Astonishingly beautiful photography from Mia Stålnacke @angrytheinch “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, light set off on an epic journey. Travelling through the vastness of space for 2.5 million years before eventually, one dark starry night, colliding with your eyes. Letting you see an image of what it was all that time ago.”
The Curiosity Mars Rover has begun the 10th year of its mission on Mars. What an incredible feat of engineering – this artefact on another planet is still performing research tasks. Despite harsh conditions, it’s lasted longer than many electronic devices we commonly use here on Earth. @nasa #curiosity
Q&A with Maggie Aderin-Pocock this morning. Discussing if there is intelligent life in the Universe, the James Webb space telescope and the new BBC Series “Universe”.
A shot from our Horizons warm-up show in Reading. Here you can see multiple galaxy clusters and light being bent due to gravitational effects. While this image looks full of galazies, each with hundreds of billions of stars, the fact is that most of the universe is pretty empty.
Black Holes in Basingstoke (Horizons warm-up show). This sequence (it’s a simulation – created from actual physics) was rendered by D-Neg using code developed for “Interstellar” and shows gravitational lensing around a black hole. #science #horizons
And talking of spaceships … @nasa is preparing the Ingenuity helicopter for first flight on April 11th. This will be the first ever powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. They’ve also open-sourced the flight software and embedded systems frameworks – head over to GitHub and search “fprime” for more info.
I call this one “Cat resting on hifi under table” …
Currently busy writing a book on Black Holes with Jeff Forshaw. I thought I’d share a diagram with you, for no particular reason other than you can see how ‘hand-drawn’ they are when we scribble them, and compare that with how lovely they’ll be when an actual artist remakes them 🙂 #physics #blackholes #horizons2021
Winter in Sydney
Wow … now that’s what I call a spaceship! The beautiful SpaceShip3 just unveiled by @virgingalactic is simply stunning. Hey @colchrishadfield when can we take this up for a spin?!
Trees
Autumn in Auckland
Following on from last weeks “Cat on hifi under table #1” – here is the next in my occasional series of artworks. “Different cat on hifi under table #2”.
Horizons BackStage 002 : A question for the audience! #horizonslive #science #blackholes
The Moon over Auckland
United States and Canada. The Horizons World Tour is coming in 2022 … Ticket pre-sales are happening right now. Just use passcode: COSMOS (link in profile & details below) Washington DC – Apr 22 – Warner Theatre Philadelphia – Apr 23 – Merriam Theatre New York – Apr 26 – Beacon Theatre New Haven CT – Apr 27 – Shubert Theatre Boston – Apr 29 – Shubert Theatre at the Boch Center Montreal – May 2 – Theatre Maisonneuve Toronto – May 4 – Roy Thomson Hall Pittsburgh – May 5 – Byham Theater Columbus – May 7 – Palace Theatre Indianapolis – May 8 – Murat Theatre Chicago (Night 1) – May 10 – Athenaeum Theatre Chicago (Night 2) – May 11 – Athenaeum Theatre Madison – May 12 – Capitol Theatre Minneapolis – May 14 – Pantages Theatre Denver – May 16 – Paramount Theatre Salt Lake City – May 18 – Eccles Theater Edmonton – June 3 – Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Calgary – June 4 – Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Vancouver – June 6 – The Orpheum Seattle – June 7 – Moore Theatre Portland – June 10 – The Keller Auditorium Sacramento – June 13 – SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center San Francisco – June 14 – Golden Gate Theatre San Jose – June 16 – California Theatre Los Angeles (Night 1) – June 17 – The Montalban Theatre Los Angeles (Night 2) – June 18 – The Montalban Theatre San Diego – June 20 – Balboa Theatre Dallas – June 23 – Majestic Theatre Austin – June 24 – Paramount Theatre Austin – June 25 – Paramount Theatre San Antonio – June 27 – Majestic Theatre Houston – June 28 – Cullen Performance Hall
We only need ONE THING backstage. Can you guess? @maynardbassetts #winegums #horizons #science
We’re working on material for the new show “Horizons : A 21st Century Space Odyssey” … check out some behind-the-scenes exclusives. #profbriancox #science #backstage #exclusive
Horizons : A 21st Century Space Odyssey The story that started 13.8 billion years ago continues tonight … at the Exeter Corn Exchange #horizonslive
We’re continuing our Horizons warm-up tour – tonight we land at The Assembly in Tunbridge Wells. Question: What is the Schwarzschild Radius of our Sun? (Answers during the show and online later tonight!) #science #horizons #SchwarzschildRadius
If you’re coming to our warm-up show tonight at Bracknell, grab yourself one of these extremely limited-edition Horizons Mission Patches from the lovely merchandise people. Hint: these will be very rare and very collectable 🙂
Thanks to everyone who came to the Winchester warm-up show on Thursday – we had such a great time! #horizons #science
Brian and the design team have released some fab limited-edition HORIZONS merchandise to the WebStore this week. Check it out! Link in Bio. #horizons
