Welcome to Science Saturday. I don’t like it when I don’t post in between Saturdays, but I’m giving Deathless all of my writerly attention right now. There’s plenty going on outside of writing, too. Anyway, here’s what happened this week in the world of science: Science Magazine: FarFarOut Astronomers searching for Planet Nine recently discovered our …
Welcome to another Science Saturday. Here’s the scoop from this week. The Cluttered Desk: Opportunity (is that allowed?) This week, NASA pulled the plug on Opportunity, The project that operated a rover on the surface of Mars for 14 years. If you missed my post about it yesterday, follow the link above. ScienceNews: LIGO …
On Wednesday, NASA announced that they have officially ended the Opportunity program, after again failing to establish communication with the rover on Tuesday night. The rover lost contact with Earth on June 10th, 2018. Opportunity was a golf-cart sized rover that was sent to Mars in 2004 to collect geological data pertaining to Mars’s hydrologic …
Happy weekend everybody, and welcome to Science Saturday. Here’s the scoop for this week. National Geographic: Milky Way Vs. Andromeda Postponed We’ve known for a long time (since 1912ish) that the Andromeda Galaxy will eventually collide with the Milky Way Galaxy, but the timetable has been changed since the ESA’s Gaia spacecraft gathered new data …
Hello everyone, welcome to Science Saturday. Here’s what we’ve learned this week: LiveScience: Supernovas Are Hot A team of scientists studing supernova 1987a, the closest and most recent supernova to Earth since the invention of the telescope, are now using x-rays to observe the dying star’s emissions. The result? Supernovas are really cool. Not …
Welcome to Science Saturday. Let’s Begin: Science Magazine: RIP Opportunity (Probably) Massive dust storms in 2018 blocked out the sun over NASA’s Opportunity rover, limiting the rover’s solar cell output, and draining the batteries. It also likely coated the solar cells with dust, so that they have not produced power for the rover, even though …
Hello again, and welcome to another Science Saturday. Let’s begin: NewScientist: #TenYearChallenge The Ten Year Challenge has been trending on social media this week. It involves posting side-by-side pictures of yourself, taken ten years apart. NewScientist made a science edition of the challenge, featuring a few scientific photos taken ten years apart. My favorite is …
Artificial Intelligence has occupied humanity’s interest for quite some time now. As thinkers, imaginers, innovators, and dreamers, we just can’t help but wonder about the extent of our own ability to create. To some, the concept of AI is scary, and to others it is an exciting challenge to pursue. Regardless of which camp you …
Good Morning, and welcome back to Science Saturday. Let’s begin. BBC: Weird Signals from Space Scientists have detected repeated, millisecond-long radio signals from a galaxy approximately 1.5 billion light-years away. The signals were generated with a level of energy roughly equivalent to what the sun can produce in one year. This is only the second …
Before we get into Science Saturday, I will announce the winner of the Holiday Raffle. Congratulations to: Tammie Ahearn! And a big thank you to everyone who participated in the raffle. Stick around for more contests in the future. Without further ado, Science Saturday: Space.com: Both sides of the Heliosphere Touched Last Month, the Voyager …