Some comets orbit the Sun on a regular basis, but others come in from deep space, a region known as the Oort Cloud. What causes them to make this journey, and will we ever be able to explore the Oort Cloud?
It’s time for @CheapAstro crafts some spacecraft. What are the Parker probe and other spacecraft learning about the Sun? Will there really be spacecraft that can travel in deep space but can also land on planets?
In this episode, some astronomers, a former astronaut, the current director of the Space Telescope Science Institute as well as the wife of Carl Sagan himself, got together and wrote a white paper that makes the case for a telescope, named after the famous astronomer Carl Sagan, that will look for and directly image planets like Earth around other stars
Looking into the sky on a clear-dark night, have you wondered what it would be like to travel in deep space?