Tag: space
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Under a bloody moon
Today (or tonight, depending of your timezone) lucky people in North-America and part of Asia could watch one of the most beautiful shows known in…
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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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Moonwalk and conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories are like religion – they are a matter of faith, not reason (you may argue about religion: in this case, please get…
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Ice cold or blazing hot? Extreme exoplanets
Post number four in the exoplanet series. Among variables considered so far, planetary habitability, age and distance have taken the spotlight. Today I’m going to…
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Amazing videos about space
Thanks to internet you have now access to a quantity of high-quality materials about space and stars simply unbelievable. You have only to browse…
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Writing about space for other blogs / 2
My latest published articles on Serious Wonder. Incidentally, there are also a few more on space and SF posted by other contributors – I do recommend having…
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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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Hello Comet! Rosetta is here
After 10 years of travel, ESA spacecraft Rosetta yesterday reached her target, becoming the first probe to ever orbit a comet. Look at the incredible…
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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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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…
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Meeting Methuselah
Some weeks ago I talked about the incredible variety of exoplanets, which we have just began to discover. I have also mentioned what we normally find and we…
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Writing about space for other blogs
I have started since a couple of months or so to contribute to a great blog called Serious Wonder, one of the most innovative…
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EXOPLANETS 101 – Learning the basics
I have already spoken a few times here about the challenges of worldbulding in SF, both in terms of designing working planetary systems –…
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Playing the Death Star – creation and demise of star systems
Ever desired to destroy entire planetary systems? Now you can, with the online game Super Planet Crash, available (and playable) at http://www.stefanom.org/spc. You may…
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Woof! I have a place in space – Laika, the first mammal in orbit
Every year on April, 12 the world remembers with emotion the amazing achievement of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to watch Earth from space. 53…
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Space, lies, and video(tape)
i.e, what else is fake in space? A funny video I watched a few days ago (that I also advise to anybody interested in…
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Crowdsourcing, planet hunting and missing planes
There is no doubt that crowdsourcing is the buzzword these days, and its recent use in tracking down the mysteriously disappeared MH 370 plane…
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Space exploration – to the far end of the Solar System? Maybe, or maybe not.
2015 NASA budget – as disclosed in these day by the White House – (http://www.space.com/24911-nasa-2015-budget-highlights.html) – amounts at $17.5 billion to NASA, about $200…
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Book Review: Journey to Civilization. The Science of How We Got Here by Roger P. Briggs
Writing a summary of the human civilisation that spans from the Australopitecus and its peers to the moment history truly starts is a task…
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Sci-Fi all-time favourites
I have been asked by a friend to name 10 books – no more, no less – I will take with me should I…
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So, so beautiful
http://www.space.com/24299-weirdly-passive-black-hole-discovered-orbiting-fast-spinning-star-animation.html When a star meets a black hole a lot of strange things can happen. This video is eerily charming to look at.
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Exoplanet young, single, orbiting sun-like star. Sci-Fi Writers wanted for exciting stories.
One of the most exciting features of astronomy today is the search for exoplanets offering life conditions suitable for life (see http://www.space.com/159-strangest-alien-planets.html). Things are…
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The (otherwise amazing) Night Dawn’s Trilogy conclusion…
(Warning: Spoilers Ahead!) I do wonder why Joshua Calvert ends up with the least attractive of all the girls he puts his hands on…
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Nemesis – The Rise and Fall of a Death Star
Updated in November 2014 A small celebrity in the scientific community since the 80s, the hypothetical Nemesis is just as famous among the non-specialists,…