Science And Life

Drone footage of the Moroccan village of Moulay Brahim shows the scale of destruction caused by an earthquake measuring at least 6.8 magnitude that hit the country on Friday. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub More than 2,000 have died due to the earthquake, according to Morocco's interior ministry. Rescue efforts have continued through the weekend, with Rabat mobilising its armed forces to help save people in remote villages were more people are believed to be trapped. King Mohammed VI declared three days of mourning for the victims of the tremor.

CBN's Chris Mitchell is in Morocco reporting on the massive quake that has claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people. Here he walks us through the catastrophic damage in a mountain village that was hit by the massive earthquake. Mitchell is reporting alongside CBN's Operation Blessing, who is assisting those in need by handing out basic necessities in the name of Jesus.

Skydive Dubai sponsored Soul Flyers World Champions Vince Reffet and Fred Fugen break a new World Record by BASE jumping from above the pinnacle of the World's Tallest Building.

One week of skydiving over one of the most beautiful drop zone of the world...

On July 30 2016, Skydiver Luke Aikins, made history, when he jumped from 25,000 feet out of an airplane without a parachute, landing safely in a net set, setting a world record. Luke, who was 42 at the time of the jump, is a third generation skydiver, who has been skydiving since the age of 16 and has deployed a parachute more 18,000 times over the course of his skydiving and BASE jumping career. Luke is also is a safety and training adviser for the United States Parachute Association, where he provides advanced skydiving training, to elite military special forces. After jumping out of the Cessna airplane at 25,000 feet, Luke quickly reached a terminal velocity of 120 miles per hour. Using his GPS, and only the air currents around him, he lined up his fall to the center of a specialized 100-by-100-foot net, which was designed to stop Luke's fall, as softly as if you were to stand on a trampoline, and merely drop onto your back. The total time from jumping from the plane to hitting the net, took about 2 minutes. But when you are falling from 25,000 feet into a small net you can’t even see from 25,000 feet, I bet it felt like a life time.

Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which launched in 2004, scientists have discovered a black hole in a distant galaxy repeatedly nibbling on a Sun-like star. The object heralds a new era of Swift science made possible by a novel method for analyzing data from the satellite’s X-ray Telescope (XRT). When a star strays too close to a monster black hole, gravitational forces create intense tides that break the star apart into a stream of gas. The leading edge swings around the black hole, and the trailing edge escapes the system. These destructive episodes are called tidal disruption events. Astronomers see them as flares of multiwavelength light created when the debris collides with a disk of material already orbiting the black hole. Recently, astronomers have been investigating variations on this phenomena, which they call partial or repeating tidal disruptions. During these events, every time an orbiting star passes close to a black hole, the star bulges outward and sheds material, but survives. The process repeats until the star looses too much gas and finally breaks apart. The characteristics of the individual star and black hole system determine what kind of emission scientists observe, creating a wide array of behaviors to categorize. On June 22, 2022, XRT captured Swift J0230 for the first time. It lit up in a galaxy around 500 million light-years away in the northern constellation Triangulum. Swift’s XRT has observed nine additional outbursts from the same location roughly every few weeks. Scientists propose that Swift J0230 is a repeating tidal disruption of a Sun-like star orbiting a black hole with over 200,000 times the Sun’s mass. They estimate the star loses around three Earth masses of material on each pass. This system provides a bridge between other types of suspected repeating disruptions and allowed scientists to model how interactions between different star types and black hole sizes affect what we observe. Swift J0230’s discovery was possible thanks to a new, automated search of XRT observations called the Swift X-ray Transient Detector. After the instrument observes a portion of the sky, the data is transmitted to the ground, and the program compares it to previous XRT snapshots of the same spot. If that portion of the X-ray sky has changed, scientists get an alert. In the case of Swift J0230, astronomers were able to rapidly coordinate additional observations of the region. Music credit: "Teapot Waltz" by Benjamin Parsons from Universal Production Music Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

When i watched this movie it was mindblowing. A man reaching Mach 1 speed. World record highest space jump! I decided to make a compilation.

Jul 25, 2023

I tracked down the original time-lapse sequence taken on the International Space Station (ISS) via NASA, found some additional ones there, including the spectacular Aurora Australis sequences, and set it to a soundtrack that almost matches the awe and wonder I feel when I see our home from above. To those brave men and women who fly alone in the night to take us to the stars, we salute you.

"How To get to Mars" is a clip from the IMAX documentary "Roving Mars" from 2006. This is an edited short version.

Solar System Video showing the 8 planets of the Solar System orbiting the Sun. As we move out from Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, towards the gas giant planets of the outer Solar System, each of the planets take longer to orbit the sun.

Our Universe is not silent.. Although space is a vacuum, that does not mean there is no sound in it. Yes, space is a vacuum - so it generally doesn't carry sound waves like air does here on Earth. However, some sounds do exist in outer space, we just can't hear them. Various probes that zoom through the space are capable of capturing radio emissions from astronomical objects. NASA's scientist have designed special instrument known as 'astronomical interferometer' which can record these electromagnetic vibrations, and transfer them into sounds within range of human hearing (20-20,000 Hz).

The “Endeavour” Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the coast of Florida on 4 September 2023, at 04:17 UTC (00:17 EDT). Crew-6 is SpaceX’s fifth operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, the “Endeavour” Crew Dragon spacecraft transporting NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev and UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi to and from the International Space Station.

Watch: The moment UAE astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi splashes down in the Atlantic as he returns to Earth after six months in space.

Astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi: From Iraq to Muscat, let me take you on a tour of the Arabian Peninsula in the morning from space.

With unprecedented access to Elon Musk and his SpaceX team, witness the historic landing of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral.

What does it *really* feel like to jump from space? In 2012 Felix Baumgartner took a helium balloon into the stratosphere and skydived back to earth in a specially made space suit. Whilst in freefall he broke the speed of sound and entered a spin which threatened the entire Red Bull Stratos mission... Felix reflects on his achievement and shares what it really felt like to jump from the edge of space.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Expedition 33 commander Suni Williams showcase the sleeping accomodations, how the bathroom is utilized, brushing teeth in microgravity and the common room with food. Harmony, Tranquility and Unity are the nodes toured

Early on Monday, four astronauts returned to Earth after a six-month stay at the International Space Station. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Atlantic off the Florida coast. The astronauts who returned home are NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, Russia’s Andrei Fedyaev and the United Arab Emirates’ Sultan al-Neyadi. It is to be noted that Sultan al-Neyadi is the first person from the Arab world to spend an extended time in orbit.

Japan has launched its lunar exploration spacecraft aboard a homegrown H2A rocket, clearing the path to become the world’s fifth country to land on the moon early next year. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the rocket took off from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan as planned and successfully released the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon i.e SLIM. Unfavourable weather had led to three postponements in a week last month for this lunar mission. The rocket carried a revolutionary satellite that will reveal celestial objects in a new light and the “Moon Sniper” lunar lander.

We underestimated the necessary work load and all the potential problems tenfold – this is not a figure of speech, this took ten times longer than we thought it would. And we are sort of used to working on big projects. So the first update to the app should hopefully be here in the next 24 hours (we are waiting for approval of the update in the app stores) – it will fix a bunch of small things that slipped through. We’ll constantly improve this thing because while it was honestly a horrible nightmare to make, it also was fun and we want to get better at it and make more things in the future.

The largest things in the universe are black holes. In contrast to things like planets or stars they have no physical size limit, and can literally grow endlessly. Although in reality specific things need to happen to create different kinds of black holes, from really tiny ones to the largest single things in the universe. So how do black holes grow and how large is the largest of them all?