Hubble photos are simply incredible I don’t know about you, but I just can’t get enough when it comes to images sent back by the Hubble Space Telescope. Especially since it’s original mission timeline is well over. These photos released from the Hubble Space Telescope website are no different. As always, they are most incredible …
Pluto is still giving us surprises With the latest updates from Nasa, we see Pluto actually has an atmosphere, some interesting geological features and a red region on one of its moons that is causing some excitement. Granted, the atmosphere is not one that we could live in, but that it even has one is …
Europa – An exciting adventure! We’ve done a few articles on Europa, but getting the funding to actually do the mission is still critical to getting there. This article explains why it is important that we do that, and even more exciting is that it is looking like we might actually be getting close to …
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And it all started here … Ok, I will admit I’m old enough to remember all of this. In fact, everyone in my house (and all across the USA for that matter) were riveted to the one and only black and white TV we owned. The moon landing was just mesmerizing. We could not get …
NASA’s Curiosity Rover is still amazing … Although spectacular photos were shared with us as late as this May, Mars continues to surprise, and so does the Curiosity Rover. On earth, preservation of organic materials from days way past in quartz (high levels of silica) is common, so when the rover found rocks with high …
Or at least what dark matter is like Ok, I admit it … I had to go to Wiki <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter> and read up on dark matter. Since nobody ever found any, I thought it best to start there to see what we at least think it is … if it is. They say it doesn’t …
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Are we alone? Tess will help us answer that. Seems every time I look at Kepler or articles on exoplanets, one common question keeps coming up: Are we alone in the universe? We have Hubble still taking remarkable photos, and with the Spitzer space telescope unexpectedly able to use it’s “infrared vision” to help Hubble …
Although this is a first confirmed, warm Neptunes may be more common than expected Perhaps I should be embarrassed, but this is also the first I’ve heard of “warm Neptunes”. The article below does a very good job of describing what they are and why they look and act like a comet, but are really …
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 »
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 …
(Video) Black Holes – One Of The Most Mysterious Entities In The UniverseRead More »