Dan Brandon
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Jan 05
Watch Venus Brush Past Saturn This Weekend – Universe Today
WATCH VENUS BRUSH PAST SATURN THIS WEEKEND by David Dickinson Welcome to 2016! The early morning sky is where the action is this first week of the year. We were out early this Monday morning as skies cleared over Central Florida on our yearly vigil for the Quadrantid meteors. Though only a handful of meteors graced …
Dec 13
How will we finally image the event horizon of a black hole? : By Ethan Siegel
Image credit: NASA/CXC/Amherst College/D.Haggard et al., of the galactic center in X-rays. One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein first put forth his theory of General Relativity, which laid out the relationship between spacetime and the matter and energy present within it. While it successfully recovered Newtonian gravity and predicted the additional precession of Mercury’s …
Nov 29
The Ins and Outs of NASA’s First Launch of SLS and Orion|NASA
During Exploration Mission-1, Orion will venture thousands of miles beyond the moon during an approximately three week mission. Credits: NASA NASA is hard at work building the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems needed to send astronauts into deep space. The agency is developing the core capabilities needed to …
