Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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 miles / 152356.6km away from performing the most awaited flyby of this start of the century,…
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Yes, you read it correctly. With New Horizon’s historical mission, the first era of planetary exploration – where we have explored all planets of our solar system – comes to an end. But this is also a new beginning. From…
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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 a golden apple with the inscription “To the fairest” during the wedding of Peleus and Thetis,…
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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 tiny spacecraft has been able to take and send back to us. Since it came out last December from…
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Thanks to Cassini, we got spoiled for flybys over planets and moons – just think that we are now at number 111 (the last one was carried out on May, 7 over Titan’s Xanadu region – see this link for…
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2015 is an amazing year for space missions (not that 2014 has been a bad one) – plenty of them under way and expectations are high for the results they are going to deliver. New Horizons: if 2014 has been the…
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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 people all over the world to submit names for the new features the probe New Horizons…
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New Horizons is going to be at its closest to the ninth planet (controversies aside about its status – I assume here Pluto is a planet after all) in July 2015 – exactly 135 days, 10 hours at the time of…
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Latest articles published on Serious Wonder, all of them devoted to space missions, present or future. UNDER THE KRAKEN SEA – A NASA SUBMARINE ON TITAN – February, 13 2015 DAWN MISSION UPDATE: CLOSING IN ON CERES – January, 24…
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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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