January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... programme. Looking further into the future and Musk sees his interplanetary spacecraft taking people as far as Jupiter and Saturn. Yet Elon Musk and others like him are showing that they are not...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... sky up to stellar absolute magnitude 19-20 of non-moving objects. To put this into perspective, Callirrhoe, a satellite of Jupiter which is 8.6 km in diameter, has an absolute magnitude of 21 and the visible light limit of the Hubble Space Telescope...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... in the interstellar medium and the Solar System. Planetary nebula NGC 3242, also known as the ‘Ghost of Jupiter’. A notable feature is the presence of the two red ‘fliers’ on both poles of the nebula, the gas comprising...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... the brave sky-travellers, maps of the celestial bodies – I shall do it for the moon, you Galileo, for Jupiter.” In his series of planet paintings, Paul Van Hoeydonck explores the cartography of yet undiscovered worlds. Space appears...
