Measuring space telescope distortion to one-tenth the size of a hydrogen atom will enable earth sized exoplanet analysis

January 30, 2018 by Brian Wang

Babak Saif and Lee Feinberg at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have shown for the first time that they can dynamically detect subatomic- or picometer-sized distortions — changes that are far smaller than an atom — across a five-foot segmented telescope mirror and its support structure. Collaborating with Perry Greenfield at the …

Nextbigfuture Highlights Week 39-45

April 7, 2017November 14, 2009 by Brian Wang

This is the sixth set of highlights for Next Big Future for 2009. more will be added later this weekend. Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 33-38 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 20-32 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 13-19 Here is the link to …

Carnival of Space 101

April 7, 2017May 2, 2009 by Brian Wang

Carnival of Space 101 is up at Robot Explorers This site provided one of the articles on Helion Energy’s nuclear fusion effort. Crowlspace takes another look at the Fermi Paradox (which is an argument that aliens should be here so long as one race of alien in the galaxy is successfully able to colonize space.) …