by rmil2k | Jan 3, 2024 | News
In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, famed physicist Enrico Fermi asked the question that launched a hundred (or more) proposed resolutions. “Where is Everybody?” In short, given the age of the Universe (13.8...
by rmil2k | Jan 3, 2024 | News
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas,” Benjamin Franklin once wrote. So it’s with a heavy heart and a liberated soul that I cannot honestly recommend the new Netflix space fantasy, “Rebel Moon: Part One — A Child of Fire,” to...
by rmil2k | Jan 3, 2024 | News
Full Moon taken from Madison, Alabama on October 22, 2010. Credit: Gregory H. Revera (Wikimedia Commons) For millennia, Full Moons have wielded a magnetic charm. This monthly event has been the inspiration behind myths, tales, traditions, and even farming. We’ll...
by rmil2k | Jan 2, 2024 | News
While many of us were celebrating the end of 2023 and the coming of 2024, the Sun was having its own celebration blasting an X5.0 flare from sunspot region 3536. Records show this to be the most powerful flare seen since 10 September 2017 when an X8.2 flare erupted....
by rmil2k | Jan 2, 2024 | News
Enabling & Support 02/01/2024 763 views 39 likes Through exquisite, millimetre-scale, formation flying, the dual satellites making up ESA’s Proba-3 will accomplish what was previously a space mission impossible: cast a precisely held shadow from one platform to...
