The five brightest stars in Earth’s night sky are, in order of decreasing brightness, Sirius, Canopus, Alpha Centauri, Arcturus, and Vega. Of these, Canopus only ever barely rises above the horizon from our location in Lynchburg, Virginia, and Alpha Centauri…
Were you aware that, in addition to the International Space Station (ISS), there is a Chinese space station orbiting Earth? If not, it’s probably a combination of Chinese opaqueness and the lack of coverage of anything beyond our borders by…
The hardest part of getting into space is the first 30 or 40 miles. A fully fueled rocket, at its heaviest, fighting its way through the thickest part of the atmosphere—once you get past this it’s not exactly easy to…
