Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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… If you have thought we were done with Pluto (who dares still calling it a dwarf, planet or anything?), well, get ready. NASA has just revealed another stunning detail sent over by New Horizons in its historical flyby of July,…
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…. or, to be more precise, to their investigators. As announced today, October 6, on the official webpage, “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations,…
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… I mean, it’s not like there’s no H2O anywhere in the Solar System apart from our planet. We know for a fact that a few gas giants’ satellites store substantial quantities of it – think of Europa, for example….
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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It seems surprises are not over yet – at least judging from what the newly-downloaded data from New Horizons showed to NASA scientists. Together with the highest resolution pictures sent so far and a trove of spectral data and compositional…
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I have already written some time ago about tools for exploring the night sky and find your way around. Today I want to talk about another one I have been recently using, this time for worldbuilding in SF, but that…
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Dust has not yet settled on Pluto’s amazing Flyby that New Horizons got more job to do. Or so it seems. In a way, it’s logical. The probe is the fastest spacecraft ever launched and one of the most sophisticated…
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Not satisfied with having already uploaded an amazing series of recording about space events and planetary radio emissions, and even created a radio (Third Rock), now NASA had made available something really unique: the compilation Golden Record: Greetings to the…
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I can’t almost believe Pluto Day has arrived. While I’m writing this New Horizons, after a trip of nine years, is at T-3, 94,670 miles / 152356.6km away from performing the most awaited flyby of this start of the century,…
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