Collaborate Disseminate
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the idea of a planetarium originated with an electrical engineer, [Oskar von Miller] from the Deutsches Museum in Munich. According to [Allison Marsh] in …read more Continue reading The History of the World’s First Planetarium
There is a reason building a rocket engine is harder than most things you want to build. If you are building, say, a car, your goal is to not have …read more Continue reading Building a Rocket Engine from Scratch
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times:
American officials are trying to increase international pressure on Russia not to deploy an antisatellite nuclear weapon in space, and have obtained information that undermines Moscow’s … Continue reading U.S. Seeks to Build World Pressure on Russia Over Space Nuclear Weapon
The world’s highest astronomical site is officially open for business after being in the works for 26 years. Space.com reports: The Japanese University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory, or TAO, which was first conceptualized 26 years ago to study the evolu… Continue reading The Highest Observatory On Earth Is Now Open
RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) wants to tell you about a “new” star that will be visible to the naked eye — without a telescope — sometime before September:
By “star”, I do not mean “comet”, “meteorite” or “firefly”, but genuine [star… Continue reading The Naked-Eye Sky Will (Briefly) Host a New Star
In September NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope investigated an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, and “revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide.”
Webb’s discovery adds to recent studies suggesting t… Continue reading How Space Telescopes Spotted an Exoplanet With a Possible Hydrogen-Rich Atmosphere
This week Russia vetoed a UN resolution that proposed banning nuclear weapons in space, CNN reports.
But it all happened “amid U.S. intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear device capable of destroying satellites.”
In … Continue reading Russia Vetoes U.N. Resolution On Nuclear Weapons In Space
In what is probably the longest-distance tech support operation in history, the Voyager mission team succeeded in hacking their way around some defective memory and convincing their space probe to …read more Continue reading Welcome Back, Voyager
A cornerstone of early 1970s rock music culture was the British singer David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona, along with his backing band the Spiders from Mars. You can …read more Continue reading Photo Shows Real Spiders From Mars
In a Universe ruled by the harsh and unyielding laws of Physics, it’s often tempting to dream of mechanisms which defy these rigid restrictions. Although over the past hundred years …read more Continue reading The Myth of Propellantless Space Propulsion Refuses to Die