Awesome Space

French indie rockers Stuck in the Sound are back with another video that’s just as good as its track. The moral of the story for Let’s Go might be to be careful what you work for. (Thanks Hadrian)

A loving animated tribute to Laika the dog – the world’s first true astronaut, who was launched into space Sputnik 2 way back in 1957 – with the kind of ending we wish had really occurred for the mutt.

Back when the Apollo Missions were still fresh in the mind, NASA’s Ames Research Center was hard at work conceptualizing what the future of space exploration might be. Where’d our imagination go?

Purdue University’s ImpactEarth! lets you find out what could happen to our planet if it were struck by an asteroid (or a humpback whale ice sculpture). Where’s that hyperspace button when you need it?

An incredible interactive visualization of 100,000 stars you can view in your Chrome web browser. Also works in other WebGL browsers, but your mileage may vary. Zoom with your scroll wheel.

NASA silently simulates the birth and evolution of a disk galaxy over a 13.5 billion year period – though we get to watch it in just over 2 minutes. Needs a Pink Floyd backing track, though.

Watch it before it gets yanked down – Here’s an unofficial snippet of Felix Baumgartner’s dizzying jump from 128,000 feet – shot with his own high-definition helmet-cam.

In case you missed today’s momentous jump, sit back and enjoy this low-budget scale replication of Felix Baumgartner’s epic flight – courtesy of some LEGO minifigs and Vienna’s ModelMaker Fair.

The complete live footage captured from Felix Baumgartner’s death defying balloon flight to over 128,000 feet, and his extraordinary skydive back to Earth. We dare you not to be moved by this.

Perhaps the most beautifully designed ice cream cake treat ever, they were created by Doshi Levien using layers of biscuit, meringue, caramel and other sweet things for the 2012 holiday season.

Hacker/Astronomer/Gamer/DJ/Scotsman Scott Manley created this visualization of asteroid discoveries from 1980 to 2012. Don’t call Bruce Willis yet – each pixel is 500,000 km in distance.

Henry Jun Wah Lee went to California’s Joshua Tree National Park and Ancient Bristlecone Forest to capture the Perseid meteor shower this past August, but our planet put on quite a show as well.

We already know that dogs paved the way for manned space flight, but why not cats instead? Show your support for the feline space program with this limited-edition tee by Austin Martin.

Neil Armstrong – astronaut, test pilot, engineer and the first person to walk on the Moon – passed away on August 25. He was 82. Rest in peace, Neil. You expanded our minds and our universe.

By stitching together high-res images captured by NASA’s Curiosity Rover, EDS systems created this stunning 360° panorama of the landing site, putting you right there on the dusty Martian surface.

Astronaut Don Pettit shows off his “microgravity yo-yo tricks” while in space. He’s not as good as his Earthbound counterparts, but he makes up for it by coming up with cool names for his tricks.

A documentary about the dire state of the US space program. Featuring interviews with experts such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye and astronaut Leroy Chiao among others.

Every frame in the video is a photograph, taken by the crew at the International Space Station and stitched together by Knate Myers. The song is Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor) by John Murphy.

(Warning: Loud) McLean Fahnestock assembled footage from all 135 Space Shuttle launches, and arranged them into a 9×15 grid, and synchronizing the approximate moment of lift-off.

If you missed the once (or twice)-in-a-lifetime Transit of Venus in front of the Sun, here’s the best view ever, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, captured in glorious high-def.

CGP Grey explains the best way to pronounce the always popular planet’s name in his latest educational clip. No matter how you slice it, it sounds like your talking about something dirty.

Physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson argues that the 1969 moon landing inspired the foundation of many movements, spurred by the views of Earth from the moon, of our home as one homogenous whole.

Why not take a break from wasting time on the internet and learn something? The Royal Observatory Greenwich explains the geometry, math, and optics used to measure objects in space.