Science Fiction & Fantasy

Quick Facts About Mars Visualized

Our good friends at NASA put together this great infographic containing some fascinating facts about Mars. If you’re thinking of traveling to Mars — despite the exorbitant costs — maybe these facts will help get you started…

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How Many Ways Can the Sun Kill You?

The Sun is obviously a dangerous place in our solar system. Frankly, it’s stinkin’ hot. But just how many ways can the Sun kill you, and did we learn nothing from Sunshine? Frasier Cain of Universe…

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Bell’s Brewery Planets Series of Beers

Bell’s Brewery of Kalamazoo Michigan has announced a new series of seven beers inspired by by music of composer Gustav Holst and his 1913 orchestral suite, The Planets. Each beer will be a limited release beginning…

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Pluto’s Five Moons Explained

Kurzgesagt, a YouTube channel that creates short videos explaining things and who previously gave us a great animated look at the Moons of Mars and our Solar System takes a look at the planetoid Pluto and its…

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How to Catch a Dwarf Planet: Neptune’s Moon Triton

Kurzgesagt takes a look at an anomaly in our solar system: Neptune's largest moon, Triton, which orbits the planet in the wrong direction.

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You Are Tiny: See the Tallest Stuff in the Solar System

BuzzFeed takes a look at the tallest stuff in our Solar System, beginning with the Great Pyramid of Giza and quickly moving to the towering mountains found in places other than Earth.

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Bulb: A Tiny Man Tries to Save His World

This wonderful animated short by Andy Dupont depicts a tiny, animated man who must work tirelessly to save his world from destruction.

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How Do We Know How Old The Sun Is?

The animation studio Beakus put together this terrific animated short that looks how scientists determined the age of the Sun and also the estimated life span of Old Sol.

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Super Planet Crash: Create Your Own Solar System

This online simulation allows would-be gods to create their own solar system of planets orbiting a central star.

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A Fascinating Catalog Of Interplanetary Firsts

This fascinating infographic from Popular Science displays all interplanetary missions and groups them based on the country behind the mission.

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The Scale of the Solar System: The Moon = 1 Pixel

The scale of the solar system if the Moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system.

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Why is the Solar System Flat?

Minute Physics takes a look at the puzzling question of why our Solar System, along with other galaxies, is essentially a two-dimensional disc in a three-dimensional universe.

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Stunning: Video of the Sun in Various Wavelengths

This breathtaking video shows the Sun as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in a wide range of wavelengths invisible to the naked eye.

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