A very remarkable mission has finally been brought to pass by the European Space Agency! Set to be launched in 2022, the JUICE (JUpiter ICEy moons Explorer) will venture into the Jovian system, with planned flybys at Jupiter’s moons Europa, Callisto, and finally Ganymede! A very ambitious project to reconnoiter the basic lay of these […]
Read more "An Intrepid Jovian Explorer"Last week, the New Horizons spacecraft went by Pluto, consummating a decade-long reconnaissance of our local cosmic backyard, yielding never-before-seen faces and features, and projecting an image of Pluto in our minds that is based in reality — an image that is of a geologically active world, rather than just a ball of frozen rock […]
Read more "July 2015: A Milestone of Cosmic Discovery"This is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby — A natural philosopher (scientist) demonstrates a vacuum pump, from which all the air has been removed. The bird is struggling to stay alive and flutters breathlessly. The scientist with his hand over the stop-cock on the glass bowl seems about to choose whether the bird […]
Read more "The Sanctity of Reason"Out there in the furthest reaches of our solar system lies our far-flung cosmic neighbor, a small world that has endured a decade of oppression and struggle and received the verdict of planetary excommunication, just for being different. But despite 8 years of being shunned from planet-ness, Pluto has remained strong and hasn’t given up. […]
Read more "Pluto 2015: A Space Odyssey"Few people today have heard of Sir George Cayley but indeed much of the intellectual edifice, upon which the principles of modern aerodynamics rest, can be attributed to the genius of this great thinker. Born in December 1773, this Yorkshire baronet was the first to imagine the airplane. A hundred years before the Wright Brothers, […]
Read more "Sir George Cayley: The Father of the Airplane"Burried layers deep in the ground, about 330 feet below the Franco-Swiss border, lies a marvelous machine, one that has been pushing the boundaries of our knowledge of the universe since its activation in 2008. Thus far, the Large Hadron Collider is the biggest machine ever built and the largest experiment ever attempted. About 27 […]
Read more "Seeing Beyond the Higgs: What’s next for the Large Hadron Collider?"This is Van Gogh’s Starry Nights – A magical painting alive with dazzling stars, moons, and nebulae. So magnificent and overwhelming that they render the houses insignificant and inconspicuous. A wonderful piece of work that presents us with a distorted view of the landscape so as to choose the sky as the most dominant area […]
Read more "The Starry Night"In science, there has always been a gap between curiosity-driven exploratory scientific research and applied targeted research (seen as having more “real-world potential”). But, in my opinion, it is important to note that curiosity-driven science and exploration has always been the engine for all progress in science and technology. All knowledge is useful and indeed […]
Read more "The Importance of Curiosity Driven Science"There is no denying it: climate change is a serious global problem that warrants an urgent action on our part. It is arguably the most profound problem that our planet currently faces and that the consequences of which seem to be gravely underestimated and misunderstood by many. It is a topic that has engendered much […]
Read more "It is not acceptable to promote irrational thinking about climate change"Hello everybody and welcome to my blog – a compendium of fascinating content about all things science! Here I will blog about interesting possibilities, facts, perspectives, thoughts, amazing discoveries, and much more within the field of science. I hope this blog keeps you well supplied with fascinating topics about the world of science and discovery! […]
Read more "Hello and Welcome to The Blog of the Cosmos!"
The BLOG of the cosmos 