In a live interview with Japan’s Fuji TV, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut and Expedition 22 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi demonstrates his love for cooking aboard the International Space Station with the first hand-rolled sushi in space (with salmon). Found at YouTube from NASATelevision via Popsci via Holy Kaw!

Super cool! In this video you can actually see the sonic boom created by the flight of an Atlas V rocket. Found at YouTube from beachton123.

This simulation follows the growth of density perturbations in both gas and dark matter components in a volume 1 billion light years on a side beginning shortly after the Big Bang and evolved to half the present age of the universe. Found at YouTube from via ArgonneNationalLab Holy Kaw!

Calculations released on Christmas Eve 2004 appeared to show that there was a greater than 2 percent chance a 900-foot asteroid called Apophis would hit the Earth in 2029. The asteroid appeared ready to give the Earth its closest shave since astronomers began looking for such things. As it turned out, more precise observations brought [...]

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated [...]

What’s the deadliest threat to humans? An asteroid tearing through space with the explosive power of 100 million mega-tons of TNT. Found at YouTube from NationalGeographic.

An animated illustration of just how large large can be in the context of the universe. Found at YouTube from morn1415.

Nathan Smith discusses how our galactic neighbors spew out gas in brilliant explosions. Found at Fora.tv.

High definition footage of the space shuttle Atlantis launch, accompanied by music. Found at YouTube from millitaryexcellence.

A meteor turns green and fiery in the atmosphere as it’s caught on a surveillance camera above a busy freeway. Found at Break from kdawg51088.