Space

When I entered astrophysics thirty-five years ago, there was widespread doubt among astronomers that planets exist around other stars. Within a historic perspective, this is not surprising. We often prefer to believe that we are privileged and that what we find around us is unique and special. Throughout the history…

We are VStars Energy, a group of engineering students (Reem, Nir, and myself) who are passionate about space and have joined forces to enter the NASA challenge competition. In the next post, I will describe our experience during the hackathon, some of the things we learned, and our final products. …

People of earth. Specifically, those at the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. This is Dimorphos. What the fuck?! Congratulations on your achievement of smacking me in the face. Hope you feel good about yourselves. I don’t! That really smarts! Have a big bruise now. Should put some…

Earlier this week, I measured my weight, and the scale read 41.7N (skinny!). Then I wondered, what is weight? Well, it is the force acting upon me due to gravity, which means on different planets I will have different weights depending upon their respective gravitational acceleration (weight = mass x…

We gave up our age, and vouched our space. Unveiled our curtain of uncharted deeds. Wearing our nurturing hearts upon our sleeves, yet still they plead. Philanthropic darts, of stolen empathy. A bull’s eye start, across the whole nine yards? When really their proposal was nothing but a house of god damn cards. Lurked…

Irrespective of how well we exercise or monitor our diet, no human was documented to live longer than Jeanne Calment, who died at age 122.5 years. Similarly, irrespective on how well we mitigate climate change, deflect asteroids with DART-like missions, develop mRNA vaccines for lethal viruses, and avoid nuclear wars…