by rmil2k | Jan 10, 2024 | News
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 appropriate...
by rmil2k | Jan 9, 2024 | News
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...
by rmil2k | Jan 9, 2024 | News
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) spacecraft Einstein Probe lifted off on a Chang Zheng (Long March) 2C rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China at 15:03 CST / 07:03 GMT / 08:03 CET on 9 January 2024. With the successful launch, Einstein Probe...
by rmil2k | Jan 9, 2024 | News
Astrobotic’s troubled Peregrine moon lander has snapped its first photo in the final frontier, and the image holds clues about what happened to the spacecraft.Peregrine lifted off early Monday morning (Jan. 8) on the first-ever mission of United Launch...
by rmil2k | Jan 9, 2024 | News
Back to Article List The bejeweled gas giant and our planet’s natural satellite will reach conjunction this week in a spectacular evening display. A crescent Moon and brilliant Saturn make a beautiful pairing in the evening sky. Credit: Sérgio Conceição This week, the...
