NASA Announces Five Investigations For Future Missions Just about when things seemed to get quiet on the space exploration front, NASA announced five new studies that could result in one or perhaps two new missions for planetary studies. If all goes well, these could even happen as early as 2020. DAVINCI would look at …
Category: Space Exploration
Hubble – Another Stunning Photo. I don’t know about you, but I just can’t get enough of what Hubble sends back to Earth. For a space telescope that was not supposed to last this long, the images and the pictorial discoveries it continues to send back are just breathtaking. If you don’t know the ‘almost …
Wormholes – are they really the stuff of Science Fiction? We have two articles in this issue for you. The first is all about how magnetic fields may travel undetected through space, and the second is just how that might be useful. What would really get interesting is if we could create a device that …
The last Cassini flyby of Dione I love science, and this is one of those occasions. Cassini is about to make a flyby of the icy moon Dione for the last time. It sent photos back in Dec 2004. And again in April 2010 that were simply remarkable. Then again Dec 2011 that were …
Space is beyond amazing – take a look to see why … A planet candidate for colonization … Raspberries and Rum, yup, that’s what I said. the Sagittarius B2 cloud contains billions of liters of the substance that tastes like Raspberries and smells like rum. An ice planet so densely packed that it cannot …
Our universe is dying When one theory said the expansion rate of the universe should be slowing, it was found to be exactly the opposite. And although that the universe is dying was known as early as the 1990’s, I have to admit, this is the first I’ve heard of it. But just because it’s …
This Nebula is the result of a dying star Wikipedia.org defines a nebula as “an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases”. And from there it can get a bit bizarre. Some form from the gravitational forces on gases that get denser and denser as time goes on until at some point …
Kepler keeps finding Earth-like planets The Kepler telescope, or probably better described as a complete space observatory, was launched in 2009 with the specific purpose of finding other planetary systems like our own solar system with Earth-like planets orbiting a sun. Whether we find a habitable planet or not is the question, but it sure …
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Dawn captures something shiny on Ceres Although Pluto has taken center stage, another spacecraft called “Dawn” is doing something quite special as well. It is the first spacecraft that will orbit two dwarf planets, the first of which was Vesta back in 2011, and then Ceres in March of this year, even before New Horizons …
Auroras across the universe We all love the Northern Lights. Google that and any number of photos like the one below will pop up … some red, some green, some a mixture of colors – but all beautifully fascinating. Turns out, we aren’t the only ones to have them. Space.com did a really good …
Alien Auroras A Million Times Brighter Than On EarthRead More »