A Spectacular Journey Seeking Phenomenal Exploits: Delta-v Space Navigation
As the days pass by, science and technology are escalating at breakneck speed, giving a world of wonders that humans never ever even thought of or even imagined centuries ago. This development is evidently an enormous and rather influential one, in which the whole of humankind, one day, would be able to conquer the space, […]
A Scientific Excursion through Cosmic Time and Origin
Penned in the year 1977, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book for General Non-fiction, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, is a great reading adventure on the introspection into the evolution and nature of human intellect and animal brain. The author of this work, Carl Edward Sagan, is an American astronomer who […]
One Giant Leap for Womankind: the First All-Female Spacewalk
On the 18th of October 2019, two years back from today, NASA was able to reach a significant milestone in space history. It is when two American astronauts tasked with replacing a power controller ventured out of the International Space Station, becoming the first to take part in an all-female spacewalk. Glowing against the blackness […]
Asteroskopeio: A Stellar Odyssey on Great Observatories
Asteroskopeio, in its voyage to unveil the cosmic wonders of the four Great Observatories launched by NASA between the years 1990 and 2003, has now successfully brought to light the marvelous story of imagery and analysis of the space telescopes while delving into their scientific arts. With the aim of exploring the reigning everlasting triumphs […]
Cosmic Epic Unfolding Infrared Wonders: The Spitzer
On a Voyage to Detect Infrared Radiation Launched in 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) is the final mission in NASA’s Great Observatories Program – a family of four space-based observatories including Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO), and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO), designed to observe the universe in a different kind […]
Chandra X-ray Observatory: Expedition to Unravel a Marvelous Universe
NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from all sources of high energy in the universe that are invisible to the human eye. This great observatory was formerly known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) and has joined the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the now-defunct Compton […]
SEDS UOC: An Introduction
From time immemorial, exploring the marvels of our infinite universe and space has been an interesting subject that aroused the curiosity of humankind. It is quite obvious that this eagerness to investigate a myriad of engrossing facts about space and to unravel its wonders has clearly made a significant insight into the space sector to […]