This particular neutron star is thought to have one of the strongest magnetic fields among the population of known pulsars: a few trillion times stronger than the magnetic field of the sun. The international research team’s results have been published…
George Cronk
George Cronk
Science writers have the challenging and important task of taking difficult scientific concepts and making them both interesting and accessible to readers. Most science writers approach the job from either sphere, first training as scientists before switching over to writing as I did, or training as a journalist before specializing in the science beat. When I first started out, I used to err on the side of the scientist, going into exhaustive detail about the methodology and minutiae of every study.
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As NASA makes a big push to land humans on the moon’s surface by 2024, the European Space Agency ( ESA ) wants to learn more about the lunar caves that lie beneath. The lunar expert said : ” Exploring…
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Outer space
It Is The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Second Lunar Probe
by George Cronk September 8, 2019The landing module of India’s unmanned moon mission separated from the orbiter on Monday ahead of its planned touchdown on the moon’s south polar region this weekend, the space agency said. Monday’s maneuver removed the lander from the orbiter. The…
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Live coverage of the countdown and launch of the 18 m tall Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying three U.S. military-sponsored experimental satellites into orbit on the STP-27RD mission. It will be Rocket…
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Physics and Astronomy
Detecting Gravitational Waves From Binary Black Holes And Neutron Stars
by George Cronk April 28, 2019Gravitational-wave astronomy is an emerging branch of observational astronomy which aims to use gravitational waves (minute distortions of spacetime predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity) to collect observational data about objects such as neutron stars and black holes, events…
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China is running its Space Lab alone and is not part of the International Project that currently maintains the International Space Station (ISS). China will seek to establish an international lunar base one day, possibly using 3d printing technology to…
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Physics and Astronomy
A Billion Years | That’s The Theory Behind The Big Bang
by George Cronk April 20, 2019Massive stars die show that stars like the sun weren’t made planetaries. You can picture a snap shot of the early Universe, somewhere around 100,000 years after the Big Bang. The problem in the early universe was, even though things were cooling down, molecular…
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MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) is a NASA-sponsored scientific investigation of the planet Mercury and the first space mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the Sun. As the MESSENGER spacecraft orbited the tiny planet, the…
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The testing of the flight model occurred in late January at NASA’ s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL, Pasadena, Calif., U. S.). Logging a total of one minute of flight time at an altitude of five centimeters, more than 1,500 pieces…
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NASA engineers are still trying to figure out why the main tool of the Martian lander InSight stuck in the course of the earlier drilling of Martian soil. During the 50th annual Lunar-planetary science conference, the mission’s management team reported…