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In a little over a week, it'll be the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik and the ensuing Space Age.
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I wonder how many people back then would have believed how the Space Race and the Cold War ended. Neither with bangs. Well, except on occasion. I wonder how many of those people would gape in disbelief if they learned how little we made of our Man in Space investments?
On the other hand, we have a wide diversity of robotic probes exploring our Solar System and the universe beyond, and indeed those are more direct descendants of Sputnik after all.
Chris
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I wonder how many people back then would have believed how the Space Race and the Cold War ended. Neither with bangs. Well, except on occasion. I wonder how many of those people would gape in disbelief if they learned how little we made of our Man in Space investments?
On the other hand, we have a wide diversity of robotic probes exploring our Solar System and the universe beyond, and indeed those are more direct descendants of Sputnik after all.
Chris
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In a little over a week, it'll be the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik and the ensuing Space Age.
Click the image for the full story.
I wonder how many people back then would have believed how the Space Race and the Cold War ended. Neither with bangs. Well, except on occasion. I wonder how many of those people would gape in disbelief if they learned how little we made of our Man in Space investments?
On the other hand, we have a wide diversity of robotic probes exploring our Solar System and the universe beyond, and indeed those are more direct descendants of Sputnik after all.
Chris
Click the image for the full story.
I wonder how many people back then would have believed how the Space Race and the Cold War ended. Neither with bangs. Well, except on occasion. I wonder how many of those people would gape in disbelief if they learned how little we made of our Man in Space investments?
On the other hand, we have a wide diversity of robotic probes exploring our Solar System and the universe beyond, and indeed those are more direct descendants of Sputnik after all.
Chris
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This is cool and creepy, the stuff of SF stories: Scientists have discovered an object about seven times the mass of Jupiter that orbits a rapidly spinning pulsar. Get this: It orbits about once an hour at about the distance of the Moon's orbit around Earth.
"This object is merely the skeleton of a star," says co-discoverer Craig Markwardt of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "The pulsar has eaten away the star’s outer envelope, and all the remains is its helium-rich core."
Holy star-eating pulsars, Batman!
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Best,
Chris
"This object is merely the skeleton of a star," says co-discoverer Craig Markwardt of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "The pulsar has eaten away the star’s outer envelope, and all the remains is its helium-rich core."
Holy star-eating pulsars, Batman!
Click the image for the full story.
Best,
Chris
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This is cool and creepy, the stuff of SF stories: Scientists have discovered an object about seven times the mass of Jupiter that orbits a rapidly spinning pulsar. Get this: It orbits about once an hour at about the distance of the Moon's orbit around Earth.
"This object is merely the skeleton of a star," says co-discoverer Craig Markwardt of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "The pulsar has eaten away the star’s outer envelope, and all the remains is its helium-rich core."
Holy star-eating pulsars, Batman!
Click the image for the full story.
Best,
Chris
"This object is merely the skeleton of a star," says co-discoverer Craig Markwardt of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "The pulsar has eaten away the star’s outer envelope, and all the remains is its helium-rich core."
Holy star-eating pulsars, Batman!
Click the image for the full story.
Best,
Chris
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