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Beautiful interactive tour of the galaxy
In a beautiful rendition of the galaxy, Google visualized 100,000 stars, starting at the sun and out to a view of the Milky Way. Start with the tour, which takes you through an overview of what there...
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U.S. overlaid on the Moon for a sense of scale
How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with this image of the Moon with an overlaid United States. It's roughly estimated (and others would be better at...
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Distance to Mars
Long distances (and big numbers) can be difficult grasp. Designers Jesse Williams and David Paliwoda took a stab at it and made it easier to understand the distance from Mars. Simple and totally fun....
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Locations of every photo from International Space Station
Over the last 12 years, astronauts have taken a lot of pictures from the International Space Station. About 1.1 million of them. And they're all archived on NASA's servers. Nathan Bergey mapped them....
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Orbiting planets found by NASA Kepler mission
The Kepler mission by NASA has discovered more than 100 planets that orbit stars. Jonathan Corum for The New York Times visualized the ones with known size and orbit using small multiples. Scroll all...
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Earth’s skies with Saturn’s rings
Illustrator Ron Miller imagined what Earth's skies would look like if we had Saturn's rings. Now, Miller brings his visualizations back to Earth for a series exploring what our skies would look like...
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Planet and moon resizer
It can be difficult to imagine the scale of planets and moons, because (1) they're really big and (2) they're far away. From where we are, the stars look pretty small, but in reality, they shiny...
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Searching for other Earths
In a step-by-step narrative, produced by Adam Becker, MacGregor Campbell and Peter Aldhous for New Scientist, is an exploration of possible Earths light years away. Possible planets are marked based on...
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New Scientist quickly covers three theories of space and time in an informational video. Tags: New Scientist, physics, space
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Interactive documentary takes you through space and orbits
Impressive work in A Spacecraft for All: This Chrome Experiment follows the unlikely odyssey of the ISEE-3, a spacecraft launched in 1978 to study the Sun, but better known for its amazing...
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Earth-orbiting satellites, all of them
David Yanofsky and Tim Fernholz for Quartz visualized the satellites orbiting Earth. There's a lot of them. There are more than 1,200 active satellites orbiting earth right now, taking pictures,...
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Friends in Space
Part celebration of Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman to fly into space, and part social network above the clouds, Friends in Space by Accurat lets you follow Cristoforetti on the...
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Holiday lights from space
You've likely seen the classic globe image that shows Earth at night. It's a composite image using data collected over a nine-day period, so you kind of see what the planet looks like if it were night...
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Asteroid database
Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google. It contains information for over 600,000 asteroids. Scientists know very little about the composition of asteroids....
View ArticleReally slow speed of light
The "speed of light" typically means "really fast" but when it's relative to the scale of the universe, maybe not so much. Animator Alphonse Swinehart shows what it might look like to follow a photon...
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Journey to Pluto
The New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 and is set to fly by Pluto next week on July 14, 2015. The New York Times provides a short documentary on the journey and the hope for what the...
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If the Moon were one pixel in size
Somehow these space-in-perspective graphics and interactives never get old. I guess the size of space is just that mind-blowing. In the latest addition to the collection, Josh Worth imagines the moon...
View ArticleScale model of the Solar System
x In most depictions of the Solar System, planets are drawn big enough to show details and placed side-by-side to show order. The scale of the planets and the space in between them are usually a...
View ArticlePale Blue Dot motion graphic
Joel Somerfield created this motion graphic to Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot monologue. Good stuff: [via Brain Pickings] Tags: Carl Sagan, Earth, space
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Tour of a million stars
The Online Star Register takes you through a delightful view of a million stars. You can browse and gaze the sky, but be sure to "take a tour" via the button on the top. It starts on the ground at...
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