Universe
Stunning Shots From The Astronomy Photo Awards
22 Sep 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The competition has been running for 13 years out of The Royal Observatory Greenwich, with more than 4 500 entries this year.
A South African Telescope Just Discovered 20 New Galaxies
07 Jul 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has been hard at work uncovering a large galaxy group, which is likely the most neutral hydrogen gas-rich group ever discovered.
How Can The Universe Expand, If There Was Nothing There Before?
19 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Ask the general public to answer this question – the universe is expanding, but what is it expanding into? – and you’ll get a very mixed bag of responses.
Dark Matter, The Structure Of The Universe, And Exoplanets – Three Winners Of The Nobel Prize In Physics
09 Oct 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
The winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics “painted a picture of a universe far stranger and more wonderful than we ever could have imagined”.
Space Peeps Freak Out At First Pics From SA’s ‘World Leading Telescope’
18 Jul 2016 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Up in the Northern Cape there’s a massive telescope project being built, and it just released some epic photographs of the universe.
Apple’s Ad For The New iPad Pro [Video]
10 Nov 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Apple’s latest campaign for its newest product promises to show you the universe.
Let Me Explain The Universe To You – By Seth Rotherham
20 Aug 2015 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
When I started 2oceansvibe 13 years ago, I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t know I would one-day have half a million readers every month and sponsors and a successful business. But I knew something would come of it. As it ‘bizarrely’ always does..
Detailed Image Of Ancient Universe Unveiled
22 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The European Space Agency (ESA) revealed on Thursday that our Universe is 80 to 100 million years older than previously thought, via a detailed map of the most ancient light in the cosmos. ESA’s Planck satellite took a 50-million pixel, all sky snapshot of the radiation left over from the Big Bang. Director general of […]
Why Exactly Are We Spending R1,9 Billion On Telescopes?
28 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A staggering R1,9 billion has been allocated over three years for the The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and MeerKAT radio telescope projects. That is a lot of money on a project that South Africans don’t understand. According to the Square Kilometre Array website, the SKA is not the average telescope system. Rather than filtering light waves […]
NASA Releases Infrared Map Of Entire Universe [PIC]
05 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Have you ever wondered what the universe would look like on a single photo? You did!? Well, what a coincidence, because NASA has just released this infrared map of the entire universe. This serves as a capstone for a bigger cosmic map – containing 18 000 images and 560 million different objects. It took NASA fourteen years of preparation and three years of data collection.
YOUR PARTY WILL BE VERY, VERY, VERY SMALL THIS WEEKEND
23 Sep 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
The Pale Blue Dot Carl Sagan is a deceased astronaut astronomer. And that miniscule blue dot inside the blue circle is Earth. He is one of the few people to have ever existed who could claim to have pondered global events with a truly broad perspective. When you’ve considered the earth from 6,1 billion miles […]
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