March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... female mathematicians as early as the 1940s. These women performed detailed trajectory calculations, yet their importance in space history is virtually unknown by the wider public. Dana Ulery, the first female engineer at NASA (hired in 1961) is not...
03 January 2018
Mass of black holes determines star formation history
...team, led by Ignacio Martín-Navarro, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Cruz, were able to recover a galaxy’s star formation history by finding the best combination of stellar populations to fit the spectroscopic data. "It tells you how much light...
02 November 2018
Scientists unravel the formation history of the Milky Way
...Gaia mission, scientists have been able to rewind the history of the Milky Way and discover a major milestone in ...disc. “Seeing that we are now starting to unravel the formation history of the Milky Way is very exciting,” says Anthony Brown, Leiden ...
09 May 2016
Ancient silicate grains reveal histories of stardust in the Galaxy
... Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, scientists have studied the histories of dust particles that have roamed the Galaxy for millions of years before the sun and planets...
26 February 2018
Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury & Gemini – A Rare Photographic History
Space aficionados will appreciate the thought processes behind this book. How do you make a book of space-related imagery different to the many that have gone before? The authors’ first thought was to include only images that had never been ...
01 October 2019
The Moon: A History for the Future
It’s great – and it’s important - to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first steps of men from planet Earth on the surface of another planetary body…but even the geekiest space nut can choke on a banquet of technical overviews and historical ...
