Where in all the heavens could we look for another Earth? For as long as man looked in awe at the night sky, we have wondered what’s out there and how do we fit into all that enormity? Are we alone? As astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and other scientists proposed better theories and developed better tools …
Amazing longevity for the Mars Rover Opportunity! Pluto is taking most of the news reals right now and there are several other space projects in the works for the near future as well as further out. But what’s happening (or what happened) to the Mars Rover? Well … this video (and associated article) discussed that …
(Video) Take An 11 Year Trip On Mars With The Mars Rover OpportunityRead More »
If Europa has water, will we find life there? I already included a post on Europa that is more recent than this one, but Space.com does such a good job with videos, I had to add it … if for no other reason than to get you a couple links to their site so you …
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 …
(Video) New Horizons Visits The Last Of Our Solar System PlanetsRead More »
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 …
New Horizons: Pluto Photos Leading up to the Closest ApproachRead More »
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 …