In April 1990, our universe opened up to us in a whole new way. At the same time that the Hubble Space Telescope was launched and deployed, the most powerful space telescope ever was built. Although the tool started out with difficulty, Hubble has been in operation for a full …
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In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska made a presentation showing interesting things while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She began to see very strange shapes that could not easily fit into any known type of to-budget. Of those, labeled by Anna WTF?, Was a picture of a haunted …
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A dead Soviet satellite and an abandoned Chinese rocket body flew into space this week, but avoided a catastrophic crash on Thursday night. LeoLabs, a company that uses radar to track satellites and debris in space, Said Tuesday that he is observing a “very dangerous” connection – an intersection in …
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For the second time this year, experts can only glimpse and wait as two large .bases come close to a potentially colliding course in low-Earth orbit. An old, discarded Chinese rocket stage and a failed Russian military satellite are scheduled to pass within 12 meters (40 feet) of each other …
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We move forward in our universe with the confidence of a giant by giving a little thought to the fact that reality spreads bubbles with uncertainty. But physicists have given a vague reminder that our macroscopic world is also subject to the laws of quantum physics – successfully trapping millimeter-sized …
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