Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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 Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He also often attends SF Conventions, as he did a…
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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 found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient…
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Newsclipping from recent space and tech articles from around the web, some of them really interesting. Nearby neutron star collision could cause calamity on Earth. But if it doesn’t, the event itself could be very important for the detection of the…
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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 faith, people). Links included if you want more. Complex chemistry in Saturn’s moon Titan’s atmosphere –…
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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 it orbits its sun within the habitable zone and will be probably the first in the…
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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 two days ago NASA released an update on Kepler space telescope team, which added to the already…
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I have already written about Enceladus in the past – a frozen world orbiting Saturn and one of the most likely to support life as we conceive it on Earth. Now it seems scientists were right in their assumption: NASA has…
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This should read more as the space news of the month, both for timing and relevance. Yes, because in these last days we heard a lot about some (surprising is the mildest adjective I can use) discoveries and other interesting…
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An otherwise unremarkable small, cool and rather faint (19 magnitude, less than Pluto, just to be clear) dwarf star located 39.5 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Aquarius, Trappist 1 has become in the last two weeks or so…
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Today is the moment of my periodic summary of space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few, since I haven’t done it in a while). This one features a startling discovery and other interesting topics. As usual,…
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