SpaceX Set For October 7th Launch
-“For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – SpaceX is set to launch the first of a dozen operational missions for NASA to deliver more than 1,000 pounds of supplies to the...
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A Tour Of Chile’s Telescopes
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Chile is a magnet for the worlds astronomers due to the north part of the country being very high above sea level, having clear...
Antares Is Rolled Out
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Orbital Sciences Corporation’s rolls out Antares Rocket to the launch pad at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the morning of Oct. 1, 2012. This...
What Exactly Is The Higgs Boson?
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln describes the nature of the Higgs boson. In July Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the...
ISS Expedition 33/34 Mission Overview
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is the latest update from the International Space station. The work now under way on board is designed to support deep space exploration in...
When Neutron Stars Collide
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Using the latest state-of-the-art supercomputer models, scientists have shown that colliding neutron stars can produce a gamma-ray burst. This follows on from earlier simulations...
Hot Facts About Jupiter – Teacher Amy
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – More from the ‘Hot Facts’ girls, this time with interesting facts about the Planet Jupiter. Everything you wanted to know about Jupiter..well almost! Poor...
The Next Space Race – 1
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends”- The United States military is developing the technologies to make outer space the battlefield of the future. We would be naive in thinking that the...
Curiosity Discovers Old Streambeds
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is...
Great Space Pictures – History
– ” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is a classic collection of great space pictures portraying the history of space exploration. Were you able to put names to some...
Hubble Space Telescope – eXtreme Deep Field
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – This is an animation of the new Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, which took 10 years to assemble, with over 2 million seconds of exposure...
A Young Super Jupiter Makes its Mark
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – For the first time scientists were able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moved from one side of its star...
Mysteries Of The Moon – 2
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – It was only when we had the processing power of supercomputers in the 1990s that deep analysis could be carried out of the impact...
Mysteries Of The Moon – 1
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Until very recently we knew very little about the Moon. The Moon missions returned with samples of Moon rock and these indicated that the...
How To Photograph Space Yourself
– “For You To Enjoy And Share Witrh Friends” – How you can take images of the night sky using inexpensive equipment that you probably already own. You’ll be amazed at the results that...
Mars Opportunity To Complete Extraterrestrial Marathon
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The recent limelight has been stolen by ‘Curiosity’ and it might be forgotten that there is another rover, ‘Opportunity’, already active on Mars. ‘Opportunity’...
The Signs Of Neptune
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A look at the planet Neptune and its Moon Triton which has a retrograde orbit. Triton is NOT the ‘only’ moon in the solar...
If We Had No Moon – (4)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The impact that caused the formation of the Moon may have hastened the formation of life on Earth. The impact may have created the...
