Posted on Thursday, 26th August 2010 by Interloper
There’s no doubt that we’d be in trouble without the moon. There’d be fewer tides, the weather would be more unpredictable and the day shorter. And that’s not even mentioning all the confused werewolves.
It makes sense then that scientists would want to understand more about our closest celestial companion, a rocky ally–if you will–against the [...]
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Posted on Monday, 26th July 2010 by Interloper
The Chicxulub crater is largely regarded by scientists to be the remnants of collision that caused the mass-extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.
The crater is located beneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has a diameter of more than 180 kilometres (that’d be around 110 miles). When the Chicxulub asteroid crashed into [...]
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Posted on Monday, 12th July 2010 by Interloper
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is responsible for helping to protect Earth from rogue comets that could otherwise spell destruction for our fragile blue globe.
Long-period comets that enter our solar system from deep space are deflected away from our planet by Jupiter’s immensely powerful gravitational field. One estimate claims that such comets [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 30th June 2010 by Interloper
The colour in the box to the left is the average colour of the universe, according to astronomers who performed a colour survey of over 200,000 galaxies as part of a study into the formation of stars.
Findings originally indicated that the average colour of the universe was an off-green colour (dubbed “Cosmic Turquoise”) but this [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 25th May 2010 by Interloper
Launched in 1977, the Voyager space probes both contain “golden records” that feature recorded audio and images from the Earth in what is largely a symbollic record of mankind’s achievements in space exploration, but could also be used to alert extraterrestrials of our existence, should they ever happen to be found.
A recent glitch in the [...]
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Posted on Friday, 21st May 2010 by Interloper
A strange and frightening creature has allegedly washed up on a beach near a Canadian town with the unlikely name of Kitchenuhmaykoosib.
The creature was discovered by two hikers who were walking their dogs, when one of the animals is said to have dragged the corpse out of the water. The hikers took photographs of the [...]
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Posted on Monday, 17th May 2010 by Interloper
Today, I had MSG for lunch. Labelled as “flavour enhancer (621)”, MSG (or monosodium glutamate) was a substance that I previously believed had been banned in Australia due to alleged health concerns.
But after a recent spate of television advertisements alerted me to the fact that many companies still make use of MSG in their food [...]
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Posted on Monday, 3rd May 2010 by Interloper
Here I am, back at last. I like how I always say that as though anyone even noticed I was missing in the first place. But I’ve held onto my delusions for this long and don’t see that changing anytime soon.
It’s weird, “going away”. For a time you live somewhere else, you look out at [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 22nd April 2010 by Interloper
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured its first images of the sun, providing astronomers with their most detailed look ever at our nearest star.
Costing around USD $848 million the project will run for five years, transmitting high-resolution images and video to astronomers who will use the data to gain a better understanding of solar weather, [...]
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Posted on Monday, 12th April 2010 by Interloper
The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in 2003, as part of NASA’s “Great Observatories” program, which sounds like it was named by somebody who was trying to win a computer game.
Much of the machinery onboard the telescope has since become inoperable, since it ran out of liquid hydrogen required to cool the many parts of [...]
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