Tag: Solar System
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Exploring the (virtual) Moon
I have already written in the past about a few software and websites that allow for exploring the night sky and stars nearby. Today…
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Farewell, Opportunity. It has been a hell of a ride!
Yesterday (NASA) and the world said farewell to the Martian rover Opportunity. After several weeks of attempts to revive the rover -overwhelmed last June…
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Sources for your space exploration research.
Since I’m now deep down in my (non fiction) book about space (I’m due to submit to the publisher in a couple of weeks,…
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After Insight, Osiris-REX sees Bennu -finally!
After having started the week with the (truly amazing) landing of Insight on Mars, I close it with the news of another event not…
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Bepi Colombo and the challenges of exploring Mercury
Among the numerous news of this week, one is worthy of further discussion. After decades of studies, BepiColombo mission is a go. The probe…
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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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Space Features of the Week (12 August)
In the latest weeks I couldn’t do my usual science &space round-ups, so here it is, with some recent and less recent, but still…
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Jupiter’s New Moons
If you thought (like me) that Jupiter only had 65 moons, get ready to be surprised: according to NASA, there are (at least) 12…
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Space Features of the Week (26 May)
It has been a while since I’ve done this, so I think a quick roundup of some interesting space and science features recently in…
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The Cartography of the Solar System – Mars
This is my second post about cartography and maps of other celestial bodies of the Solar System (the first one, the Moon, is here)…
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Planet Nine (or X) makes the news again
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…
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Aliens out there: Oumuamua
It has been a while since I have got across something as interesting as this bizarrely-shaped celestial object that has recently appeared on our…
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The Cartography of the Solar System – The Moon
Now that I’m deep down in Artemis (I’ve mentioned it in another post) I realised that whenever I read a book set in one…
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Space Features of the Week (18 June)
Here’s the usual summary of interesting space news of the week – with some stunning images from our Solar Systems. Have you ever wondered…
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Chasing Asteroids – NEOWISE data just released
If you have a keen interest in space matters, you also know about NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer – NEOWISE, in short –…
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Oceans of life? The Solar System and beyond
I have recently seen a lot of articles discussing the so-called ocean worlds – that is, all planets and celestial objects that are not…
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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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Meet Enceladus – and the (alien) life in the Solar System
I have already written about Enceladus in the past – a frozen world orbiting Saturn and one of the most likely to support life…
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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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Hubble’s videos – learn to watch
What Hubble Space Telescope is, everybody knows – it’s the first major optical telescope to be placed in space, back in 1990. As explained…
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What’s so special about Trappist 1
An otherwise unremarkable small, cool and rather faint (19 magnitude, less than Pluto, just to be clear) dwarf star located 39.5 light-years from the…
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Space Features of the Week (23 February)
Today is the moment of my periodic summary of space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few, since I haven’t done…
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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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(More) amazing images from space – A logarithmic universe
Earlier this week I have referenced NASA’s online repository Image of the Day. What I present today is way different but impressive all the…