by rmil2k | Dec 26, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Astronomy 2024 features the final total solar eclipse for the CONUS until 2044, and much more. It’s finally time. On April 8th, 2024, the umbral shadow of the Moon crosses the United States for the second time in less than seven years. It’s a big deal, for...
by rmil2k | Dec 26, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Last week, members of ESA’s astronaut class of 2022 embarked on their first overseas field trip. They visited NASA’s facilities at the Johnson Space Centre (JSC) in Houston, Texas, USA, to get familiar with the environment where they will spend a significant...
by rmil2k | Dec 26, 2023 | News
[ad_1] A Japanese spacecraft just took a huge step toward pulling off the nation’s first-ever moon landing.Japan’s robotic SLIM moon lander arrived in lunar orbit on Christmas Day (Dec. 25) as planned, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced. The...
by rmil2k | Dec 25, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Dr. Vera Rubin began observing at Kitt Peak National Observatory in 1963 at the 36-inch telescope. Credit: NOIRLab A century ago galaxies in our universe perplexed astronomers. Just a decade after the realization of what galaxies are, astronomers first noticed...
by rmil2k | Dec 25, 2023 | News
[ad_1] String theory, like most revolutions, had humble origins. It started all the way back in the 1960’s as an attempt to understand the workings of the strong nuclear force, which had only recently been discovered. Quantum field theory, which had been used...
