Posts Tagged ‘astronomy’
The Whole Universe in One Photo
“NASA recently unveiled a new atlas and catalogue of the entire infrared sky, which includes more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. It is comprised of more than 2.7 million images taken at four infrared wavelengths of light, capturing everything from nearby asteroids to distant galaxies.”
Hick, Melanie. “The Whole Universe In One Photo”. The Huffington Post. 4 Mar. 2012.
The City Dark (2012)
A search for night on a planet that never sleeps… The City Dark documentary poses the question: “What do we lose, when we lose the night?” After moving from Maine to New York City, Ian Cheney discovers an urban sky devoid of stars. This propels him on a quest to understand how light pollution affects people and the planet.
Related:
Stacklin, Jeff. “Chicago neighborhoods getting new streetlights”. Yahoo! News. 10 Apr. 2012.
Ribble, Jim. “Who turned off the stars? Light pollution”. CNN. 5 Apr. 2012.
Milky Way time-lapse
Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
In Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet’s regime.
“Disney’s Man and the Moon (Remix)”
“Man and the Moon”. By William Bosché, John W. Dunn and Ward Kimball. Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color. 28 Dec. 1955.
a year on Earth
How large is our universe?
This much, we do know…
