Tagged: Astronomy
Video Throughput: The Madness of Multiverses
In this video, I look at multiverses, which have become the big thing in movies and TV shows. Is there any science meat on that bone? Let’s take a look:
Thursday Throughput: Big Whomping Space Explosion Edition
The picture below was produced by my colleague Andy Beardmore from Swift data. It shows the X-rays scattering off dust grains in our own galaxy.
Friday Throughput: Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
In this video, from science fiction to real time history of what DART did, why it matters, what the future of space defense might look like
Thursday Throughput: COVID Over Edition
So is Biden right? Is COVID over? Well, y’all know me. You know that the answer to that is inevitably going be … kinda.
DART Closes In
If this asteroid were headed for Earth, DART would have to hit it about 500 years in advance for such a velocity correction to make it miss.
Video Throughput: 21 Spaceships And The Rule Of Cool
In this video, I rank 21 spaceships by not only scientific accuracy but how closely they adhere to the Rule of Cool.
Thursday Throughput: Yes, the Big Bang Happened
The TL;DR version here is that Lerner still cannot adequately explain the primary evidence in favor of the Big Bang, is misquoting both the JWST results and the scientists involved and has yet to present an alternative cosmology that works
Video Throughput: The Empire Strikes Back
Could a Hoth-like world exist? What about Cloud City? And what’s the deal with the Force anyway? Find out below.
Thursday Throughput: Uhura Edition
Out of this madness, Uhura appeared. A vision in red and black. Beautiful, smart as hell and not interested in nobody’s nonsense.
JWST Unveils the Cosmos
After a quarter of a century, we are finally getting the results of this massive project. And, already, JWST exceed our expectations.
Video Throughput: Armageddon
I’m doing a bumper video for you this week on the 1998 Michael Bay disaster flick “Armageddon”
Thursday Throughput: Cretaceous Edition – That Means Dinosaurs
What enraptures children about dinosaurs? Maybe it is, as Dave Barry said, that dinosaurs never get told to go to bed or eat their veggies.
Video Throughput: The Science of Star Wars
Any fool can point out the thing Star Wars gets wrong about science. But what did it get right? You’d be surprised how visionary George Lucas was.
Mini-Throughput, Black Hole Edition: There is a Monster at the end of this Galaxy
Is that they Eye of Sauron? The Ring of Power? Alex Jones’ colonoscopy? It’s actually the black hole at the center of our galaxy
Thursday Throughput: Next Gen Vaccine Edition
We want a vaccine that deals with variants in the same way that the measles vaccine does. Some don’t think that is possible with coronavirus.
Video Throughput: John Carter Revisited
Disney’s 2012 John Carter. Is it accurate? Was it accurate when the books were written? Should it have flopped?
Thursday Throughput: Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Edition
Russian soldiers literally dug in within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and some are now possibly being treated for radiation sickness. So what this story here?
Mini-Throughput: Maunder Minimum Edition
Ever since the Maunder Minimum was discovered by 19th century astronomers poring through old records, we’ve wondered what caused it and if it might occur again.
Thursday Throughput: Distant Star Edition
The newly detected star is so far away that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, appearing to us as it did when the universe was only 7 percent of its current age, at redshift 6.2.
