Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
There are a few interesting things up in this July’s night sky and specialised press, more than worth a post about them. First of all, prepare your telescopes and look for the newfound NEOWISE comet just crossing our sky, visible…
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Do you remember the never-ending quest (and controversies) about the hypothetical Planet Nine (or Ten, depending on the way you count them)? Well, get ready. We have finally got something solid. A distant dwarf planet, soon nicknamed The Goblin, has…
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It is not the first time I write about that mysterious object supposedly orbiting our Solar System (see previous articles here and here), mentioning the long quest and background on the subject and including (a few) conspiracy theories. I am not…
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For a bizarre coincidence, I’ve written about the fabled (and infamous) Planet X just this time last year, mentioning that, from the analysis of some ETNOs (Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects), there was some evidence of unknown gravitational pull affecting their orbit. More…
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…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 conspiracy theories, I have briefly mentioned Planet X. Historically, this name has been given to two…
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Updated in November 2014 A small celebrity in the scientific community since the 80s, the hypothetical Nemesis is just as famous among the non-specialists, at least after the publication of Richard Muller’s book. Since then a series of articles have…
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