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Stargazing: A Graphic Guide To The Universe

Space
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Created on Saturday, 31 July 2010 15:20

On a crystal-clear evening, on vacation perhaps, how often do we contemplate the night sky and promise to learn the stars and constellations? Somehow we never get round to it. Charts in newspapers look too complicated. Astronomical handbooks are equally daunting.

'Stargazing: A Graphic Guide To The Universe' is the answer – the night sky simply and beautifully mapped, an animated stellar atlas that works from anywhere on Earth. Season-by-season, it signposts and explains. Little by little – like learning a language – the cosmos is comprehensible.

Animated vignettes turn points of light – stars, nebulae, galaxies – into supernovae, flashing pulsars, searing quasars and rotating swarms of 150-billion stars with super-massive black holes at their centers.

The sky is viewed from three latitude bands – from the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere (Japan, Europe, North America), from the tropics, and from the mid-latitudes of the southern hemisphere (Australasia and southern South America).

 

Black Holes: The Other Side Of Infinity

Space
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Created on Saturday, 31 July 2010 16:24

This short video contains high-resolution visualizations of black holes and other cosmic phenomena based on data generated by telescope observations and ultra-high end computer simulations.

Immersive animations portray the formation of the early universe, star birth and death, the collision of giant galaxies and a simulated flight to a super-massive black hole lurking at the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy.

Most Of Our Universe Is Missing

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Last updated: April 27, 2020 at 12:49 pm

Created on Saturday, 31 July 2010 16:30

There was a time, not so long ago, when science seemed to understand how the universe worked. Everything- us, the Earth, the stars, and even exotic-sounding supernovae- was made of atoms that were all created at time-zero: the Big Bang.

In between the atoms was nothing, a void: quite literally, 'space'.

But recently things have started to unravel. There is, it seems, a lot more to the universe than meets the eye. According to the best estimates, we only really know what about 4% of it is made of. But if only 4% is made of atoms what about the rest?

The rest is made of mysterious entities about which very little is understood with equally mysterious names: dark matter and dark energy.

Brian O’Leary interviewed by Project Camelot

Science & Technology
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Created on Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:01

Project Camelot’s Synopsis

Dr. Brian O'Leary suffered the ridicule of his schoolfriends when – several years before Sputnik – he announced his intention to go to the moon. Yet by the age of 27 he was a member of NASA's astronaut program, slated to be one of the first to visit Mars. Several years later, he resigned (for various reasons) and took up a career in academia where he rubbed shoulders with – among many others – Carl Sagan at Cornell and the pioneering psi investigator Robert Jahn at the physics department at Princeton.

A near-death experience in an auto accident encouraged his exploration of the paranormal, and soon after he applied his considerable abilities to the investigation of Free ('overunity') Energy and psi phenomena. He authored several books and became a well-known Free Energy activist.

His list of personal friends reads like a Who's Who of notable paradigm-challenging researchers and out-of-the-box thinking scientists. In our interview, we asked him to summarize his exceptional life, and present his vision for the future.

An optimistic, gentle man, Brian O'Leary is gifted to possess intellect, vision, and graciousness in equal measure. We were delighted to spend time with him at his Vilcabamba home and are very much looking forward to continuing our friendship with him in 2009 and beyond.