Tag: New Horizons
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Space 2018: best of the year
2018 has been another amazing year in terms of space exploration and rocket launches. Now that we’re almost at the end, I’d like to…
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Best 2018 Pictures from Space
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…
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Meet Ultima Thule, New Horizons’ Next Target
Everybody remembers New Horizons, right? The probe, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in January 2006, did a truly historic flyby of Pluto on July 14,…
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Space Features of the Week (10 February)
Some interesting highlights this week (and NO, I’m NOT going to talk about Falcon Heavy. The rest of the world does it, right?). I…
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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 (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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Pluto’s moon system – how cool can it be?
One of the most valuable results New Horizons was able to deliver in its historic Pluto’s flyby was more information and precious imagery of…
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Pluto’s latest surprises
… If you have thought we were done with Pluto (who dares still calling it a dwarf, planet or anything?), well, get ready. NASA…
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Dragon scales on Pluto’s surface
It seems surprises are not over yet – at least judging from what the newly-downloaded data from New Horizons showed to NASA scientists. Together…
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Go, New Horizons, Go – The next target
Dust has not yet settled on Pluto’s amazing Flyby that New Horizons got more job to do. Or so it seems. In a way,…
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Writing about science and space for other blogs / 5
This is the periodic update about articles I have contributed in these last months to other blogs. Compared to last year I have been…
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Here we are, Pluto. Earth is watching!
I can’t almost believe Pluto Day has arrived. While I’m writing this New Horizons, after a trip of nine years, is at T-3, 94,670…
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Summer 2015 – Events not to be missed
Summer 2015 promises to be exciting, with a lot of things going on… While I can’t *sigh* possibly attend everything, there are some of them…
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The end of an era of planetary exploration
Yes, you read it correctly. With New Horizon’s historical mission, the first era of planetary exploration – where we have explored all planets of…
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Going to Pluto: New Horizons’ new imagery
One of the most exciting features of New Horizons, on its way for the expected Pluto’s flyby next month, is the amazing pictures the…
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Solar System’s Best Flybys – which one is your favourite?
Thanks to Cassini, we got spoiled for flybys over planets and moons – just think that we are now at number 111 (the last…
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Space missions – updates
2015 is an amazing year for space missions (not that 2014 has been a bad one) – plenty of them under way and expectations…
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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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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 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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Solid Bodies in the Solar System – a great map
That xkcd is an amazing website, you already know (and if you don’t, go and have a look at it now! You won’t regret it).…
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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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The (Seven) Wonders of the Solar System
I have read some days ago a nice article on IO9 discussing the Seven Wonders of the Solar System – from the original Seven Wonders…