Showing posts with label Science - Astronomy - Exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science - Astronomy - Exploration. Show all posts
Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Goodbye to the Gaia telescope

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The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down ESA / Gaia / DPAC , CC BY-SA ...
Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Astronomy - Dark Comets

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What is a dark comet? A quick guide to the ‘new’ kids in the Solar System Artist’s impression of ‘Oumuamua. ...
Tuesday, 9 July 2024

A Star is born

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 Look up! A once-in - a-lifetime explosion is about to create a ‘new’ star in the sky Stellari...
Thursday, 14 September 2017

After twenty years - End of Mission for Cassini

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After 13 years in orbit around Saturn and 20 years in space, the Cassini Mission has come to an end. Launched on 15 October 1997 as a co...
Friday, 30 December 2016

Mission to Mars - an unreachable goal for the forseeable future

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Mars composite image - (c) Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars, the planet which has conjured many a science fiction movie and not a few no...
Saturday, 30 January 2016

The fragility of life - are the aliens dead ?

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Figure 1: Scenarios A) B) and C) D espite the realisation that there are literally billions of stars, exoplanets, planets and other ce...
Sunday, 17 April 2011

Up in the Sky - NASA releases images from Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer

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NASA's Images from looking into the heavens: click here Nebula SH 2-235
Saturday, 27 November 2010

Searching for ET - a flawed perspective

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Within some astronomy circles there is a view that searching for extraterrestrial life in the universe is a good and worthy goal, both from ...
Friday, 1 October 2010

Life beyond in the stars?

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The recent pronuncement that Gliese 581g, a planet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581 may be suitable for life should not come as any su...