Artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) and its jets. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger An international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has discovered for the first time that one of the most powerful events in our universe — gamma-ray bursts (GRB) — behave differently than previously thought. The study …
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Oppositions between Earth and Mars happen about every 26 months because the planets are relatively close to one another. NASA and other agencies often take advantage of these close approaches to send spacecraft that way. A recent example is NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution probe (MAVEN), which launched in November 2013 and will arrive …
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This morning, at around 05h15, Saturn disappeared behind the Moon. At around 06h30, it re-appeared from behind the darkened edge (near the terminator). Herewith some pics, taken with a digital camera through the eyepiece of my 8″ telescope. If you have a ‘movie’ option on your laptop, use it….!
MENTION inflation and most people will think of something that erodes the value of their bank balances. A cosmologist, however, may think instead of the beginning of all things—for, though no one knows how the universe started, they do know, or believe they know, what happened a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of …
Physicist Stephen Hawking on a Zero-Gravity Flight, 2007 Jim Campbell – Aero-News Network for Zero Gravity Corporation® Stephen Hawking has a big announcement. No, it’s not that aliens exist or that humans won’t survive another 1,000 years on Earth. The physicist claims, in a paper posted online Wednesday, that the idea of an event …
