Tag: Nasa
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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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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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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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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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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 (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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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…
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Space Features of the Week (18 March)
This should read more as the space news of the month, both for timing and relevance. Yes, because in these last days we heard…
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Hubble’s videos – learn to watch
What Hubble Space Telescope is, everybody knows – it’s the first major optical telescope to be placed in space, back in 1990. As explained…
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What’s so special about Trappist 1
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…
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Space Features of the Week (23 February)
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…
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Strange features of the Solar System – giant gas planets
That our Solar System is an original one, we already know it. Surveys about other planetary systems have confirmed what we already suspected about…
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Pledging support – We are all in this together, people
I normally don’t make any comment on this blog about political news, not because I don’t care, but because I do that in other venues.…
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Space Features of the Week (20 January)
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,…
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(More) amazing images from space – A logarithmic universe
Earlier this week I have referenced NASA’s online repository Image of the Day. What I present today is way different but impressive all the…