Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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 offer a few highlights. Some of the missions are still ongoing and one is coming to…
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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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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, 2015, passing at only 12,472 km (7,750 mi) from the dwarf planet’s icy surface, before continuing its course…
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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 have something else. New Horizons (the nice cute probe that recently visited Pluto) just snapped the…
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A few interesting articles about space I have come across in the last days. Definitively worth a reading, people. Everybody who follows astrophysics and space news knows about Tabby’s Star, that so many controversies has caused since its detection. But…
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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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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 its moon system -which is far more interesting than anybody had imagined. A lot has been…
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… If you have thought we were done with Pluto (who dares still calling it a dwarf, planet or anything?), well, get ready. NASA has just revealed another stunning detail sent over by New Horizons in its historical flyby of July,…
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It seems surprises are not over yet – at least judging from what the newly-downloaded data from New Horizons showed to NASA scientists. Together with the highest resolution pictures sent so far and a trove of spectral data and compositional…
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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, it’s logical. The probe is the fastest spacecraft ever launched and one of the most sophisticated…
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