The astrophysicist who co-discovered the first radio pulsar in 1967 but – surprise surprise – the Nobel Prize this discovery received in 1974 did not include her name.
Tag: Astrophysics
Collecting Soil from Asteroids
Most people don’t know that we have sent out two missions to asteroids that will bring back soil samples! Now that’s no small feat — the asteroids are moving at a speed of 25 Km/s — their speed varies based on their distance from the sun. Meanwhile, the two spacecraft are entering the orbit of the asteroids, identifying sample sites, collecting soil samples, leaving the orbit, sending data back to earth and of course bringing back those soil samples.
A History of the Rocket
A brief history of the rocket and the rocket scientists that helped to build it.
Fantastic Women Series – Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin told us what the Universe is made of but she was largely forgotten.
Kepler 452b: Is there anybody out there?
(Published in The Nation Pakistan)
Ladies and gents, we may very well have found Earth’s cousin, 1,400 light years away from us! NASA scientist John Grunsfeld has called this Earth 2.0. If Kepler 452 b turns out to be a rocky planet (this is yet to be confirmed), this bodes well for further research on whether there is liquid water, an atmosphere and thus some form of life on it.