Tag: astrophysicist
Munich: Astrophysicist Jana Steuer – Munich
A nine-year-old girl sits in the lecture hall of the Munich Public Observatory. It’s about nuclear fission, radioactivity and dark matter. And about the women in the history of astrophysics…
Discovery of the Big Bang: Astrophysicist Arno Penzias has died – Knowledge
In the German Museum in Munich is the experimental setup that solved the mystery of the origin of the universe – three gray boxes the size of refrigerators. The Munich…
Astrophysicist Hubert Reeves has died at the age of 91
Franco-Canadian astrophysicist Hubert Reeves died this Friday at the age of 91. His son, Benoit Reeves, announced the death in a message posted on Facebook. “My whole family joins me…
Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist and great popularizer, has died
Hubert Reeves, in Paris, in 2013. PHILIPPE QUAISSE / PASCO With his patriarchal silhouette – bald head, white beard, sparkling blue eyes –, his lilting Quebec accent, his colorful and…
“A nuclear explosion would only be used as a last resort to deflect an asteroid”, explains astrophysicist Patrick Michel
The Dart mission’s firing window is wide, just in case: NASA engineers will have 84 days, until February 2022, to get it off the ground. But if the weather permits…