The latest on the search for planets in other planetary systems. . //
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Take a Peek inside the Space Shuttle after Landing
Ever wondered what happened after a space shuttle landing? NASA have released a video (below) which shows the winding down of the shuttle and the tow back to its hangar. After landing it takes 150 workers to pull the crew out and to carry out the necessary checks and procedures. Shuttle Atlantis will be ready [...]
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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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Solar System Creation In a 10 Minute Read.
Wouldn’t it be good to know how you got here? Well unfortunately the answer to that is unknown. It has been thought about for a long, long time and one day we will probably know the answer. What we do have good idea about though is how the solar system formed. Throughout the galaxy gigantic [...]
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Best of the Week Podcast-Giant Ribbon at the Edge of the Solar System: Mystery Solved?
Last year, when NASA’s IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) spacecraft discovered a giant ribbon at the edge of the solar system, researchers were mystified. They called it a “shocking result” and puzzled over its origin. Now the mystery may have been solved. //
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Best of the Week Podcast- A Man, A Planet and Loads of Controversy
ENCORE While the Kepler spacecraft hunts for habitable planets beyond the solar system, we’ve let one of our own planets slip away! Find out why Pluto’s demotion to dwarf status created a public uproar as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson reads us his hate mail. From third-graders! Also, how we might find Earth-like planets… the possibility [...]
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Terraforming the Solar System, Let’s Start Our Holiday Home!
Have you ever worried about global warming? Have you ever got fed up with your mundane existence and wanted adventure? Have you ever been curious? If some of these apply to you then perhaps you should terraform another planet. There is a problem with that solution though, it’s quite a large undertaking for an individual. [...]
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Best of the Week podcast- Kuiper Belt at a Childs Level.
What is the Kuiper Belt? by Susan, Amanda & Kevin Murph. Susan Murph from the How to Grow Your Geek Podcast and her children Amanda and Kevin discuss Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. //
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Best of the Week Podcast-Everything to Do with the Preparation and Launch of a Space Vehicle
This is all about the preparations for launch of a space vehicle. It is mainly about the space shuttle, but covers lots of questions that you may have about why they stop and start all the time and what actually goes on. Why do they say that and why do they do this, you will [...]
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Best Of The Week Podcast- Will Large Engineering Jobs Ever Occur?
The search for astro-engineering by SETI and others. Will these massive engineering projects seen in modern Si-Fi one day become a reality? // Join the forum discussion on this post – (1) Posts
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Best Of The Week- The Guiding North Star Podcast
Everything you need to know about the North star. No, it’s not as boring as it sounds! Be a north star expert. By slacker Astronomy //
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Carnival Of Space #123
Normally I write an article on physics or space but sometimes I will be going through a few links of a few blogs that are quite good for all sorts of things about space and physics. This is called a carnival and if you look on the Internet you’ll find a lot of other links [...]
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Best Of The Week- The NASA Constellation Program Podcast
All about the constellation space programme. If you read my blog post recently then you will know quite a lot but it is always good to know more! By Astronomy cast // Join the forum discussion on this post – (1) Posts
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Commercial Spaceflight Ticket Or NASA Ticket To Space And Beyond?
NASA is dragging their heels when it comes to space exploration. Money just isn’t available to go as fast as some people would like. This is where commercial spaceflight is taking over. Unfortunately commercial spaceflight doesn’t mean travelling to the moon and back to drop off people in the Moon Hotel. To get some idea [...]
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21 Reasons We Have Not Talked To Or Found Alien Civilizations
Look up and you will see lots of dots of light. No, it’s not a load of cars screaming towards the Earth because they missed the stop sign at Mars. It’s stars. There are said to be about 140 billion stars that look like the sun in the Milky Way. There are a lot more stars [...]
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A New Human Race To Explore The Stars?
In an earlier post we talked about robots doing our dirty work and exploring the universe, relaying images back to us allowing us to see what they have found without actually risking our own necks. If you fancy a look then the post is here ”Is Humanity A Space Fairing Race?” . I have a funny [...]
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An Internet To Span A Galaxy
Wouldn’t it be great to surf to a website and find out about any planet, Star or literally anything else in the galaxy? Just think of all the forums, chat and possibilities for communication that a galaxy wide Internet would give us. Could this be done? It would need a rather long cable. I am [...]
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Is Nothing Nothing Or Something?
I was tempted just to post a blank page, but that still wouldn’t have been nothing and would have been cheating. So here we go… Let’s say you walk into a room and there is “nothing in it” — no objects of any kind, no furniture and no people. It’s just four walls, a ceiling [...]
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Is Humanity a Spacefaring Race.?
We’re destined to go to the stars. That’s the assumption we’ve been making for a century, and I daresay most readers believe this as surely as they believe we’ll eventually cure dandruff. Our anticipation of an interstellar destiny is not merely the consequence of too many couch-hours spent watching Spandex-suited astronauts in Star Trek, Star [...]
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ET leftovers
We have been trying to communicate with ET Or other civilisations for a long human time but when you compare that to the universe’s clock it’s not even one millionth of a second. Time is the big problem when looking for other civilisations and being human we really don’t have time on our side at [...]
