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Edward Stone, physicist who oversaw Voyager missions, dies at 88 - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 12 hours agoTaking advantage of a gravitational convergence of four planets that occurs only once every 176 years, the spacecraft soared past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The ...
Edward C. Stone, 1936-2024 – Visionary of the Voyager Era
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoEdward C. Stone, renowned for his leadership of the Voyager spacecraft missions and his role in...
Edward Stone, who guided NASA’s Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88
Washington Post· 3 hours agoEdward C. Stone, who opened a window into the farthest reaches of the solar system while serving as the chief scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, supervising a pair of spindly, plutonium-powered ...
Ed Stone, JPL director and top scientist on Voyager mission, dies at 88
Los Angeles Times· 6 days agoA physicist who got in on the ground floor of space exploration, Stone played a leading role in NASA...
From 15 Billion Miles Away: NASA’s Voyager 1 Springs Back to Life
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoAfter resolving technical issues, Voyager 1 has returned to normal operations, with all instruments...
Former head of JPL and Voyager project scientist, dies at 88
The Register· 5 days agoObit Edward C Stone, the project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission from 1972 to 2022, has died....
The Solar System Is Weirder Than You Think
Hackaday· 12 hours agoWhen I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. It’s a great story...
Shortly after the Big Bang, conditions were perfect for life. Did aliens emerge long before us?
Salon via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLoeb describes the Dragonfly mission as a fishing expedition. Literally: looking for alien fish....
‘Dyson spheres’ were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they’ve found potential...
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoNew research suggests stars in the Milky Way give off infrared heat expected from Dyson spheres,...
Another Planetary Parade Starts on Aug. 23: Spot 6 Planets in the Sky at Once
CNET· 4 days agoDid you miss the June 3 planet parade, when six planets lined up in the sky? In August, stargazers...