Tagged: Science

JWST Images the Pillars of Creation

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the famed Pillars of Creation in stunning detail! To be honest, the Hubble image looks more colorful and artistic, but the JWST image is a treasure trove of scientific information. You can see the Hubble and JWSP images side by side in this...

James Webb Telescope

James Webb Telescope Launches This Month

The James Webb space telescope is launching this month–one week from now, as of this writing, on Dec 22nd. That’s assuming there is no delay in the launch. For those who do not know, the James Webb is a “game-changer” telescope. Like its predecessor, the famed Hubble Space Telescope, the...

Beautiful Panorama on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been on Mars for nine years now, has just taken a great, full-color panorama of the Gale crater. You can see a the panorama video released by JPL below, and it is even narrated to explain everything you are seeing. The resolution is stunning, and...

Mars Perseverance Rover Has Landed!

NASA’s and JPL’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, has successfully touched down on the Red Planet! This rover is similar to the last rover, Curiosity (which is still operating by the way), but has significant advances over is predecessor. The main difference is that Perseverance is carrying an experimental Mars helicopter...

Galaxy of Horrors

Happy Halloween everyone! NASA has put out a set of creepy space posters for some truly bizarre and terrifying exo-planets on their “Galaxy of Horrors” web site. Drop by and learn all about the chillingly haunted galactic graveyard, the dark matter skeleton of our cosmos, the pulsar poltergeists of undead...

The Strange Aliens of Abiogenisis

It has often been said that no human being can conceive of creatures that are truly alien to our world and to our experience. That is why so many aliens in science fiction basically just look like humans with prosthetics or, at best, humans in creature suits. That may be...

Accurate Science in “The Expanse”

“The Expanse” is among my favorite sci-fi shows, and probably my favorite that is currently on going. One thing I really love about “The Expanse” is how accurate they try to keep the science. It’s not perfect, of course–there is still a lot of rule-bending–but “The Expanse” does not outright...

First Actual Image of a Black Hole

I know its all over the science news, but I thought I’d post about it too. Here is the first true image of a distant black hole, teased out of a world-spanning network of telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope. You can read more about it on this article at...

Awesome NASA Mission Posters

Take a look at these awesome NASA mission posters! These are actually made by NASA and not fans, and they’re slightly corny, which makes them all the better! You can see a lot more of them on this BoredPanda article, or this SpaceFlight101 article. Someone at NASA really put a lot...

Helicopter on Mars? Why not!

NASA and JPL are already kicking their Mars 2020 project into high gear. One of the really exciting things about the mission, which is expected to launch in (you guessed it) 2020, is the fact that the Opportunity-like rover is going to launch a helicopter drone. That’s right. A helicopter....