by rmil2k | Jan 10, 2024 | News
[ad_1] What looks like an aerial shot of an alien landscape is actually a scanning electron microscope view of a test glass surface, acquired as part of a project to improve the lifetime of spaceborne atomic clocks, found at the heart of navigation satellites. Each...
by rmil2k | Jan 10, 2024 | News
[ad_1] Hey, aliens! Lexington, Kentucky would be a good place to spend your next deep-space vacation.This was the message that a group of Kentucky scientists, linguists and scholars recently beamed at the TRAPPIST-1 system, which lies 40 light-years from Earth and...
by rmil2k | Jan 10, 2024 | News
[ad_1] heic2402 — Science Release Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found a rare oddball event in an oddball place. 9 January 2024 A Fast Radio Burst (FRB) is a fleeting blast of energy that can – for a few milliseconds – outshine an entire...
by rmil2k | Jan 10, 2024 | News
[ad_1] Back to Article List Even under city lights, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn can be easy to see with a small- or medium-sized telescope. This illustration shows the approximate sizes of the planets relative to each other. The planets are not shown at the...
by rmil2k | Jan 9, 2024 | News
[ad_1] Humans have dreamed about traveling to other star systems and setting foot on alien worlds for generations. To put it mildly, interstellar exploration is a very daunting task. As we explored in a previous post, it would take between 1000 and 81,000 years for a...
