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863-Space Elevator
In a recent study Dr. Lynnane George and her co-authors investigate Space Elevator technology to remove materials from Ceres and deliver them to orbi…
1 year, 1 month ago
350E-374-Brute
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski discovered a 0.4 mile diameter asteroid with the Catalina Sky Survey Schmidt telescope on M…
1 year, 2 months ago
862-New Planet 9 Search
Recently, using data from the Japanese infrared telescope AKARI, Dr. Amos Y.A. Chen and his collaborators published a paper in the Publications of t…
1 year, 2 months ago
349E-372-Trappist-1 Planets
The Trappist-1 planetary system located about 40 light years away in the constellation of Aquarius consists of a small red dwarf star and 7 Earth siz…
1 year, 2 months ago
861-Big Bear Observatory
Big Bear Solar Observatory is a unique facility operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Its 1.6 meter Goode Solar Telescope is located o…
1 year, 2 months ago
348E-371-2 Headed Space Worm
Humans are moving towards a day when there are space colonies in orbit, on the Moon, and the planet Mars, places where the force of gravity ranges be…
1 year, 2 months ago
860-Worlds Largest Solar Telescope
The US National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is the worlds largest solar telescope. It is perched 10,000 feet above sea lev…
1 year, 2 months ago
347E-370-Life's Parts
24 hours a day, 16,600 feet above sea level in the high dry desert of northern Chile, the 66 antennas of 1.4 billion dollar Atacama Large Millimeter/…
1 year, 2 months ago
859-Powerful Solar Storm
After the Earth the Sun is the most important object for human beings in the Universe. It is the energy source which produces our food and is the so…
1 year, 2 months ago
346E-369-Finding Treasure
The energy required to lift water, food, and construction materials from the Earth's surface is very expensive. Asteroids come relatively close to Ea…
1 year, 2 months ago