SpaceRip

What's the hottest place in the universe? What's it like inside a Black Hole? This video climbs the power scales of the universe, from the coldest and bleakest reaches of our galaxy on out to the hottest and most violent places known. How do Earth and humanity fit within the immensely powerful scales that define our universe?

All across the immense reaches of time and space, energy is being exchanged, transferred, and released in a great cosmic pinball game we call our universe. To see how energy stitches the cosmos together, and how we fit within it, we journey through the cosmic scales of power.

A vivid look at the future of our Milky Way in an ultra high-end computer simulation of spiral galaxies colliding. Collisions and mergers are central to galaxy evolution, from the earliest dwarf galaxies that formed to the familiar galaxies we see today. These collisions in action will be targets for the James Webb Telescope. Astronomers hope to understand how the shape, structure and chemical content of galaxies change over the sweep of cosmic history.

The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beautiful, lonely aberration? If things dont work out on this planet, or if our itch to explore becomes unbearable at some point in the future, Astronomers have recently found out what kind of galactic real estate might be available to us. Well have to develop advanced transport to land there, 20 light years away. The question right now: is it worth the trip?

This video is modeled in the classic tradition of P.T. Barnum, offering a collection of oddities for your viewing pleasure. So enter the Curiosity Shop for a compilation of facts and beautiful moon images taken by the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn since 2004, set to Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 II. Adagio. This video is produced in honor of the recent Cassini Spacecraft Mission extension through September 2017. Take a gander at Gigantic Titan to your left. Feel free to ogle bright Enceladus to your right, reflecting close to 100 percent of the light that hits its surface. Don't be afraid to eyeball Mimas and her craters.

Part 8 of 9. To promote the rapid evolution of robots, one audacious group of researchers decided to start a worldwide robotic soccer competition. How soon before they challenge humans?

Part 6 of 9. If tomorrow's robots are going to share our world, they will have to have something extra: an emotional and psychological dimension to help them communicate and respond in ways people can understand.

Part 5 of 9. To build a humanoid that can function in our world is a bold challenge being taken up by isolated labs around the world. Researchers are infusing robots with abilities ranging from grasping to hearing and vision.

Hawaiian volcano pulsing and spitting fire and lava. Feel the beat in the power and beauty of nature in timelapse. Footage from the US Geological Survey (USGS). Music by Kevin MacLeod. Experience Kevin's music on http://www.Incompetech.com

A monster tornado destroys the town of Manchester, South Dakota, then churns across the countryside. Roger Hill and gang move in for a close look as it crosses the road.

Discovery of a huge unseen ring around Saturn, with a tantalizing analogy to the land of Mordor in "The Lord of the Rings." From the Spitzer Space Telescope series "Hidden Universe."

Beautiful space weather from the Cassini spacecraft, from NASA/JPL.

Roger Hill is one of the best storm chasers roaming the backroads of Tornado Alley. This violent twister ripped up the prairie and left Roger and his pals with mouths agape. Check out Roger's new book "Hunting Nature's Fury" from Wilderness Press. Music by Xihilisk.

Part 3 of 9. As we steadily merge with our technology, the focus is on devices that enhance our senses and minds and knit us together in new ways.

Part 2 of 9. Science fiction has returned again and again to the merger of man and machine, the Cyborg, with fascination and fear.