Do you know the fact – you could fit one million planet Earths inside the Sun! While that’s being a mind-blowing fact itself, can you believe our solar system’s big boy ‘Sun’ is just about to represent 1 pixel in the following uber-cool picture? Then you’re about to see the facts and figures of these big/bigger/biggest and most brightest stars in the universe (from Sun to VY Canis Majoris) along with a relative graphical illustration and an awesome video clip too.

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, the fifth-largest and the densest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets. OK! now, lets come to the focus point of this blog post: How big is our planet Earth? I mean, compare to other planets… In the following mind-blowing picture, you’ll start to appreciate how small earth is!!! Icing on the cake: Now, you can interact with the Scale of the Universe too!

Can you imagine? Take a cup of tea/coffee, sit back, relax and before finishing – you can actually travel across the universe up to 13.7 billion light years away and return where you are, that is under 7 minutes! So what would it look like to travel across the universe? To help us visualize this, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in partnership with Rubin Museum of Art has produced a modern movie titled “The Known Universe” featuring many visual highlights of such a trip.

Yesterday, April 24, 2010,  Hubble Space Telescope (HST) turned 20 and was celebrated worldwide grandly. After its 1990 launch, the HST is an inevitable idol/superstar in space science. Intro: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a space shuttle in April 1990. It is named after the American astronomer  Edwin Hubble. Although not the first space telescope, Hubble is one of the largest and most versatile, and is well-known as both a vital research tool and a public relations boon for astronomy. The HST is a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, and is one of NASA’s Great Observatories, along with the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. To celebrate it’s birthday, I am decided to post some of the (to be precise : 20 pictures to celebrate it’s 20th Anniversary) most amazing, magnificent, astonishing, vibrant, vivid, uber-cool, [Continue Reading]