Planets Like the Earth Dot Our Galaxy
In the New York Times: “The known odds of something — or someone — living far, far away from Earth improved beyond astronomers’ boldest dreams on Monday. Astronomers reported that there could be as...
View ArticleMilky Way Galaxy and Beyond
Here’s a dazzling picture of our Milky Way Galaxy. More on the photo here. Remember too that we are part of it and the stars in this galaxy run right up to us and past us. What you see in the structure...
View ArticleA Groundbreaking Mini-Satellite Project May Be Doomed
From SpaceNews: “The plan was to launch a cloud of tiny satellites into space, each one no bigger than a quarter, and scatter them like spare change in the orbital dusk. But two weeks after a...
View ArticleThings that Want to Kill You
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson visited Dallas this week and said: – On sun storms and solar flares: ”Don’t think this is a special time when the sun wants to kill us. It always wants to kill us.” –...
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The Sun is Really Small from Pluto … Meanwhile Pluto Still Wants to be a Planet
Pluto fights back. And Pluto is way, way out there. When looking at the sun from Pluto, it looks more like a bright star. Sun Size From Planets – Image Credit: Astro Bob
View ArticleSpace Junk – It’s Getting Crowded up There
Crazy picture showing all of the trash in space that NASA is tracking.
View ArticleThe Stars are Close
While out taking a night walk, when looking up at the night sky a thought hit me: There are an awful lot of stars that are really close to us. When you look up at the night sky you can see a great many...
View ArticleNASA Needs to Repeat the Propellantless Thruster Study Soon
In my last post I said that NASA researchers claimed to measure thrust on an experimental propellantless device. That’s quite interesting – but many people are pointing to what at first appears to be a...
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NASA Microwave Thruster Test Paper Summary Table
In my last post I said that NASA’s recent testing of EmDrive-like microwave cavity thrusters was not invalidated because they had different models of engines that both produced thrust. I should add...
View ArticleThe James Webb Space Telescope Explained
The video below does a nice job of explaining what the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to do. And I wrote some about the JWST here.
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The Hubble Successor: The ATLAST Telescope
An artist’s rendering of ATLAST (courtesy of the Space Telescope Science Institute) One of the most exciting aspects of space science right now is that we are able to detect exoplanets. Today a study...
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EmDrive Engine Inventor’s Comments
Update: Here is an interview with the inventor. I had some email correspondence with Roger Shawyer, the inventor of the EmDrive propellantless spacecraft engine. As I discussed in a recent post, there...
View ArticleWhen New Physics Theories End
The world of Newtonian physics ruled from the 1600s when Newton was alive until 1905 when Einstein published his paper on the theory of relativity The Newtonian universe looked much simpler. It was...
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A Cold Fusion Powered USS Enterprise?
Hot ECAT During Testing I have written often about how Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) devices may create an energy revolution on Earth. But what can LENR do for the Gen1 Enterprise? I wrote about...
View ArticleCold Fusion Researchers are Mainstream Scientists
Jed Rothwell, the manager of the main internet library of LENR papers, responded to a recent BTE post where I wrote, “The disconnect between big media journalists, and the scientists doing LENR...
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Caveman Science Committee Concludes Fire Does Not Exist
In helping to think about Cold Fusion … let’s go back in time to when claims of fire-starting were first heard about. Recall how the science committee reacted … Back in the caveman and cavewoman...
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First Ever Photograph of the Inside of a Hydrogen Atom
photo of hydrogen atom In the news recently: “Scientists have captured the first ever photo of an electron’s whizzing orbit within a hydrogen atom, thanks to a unique new microscopy technique.” Inside...
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