March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... and filling the Solar System with vibrant life. Europa, Mars, the asteroid colonies - but also, interstellar. As Elon Musk recommends, let’s put our eggs in many baskets. Still, like me, you’d probably hanker to do something...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... (giant plasma balls), supernovae (exploding plasma clouds), star formation regions (cold partially ionised plasmas), the interstellar medium (very tenuous hot plasma), etc. On Earth we have atmospheric lightning (short duration plasma channels), the...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
...return cometary samples. In 2004, the Stardust spacecraft made a close flyby of comet Wild-2, collecting comet and interstellar dust, returning samples to Earth in a capsule two years later. On top of the flexibility, architectural layouts were taken...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... reach the Chandrasekhar mass and at this point the whole star explodes as a type Ia supernova, enriching the interstellar medium with iron in the process. A merger between two white dwarfs may also trigger the same...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... our living space for a long time. Narrow escape However, the technology of connecting and docking these interstellar dinosaurs turned out to be beneficial when the comet AL318 was discovered by the amateur network damus’Nostra...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... engineers. It is Paul’s statue on the Moon, a silent witness to the boldest of all achievements. It is Angelo Vermeulen’s work on interstellar ships, right at the edge between art and science. To everything there is a season, and a time to every...
