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Cosmic Microwave Background

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Dwarfs

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Habitability

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Dyson Spheres

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How’s It Going?

Posted on January 10, 2014 by

We are about a third of the way through the second decade of the twenty-first century. How have the first thirteen years of this new century stacked up when compared to the events of the same period during the advent … Continue reading →

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ESA’s Gaia Galaxy-Mapping Satellite

Posted on December 20, 2013 by

On December 19, 2013 at 09:12 UTC (1:12 AM PST), a Soyuz ST-B launched from the European Space Agency’s Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana carrying a spacecraft called Gaia. Its five year voyage will not seek out and find … Continue reading →

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NK-15

Posted on December 8, 2013 by

The Soviet Union lost the space race, but not because they didn’t try. They developed a monster of a rocket, the N-1. Unfortunately, it was so complicated they could never get it to quite work. The engine made for their … Continue reading →

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Atomic Weapons

Posted on November 24, 2013 by

I recently finished reading a book by Richard Rhodes called The Making of the Atomic Bomb. First published in 1987, it was reissued in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition last year. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, the National Book … Continue reading →

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15 Years: International Space Station

Posted on November 21, 2013 by

The first module of the International Space Station, the Russian module known as Zarya, reached orbit on November 20, 1998. Since the arrival of Expedition 1 on 2 November 2000, the station has been continuously occupied, the longest continuous human … Continue reading →

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India to Mars

Posted on November 6, 2013 by

On November 5, 2013, at 4:08 a.m. EST (0908 GMT) the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota launched an ISRO Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle carrying India’s Mars Orbiter Mission. The Mars Orbiter Mission, also known as … Continue reading →

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