Production studio PostPanic and director Mischa Rozema crafted this gorgeous bit of artificial space porn, Stardust, in memory of graphic designer Arjan Groot, who passed away in 2011. It envisions the journey of Voyager 1 as it moves ever farther from our sun and continues well beyond the lifespan of humanity.

In case you had any lingering doubts, here is some masterful cosmological/geological/geometrical instruction on our planet and its spherical — but not perfectly spherical — tendencies, courtesy of the ever-capable Henry Reich (better known as the creator, animator and narrator of MinutePhysics). Some great, if not…

Thierry Cohen imagines the gorgeous side of a Revolution-style blackout with his pictures of cities that have gone completely dark. When the lights go out, brilliant stars are visible over New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Rio de Janeiro.

Earlier this year, Jorge Cham of the webcomic PhD Comics explained the Higgs Boson by combining narration from physicists with his own artwork. In his latest video, The Fingerprint of Stars, Jon Swift, Ben Montet, and Melodie Kao of CalTech's John Johnson Exoplanets Laboratory explain why different stars appear to…

It's impossible to capture the scale of our galaxy on your computer screen, but darned if the European Southern Observatory isn't going to try. The observatory has released a 108500×81500 pixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way. You weren't planning on doing anything else with your weekend, right?

When cameras follow the paths of stars across the sky, they capture star trails, which look like glowing record grooves and give you a sense of the Earth's movement. Photographer Daniel Lowe spent two years collecting static images of star trails in western North Carolina, and collected them into one gorgeous video.

Check out the insane scale of this artist's representation of the Milky Way Galaxy, looking tiny and insignificant in the middle of a huge ball of hot gas. The image shows the hot gas extending with a radius of 300,000 light years — but NASA says it may "extend significantly further."

Ring in the weekend with this killer compilation of timelapse footage of the Pacific Northwest. Photographer John Eklund captured these scenes at some of the region's most magnificent locales, including Crater Lake, Mt. Mount St. Helens, Oregon's Badlands and Painted Hills, to name a few.

NASA's Nicholeen Viall has developed a new visualization technique for studying the Sun's temperature fluctuations — and the eye-catching results are startlingly beautiful. Each color-coded area in Viall's composition represents the star's temperature shifts over the course of a 12-hour span. The new method could help …

Scientists at the University of Oslo have discovered a completely new way for atoms to bond together — but these researchers won't be replicating the effect in the lab any time soon. The previously unknown bonding mechanism can only happen in the vicinity of white dwarfs where their intense density and spin creates…