In 2012, Philip Metzger and some of his colleagues from the Kennedy Space Center worked on a paper theorizing how we could “bootstrap” our way across the Solar System. The first step of their plan was to get materials to the Moon’s surface. From there, development of the industry would continue as the field of robotics has…
The telescope featured and pictured above and is the famous Hubble space telescope. What makes the Hubble telescope so awesome and unique is that it is actually orbiting Earth at 17,000 mph, and at an altitude of about 340 miles. NASA shares all kinds of fun facts about their telescope, like its altitude and speed, in an “origin…
The Pathfinder archaeology site in Colorado was first discovered in 1996, but even more fascinating was that in 2005 one of the archaeologists examining the site noticed that their were two boulders wedged together like a tent that received direct sunlight right at sunrise. This meant that Pathfinder was an ideal spot to look for…
Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 and died in 1642. His lifetime spanned an important period in human history as it covered both the end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Scientific Revolution. During his lifetime the British East India Company was chartered and rose to prominence, and the Indian massacre of 1622 took place…
Observing the night sky can often be tricky when you are trying to locate stars or planets that all look the same to the naked eye. News stories always pop up about fun things to see in the night sky that will be easily visible for us such as two planets overlapping in their perceived…
The Universe is absolutely massive, and it never fails to impress us when there is a new way of seeing how truly large it is. Every time there is a new video or a picture of a tiny dot next to an enormous ball that helps us visualize how enormous the scale of the Universe…
This is what I guess you could consider my first official post for my astronomy class. The first of what I’m sure will be many. I love adventure. Its that simple for me. I love getting out there and doing. The picture you see above is from my hiking trip through the wilderness. For those…
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