Space Archives - Abakcus

Keeping an Eye on Ocean Plastic Pollution from Space

Meet bag, bottle, and three bits of plastic left on the beach. They are small, but they are heading into the ocean and cause big damage.

Joey Jefferson, a Mission Operations Engineer at NASA, talks with his outer space-obsessed six-year-old nephew Jerry Morrison.

The black hole is surrounded by a disk of gas, and the intense gravity near the black hole distorts the view.

This animation shows a ball dropping from 1000 meters to the surface of each object, assuming no air resistance.

Carl Sagan talks about the scientific mistakes made by the original Star Wars film. His level of awareness is deeply inspiring.

Eclipses have fascinated people through human history. The 2017 solar eclipse was the most-observed of all time adding rich new imagery.

This 4-minute animation shows how the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment help scientists understand how the universe works.

Alan Dyer presents a 4-minute video in 4K resolution featuring time-lapses of the Milky Way showing the motion of the sky and galactic core.

Watch the sun from sunrise to sunset in the timelapse of the 2019 Total Solar Eclipse.

Physicists Umberto Cannella and Daniel Whiteson explain what they are and why they'll cause a big ripple in our understanding of the Universe.