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I’d Like To Buy a Rocket Ship and Move Them Out To Space….
NASA is having it rough these days, trying to search for astronomical terms that will not offend people, e.g., “dwarf galaxy” meaning smaller than usual galaxy, and Sombrero galaxy, when it does look a lot like a specific style of chapeau. https://thepostmillennial.com/nasa-wants-to-redefine-cosmic-terms-to-avoid-offending-people “The space agency only mentioned the “Eskimo Nebula” and “Siamese Twins Galaxy” in […]
SpaceX crew returns to Earth, splashes down in Gulf
“Thank you for flying SpaceX” – Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken return to Earth Two American astronauts have splashed down, as the first commercial crewed mission to the International Space Station returned to Earth. Doug Hurley’s and Bob Behnken’s capsule hit the water at about 14:48 EDT (19:48 BST; 18:48 GMT). The SpaceX Dragon Capsule […]
Mars Exploration
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover has successfully launched on its epic mission to the Red Planet. The rover launched into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 7:50 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. After a seven month transit, The Rover will seek evidence […]
A Prolonged Period of Something
Iceland’s volcanoes have been busy the past few months. If you remember 2010, a mostly quiet volcano named Eyjafjallajökull showed signs of eruption well ahead of its actual event, but no one except geologists, volcanologists and Icelanders really took it seriously until it happened. Eyjafjallajökull lies 25 km (16 mi) west of another subglacial volcano, Katla, under […]
If Wacky Weather Is Bad Now, Wait A Minute
This is regarding weather, CMEs, solar events, volcanoes, and our dependence on “other” for everything we need. Solar eruptions. Coronal mass ejections a/k/a CMEs. These are damaging and dangerous events that have occurred with our central star in the past. Could this happen again? Considering that when the Sun went dormant in 2006, and has had […]
Non-green Plants on Extrasolar Planets
Autumn foliage colors throughout the year? Many science fiction films depict foliation as being green. However, studies on plants have shown that the nature of the sunlight that reaches a plant influences that plant’s color. On earth, for example, plants photosynthesize mostly on red and on blue light. They also use some of the green […]
Large “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid NASA Has Been Tracking for 22 Years Will Fly Past Earth Today
Near-Earth Object. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The large near-Earth object is well known to astronomers and will get no closer than 3.9 million miles to our planet. A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail. The asteroid, […]
Those Confounded Lights In the Sky – Again!!
Used to be that, if there were lights in the night sky, it was in a V-formation and was pooh-poohed as being migrating geese or something similar. And people were sure it was space aliens leaving Earth. Now, it’s Elon Musk and his project to put something on the order of 50,000 or more communications […]
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