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Canadarm grapples SpaceX Dragon on the ISS:
Friday 29 May 2015
A STEP TOWARDS LEAVING LOW-EARTH ORBIT
Humanity's next great leap in exploration resides in our ability to expand our knowledge of reality as enabled by frontier science R&D. The one-year expedition is especially close to my heart, featuring a middle aged astronaut and a cosmonaut (anyone can do science, if they really put their mind to it).
"It is the blueprint for global cooperation – one that enables a multinational partnership and advances shared goals in space exploration," says NASA. It is true, time to remember that in the best science fiction fashion (Star Trek comes to mind) not warring countries, but planets are represented in the galactic federation, and not conquest, but peaceful research and science is the ultimate goal.
Earth photographed from the ISS:
Earth photographed from the ISS:
Sunday 17 May 2015
PLANET HUNTER
The main goal of the Kepler Mission is to find Earth-like exoplanets, planets outside our Solar System. The Kepler spacecraft measures the brightness of stars, looking for signs of dimming that would indicate the presence of an orbiting planet. Transits that manifest as dimming, information can be learnt about the parent star; researchers can determine a planet's size, orbit and other characteristics. So far, more than 1800 terrestrial planets have been confirmed to exist. What an abundance of life not dissimilar to our planet's could this mean!
More on the Kepler Mission and exoplanets:
Tuesday 12 May 2015
TWO PLANETS, ONE STAR
TWO PLANETS, ONE SUN
Even though Mars is called the "Red Planet", the blue sunset is snapped by Curiosity presently doing research on Mars, and the red sunset is of Earth.
This picture evokes humanity's perennial longing to discover our neighbour. Mars is the only other planet where we can observe the Sun, our star-Mars' and Earth's-to set so identically that the two worlds seem interchangeable.
Photo credit: NASA
OF BLACK HOLES IN THE MEDUSA GALAXY
This composite image of the Medusa galaxy taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in x-ray, and Hubble Space Telescope in optical, shows an x-ray source located above the centre of the galaxy. There's a black hole in Medusa's hair! smile emoticon Why, it's a neutron star, a collapsed star that is made up of neutrons and has no empty space but extreme gravitational and magnetic fields and quadrillions of voltage running through them while they are spinning insanely.
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MEDUSA GALAXY:
Saturday 9 May 2015
THE NATURE OF REALITY
Do we live in a Matrix? Listen to this idea explained by Fermilab (National Accelerator Laboratory) director Craig Hogan. Physicists theorize that 3-D objects you see around you aren’t actually 3-dimensional, but a part of something larger.
THE MATRIX: LISTEN!
THE MATRIX: LISTEN!
HUMANS ON MARS?
Humans on Mars, click here:
So what is hindering our attempts at getting to our outer neighbour, know-how? It might be more prosaic: Cost. Read this Bill Nye opinion piece above.
Artists's concept of Mars science lab:
Monday 4 May 2015
Saturday 2 May 2015
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