The great debate is held at Berkley university and this one is on SETI, it’s worth a listen. SETI debate //
Actual and Artist Images of Exoplanets
Extrasolar planets or for short exoplanets have been found in orbit around many different star systems other than ours. Exoplanets are being found all the time but take a look at this database of exoplanets for an idea on their characteristics. An actual image has been shot sometime back of an exoplanet but as you [...]
Latest Update on Exoplanets Lecture (July 2010)
The latest on the search for planets in other planetary systems. . //
A Good Chance of Life on Mars
This is a good lecture on why there’s a 1 in 4 chance of life (in Penelope’ Bostons opinion anyway) under the surface on Mars. //
Is Human Colonisation of Europa Possible?
Europa is a fascinating place. Once it was believed that Jupiter’s moons were just lumps of ice and rock. But missions to Jupiter showed us that there is more to Jupiter’s moons than we thought. This moon has become much more interesting the more it is explored. The furthest we have got nowadays is to [...]
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The New Horizons Spacecraft Halfway to Pluto
The new Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006 for a trip to Pluto and beyond. Unfortunately for this mission there is a little controversy about Pluto as you probably know. Pluto, to put a long story short, has been deemed a dwarf planet by the IAU and this doesn’t really suit the image that NASA [...]
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A Robotic Japanese Lunar Base Is Planned for 2020
Japan (a government panel of Waseda University) has recently announced that it is going to send robots to the moon to create a moon base. This obviously has come after America announces that it is not going to bother with the moon just yet and I expect that Japan will take full advantage of the [...]
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Evidence Builds up for Life in Europa’s Ocean
Europa is one of my favourite moons around Jupiter as it keeps throwing up little titbits of what could be underneath that icy surface. Underneath the thin layer of ice that encompasses Europa there is speculated to be a 100 km deep ocean. This would be ice if it wasn’t for the tidal forces of [...]
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Flying Telescope Takes to the Skies
Nasa’s stratospheric Observatory for infrared astronomy (SOFIA) or if you don’t want to be smart airborne telescope, took its first flight yesterday. As you can see from the image a door opens in the 747 so that the telescope can see the sky. It may sound odd to be flying around with a telescope hanging [...]
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Supermassive Black Hole Not at the Centre of a Galaxy
The Hubble telescope has been looking for black holes and studying in particular the supermassive black hole in the most massive galaxy (M87). The supermassive black hole is not in the position that it is supposed to be in which is odd as supermassive black holes are supposed to be at the centre of galaxies. [...]
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Kuiper Belt Discovery, Classification, Shape and Size.
The Kuiper belt is a region beyond Neptune that is full of comets, asteroids and other debris. It circles the solar system and has always been a little bit of a mystery as it is so far away and hard to explore. The inkling that the Kuiper belt existed first came from Kuiper and a [...]
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Mars Science Laboratory Arrival Date Set
The Mars science laboratory is set to go to Mars between November 25 and December 18, 2011 which will mean that it lands on Mars in August 2012. Curiosity, as the Mars science laboratory is known, could get their a bit sooner but it all depends on alignments and communication. For maximum information on landing [...]
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The Meaning of Life Discovered, No Just a Little Step Closer
When the universe was made it was not made equal however it was made. It should have consisted of matter and antimatter in equal quantities but this would have meant annihilation for our wonderful universe. Luckily for us there is just matter to worry about. The Fermilab (obviously trying to beat the LHC to the [...]
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Carnival of Space 154- Atlantis, Mars, Fire and Beyond
It’s been a while since I last posted the Carnival of space. Well, it’s here again the very best of the space community websites all on one site. Fancy living on Mars? I think there are a lot of people that would probably say yes. Their stay would probably be quite short today but what [...]
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Evidence for the Theory That Half the Normal Matter in the Universe Is Found in a Gas
Scientist’s embarrassment may have been spared by the discovery of a large amount of gas lying along the edge of some galaxies about 400 million light years from Earth. Results were needed to support a prediction that about half of the normal matter in the universe is found in a gas. There is no point [...]
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The Continuing Threat of the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano
That naughty volcano is still managing to produce a large amount of Ash. The photo shows the Ash on 11 May. If you live in Europe and are going on holiday in the summer and you want to avoid any hassle it might be a good idea to stay in Europe or end up staying [...]
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Sign up to Walk on the Moon.
Ever fancied walking on the moon? A new site called Moon zoo can almost get you there (well in mind if not body). The lunar reconnaissance orbiter has taken many photos of the moon and this site presents them in such a way that it is easy to look around and take in the panorama. [...]
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A Star Sprints Away from Its Birthplace
The Hubble telescope has found a blue hot star which is 90 times bigger than our sun sprinting across space. It would make the trip from the Earth to the Moon in under two hours which is not the fastest ever but is pretty fast anyway. A rogue star is probably to blame for breaking [...]
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It’s Been a Painful Time for Some Mice.
The trouble with animals is that they just don’t speak. We are quite a long way from talking to the animals but some recent research has discovered that mice feel pain. Just like us, mice make faces when they are in pain such as grimacing. Take a look at this picture and you can see [...]
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All about Meteorites
Meteors streak through the air giving us a display that can be not only beautiful but awe-inspiring as well. This isn’t all they give us as they carry to us a wealth of information from the solar system. So what is flying through the atmosphere giving us a such a show? As you might imagine [...]
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Newton’s Apple Falls Upwards.
The tree that prompted the discovery of gravity is being taken into space aboard space shuttle Atlantis next week. Of course, this is the tree that the Apple dropped out of and gave Newton a rather large bruise on his head and of course his idea about gravity. It’s a pity, but they’re not taking [...]
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The Orion Capsule Takes One Extremely Small Baby Step
“One giant leap for mankind” doesn’t really come to mind after watching the Orion capsule launch. The Orion capsule is the leftover from the mission to the moon that Obama cancelled. Recently they tried out the escape mechanism from the Orion capsule which was to protect the astronauts just in case of fire or other [...]
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Ceres, Dwarf Planet or Asteroid?
In the previous post I made a mistake about Ceres and its classification as an asteroid or dwarf planet. It’s been a topic of debate for some time, the debate originating with Pluto and its classification from planet to perhaps an asteroid and back to dwarf planet. Everybody was once sitting pretty thinking that Pluto [...]
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The Ins and Outs of Comets
Throughout history comets have been much more interesting than asteroids. This is mainly because they can be seen with the naked eye because of their immense tail. They have been the stuff of legends the most famous being Halley’s comet as mentioned before. When the planets were formed they didn’t use up all the material [...]
