Cosmos: War of the Planets

On March 6, 2015, astronomers reported observing a supernova in a distant spiral galaxy. Although the explosion itself occurred millions of years earlier, the light carrying that event had only just reached Earth after traveling across intergalactic space. This delay is not unusual but a fundamental feature of the universe, where distance and the finite speed of light turn every observation into a glimpse of the past. In this way, telescopes function not just as instruments of sight, but as time

July 14, 2015. This sequence is a digital reconstruction of the historic New Horizons flyby, rendered from the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager data.After a nine year journey, the probe passed within 7,800 miles of Pluto’s surface, capturing these water-ice mountains rising 11,000 feet into a nitrogen atmosphere. The distinct haze visible on the horizon is a genuine atmospheric phenomenon, caused by the solar processing of methane and nitrogen. While the motion is synthesized from s

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