Minor Planets or Asteroids - Their History and Classification
The minor planets become a topic of heated discussion after the decision of the IAU to strip Pluto of its status as a planet and to consider it a …
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Astronomer Jan Van Oort Facts: How the Oort Cloud Got its Name
One of the preeminent astronomers of the 20th century, Jan Oort was responsible for giving us an understanding about the rotation of the Milky Way, …
Continue ReadingFacts About The Oort Cloud - Home Of The Comets
Where do comets come from? Where and how are they formed? These questions were studied by the Dutch Astronomer, Jan Hendrick Oort. His answers went on …
Continue ReadingFacts About Carolyn Porco - Leader of the Cassini Space Probe’s Imaging Team - CICLOPS
Dr. Carolyn Porco is an imaging scientist famous for working on the Voyager and Cassini missions to Uranus, Neptune and Saturn. She is also in charge …
Continue ReadingThe GTC - Gran Telescopio Canarias: The Largest Telescope in the World
The largest single-aperture optical telescope telescope designed to study black holes and early big bang cosmology. Built with funds from Spain, …
Continue ReadingHow Clyde Tombaugh Found Pluto? - A Biography Of The Famous Astronomer
Though famous astronomer, Clyde Tombaugh, discovered the planet Pluto while still in his early 20’s his career did not fizzle out at an early …
Continue ReadingFacts on the Next Planetary Alignment in 2012
News of the next planet alignment seems to occur every few years. Each event comes with a slew of apocalyptic warnings from doomsayers, selling the …
Continue ReadingMilitary Space Stations - The Russian Almaz and The US MOL
Space stations before Skylab and MIR? The USSR’s Almaz space station and the United States’ Manned Orbiting Laboratory were two Cold …
Continue ReadingShoemaker-Levy 9 Comet & Jupiter Collision: Effect on Solar System
While we haven’t had a good impact here on Earth in a good long while, they’re fairly commonplace on the larger planets—especially the …
Continue ReadingSuborbital Transport – Will You See It In Your Lifetime?
Space is the ultimate frontier. Already astronauts have safely conducted manned flights to the moon and lived in space stations. Is space tourism for …
Continue ReadingThe Vision For Space Exploration: Lunar Bases, Manned Missions to Mars, and More
The 2004 Vision for Space Exploration promises to push space exploration in a way that it has not seen since the Kennedy years, from lunar bases to …
Continue ReadingWhat is Time? Part 2
Continuing and diverging from what was mentioned in Part 1 into more of the specific uses and intricacies of time, we here survey notions such as …
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