grumswall Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Space is mainly just that, space.when looking up we see a broader view than any telescope. Havent watched any of these ch4 programs yet so hopefully that answers your question. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyerTon Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 On Channel 4 HD (Sky 230) at 19:30 is 90 mins round the Earth live from the International Space Station. Hosted by Dermot O'Leary live from Houston, Texas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 I'm watching Cosmos on Nat Geography outstanding so far 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyerTon Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 The ISS orbit at the moment will be nowhere near Britain during this round the world show on Ch 4. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/International_Space_Station/Where_is_the_International_Space_Station 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyerTon Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 http://space.channel4.com/tracker 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CambCelt Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 I'm on the e-mailing list with E.S.A. and N.A.S.A. - I get loads of emails from them every day (especially the latter) from Mon-Fri and a few at weekends as well. I've always loved space stuff, and Physics was my favourite subject at school & sixth form. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 We should have a sweepstake on when he will ask "how do you use the toilet in space" He did so about 10 minutes ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 This BBC article looks kinda exciting: Scientists say they have extraordinary new evidence to support a Big Bang Theory for the origin of the Universe. Researchers believe they have found the signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansion of space that must have occurred just fractions of a second after everything came into being. It takes the form of a distinctive twist in the oldest light detectable with telescopes. The work will be scrutinised carefully, but already there is talk of a Nobel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I heard about the above earlier. Sounds exciting. I only found out a few years ago that static on the radio and TV is radiation from the Big Bang. I actually sometimes listen to static (only for a minute or so) and ponder it and find it utterly fascinating. Yeah science bitch! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Not all of it; only a small percentage, but yeah. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Cuddy Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I heard about the above earlier. Sounds exciting. I only found out a few years ago that static on the radio and TV is radiation from the Big Bang. I actually sometimes listen to static (only for a minute or so) and ponder it and find it utterly fascinating. Yeah science bitch! It's a great noise when you can't sleep. There's a load of apps you can get that will play it for a set period of time and it just helps switch you off because there's nothing to actively listen to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 (edited) It's a great noise when you can't sleep. There's a load of apps you can get that will play it for a set period of time and it just helps switch you off because there's nothing to actively listen to. BBC News channel does that for me during the night. watched that cosmos programme the other night, quite good I thought. Though I'm old enough to remember Sagan's original version, through dewy eyes I remember it as fecking brilliant. Edited March 17, 2014 by Boghead ranter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 This BBC article looks kinda exciting: Nobel linked with big bang, eh. Not for the first time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confidemus Posted March 17, 2014 Author Share Posted March 17, 2014 I heard about the above earlier. Sounds exciting. I only found out a few years ago that static on the radio and TV is radiation from the Big Bang. I actually sometimes listen to static (only for a minute or so) and ponder it and find it utterly fascinating. Yeah science bitch! Not all of it; only a small percentage, but yeah. Around 1% of it in actual fact. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BossHogg Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Sorry......whats that star south facing thats really bright just now? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BossHogg Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Thought that but on my sky map app Sirius was further East. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26872184 The evidence for an "ocean" of water under the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus appears to be overwhelming. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Really got into cosmology recently, find it absolutely fascinating. I would recommend the 'skeptics guide to the universe' weekly podcast for anyone with an interest in science. They talk in detail about big science stories and lay into pseudo science and cover other topics with a skeptical scientific viewpoint. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tintax Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26872184 Pretty exciting stuff up there with Europa now in terms of the best place for finding life in our solar system. Like this picture from NASA jets of Water being blasted above the surface of the moon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confidemus Posted April 11, 2014 Author Share Posted April 11, 2014 A little fun fact for Friday, P&B. Imagine our Sun as being the size of a grain of sand. On that scale, the solar system would be the size of your hand. Now. Keep that scale in mind. Taking that further out, the grain of sand sun in the hand sized solar system, what size do you think the Milky Way galaxy is? Size of an aeroplane? Size of a medium sized town? Nope. If the sun was a grain of sand held in your solar syatem hand, at that scale, the Milky Way galaxy would be the size of North. Fucking. America!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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