In 2019 Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz received the Nobel Prize for their 1995 discovery of an exoplanet, which is just a planet orbiting about a start that isn’t our sun. Since then, exoplanet discovery has boomed with us now knowing of over 4000 different exoplanets. Most of these exoplanets, and their corresponding data, are…
A while ago I set up SpaceBot, a twitter bot designed to post about space. In the meantime, I’ve rolled out some upgrades to it. Here they are, What Happened in Deep Space Today By looking at Jonathan McDowell’s deep space catalog, SpaceBot now posts a random event that happened that day in deep space…
Introduction NOTE: This is a very graphics-heavy post and may take some time to load. Lagrange points are those points in the three-body system where the tug of gravity from the two primary bodies cancel out and any spacecraft stays in the same relative position with the two primary bodies. If you are in the rotating…
