Today it is 40 years to the day since humans first landed on the moon. Apart from the main celebration site We choose the moon, there is also a Twitter account which is tracking the mission as it happened. The Twitter account is a nice touch, since it gives an...
Have you ever complained about having too much data to copy from one place to another? Well, rest assured you are not alone. Google is helping Space Telescope Science Institute to collect and store the vast amount of data collecting by the Hubble telescope. The servers are connected to the...
Many people have followed the adventure of the crew aboard space shuttle Discovery which includes Christer Fuglesang, first Scandinavian in space. The opinions about the mission range from "heroic adventure" to "stupid waste of tax money". However, I wish that all people on Earth should get the opportunity to see...
It's time for the annual meteor shower from the Leonids. Unfortunately this year's Leonids are likely to be a big disappointment since they are scheduled to peak tomorrow when the moon is just past full, thus flooding the sky with bright light. Their display will be weak and affected by...
Archimedes was one of the greatest mathematicians of his time. In the 3rd century B.C. he discovered such fundamental things as pi and calculus. Today, the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore holds a lot of manuscripts and rare books for study and conservation. One of them is the so called...
Over 130 stars have been shown to have orbiting planets during the last years. Their presences are basically detected in two ways: either by a slight wobble in the stars's positions due to gravity or a variation in intensity as the planet pass in front of the star. However, there...
The success of Huygens landing on Titan, as mentioned in a previous entry, is like a Christmas gift for scientists all over the world. However, not everyone is leaping with joy. David Atkinson is a scientist at the University of Idaho. He has spent 18 years of his life designing...
Today the world's minds focused on ESA's tiny probe Huygens, about to start it's lonely descent into the dense atmosphere of Titan in just a few hours, the most distant landing ever attempted. The data will relayed to NASA's orbiting spacecraft Cassini and then it takes about one hour for...
David Bowie recorded "Life on mars" 13 years ago, but apart from Tim Burton's "Mars Attacks" there has been little evidence of alien life forms. However, finding evidence of ancient water existence would be a step in the right direction. The robot rover Spirit has recently discovered goethite, a mineral...
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