The Millennium Simulation, also known as the Millennium Run, is a giant simulation of the whole known Universe. It clearly shows the distribution of clusters and super-clusters of galaxies as well as giant voids. It is the largest and most precise … Continue reading
This amazing video shows how the planets of the solar system would look if viewed from Earth as if they were orbiting around our planet at the distance of the Moon. Jupiter would nearly completely fill the sky. This video … Continue reading
A “Trojan” asteroid has been discovered sharing Earth’s solar orbit by astronomers studying observations taken by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. Trojans are asteroids that are gravitationally bound to a planet, but are not moons, because they do … Continue reading
This animation depicts the artist’s vision of the key events of the future NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. It is planned to launch in late 2011 and reach Mars in August 2012. The rover will be called “Curiosity”. Courtesy of … Continue reading
I’m now officially done with all that college work. The semester is finally over! 
Therefore I will be able to write more regularly. I will bring back all the weekly series that I couldn’t keep up with during the … Continue reading
This is a video from chandra.harvard.edu about pulsars and neutron stars. You may also want to read a previous article about pulsars: A Pulsar With Planets
