If you were peering through a telescope, from the vicinity of the red planet Mars, you might see something like the image at left.
Earth was 88 million miles from Mars - nowhere near the closest possible distance between our two worlds - when the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance […]
Archive for the 'Space' Category
Okay, I confess. It orbits the sun every seven years and has looped around the sun 16 times since its discovery in 1892. But, after 30+ years of stargazing, I’d never heard of Comet Holmes. That is, I hadn’t until a dramatic outburst increased the comet’s brightness by over a million times […]
Frasier at Universe Today is hosting another Carnival of Space. If you’re a space and astronomy fan, you’ll find some of the greatest links around … including a post on seeking out strange news world, including Spock’s home planet by yours truly.
Big fun! Check it out.
To seek out strange new worlds, including Spock’s home planet
Published May 21st, 2007 in Space and Science. 12 CommentsThe line between science and science fiction is beginning to blur.
Star Trek fans like me know that - in the fictional universe first created by Gene Roddenberry in 1966 and loved by millions since then - Vulcans were the first extraterrestrial species encountered by the human population of Earth some centuries from now. Vulcans […]
Fraser Cain at Universe Today posted a Carnival of Space earlier today. It’s a roundup of links from various blogs on space and astronomy. Cool stuff! I wandered through the links, found some new places on the internet I’d never been before, and bookmarked several blogs. I think you’ll like it, […]
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken … John Keats, 1816
This image was released earlier today, in conjunction with a news release about the first map of an extrasolar planet.
This is not the actual map, of course, but instead an artist’s conception of HD 189733b, which […]
Stephen Hawking takes zero-gravity flight
Published April 27th, 2007 in Videos and Space. 4 Comments“I could have gone on and on,” Hawking said. “Space here I come!”
Okay, I’m envious. But it’s also inspiring to watch people soar. And when that person has been bound for decades to a wheelchair, it’s even better. Stephen Hawking, world famous physicist and author of the international best-seller A Brief […]
European scientists announced on April 24 that a possibly habitable planet has been found only 20 light-years from Earth. It’s orbiting around the red dwarf star Gliese 581, and it’s thought to be only slightly larger - 50% larger - than Earth. People are talking about it, and it became the most-viewed story […]