Nowadays new exoplanets are found every week. Exoplanet blog systemic has an article from February about possible Earth-like planets around Alpha Centauri B.
What’s remarkable is the easiness with which they could be detected if some resources are spent. And if a planet like that exist, it’s one of the top destinations for future interstellar probes [...]
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Our solar system is only marginally stable, and also “filled to the brim” with planets. If you added another planet, the system would eject planets until it reached stability. During the disk accretion and the planetary embryo collisions, small variations determined the characteristics of the system, for example how many rocky planets would result from [...]
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In the end of January, a 100 m class asteroid called 2007 TU24 will pass near earth, somewhat beyond moon’s distance. It’s not visible with the naked eye, but only with reasonable size amateur telescopes. JPL has more.
This was only detected in November 2007. If some other big one was headed towards earth one day, it’s possible there wouldn’t be much time for warning…
Here is [...]
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Posted in Astronomy, Motivation, Science, Spacecraft, Uncategorized, tagged christmas, cutaways, flight international, foton, soyuz, venera, venus, yes2 on Friday 2007.12.21 | No Comments »
I can link you some nice images:
Nicolas Pillet’s photo gallery of Soyuz / Foton-M3 & YES2. An example.
Don P. Mitchell’s restored Venus photos from Soviet Venera probe material. An example.
And finally, for the technology fetishists like me, Flight International’s generous offer of past cutaway drawings, space systems section. Or have a look at this cutie from the engine cutaways [...]
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Hello, had some time with not so many posts. I’ll write more stuff soon, including something that is slightly offtopic for a spaceflight blog.
But in the mean time, the newest Carnival of Space had a nice link to a fine blog which had a great picture (beware it’s full size on the front page) that New Horizons snapped of Io in front of Jupiter. Also shows the glow of the Volcano Tvashtar in the [...]
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