Category: Astro(physics)
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NASA win an Emmy Award
Among this week’s news, there’s one I believe especially worth sharing. NASA won this year’s Emmys in the category Outstanding Original Interactive Program with the…
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Outer Space and Martin Rees – reading suggestions
Every space lover has heard of Martin Rees, I bet. He’s (among other things) a UK Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and…
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Space Features of the Week (12 August)
In the latest weeks I couldn’t do my usual science &space round-ups, so here it is, with some recent and less recent, but still…
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Jupiter’s New Moons
If you thought (like me) that Jupiter only had 65 moons, get ready to be surprised: according to NASA, there are (at least) 12…
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Blood Moon 2018: Total Lunar Eclipse on July 27
Are you excited? You should. There is a total lunar eclipse coming up just in two weeks -on July 27, to be precise –…
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Wordbuilding -Creating your alien life
I have already written in the past about how alien (in the sense of odd) nature can possibly be. Today I’d like to explore the…
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Best 2018 Pictures from Space
In the past, I’ve often featured a few amazing snapshots taken from Hubble, Chandra and the various space probes on this blog. It has…
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Meet Ultima Thule, New Horizons’ Next Target
Everybody remembers New Horizons, right? The probe, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in January 2006, did a truly historic flyby of Pluto on July 14,…
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All eyes on Mars
Curiosity (NASA’s rover launched in 2011 and that landed on the Martian surface on August 6, 2012) keeps delivering. Today, NASA announced that the rover “has…
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Space Features of the Week (26 May)
It has been a while since I’ve done this, so I think a quick roundup of some interesting space and science features recently in…
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ESA, Galileo, and Brexit -an ongoing quarrel
I generally do not talk about the EU politics on this blog (I have enough of it in my full-time job) but this story…
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All is ready for Mars InSight Lander.
NASA’s next mission to Mars is a go, already on the launching pad. The probe is InSight Mars lander, which is scheduled to lift off from…
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Get to known Delta IV
There are plenty of news about Space X’s Falcon Heavy, the new heavy lifter for space exploration, with a reason: the endeavour is exceptional,…
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Exoplanet update
I regularly review features about exoplanets, together with giving periodical updates on their number and recent discoveries. Here for the latest stats: The catalogue…
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The Cartography of the Solar System – Mars
This is my second post about cartography and maps of other celestial bodies of the Solar System (the first one, the Moon, is here)…
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Vesta, and why we have a mission there
Vesta is a well-known place in terms of space exploration, but one people don’t necessarily know a lot about, let alone understand why NASA…
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Planet Nine (or X) makes the news again
It is not the first time I write about that mysterious object supposedly orbiting our Solar System (see previous articles here and here), mentioning the…
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Are we ready for Tiangong-1?
In case you don’t know, we’re all getting ready for fall of a space lab on our heads, at some moments in the next…
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Build your own habitable planet -available tools
Everybody familiar with SF knows about the habitable zone, at least the basics. It’s that area around a star where life is possible. A…
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Space Features of the Week (10 February)
Some interesting highlights this week (and NO, I’m NOT going to talk about Falcon Heavy. The rest of the world does it, right?). I…
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Space Features of the Week (27 January)
I’ve recently seen a few interesting things in the press, so it’s the moment for another roundup of what’s happening in outer space (and…
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(Awesome) videos about space
I have recently come across some amazing videos – and here they are! Definitively worth watching. The first is a “visualization explores the Orion…
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2018 -what to look forward to (space-wise)
This year I’ve decided, for once, not to do any New Year Resolutions. After all, I’ve started 2018 in bed with strong flu and…
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Best of 2017 (astro) news
At -2 (or 1, depending on which part of the globe you’re based) to 2018, it’s the moment for a quick recap of 2017…