Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
This week’s post is devoted to this interesting new mission, after we’ve just enjoyed the last supermoon of 2020. Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojans, asteroids that occupy about the same orbit around the Sun…
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In these difficult times, the space sector tends to attract less attention it used to (and rightly so); but looking at the stars and forgetting for a moment the troubles we have on Earth is something that helps me cope…
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Worries about Hubble’s operations have troubled the last month or so, at least since Friday, October 5, 2018, when the telescope was put into safe mode while NASA worked to solve its issues. As explained by the scientists, “Hubble entered safe…
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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 been a while since I had not posted anything new, so here you have something to…
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I have recently come across some amazing videos – and here they are! Definitively worth watching. The first is a “visualization explores the Orion Nebula using both visible and infrared light. The sequence begins with a wide-field view of the…
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What Hubble Space Telescope is, everybody knows – it’s the first major optical telescope to be placed in space, back in 1990. As explained on NASA’s website, being “above the distortion of the atmosphere, far far above rain clouds and…
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Here my periodic summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. As usual, I have provided a link and included my comments, so that you can go & pick the ones that interest you the most. Hubble Gazes…
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The usual summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. I have provided a link and included my comments, so that you can go & pick the ones that interest you the most. Why the Soviet space workhorse…
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If there is a famous image for Jupiter, it’s for sure the one of its Great Read Spot, which is a giant, spinning, fast travelling storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere – a sort of huge hurricane, about twice the size of Earth…
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It’s impossible not to celebrate these days the incredible achievements of Hubble’s Space Telescope – which has just turned 25. A joint ESA/NASA project, launched into Earth’s orbit on April, 24th, 1990, the space telescope has dramatically changed our knowledge of…
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