space stories

Spectacular 3D astrophotos add depth to space

Evan Ackerman
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 8:56am
 
Space. It's big, and it's deep, but as far as we humans here on Earth are concerned, it may as well be a perfectly flat picture painted up there across the sky. It's hard to get much in the way of depth through a telescope, but with a little bit of creativity and artistic license, it's possible to 3D-ify some truly beautiful nebulae.

Last Pictures project creates billion-year time capsule in space

Evan Ackerman
Monday, October 8, 2012 - 8:24am
 
One billion years is a span of time that's almost impossible for humans to conceive of: our civilization is only a few thousand years old, and we'll be lucky if we see another few thousand into the future. With that in mind, a team of artists is sending a special time capsule into space, where it should last until the sun eats it.

Exoplanets, distant stars believed to form exotic exosyzygy

Evan Ackerman
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 2:52pm
 
Back in January of 2010, the Kepler Space Telescope was checking out a four-planet system called KOI-94, when it noticed something weird. Additional observations and recent analysis suggest that what Kepler saw was a double exoplanet transit, and since nobody's ever seen this before, astronomers have had to invent a brand new term to describe it: behold, an exosyzygy.

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