The Stellar Survey for March 2 - March 8
The Stellar Survey for March 2 - March 8
The coming years will see more than 500,000 new satellites launched into space. That means lots of junk floating in our atmosphere, just like the lots of junk floating in our oceans. | Here’s a deep dive into space pollution.
What makes a place to live, anyhow? | Our solar system’s moons might be habitable.
The 2024 solar eclipse is officially one month away! Do you have your eclipse glasses yet? I do! Here are some other things to look for and photograph during the transit. | Hint: wear red, and see how the colours change!
Do you ever catch yourself going about your day and wondering if aliens spy on us, and if so, how they do it? | (Anyone else imagining those Star Trek scientists who disguised their lab in the side of a mountain?)
SpaceX’s Crew-8 Dragon capsule has docked at the ISS. | Jeanette Epps is in the building, errybody!
Our favourite telescope, JWST, might have found some of the very first stars. | Hang on, Methuselah! Looks like you have some company.
Calling all science dreamers: NASA is accepting astronaut applications until April 2! | To infinity and beyond, and then to boldly go, etc.
Astronomers have detected a water world with a boiling ocean in deep space. | I wonder what Kevin Costner would think of this one.
Is it time for a new outer space treaty, given the worrying state of relations with Russia and all of that nuclear weapons talk? | Spoiler alert: yes.
In last weekend’s Sunday Letter I talked about black holes, and how we don’t really know how some of the earliest ones formed. | The JWST is giving us some insight into the mystery.
NASA has launched a tabletop roleplaying game! | I’m not even that into games, but this sounds pretty cool.
In 2021, a solar storm struck several spacecraft orbiting Earth and the Moon. The storm even reached all the way to several probes orbiting Mars! | Here’s an article that talks about what we learned from the experience.
On March 8, 1979, volcanoes were spotted on Jupiter’s moon Io for the first time. | Here’s a look back down memory lane.
What exactly are wormholes, anyway? | The fantasy and the facts of it all.
Finally: Dune: Part Two is finally out! Huzzah! | 100% here for Rebecca Ferguson and Javier Bardem, will always be 100% sad that Oscar Isaac went out the way he did.