NASA’s picture of the day from yesterday hammers home the fact that we are very small—and living in a very big universe.
The photo, is of a small (10° × 7°) section of the night sky, looking at the crowded star fields toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. APOD: 2006 June 23 – [...]
Posted on Saturday 24th June 2006 in Blog, Science tagged Links, Photos, space, universe, with no comments.
This should be a bit more interesting than the Grand Procession that Formula 1 motorsport has now become. Rocket Racing League is a pretty insane concept launched by the man behind the $10m X-Prize for the first private spacecraft. It is hoped that this will bring more development and publicity into rocketeering and space travel. [...]
Posted on Wednesday 5th October 2005 in Blog, Science tagged Links, Science, space, technology, with no comments.
Astounding is the word that comes to mind when viewing this short animation of the impact. As an animated picture is probably worth more than a thousand words, I don’t feel I need write anything else.
Posted on Monday 4th July 2005 in Blog tagged Links, Science, space, universe, with no comments.
NASA’s latest budget which is a mere $16,500,000,000, will not have enough funding to keep the orbiting Hubble telescope in orbit. Instead they plan to spend $75 million to knock it out of orbit and crash land it in the Pacific. Not only is this environmentally damaging, it is a tragic waste of resources and [...]
Posted on Tuesday 8th February 2005 in Blog tagged Photos, Science, space, USofA, with no comments.
ESA PR 03-2005. Today, after its seven-year journey through the Solar System on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe has successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and safely landed on its surface.
More at The ESA site.
This is pretty amazing… more reading is required I think.
Update:
First greyscale images are up at [...]
Posted on Friday 14th January 2005 in Blog tagged discovery, planets, Science, space, with no comments.
