Tag: Nasa
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Images of space – what’s available online
There’s nothing better for space lovers that seeking (and finding) beautiful images of near and far space objects, some of them in amazing resolutions.…
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Space Features of the Week (11 December)
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…
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Exoplanet animation – simply amazing
It’s difficult to stay up to date with all the exoplanet discovery (one article of this week was discussing a perfect twin for our…
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Space Features of the Week (27 November)
A lot of interesting things in the news this week. Even though some are not per se “new”, I found them quite captivating both…
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Eerie Jupiter – from Juno with love.
That NASA’s Juno spacecraft was going to deliver amazing science we already knew. And when, in June 24, Juno crossed the boundary of Jupiter’s…
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Space Features of the Week (26 October)
We have been somehow spoiled in the last years by a few amazing achievements, but let’s not forget that space remains as extreme a…
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Space Features of the Week (16 October)
Mainly for reasons of (lack of) time, I have decided to start a periodical feature on this blog devoted to space news. There are…
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Bye Bye, Rosetta – How to crash on a comet
All good things end sooner or later, and Rosetta’s mission – an absolute first in space exploration (read the story and the success here)…
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Stranded in LA – California Science Center
Worldcons recently seem ill-fated to me; this is the second year in a row that I can’t make it. This time, I even flew…
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Guest Post – The Moon Village and the Space Economy
(This is the English version of the article “Il Villaggio Lunare parlerà “europeo”? [Will the Moon Village speak “European”?] by Fausto Mescolini, first published in Italian on Il…
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Mars-bound – See you on the Red Planet
According to some recent news, it seems that pretty much everybody is on its way to Mars. You doubt? Have a look at the list…
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Waiting for Juno
Next week, July, 4th, the spacecraft Juno will finally enter Jupiter’s orbits after five years in space. Juno’s objectives for this mission are to…
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Skies from other planets – The peaks of eternal light
In the day of the Summer Solstice – the longest day of the year – I thought appropriate talking about the famous peaks of…
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(More) Space Art from NASA
I have already written about the beautiful artwork produced by NASA over the years, so I won’t go through any lengthy explanation – this…
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Exoplanet Update – Where are we now?
Four days ago, NASA made an amazing announcement – the biggest discovery of exoplanets to date. According to their figures, which added 1,284 planets…
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Analysing the stars out there with SAOImage DS9 (a powerful tool)
Getting to know the space out there in a more scientific way has never been as simple (I wouldn’t say easy, since it still…
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News from Saturn – Getting ready for Cassini’s plunge
It is not a real news that the glorious Cassini’s mission will come to an end in April 2017, when the spaceship will plunge…
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We love Mars – future home in space
If there’s a place that has been constantly in the mind of all space lovers in terms of a future home in space of…
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NASA wonders (almost) in the making
That NASA is getting back to its past splendours is a suspicion I harbour since a while, considering the increasing number of the Agency’s…
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Sun parties on Mercury
“The sun is always just about to rise. Mercury rotates so slowly that you can walk fast enough over its rocky surface to stay…
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New Horizons reaches the Kuiper Belt’s inner edge
After its historical fly-by of Pluto last year, New Horizons is now well on its way to explore more of the Kuiper Belt’s area…
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Under a Venusian sky
This is the second post of the series “how your sky looks when observed from another planet”. I have already briefly spoken about the…
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Skygazing in the Solar System – what does it look like?
One thing I always wondered is how the sky looks when observed from another planet; and as a matter of fact, only in few…
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Dawn’s best imagery
Dawn’s mission to Ceres has certainly been one of the highlights of 2015 space missions, exploring a new world in the Asteroid Belt and…