Preserving astronomy history: The fight is on to save iconic Royal Greenwich Observatory site
The fight to save an iconic Royal Observatory Greenwich | Space Quiz! What is the point at which even light cannot escape a black hole's gravity? | This Week In Space: Episode 153 - Pathways to Mars
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The historic site of the Royal Observatory Greenwich is now at risk. In the summer of 2024, the Observatory Science Centre, the charity acting as custodians of the historic Royal Observatory Greenwich site since 1995, announced that they would be evicted by the landowners before the end of 2026.
On Episode 153 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Robert Zubrin, founder and president of The Mars Society, about making real, actionable plans to send a crew to Mars. In 1990, Zubrin and David Baker worked up a plan called "Mars Direct," which took the core of then-current NASA planning and streamlined it into a more realistic, affordable approach. Since then, some of the key elements have been incorporated into NASA's Design Reference Missions, still the primary set of plans for reaching Mars. Join us for this fascinating discussion.
The first orbital rocket to launch from continental Europe is nearing its debut. Germany-based Isar Aerospace is targeting today for the maiden voyage of its brand new Spectrum rocket. If all goes according to plan, Spectrum will liftoff from the AndΓΈya Spaceport, in Norway, during a three-hour launch window Monday, between 7:30 a.m. EST (1130 GMT) and 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT).
A team of scientists has developed a recipe for black holes that eliminates one of the most troubling aspects of physics: the central singularity, the point at which all our theories, laws and models shatter. If you were going to design an object to preserve mystery while being utterly troubling, you couldn't do much better than a black hole.
Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could provide the best chance for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect biosignatures, according to a new study.
If you're willing to stump up a million dollars, you can own this incredibly glossy piece of sci-fi history. It might be slightly scary, but this rare remnant of Hollywood's illustrious past was actually used in the filming of director Steven Spielberg's sci-fi fantasy, "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," and could fetch nearly one million dollars when Sotheby's auction bidding finally closes on the historic lot next month.
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