Astronomisch nieuws, wetenswaardigheden én persoonlijke opinies
Tataratááá, de Fermi gammasatelliet van de NASA heeft z’n duizendste gammaflitser ontdekt. Met het gamma-ray burst monitor (GBM) instrument aan boord van Fermi werd op 21 september om 23.03 uur Nederlandse tijd een kortstondige flits in gammastraling ontdekt. Hij duurde drie seconden en bestond uit één stoot gammastraling. Gammaflitsers komen in twee varianten voor, de [...]
SpaceUp Europe in Genk has entered it’s second day. Program started 10.00 o’çlock with lots of coffee, to get awake after the first tiring day. Jan and I slept in a hotel somewhere in the center of Genk, breakfast was excellent. After some general presentations in the auditorium (one about satellite imaging of disasters on [...]
As I said yesterday, SpaceUp in Genk is alive & kicking, the first SpaceUp in Europe. Next SpaceUp’s on this side of the Atlantic will follow in Stuttgart and probably too in Paris. The last blog about SpaceUp I wrote during the presentation astronaut Ron Garan did. Well no presentation, more like a Q&A with [...]
