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Posts tagged ‘Cosmology’

Mars-Hope

The UAE Space Agency’s Hope probe has reached Mars, slowed and adjusted it’s trajectory and entered into a wide orbit around the red planet. This is the first image it sent back to Earth, with the solar system’s largest volcano – Olympus Mons – emerging…

Hope For Mars

February 14th, 2021
Milky Way

Heaven’s Above

October 27th, 2020
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Mars

As I dialled in and focussed the view finder, Mars began to form with increasing clarity in my eye. It’s red and barren landscape giving up stories which detail millions upon millions of years of history. And as I was able to track the red…

Invaders From Mars, Or The International Space Station

September 22nd, 2020
Moon & Mars

Occultation Of Mars By Our Moon

August 12th, 2020
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The first captured glance of another solar system that is, at least in part, similar to our own. Although astronomers have long glimpsed at other stars, many have very few planets orbiting them, often perhaps only one. Or those that have multiple planets, but orbiting…

First Sight Of A ‘Regular’ Solar System

July 24th, 2020
The Day The Earth Smiled

The Day The Earth Smiled is named for July 19th, 2013, when NASA asked the Cassini space probe to turn around and capture part of Saturn’s rings and planet Earth during a solar eclipse. Much like with the Voyager mission capturing the Pale Blue Dot…

The Day The Earth Smiled

July 19th, 2020
HUDF

HUDF: Thirteen Billion Years Of History

May 22nd, 2020
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Hubble At 30

Hubble At 30: Still Taking Our Breath Away

April 24th, 2020
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NASA Apollo 11 Flight Plan crop

NASA’s flight plan for Apollo 11 from 1969. In itself, a beautiful work of art, only made more impressive by what it represents. And moreso remastered.

NASA’s Idea Of Keeping It Simple

March 22nd, 2020
ESA

The original title of this was What Does 239,000 Miles Look Like?, but as with just about everything I write, it sort of evolved from being a simple question to wondering about the sheer scale of distances involved in our solar system. It is often…

Next Stop Neptune, Please Mind The Gap

March 8th, 2020
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Pale Blue Dot Remastered

February 13th, 2020
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Martian Sunset

Martian Sunset

June 29th, 2019
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A Pale Blue Dot

This image of Earth is one of 60 frames taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on February 14th, 1990 from a distance of more than 6 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane. In the image the Earth is…

The Pale Blue Dot

June 2nd, 2019
Jupiter

Spectacular Jupiter

August 13th, 2018
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