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Aug 2, 2018
NASA Experts Explain How The Parker Solar Probe’s Heat shield Works
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Aug 2, 2018
Scientists discovered a completely new shape hiding in our cells
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Science news is filled with fresh discoveries of all kinds of things. It seems like every day there’s a new dinosaur, planet, or ancient creature being brought back to life. Now, researchers are announcing the discovery of another new thing, but this time it’s a new… shape.
Just like the other “new” things that science brings us, the term “new” itself is relative. Just like the long-dead dinosaurs and incredibly-old planets being discovered on a regular basis, this new shape has been around for a while, but researchers are just now studying and describing it in detail. It’s called a “scutoid” and it’s actually pretty cool.
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Aug 1, 2018
The Universal Church: An Obscure Rule Puts This Bishop in Charge of the Moon
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: law, space
Bishop on the Moon?
It might sound strange, but in addition to encompassing nine counties and hundreds of cities, the Diocese of Orlando, Florida also has jurisdiction over an otherworldly object: the Moon. Why might you ask? The answer involves an obscure rule from 1917 and the Apollo 11 space mission.
On June 18th, 1968 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, Florida was established. It would encompass much of the greater central Florida area, along with Cape Canaveral (We’ll get back to that later). William Donald Borders was ordained the first Bishop of Orlando. One year later, Bishop Borders would also become the first Bishop of the Moon.
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Aug 1, 2018
Ancient Blue Crystals Trapped in Meteorite Reveal the Sun’s Violent Past
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
According to a study released Monday in Nature Astronomy ancient blue crystals unearthed from meteorites are the key to understanding what the sun was like during it’s earliest days. Scientists removed these microscopic crystals, technically called hibonites, from the chunk of the Murchison meteorite.
Jul 31, 2018
348-Year-Old Radioactive Molecule Spotted in Space
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: entertainment, space
“When Stars Collide” sounds like the title track of Barry Manilow’s latest album.
Unfortunately, Barry hasn’t released a single since 2012.
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Jul 30, 2018
Allevi, Made in Space team up to develop first 3D bioprinter in space
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, bioprinting, education, space
3D bioprinting company Allevi has teamed up with California-based 3D printing and space technology firm Made In Space to develop the Allevi ZeroG – the first 3D bioprinter capable of working in low-gravity conditions.
Allevi (formerly BioBots) was founded in 2014 by University of Pennsylvania graduates Ricardo Solorzano and Daniel Cabrera. At the time, the ambitious duo set out to develop an accessible desktop bioprinting system which could be used for a wide variety of research and educational applications.
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Jul 30, 2018
Chinese Scientists Want to Capture a Small Asteroid and Land it on Earth
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, space
Space agencies have successfully studied asteroid and comets up close on several occasions, but capturing one for mining is also in the works. A group of Chinese scientists is looking to go a step further. Their ambitious plan involves not just capturing an asteroid, but bringing it down to the surface of Earth for study and mining.
This does sound pretty crazy on the face of it, but researchers from the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences say it’s feasible. Researcher Li Mingtao and his team presented the idea at a conference to explore ideas for future technology in Shenzhen. Li says that the mission could focus on asteroids that cross Earth’s orbit, which could make them a potential hazard in the future. The Chinese plan could turn a hazard into a new source of rare materials.
The asteroids targeted by this project would be on the small side — probably just a few hundred tons. The first step is to send a fleet of small robotic probes to intercept the space rock. Then, they would deploy a “bag” of some sort that covers the asteroid, allowing the robots to slowly alter its course and steer it back to Earth.
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Jul 30, 2018
Hubble Snapped Exquisite Photos of Mars and Saturn as They Passed Earth
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: space
Well lit and close to Earth this summer, Mars and Saturn got the crisp glamor shots that they so richly deserve, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope.
On June 27, Saturn’s orbit brought it into opposition with the Earth, meaning that the two planets were fully aligned with the sun, and as a consequence Saturn could reflect a maximum amount of sunlight back towards Earth. Hubble — NASA’s cheeky interstellar paparazzo and a non-sentient satellite containing imaging hardware — observed the planet on June 6, 2018, while it was about 870 million miles from Earth.
Due to Saturn’s tilt toward the Earth at this moment in its orbit, Hubble was able to very clearly image all of the bands and gaps that comprise Saturn’s rings: Moving inward from the outermost ring, these are known as the A ring, the Encke Gap, the Cassini Division, the B ring, and the C ring with the Maxwell Gap.
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