Category Archives: The Universe

4 Earths Wide: Cassini Captures Technicolor Images Of Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon-Shaped Hurricane

In 1981 NASA’s Voyager 2 passed by Saturn’s gargantuan hexagonal-shaped hurricane on its North Pole, but due to its observational geometry the probe was unable to capture images of the poles and the mysterious 6-sided weather formation.  Fast forward to November … Continue reading

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“Drive A Spike To Spica”: Here’s How You Can See Saturn’s Rings With Your Naked Eye In Tonight’s Sky

If you’re a lover of Saturn then tonight is a very big deal because the rings of this stunning beauty are going to be visible to the naked eye.  The prime viewing time occurs both tonight and tomorrow night (April … Continue reading

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Nothing Is Ever As It Appears: Watch ANIMAL And Director Samm Hodges’ Stunning Short Film “Illusions (Part One)”

Yatzer recently gave a brilliant heads-up to director Samm Hodges and award-winning video production team ANIMAL, who recently launched a stunning short film series collaboration entitled Illusions.  The first of the eight shorts was released yesterday, and it is by … Continue reading

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Scientists Discover Rainwater Falling Out Of Saturn’s Rings Is Responsible For Planet’s Dark Zones

First published in Popular Science (April 10, 2013) by Rose Pastore  ☛  Exciting news from space: Astronomers have discovered that charged water particles fall from Saturn’s rings over large areas of the planet, and the rainwater has a major impact on Saturn’s atmosphere. … Continue reading

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Prepare Yourself: Press Play And Listen To The Sound Of The Big Bang And The Birth Of The Universe

Last month the European Space Agency unveiled the mindblowing data collected from their Planck space telescope, which combined to form the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background — the relic radiation from the Big Bang.  The … Continue reading

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Watch Errol Morris’s 1991 Stephen Hawking Documentary “A Brief History Of Time” Online For Free

A very wise person once observed that “One of the most astonishing effects of the human brain is the fact that so often I fail to realize I even have one.”  As we each wake up every single day and … Continue reading

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Christopher Nolan In Talks To Direct Enormously Complex Wormhole Science Fiction Film “Interstellar”

Written by his longtime collaborator and brother Jonathan Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises), Interstellar is rumoured to be the next passion project of Christopher Nolan.  For a while now, Steven Spielberg was attached to the film, but … Continue reading

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Watch “OVERVIEW” Doc About Astronauts’ Life-Altering Experience Of Seeing Earth From Above

On the 40th anniversary of the famous Blue Marble photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective premiered a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside — a perspective-altering experience often described as the … Continue reading

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