Showing posts from September, 2018
A group of friends discovered there were no proportional models of the solar system with complete planetary orbits—most portray the planets and moons as too close together. So, they decided to build one. On a dry lakebed in Nevada, the group constr…
Space, the final frontier. There is still very little that we actually understand about the vast universe that we live in. However, what we do know is that space is very clearly trying its best to kill us all. From deadly radiation to exploding supe…
JPL is the leading U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system, and has 19 spacecraft and 10 major instruments carrying out planetary, Earth science and space-based astronomy missions. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a feder…
Scientist have warned that Earth is facing a terrifying encounter with a ‘death star’. A paper published by two astronomers form the University of Madrid ‘confirms’ that a star called Gilise 710 will come close to our solar system. ‘It may tri…
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astronomer who discovered the first pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star back in 1967 and missed out on receiving a Nobel Prize for a ground-breaking astrophysics discovery. As we now know that pulsars are rapidly ro…
New scientific research has unearthed some evidence that our planet occasionally captures “mini moons”, these tiny asteroids zoom around our planets mostly as temporary natural satellites. Mini moons usually measure from 3 to 10ft in diameter. Our…
The Star Antares – the largest in the constellation Scorpio shows that it is approaching end of its life and expelling unknown matter from its cosmic depths. Antares is about 604 light-years from Earth. If our solar system were centered on it, i…
