Tag: Saturn
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Space News -update
It has been a while since the last time I’ve given any news about what’s going on in the sector. This is mainly due…
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NASA win an Emmy Award
Among this week’s news, there’s one I believe especially worth sharing. NASA won this year’s Emmys in the category Outstanding Original Interactive Program with the…
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Best of 2017 (astro) news
At -2 (or 1, depending on which part of the globe you’re based) to 2018, it’s the moment for a quick recap of 2017…
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So long, Earthians. Cassini, over and out.
And this is it. On Friday 15 September, after 20 years in space, 13 of which spent in Saturn’s system, Cassini plunged into the…
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Heading to Milford – 9-16 September
Next week I am going to attend the fabled Milford, the annual UK writing workshop for speculative fiction authors. I am excited and together…
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Where’s Cassini now? Countdown has just started
In case you have been wondering what’s happening to Cassini, the glorious space probe in its last months of 13-year mission, here’s the fact: Cassini…
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August for Stargazers
While the Event (with capital E) of this Summer 2017 will be the great American eclipse in a few week time, we Europeans will…
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Cassini’s Gran Finale – First images
After hours of trepidation, we now know for sure that Cassini has survived its daring first dive on April 26 between Saturn and its…
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-30 to the Gran Finale
We are less than one month from the Grand Finale, the moment Cassini is going to plunge deep into Saturn. As you can read…
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Strange features of the Solar System – giant gas planets
That our Solar System is an original one, we already know it. Surveys about other planetary systems have confirmed what we already suspected about…
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Space Features of the Week (20 January)
Here my periodic summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. As usual, I have provided a link and included my comments,…
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Space Features of the Week (25 December)
Here my periodic summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. As usual, I have provided a link and included my comments,…
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Viewed from Saturn – a small point in the sky
I have talked about the sky view from other planets / moons in other posts, but nothing has impressed me more than this one…
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News from Saturn – Getting ready for Cassini’s plunge
It is not a real news that the glorious Cassini’s mission will come to an end in April 2017, when the spaceship will plunge…
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See you on Enceladus
That Enceladus is one of the most spectacular moons in the Solar System is already known – for many reasons, including pure aesthetic ones.…
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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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Jupiter, Destroyer of Worlds
There have been in these last weeks many news discussing aspects of the biggest gas giant of the Solar System, and one of them has caught my…
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Interstellar: a long overdue (a)critical review
On a long-haul flight I’ve finally found the time to watch Interstellar, and if you have not done it yet, I advise you to. It…
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From Titan with love
During this Christmas break (still ongoing) I was thinking about the most amazing videos I have watched in 2014, and there are many that qualify in this…
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Wanderers. Why Erik Wernquist’s short movie is so amazing
If you were dreaming about the day we are going to leave and explore the Solar System, take space elevators down to Mars and…
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Moon(s) Gallery
After having published a list of Wonders of the Solar System, it seems just right setting up an entry in the Media Gallery with…
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Saturn’s best
There are not a lot of things in space cooler than planets, and Saturn can rightly claim the crown for the coolest one (I personally…
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The amazing sound of…space
We all know by now that, differently from what SF movies led us to believe, you can’t hear a sound in space. Therefore no spectacular…
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Saturn’s Streaming Hexagon
From Nasa’s Cassini mission, voila’ the Exagon, Saturn’s glittering North Pole…