cosmos
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Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Stern Warning For Australia’s Scientific Community
What do you ask one of the smartest people alive in 7 minutes? That’s what I had to decide last week when I interviewed Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson: astrophysicist, TV host and one of the only people on Earth who can claim ownership of a whole planetarium. In the amount of time it took the…
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What A Creationist Version Of The Cosmos Would Look Like
Video: Funny or Die pokes fun of those who like listening to stories over understanding science in its latest: Creationist Cosmos. It’s like the new Neil DeGrasse Tyson Cosmos reboot TV show only made for Creationists. So instead of explanations about the universe, we get very unscientific reasons of why things exist. It’s all in…
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The Eagle Nebula Couldn’t Look Cooler
That top image is pretty, but the only way to see this incredible combination of dust and gas is to take in the whole image below. Holy crap, right? This picture, which was created in 2005 using Hubble data and digitally assigned colours, shows the Eagle Nebula surrounded by and intertwined with dust pillars that…
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Carl Sagan’s Cosmos Sequel Coming From Seth MacFarlane
This came out of nowhere: Fox has ordered a 13-episode documentary series that will follow up on Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. The producers will be Dr Sagan’s wife — the amazing Ann Druyan, who was a Cosmos co-writer — and Seth MacFarlane!