Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
One of the most exciting features of astronomy today is the search for exoplanets offering life conditions suitable for life (see http://www.space.com/159-strangest-alien-planets.html). Things are far less simple than they may look at first sight. Being in HZ-range (the so-called habitable…
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Updated in November 2014 A small celebrity in the scientific community since the 80s, the hypothetical Nemesis is just as famous among the non-specialists, at least after the publication of Richard Muller’s book. Since then a series of articles have…
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Its name is PSO J318.5-22, a baby planet (only 12 ml year old!) floating in space near our system… The whole story at: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/10/tech/space-new-planet/index.html
From Nasa’s Cassini mission, voila’ the Exagon, Saturn’s glittering North Pole…
Jade Rabbit is there! And here we go…China made it, and Yutu (ie, its mythological Jade Rabbit) finally walks – well, sort of – on the lunar soil…