Posts in Category: Astronomy
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Posted on 20th Oct 2022
DART is the mission based on the Hollywood blockbuster Armageddon. You know, the movie where the oil drillers are trained to go to space because there couldn’t possibly be an astronaut capable of being trained to be an oil driller. Anyway, if you think Michael Bay’s explosions are over the top, well...
Posted on 5th Mar 2021
We have rovers on Mars. Perseverance (or Percy, if you're on nickname terms) landed there just a few weeks ago to join Curiosity. And don't forget about Spirit and Opportunity (or Oppy, if you like) which also spent years traversing the Martian wastelands. Then just yesterday we saw the...
Posted on 5th Mar 2021
Here's a brief history on our understanding of black holes. In 1783 John Michell had a thought. Now that in itself was not unusual, as Michell was a philosopher, and someone whose thoughts were purportedly generations ahead of his contemporaries. What was unusual was that Michell began to think ab...
Being almost the holidays, this might be a good time to talk about space tourism. Let’s…
DART is the mission based on the Hollywood blockbuster Armageddon. You know, the…
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