We’re pleased to tell you that two Gas and High Skies tours have been added to Worldwide Telescope. WWT is a virtual telescope that allows you to explore the universe through the lens of Hubble, Spitzer and others, without leaving your computer.
Universal Beauty
A tour of the beautiful. Music is Gas - Microscopic. You can download the [...]
NASA has just released new images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the original Apollo Moon landing sites. Some even show the astronauts tracks when carrying out their surface experiments.
The Lunar Landers highlighted with a shadow from the low Sun.
Apollo 14. You can just about make out the astronauts tracks in the dust.
Apollo [...]
To mark the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing, we have NASA TV, live from Space Shuttle Endeavor (STS-127).
Click to play. All the usual controls; full screen, mute, volume, pause…
It will be docking live with the International Space Station, and the crew will be moonwalking performing five spacewalks and complete construction of the Japan [...]
We’ve just joined FaceBook and Twitter, so come and join us and say hello.
We’re not prolific posters so we won’t pollute your day with news of what’s for lunch, or if the Minimoogs gone out of tune again. Mostly news and release updates, with the odd interesting link thrown in.
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Mimas (left) and Death Star (right)
Spotted in orbit around Saturn is the Death Star small moon Mimas.
Whatever hit Mimas nearly destroyed it. What remains is one of the largest impact craters on one of Saturn’s smallest moons. The crater, named Herschel after the 1789 discoverer of Mimas, Sir William Herschel, spans about 130 [...]
The winner of this months free CD draw for subscribers and customers is Fred N.
As a subscriber to our newsletter he is free to chose Gas 0095 on CD, 24 bit Flac, or the 320k mp3 version.
Subscribe to our occasional newsletter to be in with a chance of winning this month. Remember that you can [...]
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