- NASA scientists discover Tatooine
Astronomers say a bit of science fiction is now reality. They've spotted a planet orbiting two suns.The discovery was made by Nasa's planet-hunting telescope Kepler. Scientists describe the find in the next issue of the journal... 天文学者はサイエンスフィクションのビットが今現実のものと言う
- Nasa finds new planet
A Nasa telescope has found the smallest planet outside our solar system and it is rocky just like Earth.But it is too hot for any life. One side of the planet is about 1500C.The planet is called Kepler 10-b after the telescope... NASAの望遠鏡が太陽系外最小の惑星を発見した、それはEarth.Butは、あまりにも生活のためのホットの場合と同様に岩が多い
- Space: An experiment in orbit | Editorial
The International Space Station may have cost us the earth, but it can give us the universeIt is the laboratory with the world's highest overheads. Its capital costs are indeed astronomical. But this month America's International Space Station becomes truly international. An unmanned Russian Progress space truck and a Japanese vehicle called Kounotori, or White Stork, are already plugged into the space station: they came to deliver groceries and fuel; they will remain as temporary accommodation; and they will depart as garbage disposal units. They will be joined next week by a European Space Agency robot delivery van called Johannes Kepler, with more than seven tonnes of propellant, supplies and oxygen. Later in February, the space shuttle Discovery and its astronauts will join the party on what will be its last mission. In April, the shuttle Endeavour will deliver the last hardware, then also retire. Atlantis, the remaining shuttle, stands by for a final mission in June.Thereafter all fuel, food, water, oxygen, household supplies, experimental apparatus and spare parts will be delivered by the other partners, not by Nasa. When the station's lavatories need to be emptied, Moscow, Paris or Tokyo will take care of it. If the station needs to be moved out of danger, then a European or a Russian tractor will do the heavy lifting. If the people on the ISS need to get home, they must board a Russian Soyuz lifeboat. Each shuttle launch costs Nasa $500m. It can no longer afford to run the fleet and will rely on private enterprise to design, test and fly reusable vehicles between Earth and the ISS. It has contracts with two space entrepreneurs, but neither is yet ready to deliver goods or people to a moving target more than 200 miles overhead.The planet's only living, breathing 国際宇宙ステーションは私たちに地球を要するかもしれないが、それが我々にuniverseItを与えることができる世界最高レベルのオーバーヘッドの研究室です
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