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The Universe in Silico: Euclid’s Flagship 2 Simulation and the Philosophy of Cosmic Models
Mapping the Immeasurable In late 2025, the Euclid Consortium — the international group responsible for managing the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope — announced the release of the most extensive simulation of the universe ever produced. Called Flagship 2, it is not merely a technical achievement but a landmark in our species’ attempt to…
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From Apollo’s 20-Watt Radio to Modern Milliwatt Signals: The Evolution of Space Communication
The Apollo Moon missions of the late 1960s relied on a 20-watt S-band transmitter to send voice, telemetry, and even television from the Moon to Earth. In stark contrast, many modern communication systems – from tiny CubeSat spacecraft to Internet-of-Things devices – can make do with transmit powers thousands of times lower, sometimes mere milliwatts…
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Sending Your Name to Space: A Cosmic Journey of Connection
Imagine your name orbiting the Moon or resting on the surface of Mars. NASA has turned this fanciful idea into reality through its “Send Your Name to Space” campaigns. By simply signing up online, people around the world can join NASA missions symbolically – their names encoded on microchips or memory cards that hitch a…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar Visitor, Not Alien Invader
An Interstellar Comet Crashes the Party Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third known object from beyond our solar system ever observed passing through it . Discovered on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile, this celestial interloper was immediately recognized as interstellar from the extreme, open-ended shape of its orbit. In plain terms,…
