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#ScienceFiction #scifi My review of the novel “The Brains of Earth”, also published as “Nopalgarth”, by Jack Vance
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/11/23/the-brains-of-earth-aka-nopalgarth-by-jack-vance/

#astronomy #ESA #MarsExpress ESA has released new images captured by its Mars Express space probe’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) in Pyrrhae Regio, a region close to the Valles Marineris system on planet #Mars.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/22/the-chaotic-terrain-of-pyrrhae-regio-on-mars-shows-a-complex-geological-history

#SpaceMission #NASA #ESA #SpaceX #Copernicus The Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich satellite was launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg base.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/21/the-ocean-monitoring-sentinel-6a-michael-freilich-satellite-has-been-successfully-launched/

#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #television #ScienceFiction #scifi My impressions about Scavengers”, the 6th episode of the 3rd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery”.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/11/20/star-trek-discovery-scavengers

#astronomy An article published in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics” reports a study on hyperluminous #galaxies.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/19/there-are-far-more-hyperluminous-galaxies-than-stars-can-produce

#DoctorWho #LethbridgeStewart #ScienceFiction #scifi My review of "Doctor Who" novel “The Forgotten Son” by Andy Frankham-Allen
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/11/18/the-forgotten-son-by-andy-frankham-allen

#SpaceMission #LaunchAmerica #Crew1 #CrewDragon #NASA #JAXA #ISS #SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft docked to the International Space Station’s Harmony module completing the first part of its Crew-1 or SpaceX Crew-1 mission.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/17/mission-crew-1-the-spacex-crew-dragon-resilience-spacecraft-has-reached-the-international-space-station-completing-the-expedition-64-crew/

#ScienceFiction #scifi My review of “The Seedling Stars” by James Blish
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/11/16/the-seedling-stars-by-james-blish/

#LaunchAmerica #NASA #JAXA #Crew1 #CrewDragon #SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in its Crew-1 o SpaceX Crew-1 mission with Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Soichi Noguchi on board.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/16/the-spacex-crew-dragon-spacecraft-blasted-off-for-its-crew-1-mission-with-four-astronauts/

#astronomy #NeutronStars #magnetar An article published in “The Astrophysical Journal” reports a study on the #kilonova observed on May 22, 2020, and its consequences.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/15/a-kilonova-might-have-given-birth-to-a-magnetar/

#astronomy An article published in the journal “Science” reports a study that explains where most of the #water that the planet #Mars possessed when it was young, when it was in the liquid state on its surface, has gone.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/14/dust-storms-on-mars-contribute-to-the-planets-water-loss/

#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #television #ScienceFiction #scifi My impressions about “Die Trying”, the 5th episode of the 3rd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery”.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/11/13/star-trek-discovery-die-trying/

#astronomy An article published in the journal “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society” reports a study on the radio relic in the galaxy cluster CIZA J2242.8+5301.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/12/the-radio-relic-in-a-galaxy-cluster-observed-at-high-frequencies-by-the-sardinia-radio-telescope

#paleontology An article published in the journal “Scientific Reports” describes a new species of #lizard now extinct that lived in present-day Wyoming, in the USA, about 52 million years ago, in the #Eocene period.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/11/11/the-identification-of-kopidosaurus-perplexus-shows-the-problems-in-the-classification-of-lizards

#astronomy An article published in “The Astrophysical Journal Letters” reports the confirmation of the first detection of a brown dwarf through radio observations.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/10/the-first-brown-dwarf-discovered-by-detecting-its-radio-emissions

#TheExpanse #ScienceFiction #scifi My review of the novel “Persepolis Rising” by James S.A. Corey, the 7th of the Expanse series.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/11/09/persepolis-rising-by-james-s-a-corey/

#astronomy Two articles published in the journal “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society” report different aspects of a research on what is commonly called the bulge, a large group of #stars in the central area of ​​the Milky Way.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/08/a-study-of-the-old-stars-in-the-heart-of-the-milky-way

#astronomy An article published in the journal “Icarus” reports a study on the solar system’s structure that offers a reconstruction of its origins.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/07/simulations-show-the-evolution-of-the-solar-system-confirming-that-there-was-another-planet

#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #television #ScienceFiction #scifi My impressions about “Forget Me Not”, the 4th episode of the 3rd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery”.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/11/06/star-trek-discovery-forget-me-not/

#astronomy Four articles published in the journal “Nature” report as many studies connected to a fast radio burst cataloged as FRB 200428, whose origin has been associated with a #magnetar cataloged as SGR 1935+2154.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/11/05/evidence-of-a-link-between-a-fast-radio-burst-and-a-magnetar