August 15, 2011
You’ve probably read that the US space agency NASA have a rich, free line-up of apps and online services just waiting to be explored. This isn’t to say that NASA is the final word when it comes to astronomy, space travel and cosmic education.
Here are 6 non-NASA iOS apps to give your thumbs and brain a cosmic workout.
August 2, 2011
Science has gone social. Research scientists maybe crunching away at their super-computers but they aren’t neglecting the remarkable potential of the most powerful computer of all – the human brain. When you put a few billion together you get a massive neural network that no computer can match.
August 1, 2011
Unless you’ve been living under a rock all your life, you’ve probably stared at the night sky wondering what all their names are and what stars actually make up which constellations. I’ve wondered about this many times, and I still do. But my curiosity can now be quenched thanks to a fantastic open source program that delivers in spectacular fashion.
June 15, 2011
One of the things I’m always on the lookout for when searching for free apps to review are more cool space explorer apps or websites but most of them amount to nothing more than novelty apps. So I was pretty excited to come across Solar Model 2, because aside from being able to explore space in an advanced graphical rendering engine, it also lets enthusiasts and students “measure” space.
December 29, 2010
It’s said that every second child harbors dreams of becoming an astronaut and flying into space. Maybe one day we can take that dream for granted. Donning a space suit still requires one to be among the elite. What we can take for granted today is to look up at the heavens and stoke our curiosity [...]
November 5, 2010
Do you remember those cool space exploration games from the 1990′s like Sentinel Worlds and Wing Commander? These were games that you could play for hours on end, without any set script and without anything that you had to do except whatever you wanted. You could jump through galaxies, explore distant planets, or earn money [...]
August 25, 2010
The term “exo” throughout many different branches of science has come to mean the speculative exploration of what forms science may take “outside” of the boundaries of earth. There are exo-biologists, exo-archaeologists and even ex-musicology (I kid you not). Some of these speculative theories are pretty interesting, especially when exploring what forms life on distant [...]
July 13, 2010
Most of us as children dreamt of flight. Space is just the next step. If you ask an astronaut today, I am sure they will have a definite memory of when and why they decided to fall in love with space. At least mine was when I first saw Star Trek and Star Wars. Just [...]
July 10, 2010
From an early age, I had an interest in astronomy and the night sky. My dad would take me out on a clear, crisp night and we would look up at the sky through his telescope. One of my favorite magazines was Sky and Telescope, mainly because they published beautiful full color photos of nebulas, [...]
April 20, 2010
When the weather is warm, it’s a pity to see the kids sitting around inside in front of the computer or a video game. As a tech savvy society, believe it or not, both worlds can unite (that’s the tech world and the outside world). Let’s take a look at a few GPS activities for [...]
