by rmil2k | Apr 16, 2024 | News
Doomed neutron stars whirl toward their demise in this animation. Credit: NASA. When faraway stars explode, they send out flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that are bright enough that telescopes back on Earth can detect them. Studying these pulses, which can...
by rmil2k | Apr 16, 2024 | News
Just like Isaac Newton, Galileo and Albert Einstein, I’m not sure exactly when I became aware of Peter Higgs. He has been one of those names that anyone who has even the slightest interest in science, especially physics, has become aware of at some point. Professor...
by rmil2k | Apr 16, 2024 | News
The team overseeing ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence pose with the spacecraft behind them in its ESTEC Test Centre cleanroom in the Netherlands.They are joined in this photo by representatives from Tyvak International in Italy and GomSpace in...
by rmil2k | Apr 15, 2024 | News
The Winchcombe meteorite, which fell to the ground in Gloucestershire in the U.K. after blazing a trail through the night sky on Feb. 28, 2021, came from an asteroid that had been heavily altered by water as well as smashed apart and reformed multiple...
by rmil2k | Apr 15, 2024 | News
The Europa Clipper spacecraft, to be launched to Jupiter’s water world moon in October 2024, includes a tantalum metal plate laser-engraved with the word for water in 103 languages from around the world. Each word is shown as a waveform. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech...
