4 posts tagged with space by adept256.
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The sound of 5000 exoplanets
On March 21, 2022, the number of known exoplanets passed 5,000 according to the NASA Exoplanet Archive. The music is created by playing a note for each newly discovered world. The pitch of the note indicates the relative orbital period of the planet. Planets that take a longer time to orbit their stars are heard as lower notes, while planets that orbit more quickly are heard as higher notes.
Bread in space
One challenge in human space exploration is what's for dinner. Soon astronauts will be able to enjoy freshly baked bread. [more inside]
The Massacre of Mankind
The pioneering 1898 novel The War of the Worlds has inspired many tributes. There was the infamous 1938 radio play by Orson Welles. The rocket scientist Robert Goddard was inspired by it's concepts of space travel. Many films have been made, from the Sputnik era classic to the Tom Cruise era film in which Dakota Fanning screams. In 1978 it was set to music in the best-selling Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. And now you can read the official sequel. Authorized by the HG Wells Estate, The Massacre of Mankind is by Stephen Baxter.
Luxembourg’s asteroid mining plan
The Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy announced the first government initiative in Europe to develop a legal and regulatory framework on the future ownership of minerals extracted from objects in space, such as asteroids.
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