Tag: Nasa
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Europa Report. A Review
No, Europa Report is not a Jupiter Ascending ante-literam movie (the fear is legitimate considering the astronomical proximity) and, while I have still to…
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Name (or vote) your favourite Pluto-Charon Features
It seems that nominations and votes are taking up all my time this week. After Hugos, it’s Pluto, and the NASA’s campaign to encourage…
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Jupiter, Destroyer of Worlds
There have been in these last weeks many news discussing aspects of the biggest gas giant of the Solar System, and one of them has caught my…
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Living in the Solar System, a colonist’s guide
If you have always wondered, like me, how would it be in practice living on another world, you can’t possibly miss the series recently…
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Third Rock & NASA Sound Gallery
Did you know that NASA has an internet radio station? It is called Third Rock, America’s Space Station, and it is a station “developed and operated…
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Dawn on Ceres: mission accomplished!
Today March, 6 NASA’s Dawn has finally completed its historic mission and entered Ceres’ orbit after 7.5 year of travel. The first space mission to have…
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Getting ready for Pluto
New Horizons is going to be at its closest to the ninth planet (controversies aside about its status – I assume here Pluto is…
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Writing about space and physics for other blogs / 4
Latest articles published on Serious Wonder, all of them devoted to space missions, present or future. UNDER THE KRAKEN SEA – A NASA SUBMARINE…
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The birth of a star (actually four)
Birth is certainly one of the most emotionally charged phenomena in nature, and a star makes no exception. For much as humans tend to…
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Space Art from NASA
One thing I have not paid (so far) the right amount of attention is all artwork produced by NASA, and with that I mean…
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See you on Europa
Yes, “on” it is the correct preposition. It’s not the continent I’m talking about; it is the Jupiter’s moon with the same name. Why…
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The myth of Planet X
…which is maybe not a myth after all. When I have written some time ago about Nemesis, or the Death Star, in fiction and in…
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The birth and death of space wonders
That things don’t last forever, we all know it. After all, we witness cycles of life and death every day. But there are things…
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2014: a year of (awesome) space missions
2014 will be a year to remember for space missions. No matter what achievements are awaiting us in the future (hopefully plenty), the last 12…
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Virtual Reality, Zero-G and yet more wonders: NASA has it all.
When thinking about VR (Virtual Reality) a lot of things come to mind – to me, videogames are the first, followed by other, more…
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Writing about space and physics for other blogs / 3
The usual update about my latest published articles on other blogs/magazines – these ones on from Serious Wonder. This time I have only included the…
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Star Gallery: the beautiful Pleaides
If there is a space object I have always found incredibly beautiful is the star cluster of the Pleiades – alternatively called M45, or…
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A technical wonder: NASA Spitzer’s 360-D Map of the Milky Way
If there is something difficult to realise is how vast space is. No matter how hard we try, as humans we lack mental categories…
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The visitor from the Oort Cloud
This Sunday Earthians will witness something truly unique, estimated to happen maybe once every million years: a comet the size of a small mountain will…
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The importance of a correct worldbuilding: Lagrangian points
Astrophysics has to make sense, especially in a SF book. When designing your fictional worlds you need to make sure things can survive on their own,…
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Bosons and X-Rays – Hear the sound of natural particles
I have posted a while ago something about the music of space – ie, the eerie sounds celestial bodies make when translated into plasma…
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Under a bloody moon
Today (or tonight, depending of your timezone) lucky people in North-America and part of Asia could watch one of the most beautiful shows known in…
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Moon(s) Gallery
After having published a list of Wonders of the Solar System, it seems just right setting up an entry in the Media Gallery with…
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Moonwalk and conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories are like religion – they are a matter of faith, not reason (you may argue about religion: in this case, please get…