Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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 to the fact that the whole summer has been devoted to fiction -getting Frozen Wavelets ready…
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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 Cassini Gran Finale (the moment the probe plunged itself to death into Saturn’s atmosphere). This comes…
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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 space news -for one, because this year spoiled us. We had all sort of events and…
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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 gas giant’s atmosphere. NASA made this choice to prevented it crashing into and contaminating the moons…
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Next week I am going to attend the fabled Milford, the annual UK writing workshop for speculative fiction authors. I am excited and together nervous – this is the place you can expect your pieces to be torn to shreds,…
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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 has just entered its final phase, executing the first in a series of five “ultra-close” orbits through…
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While the Event (with capital E) of this Summer 2017 will be the great American eclipse in a few week time, we Europeans will have a few things to cheer about nonetheless – August will be a memorable month for…
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After hours of trepidation, we now know for sure that Cassini has survived its daring first dive on April 26 between Saturn and its rings. The spacecraft has got back in contact and it’s now beaming back all data collected during…
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We are less than one month from the Grand Finale, the moment Cassini is going to plunge deep into Saturn. As you can read on the NASA web page, “between April and September 2017, Cassini will undertake a daring set…
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That our Solar System is an original one, we already know it. Surveys about other planetary systems have confirmed what we already suspected about the odd positions of our gas giants and other features (for a good explanation, read this…
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