This is Stephen Hawking on the unexplained mystery of the universe he’d most like to know, space travel, the children’s book he wrote with his daughter, and on whether he is religious/spiritual. Sorry, the video is in Flash format and nothing else is available. You can download it here.
Simple questions, intelligent answers.
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In other news, Virgin and Google are collaborating to launch a permanent human settlement on Mars. This innovative 100-year plan features a spaceship that makes it to Mars in only five months and a network of autonomous rovers to lay basic base infrastructure. Called Project Virgle, Larry Page and Sergey Brin ask us to join their “startup civilization” and become pioneers.
The dwarf galaxy I Zwicky 18, discovered by astronomer Fritz Zwicky in a 1930s. Once thought to be the youngest galaxy known at only 500 million years of age, new Hubble images have recently confirmed that it is significantly older than previously thought, with star formation occurring from 1 billion to as long as 10 billion years ago.
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Above is an image of a fantastic Dragon Storm. It is a large, bright and complex storm in Saturn’s southern hemisphere, named for its unusual shape. If you look closely you can see hints of it extending for many thousands of kilometers to the north.
