Archive for April, 2009
A question made by Ian Bradley arrived my e-mail via Stuart Atkinson, since there might be other Kepler fans with the same doubt I decided to bring it here: Regarding the Kepler 1st light image… The imaged area is well away from the ecliptic to allow 24/7 viewing of the image area without Sun [ READ MORE ]
What do we whitdraw from this fabled lands, from this enticing unknown islands at large? We aim at a near return of Man, in full strength, to the Spirit of Adventure, towards a new quest, which was first dreamed, then imagined and finally sedimented in our species’ core, offering consistence, permitting no retreat, towards the [ READ MORE ]
Ah, but if even just a handful of them are orbited by planets as small as Earth, and if only a few of that handful of worlds are the right distance from their star to have liquid water… rivers, streams and seas… then when we look at that image we are looking at the destinations [ READ MORE ]
Where will we be 1000 years from? Maybe here, maybe there, maybe everywhere, maybe nowhere… Species come and go, they pop out and vanish at a same rhythm, some leaving no trace, others just a mere glimpse of their passage, what would make us, humans, different? We have, nowadays, the possibility of creating the conditions [ READ MORE ]
In the aftermath of Kepler’s first light images a question made by danvk, a BtC reader, arrived our comment box: In the full image there are lots of white lines that are perfectly horizontal or vertical. What are these? Natalie Batalha, Kepler Co-Investigator, gives us a solution for the enigma: The white streaks are CCD artifacts associated with the [ READ MORE ]
After yesterday’s release of Kepler’s first light images and being marvelled by the telescope’s full field of view I was here wondering how would look one of the several raw images composing that breathtaking view into a sea of stars. And, now that we’re into the real stuff and aware that we won’t hear of [ READ MORE ]
Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech Here’s what you have been waiting for, NASA Kepler’s full field of view – an expansive star-rich patch of sky in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra stretching across 100 square degrees, or the equivalent of two side-by-side dips of the Big Dipper. And now let us stay with Jon Jenkins, Kepler’s Co-Investigator[ READ MORE ]
Beyond the Cradle collaborator Rosaly Lopes starts her contribution to this blog with some words about Titan that will act as a teaser for the upcoming Cassini flyby of Saturn’s moon, to take place on April, 20 when the spacecraft will be at only 3600kms from the enticing moon. Understanding the geology of Titan [ READ MORE ]
Do you want to see discovery as it happens? And how YOU can make the difference? Run to the unmannedspaceflight forum where one of its members has spotted the shadow of, not one, not two but thousands of moonlets in one of Saturn’s rings. Great catch Floyd! [EDITED] Beyond the Cradle most recent collaborator, [ READ MORE ]
To Go. Just Go. Where the will leads the step. To Go. Just Go. Where the calling echoes. From the journey to be to the territories to discover. To Go. Just Go. Having the moment as compass and ourselves as the hurdle to overcome. Win the desert, the mountain, the valley, the sea, the beyond. [ READ MORE ]
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