Category Archives: General
Living in space is hard!
Discover Magazine has an awesome list of 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Living in Space.
Did you know that people who snore on Earth sleep silently in space? Or that in one day you would experience 16 sunrises?
The image at the top of this post shows astronauts sleeping aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
If we had no Moon…
NASA’s Astrobiology magazine has an awesome article entitled If We Had No Moon. You’ll already have worked out that we’d have no tides, but did you realise that if the Moon suddenly disappeared then it would dramatically destabilise the Earth’s axis? Or that all the animals that have evolved to see in moonlight would die?
Video tour of the ISS
A fascinating video tour of the International Space Station; I never realised it was so big!
Coldest to hottest
Coldest – Boomerang Nebula
1K
The coldest place outside of a laboratory is the Boomerang Nebula at 1K or minus 272.15°C, which is even colder than the Universe’s background temperature of 2.7K.
Hottest – Colliding particles in Large Hadron Collider
1000000000000000000K
When particles collide in the soon-to-open Large Hadron Collider they will reach a temperature of a billion, billion kelvin, the same temperature as the Universe mere seconds after the Big Bang.