Einstein’s singularity – a black hole. Is it really possible? Did you know we had an orbiting observatory called Swift, or another called Chandra, or an X-ray observatory, or a Fermi Gamma Ray space telescope? … Neither did I until recently. But they exist, and in 2008 Swift detected a large burst of gamma radiation …
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We are about to find out! Although everything seems to be about Pluto right now, there are quite a few other very exciting things going on in the universe. This is one of those examples. And it caught me a bit by surprise when NASA announced the Fermi Telescope not only discovered a new Pulsar, …
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July 15 2015 NASA/John Hopkins Media Briefing Is Simply Riveting! NASA/John Hopkins press conference videos are all on one page, so rather than the direct link I usually provide for other videos like YouTube, this will be a two step process … but well worth the extra click. Press conferences from as far back as …
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Stupid question or serious issue? I came across this article by complete accident … and it raises a question I never even considered. Can somebody or some organization or even a sovereign country own the moon or other heavenly bodies as our reach expands to meteorites, comets, other planets and perhaps other solar systems some …
What Are Those Dark Spots All About? Time late for a current events type post, but this article discusses some key questions scientists were asking – and I assume hoping to find out once New Horizons took as much data as it could during the July 14, 2015 closest approach fly-by. We are starting to …
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The Pluto Fly By Is Done – So What’s Next? The Pluto fly by today was fabulous, and it will take about 16 months for all the data New Horizons took to actually make it back to Earth for analysis. I had no idea it would take that long, but thinking about that, 3.65 billion …
Excitement Is Building! New Horizons passed by Mars’ orbital path in April of 2006, did a Jupiter fly by in Feb 2007 and crossed Saturn’s orbital path in June of 2008. At over 51,000 miles per hour, it had already traveled 1 billion miles to get that far, but wasn’t even half way yet, even …
Excitement Grows As The Europa Mission Gains Momentum Liquid water is key to life and because of that, Europa may be the most likely place to find life in our solar system. There is just too much evidence we can see on the surface to ignore that possibility. What is even more exciting is that …
New Mars Images So far, most of my posts have been fairly long documentaries about various aspects of our solar system. But once in a while, truely amazing things can happen that do not take much time to show their importance. That is the case with this video series. Only 9+ minutes long, but these …
New Horizons – Pluto and Beyond So, if you can’t see Pluto well enough from Earth telescopes, what do you do? NASA said … send a probe to see. And that’s what New Horizons is all about. This documentary is a fascinating history of how Pluto was discovered, its moons, evidence that it was actually …