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Closer Look: Getting an Up-Close Look On Other Worlds: Hera and Europa Clipper
It is impossible to overstate how much more we can learn about other worlds when we visit them. Even from Earth’s orbit, where the atmosphere doesn’t interfere with picture quality, we just can’t see the same details. I’m going to put some numbers on this. When...
Black Holes Fire Off Cosmos Altering Jets
High-energy jets emerge from two sides of a black hole (illustrated). The black hole resides in a galaxy that is part of a filament of the cosmic web (silvery wisps). E. Wernquist, M. Oei, D. Nelson/IllustrisTNG Collaboration The definition of a black hole allows for...
Invasion of the Microscopic Black Holes
Image credit: Tech Explorist Every once in a while, a story comes along that just makes me giggle, and also forces me to fix some misinformation living in my brain. Consider the microscopic black hole. In my brain, these diminutive creations of the early universe...
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SpaceX vs FAA and EPA and Cards Against Humanity
This article was cowritten by Dr. Pamela and Erik. Photo Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani This week we’re doing something we’ve never done before; we’re dedicating the majority of the show to a single story: SpaceX’s recurring failure to follow the rules, regulations,...
Ep. 3.04 Planning for Asteroid Attacks, Dino Prints Cross Ocean, Viper Updates, & more
This is another weird week for space news, where it felt like human space exploration was going to steal every headline. We saw the successful return to Earth of Boeing’s Starliner capsule, the successful launch of Polaris Dawn and what appears, at the time of this...
When Asteroids (Don’t) Attack
Artist's concept of the Hera mission gliding past Didymos to Dimorphos. Image credit: ESA For a hot second back in 2004, it looked like there was a couple percent chance the asteroid 99942 Apophis just might crash into the planet Earth on April 13, 2029. And even if...
VIPER May Live to Rove Another Day
A computer generated concept image of the VIPER rover Despite what the contents of this and recent episodes might imply, my passion is for science not for spacecraft. The thing is, sometimes spacecraft are needed to do the science. And lately, I and many others have...
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The Cost of Space Flight on the Planet
As a nerdy member of GenX, I can state with pride and shame that I watched Buck Rogers in the early 80s and was constantly fascinated by all the weird ways their writers found for fictional 24th century scientists to misunderstand the relics from the 20th century....
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