Sci-Fi all-time favourites
I have been asked by a friend to name 10 books – no more, no less – I will take with me should I go to live in outer space and not getting back to the Earth any time soon…
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Book Reviews
Writing reviews is among my favourite activities, and I am going to post a few on this blog. Mainly books, but movies and anime are not excluded. Even though I won’t necessarily come out with a rating of every story – I…
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So, so beautiful
http://www.space.com/24299-weirdly-passive-black-hole-discovered-orbiting-fast-spinning-star-animation.html When a star meets a black hole a lot of strange things can happen. This video is eerily charming to look at.
Exoplanet young, single, orbiting sun-like star. Sci-Fi Writers wanted for exciting stories.
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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The (otherwise amazing) Night Dawn’s Trilogy conclusion…
(Warning: Spoilers Ahead!) I do wonder why Joshua Calvert ends up with the least attractive of all the girls he puts his hands on during 1.2 million words or so of the Night Dawn’s Trilogy. My oh my…The best captain…
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Nemesis – The Rise and Fall of a Death Star
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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Lonely, young planet drifting in space without a star – any taker?
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
Saturn’s Streaming Hexagon
From Nasa’s Cassini mission, voila’ the Exagon, Saturn’s glittering North Pole…
Jade Rabbit is there!
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…