In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The first image from the clip is taken by the Voyager 1 Space Probe on February 14, 1990, at a distance of 6,054,587,000 Kilometers (3,762,146,000 miles). The rest of the clip is part…
Science and Religion are individual commodities and they cannot be merged, at least for now, in view of some of the greatest scientists ever. Science and religion are often considered conflicting entities as the latter of the two requires faith and belief while science demands a scientific proof for everything. This can lead to various…
Have you ever heard Moby’s popular song “We Are All Made of Stars”? If not, then do it now as latest studies have shown that it is actually true. This concept came forward in the 1980s during the telecast of the T.V series called Cosmos. Astronomer Carl Sagan was the narrator of this show and…
55 Years Ago Mariner 2 Was Passing Close To Venus Friday, December 14, 1962, while The Beatles were recording their first No. 1 hit, “Please, Please Me,” 36 million miles away data is coming back to Earth, sent from the Mariner 2 spacecraft, which comes within range of Venus. At that time, a young scientist named Carl Sagan has…
That’s here, that’s home, that’s us… Taken on February 14, 1990 by Voyager 1 space probe, the “Pale Blue Dot” is a photograph of our planet from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles or 40.5 AU). Seen from that distance, Earth appears to be a tiny dot “suspended in a sunbeam”. We…
Long time ago, Carl Sagan was explaining what some of us can’t understand nowdays. There is no doubt that you have not heard at least once about Carl Sagan’s theories and explanations. Being best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator, the famous astronomer, who also created Voyager’s Golden Record, explains in…
A record label has succeeded in duplicating Voyager’s Golden Record Ozma Records has managed to raise the necessary funds to make enough copies of the Golden Record found on the board of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes. The disc contains the story of the planet Earth expressed in sounds and images. The record…
Voyager 1 celebrates 40 years of space travel. Launched on September 5, 1977, just a few weeks after Voyager 2, Voyager 1 was the first man-made object to be able of leaving our solar system in 2012, being the first to send images of Saturn’s and Jupiter’s moons. On Sept. 1, Voyager 1 was at…