Video Lounge

The BRAIN CAFE'S Video Treats

AMAZING OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE

STARS SINGING

A RHYTHMIC PULSAR

EARTHSONG FROM THE RADIATION BELT

SOUND MADE VISIBLE

COOL PHYSICS - FIGURE THIS ONE OUT
SHOT AT 25 FRAMES SECONDS
WITH CERTAIN SOUND FREQUENCIES

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...

SEEING AROUND CORNERS & OTHER AMAZING STUFF

PLANET EARTH

PERPETUAL OCEAN
ocean currents animation

THE GREAT OCEAN CONVEYOR BELT
moving warm and cool water around the planet

VOYAGER 1 AT THE FINAL FRONTIER

STUNNING MOVIE BY ASTRONAUTS ONBOARD THE ISS

MUSIC: Inspiring Light by Mathambo

NEW DISCOVERIES
MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS
AT THE EDGE OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM

SPECTACULAR SOLAR SCIENCE
Hi-Res from the Solar Dynamics Observatory

Apr 21, 2010

Soon after the instruments opened their doors, the Sun began performing for SDO with this beautiful prominence eruption. This AIA data is from March 30, 2010, showing a wavelength band that is centered around 304 �. This extreme ultraviolet emission line is from singly ionized Helium, or He II, and corresponds to a temperature of approx. 50,000 degrees Celsius. The second movie shows a prominence with larger field of view

Feb 10, 2012

As if it could not make up its mind . . . darker, cooler plasma slid and shifted back and forth above the Sun's surface seen here for 30 hours (Feb. 7-8, 2012) in extreme ultraviolet light. An active region rotating into view provides a bright backdrop to the gyrating streams of plasma. The particles are being pulled this way and that by competing magnetic forces. They are tracking along strands of magnetic field lines. This kind of detailed solar observation with high-resolution frames and a four-minute cadence was not possible until SDO, which launched two years ago on Feb. 11, 2010.