Tag: Pluto
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Space News (November 2019)
I have fallen behind with Space News recently, and the reason for it is that now I work more or less full time on…
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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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Enter The Goblin, the planet that changed it all.
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…
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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 (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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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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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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Eris, the goddess planet of discord
Eris is the name of the Greek goddess of chaos and discord, famous for being the one who caused the Trojan War by throwing the…
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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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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…
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Photogenic (Exo)planets
Keeping on the exoplanet series, after the general introduction and the presentation of the oldest one (so far) discovered, today I am going to address another…