Carnival of Space #611
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog. Click here to read Carnival…
NASA Senior Engineer Kobie Boykins talks About Exploring Mars. And I was There to See it!
I recently had the honor of attending a Nat Geo Live talk hosted by Kobie Boykins. As NASA JPL's chief…
The Blue Origins Founder Wants to Get to the Moon by 2024
Blue Origin is going to the Moon. In an hour-long presentation in Washington DC on May 9th, Jeff Bezos spelled…
Antimatter Behaves Exactly the Same as Regular Matter in Double Slit Experiments
An experiment recently conducted by the QUPLAS collaboration confirmed the dual, particle-wave nature of antimatter.
The International Space Station Rides High Through the May Sky
May is graduation month, and with it, school star party season is about to conclude. If you happen to be…
Messier 85 – the NGC 4382 Elliptical (Lenticular) Galaxy
Located in the Coma Berenices constellation, roughly 60 million light years from Earth, is the elliptical galaxy known as Messier…
Ep. 530: Astronomy of the Andes: Then and Now, Pt. 2
South America, especially the Atacama Desert in Chile has become one of the best places in the world to put…
A Supercomputer has been Designed to run the World’s Largest Radio Telescope
The Science Data Processor consortium for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) just completed the design work on the supercomputer that…
Prototype of a Future Interstellar Probe was Just Tested on a Balloon
Researchers with the UCSB Experimental Cosmology Group recently conducted a successful stratospheric test of their wafercraft, which could be traveling…
The Black Hole Picture Could Be So Much Better If You Add Space Telescopes
Our first picture of a black hole was a huge moment for science. But we can't stop there. We need…