Category: Astro(physics)
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Aliens out there: Oumuamua
It has been a while since I have got across something as interesting as this bizarrely-shaped celestial object that has recently appeared on our…
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Space Features of the Week (20 November)
A few interesting articles about space I have come across in the last days. Definitively worth a reading, people. Everybody who follows astrophysics and…
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Space Features of the Week (5 November)
Newsclipping from recent space and tech articles from around the web, some of them really interesting. Nearby neutron star collision could cause calamity on…
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Dwarf planets with rings? Hell, yes!
Apparently, not just planets have rings. Even smaller bodies – such as dwarf planets – have them, and that has just been proved. And…
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2017 Nobel Prize for Gravitational Waves
Yes, that’s it. Today Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne (you do remember him, right? Interstellar, anyone?) and Barry Barish won the Nobel Prize 2017 –…
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So long, Earthians. Cassini, over and out.
And this is it. On Friday 15 September, after 20 years in space, 13 of which spent in Saturn’s system, Cassini plunged into the…
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Space Features of the Week (26 August)
As usual, some newsclipping from recent space and tech articles to keep us sharp. I haven’t done it in a while (blame holidays) but…
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The eclipse…from Europe
The most amazing event of the year will be generally lost to Europeans – but people in the British Isles will have a remote…
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Where’s Cassini now? Countdown has just started
In case you have been wondering what’s happening to Cassini, the glorious space probe in its last months of 13-year mission, here’s the fact: Cassini…
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August for Stargazers
While the Event (with capital E) of this Summer 2017 will be the great American eclipse in a few week time, we Europeans will…
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Space Features of the Week (30 July)
As usual, some interesting news from space and technology (yes, I know, it’s difficult to remain positive when we look at the news. Keep…
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The Cartography of the Solar System – The Moon
Now that I’m deep down in Artemis (I’ve mentioned it in another post) I realised that whenever I read a book set in one…
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Proxima Centauri b keeps getting attention
A few months ago Proxima Centauri b, an exoplanet in the constellation of Centaurus located “only” 4.22 light-years from Earth, got a lot of attention, since…
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More exoplanets to search for alien life – Kepler’s latest discoveries
I have written a lot about exoplanets on this blog in the past, therefore this is a news I can’t avoid discussing here. Just…
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Space Features of the Week (18 June)
Here’s the usual summary of interesting space news of the week – with some stunning images from our Solar Systems. Have you ever wondered…
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Chasing Asteroids – NEOWISE data just released
If you have a keen interest in space matters, you also know about NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer – NEOWISE, in short –…
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Space Features of the Week (4 June)
It’s again the moment for a summary of the space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few). This time there are a…
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Space Features of the Week (20 May)
This week I’m going for another space summary, simply because there were so many interesting headlines that they deserve to be at least mentioned here.…
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Oceans of life? The Solar System and beyond
I have recently seen a lot of articles discussing the so-called ocean worlds – that is, all planets and celestial objects that are not…
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Space Features of the Week (14 May)
It’s the moment for another summary of space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few). This time there are not amazing discoveries…
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Cassini’s Gran Finale – First images
After hours of trepidation, we now know for sure that Cassini has survived its daring first dive on April 26 between Saturn and its…
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Meet Enceladus – and the (alien) life in the Solar System
I have already written about Enceladus in the past – a frozen world orbiting Saturn and one of the most likely to support life…
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Space Features of the Week (9 April)
Again, that’s the moment of my summary of space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few, since I haven’t done it…
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-30 to the Gran Finale
We are less than one month from the Grand Finale, the moment Cassini is going to plunge deep into Saturn. As you can read…