Sunday, May 24, 2026
Planets in our Backyard
"We have learned a lot about the planets in our own backyard, and for a long time we assumed the rest of the galaxy looked roughly the same."https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/the-most-common-type-of-planet-in-the-galaxy-may-not-look-anything-like-earth-on-the-inside
What is Dark Matter?
"The standard cultural framing of dark matter tends to treat it as a known scientific substance."https://spacedaily.com/d-most-of-the-matter-in-the-universe-has-never-been-observed-directly-and-the-existence-of-dark-matter-is-essentially-a-placeholder-name-for-the-gap-between-what-we-can-see-and-what-the-math-requires/
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Atomic Clocks
"There is a particular fact about the most precise atomic clocks currently in operation that the wider cultural register has, on the available evidence, not yet adequately absorbed."https://spacedaily.com/d-the-most-accurate-atomic-clocks-in-operation-now-lose-less-than-one-second-every-30-billion-years-and-the-reason-this-matters-isnt-precision-for-its-own-sake-its-that-gravity-itself-slo/
Lunokhod 1
"For nearly 40 years, Lunokhod 1 was not so much dead as misplaced."https://spacedaily.com/sd-the-soviet-lunokhod-1-rover-sat-abandoned-on-the-moon-for-nearly-40-years-after-its-mission-ended-in-1971-and-when-scientists-finally-located-it-again-with-laser-ranging-in-2010-its-retroreflector/
Future of Starships
"SpaceX has decided to stand down from what was supposed to be the first test launch of Starship’s v3 rocket tonight after a minor issue with a hydraulic pin delayed the flight once more."https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-reveals-reason-starship-v3-stand-down-announces-next-launch-date/#google_vignette
Images of Galaxies
"Look closely at this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see galaxies of various shapes and sizes clustered together toward the center-left of the image."https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-galaxy-cluster/
Huygens Probe
"On 14 January 2005, the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and came to rest on the surface."https://spacedaily.com/t-the-huygens-probe-descended-by-parachute-to-the-surface-of-titan-in-2005-through-an-orange-haze-colder-than-minus-170-degrees-celsius-and-more-than-a-billion-kilometres-from-home-it-remains-the-only/
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