At first I couldn’t believe it when I saw the article in my feed reader but heck it’s true. Google is indeed to sponsor the $30 million lunar X Prize! What’s in your mind Google? I can’t help but wonder. (more…)
The Hubble space telescope has been providing us earthlings with great images of space. It does so by taking photos of the cosmos from above Earth’s atmosphere and no matter how large earth-bound telescopes are, they simply can’t get rid of the blurring effect produced by our life-giving atmosphere. Hubble was nearly sentenced to death in the past due to glitches to its system but it’s still up there – aging and dying – because there simply is no replacement for it’s sharp photos – yet.