Space

For Valentine's Day, Capture The Heart Of The Rosette Nebula

The Rosette Nebula is located in the Milky Way Galaxy roughly 5,000 light-years from us and is known for its rose-like shape and distinctive hole at the center. The nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases with seve ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2018 - 7:43pm

Is This Why We Haven't Found Life On Mars Yet? Value Of Actually Looking

We have been sending missions to Mars since the Mariner 4 flyby in 1964, and our first successful landing was Viking 1 in 1976, So, why can't astrobiologists answer the question definitively, when you ask them if there is life on Mars?   Well, perhap ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 21 2018 - 3:47pm

So You Thought We Could Terraform Mars Quickly? Large Space Habitats Instead Open Solar System To Humans

SpaceX have a striking video showing Mars spinning faster and faster, transforming from the current red Mars to a planet with a small ocean and with the deserts tinged with green in seven revolutions. Of course that is poetic exaggeration- it wouldn' ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 27 2018 - 10:05am

Why The Moon Is By FAR The Best Place For A Backup- NOT Mars- To Protect And Restore Our Beautiful Earth

I think we should build our first offworld backup on the Moon. We can start by storing seeds there, similar to the Svalbard seed vault in Norway. Within a few years we should have easy access to the Moon, and then it will be easy to do. The lunar caves ar ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 31 2019 - 4:44pm

Let's Make Sure Astronauts Won't Extinguish Native Mars Life- Op Ed

Lisa Pratt, the new planetary protection officer for NASA takes up her job at a challenging time for astrobiology. We are approaching a major decision point for Mars. If Elon Musk succeeds in his ambitious plans, then some time in the next couple of decad ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 12 2018 - 12:38am

How To Deal With Trash On Moon? More To It Than You'd Think

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Article - Robert Walker - Mar 18 2018 - 11:18pm

Chasing Evidence Of A Black Hole's Shadow

One of the most fundamental predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity is the existence of black holes. Although gravitational waves from binary black holes have been detected, direct evidence using electromagnetic waves hasn't happened and a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2018 - 11:05am

Polar Regions Of Mars Of Outstanding Interest For Astrobiology- Why We Haven't Searched For Life There Yet

The reason we know so little about the polar regions is not lack of interest. The polar regions are of great interest, for instance the Martian dry ice geysers in Richardson crater, one of the most interesting dynamic processes on Mars and the polar regio ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 30 2018 - 4:09pm

KIC 8462852: Where I Think Evangeline Fits In The System

I've noted the following about a chained orbital resonance system with base period P: If an observer at ~138° from our vantage point is well-positioned to observe transits pass by at intervals that are multiples of P, then we would see transits pass b ...

Blog Post - Jose S - Apr 29 2018 - 3:33pm

Jupiter Last Friday

Visual observation of the planets of our solar system has always been an appealing pastime for amateur astronomers, but the digital era has taken away a little bit of glamour to this activity. Until 30 years ago you could spot with your eye more detail tha ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 30 2018 - 1:06pm