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The Planets – A Moment in the Sun – The Terrestrial Planets episode 1

Science / 2 minutes of reading / May 29, 2019 / By HDclump

In this major landmark series, The Planets – The Terrestrial Planets episode 1, Professor Brian Cox tells the extraordinary life story of our solar system. For four and a half billion years each of the planets has been on an incredible journey, filled with astonishing spectacle and great drama. Using the data from our very latest explorations of the solar system combined with groundbreaking CGI this series reveals the unimaginable beauty and grandeur of eight planets whose stories we are only just beginning to understand. The Planets – A Moment in the Sun – The Terrestrial Planets episode […]

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The Nude in Art episode 1 – The Classical

Art / 2 minutes of reading / May 15, 2019 / By HDclump

The Nude in Art episode 1 – The Classical: examines art such as The Venus de Milo and the Venus of Willendorf. Through images such as these, we can learn why man first illustrated the human body in these specific ways. If there is one genre of art that seems to have played a greater role than any other, it is the nude. For at least 30,000 years, humans have represented the naked form in a variety of ways. From the ideal to the real, the Romantic to the Surrealist, there has been almost no end of works

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The Sky at Night – Venus, Earths Twin

Science / 3 minutes of reading / November 28, 2017 / By HDclump

The Sky at Night – Venus, Earths Twin – How can two such similar planets have become so different? One is the crucible of life, the other an inferno with a surface scorched by raining acid, yet both began as almost identical bodies. With Venus prominent in the sky in May, the team explores our nearest neighbour, discovering how it formed and how ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has revealed the secrets of its atmosphere. Dr Lucie Green explores what happened to leave Venus with searing temperatures and acid rain, and talks to Climate expert Dr Hugo Lambert about

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