Source: NASA, ESA For a students of ancient Egyptian religion (and who isn’t), Apophis is the Greek name give to the evil god Apep, often represented as a serpent. As the mortal enemy of Ra, the sun god and bringer of light, Apep battled to bring darkness and chaos to the world. To later generations of course, and fans of […]
NASA / JPL recently released Clouds, a new on-line “game” which is a part of the Milky Way Project , a science initiative which seeks to refine some of the vast quantity of observations made by the Spitzer Space telescope and ESA’s Hershel Space Observatory. One of the common emerging themes in space science is that the capacity to […]
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working with the European Space agency’s Herschel Space Observatory has announced the discovery of large concentrations of comets in two solar systems relatively close to our own. With both systems likely to contain rocky planets, the presence of so many water bearing comets, at a concentration 10 times greater than found in our own solar system, […]
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