This post is from Jeff’s Space News E-mail, 3/17/17 At the bottom of the right column, subscribe to receive Dr. Bennett’s Space News E-mail Why Should You Care About TRAPPIST-1? You probably saw news reports about a planetary system called TRAPPIST-1, which was recently discovered to have SEVEN Earth-size planets in orbit of a single […]
I’m soon to be attending my 40th high school reunion, and found myself feeling a bit down. Forty years is a long time, and I’m sure that anyone else of similar age knows that at this point, it’s easy to think that our best days are behind us. We look back at the promise that […]
high school reunion, relativity, second life, the cosmic perspective****************************** This is one of the “a few times a year” Space News E-mails from author Jeff Bennett. You can subscribe with the form on the lower right side of this blog page. ******************************* Dear Friends, With 2015 is coming to a close, I thought I’d share what to me are three of the most […]
Dear Friends, For anyone North and South America and most of Europe and Africa, this Sunday night (Sept. 27) is a not-to-miss sky event: a total lunar eclipse. Better yet, for all of you in the continental U.S., this particular eclipse occurs in the evening — which means you can see most or all of […]
Published in the Denver Post As an astrophysicist, Jeffrey Bennett grapples with big ideas all the time. When the cosmos is your beat, your thinking has to be as unbounded as a Voyager spacecraft. So in this centennial year of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Bennett has taken on a big task: A lecture tour […]
Space News E-mail July 11, 2015 Dear Friends, Nearly 9½ years after its launch (which I was lucky enough to see with my family in January 2006) and having traveled more than 3 billion miles from Earth, the New Horizonsspacecraft is ready to give Pluto its first close-up view! Closest approach occurs on July 14, and […]
See a recording of Jeff’s relativity tour lecture for the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures (recorded May 6, 2015 at Foothill College’s Smithwick Theater): See a recording of Jeff’s relativity tour lecture at Fiske planetarium: This year (2015) marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s publication of his general theory of relativity. Today, this theory lies at […]
Dear Friends, Lots of great space news lately, so I’ll try to point out a few highlights: 1. Leonid Meteor Shower. Tonight (Nov. 17/18) is the night for the annual Leonid meteor shower. As usual with meteor showers, the best viewing is in the predawn hours, though if you are at a dark enough site, […]
********************************************************************* SPACE NEWS E-MAIL, March 18, 2014 ********************************************************************* Two episodes of the new Cosmos series, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, have now aired. If you haven’t yet watched, I strongly encourage you to do so. Dr. Tyson is doing a great job of carrying on Carl Sagan’s legacy, and I’m sure you will enjoy it. I also […]
As usual since I don’t post these very often, there’s a lot of news! I’ll only be able to cover a few highlights, but hope you find it useful. Contents: The Latest from Mars – A Jelly Donut? First Soft Moon Landing of Millennium — Chinese Rover Story Time From Space — Books Now In […]
