Universe

Greetings from the People of Earth

 

The above video montage was kindly produced by multimedia artist and musician Claire L. Evans (of Universe) to open the WSF 2010 panel "The Search for Life in the Universe," which featured the likes of Jill Tarter, David Charbonneau, and Steven Squyres. Unfortunately, due to a production clusterWTF, it didn't end up running. Which is a shame, because I really like its somewhat chilling but still hopeful subtleties. Claire breaks down her motivations for putting together the piece:read more

Science Fun Fact #2

If the Universe’s history were compressed into a year, recorded human history would comprise the last 13 seconds

If the history...

Science is ambitious. And among its most ambitious goals is seeking to understand the origin and evolution of the entire universe. All the more impressive is that, using precision observations from telescopes both on Earth and in space, science has made great strides toward finding answers to those big questions. These observations show that everything we see began as an extremely hot and dense soup of elementary particles, some 13.7 billion years ago.read more