is going up while it’s going down. Well this is a living proof that what [...]
Microsoft and Google launched their competition into space
Two of the most powerful companies in the world of the computers will take their competition into space as they develop their new programs that will allow internet users to travel around our known space from their homes thanks to the most advanced telescopes and satellites of the world like the Hubble and the Spitzer [...]
NASA’s GALEX spacecraft and its best pictures
Image via Wikipedia On April 28th of 2003 the spacecraft GALEX, which means Galaxy Evolution Explorer, was sent into space with the mission of observing galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history through an incorporated telescope. This mission which was originally planned to last only 29 months was extended and is [...]
NASA’s SOHO spacecraft and its best pictures
Image via Wikipedia On 2 of December, 1995 a spacecraft called SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) was launched into space with the mission of studying the internal structure of the Sun, it’s extensive outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind which is a stream of ionized gas that blows continuously outward through the [...]
Smallest known Black Hole discovered by NASA scientists
Image from Wikipedia Has you might imagine there are several sizes of black holes and this one besides being the smallest ever found still digests everything around him because of the huge gravitational force that even draws light into it. The previous record holder would weight 6.3 Suns which isn’t much when we know black [...]
Messenger is alive and shooting (check the best photos!)
Image from Wikipedia The spacecraft sent to space by NASA is doing the job quite well scientist say. Nasa sent Messenger to investigate mercury which is the smallest and densest planet in our solar system. Beside having the oldest surface and being the closest to the sun, Mercury also has the largest daily temperature variations [...]
Organic materials detected by Cassini at Saturn’s Enceladus Moon
During a close fly by on March 12 Cassini spacecraft detected an unusual amount of heat, water vapor and organic chemicals. Cassini also detected Geysers which means that there must be liquid water not far bellow the surface of the moon and matter coming from inside the moon that resembles to the matter found in [...]
Hundreds of salt deposits might bring proof of life at mars
Mikki Osterloo of the University of Hawai and co-workers found small depressions that appear to be filled with salt deposits. These deposits seem to be like the ones we have on Earth when the water evaporates which increases the probability that there was liquid water in Mars. Two hundred salt deposits smaller than 10 square [...]