There is a newish #openaccess textbook on The Physics Of Interstellar Travel by Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones.
Textbook: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/physics-of-interstellar-travel/69C23CDCF164E2C71A65497F299EE38F
Author's Textbook Webpage: https://bailer-jones.www3.mpia.de/pit.html
Author's Youtube channel with chapter-by-chapter summary videos: https://www.youtube.com/@physics-of-interstellar-travel
Un voyage épique de 4,37 années-lumière sépare les humains d'Alpha Centauri, notre plus proche voisine stellaire, mais une équipe de l'université Texas A&M vient de dévoiler une technologie qui pourrait nous en rapprocher et, plus largement, bouleverser les possibilités en termes d'exploration spatiale.
Un voyage épique de 4,37 années-lumière sépare les humains d'Alpha Centauri, notre plus proche voisine stellaire, mais une équipe de l'université Texas A&M vient de dévoiler une technologie qui pourrait nous en rapprocher et, plus largement, bouleverser les possibilités en termes d'exploration spatiale.
🌟🚀 Traveling at 20% the speed of light?
Scientists just demonstrated a breakthrough photonic crystal light sail, lighter, more efficient, and potentially scalable for laser-propelled interstellar travel. A practical step toward exploring the stars!
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/traveling-at-20-the-speed-of-light-scientists-demonstrate-practical-light-sails-to-explore-the-universe/
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"Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole"
No word of a lie, one of the appeals of vampirism is living long enough to see shit like this happen.
The tortoise lives for 200 years, ...wasted on them!
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/10/23/interstellar-mission-to-a-black-hole/
OK, there's one thing bothering me regarding “Alien: Earth”: If you're on a decades-long deep space mission that requires cryo pods, how do you have cats on board the spaceship? Do they have their own little cryo pods? Or are they just semi-feral and evolve into a new species over time, like in “Red Dwarf”?
There is a red cat briefly seen on the Maginot. If I recall correctly, there is also a cat on the Nostromo. How?
I mean, sure, cats have historically been part of ship crews, but in space?
#alien #scifi #InterstellarTravel #AlienEarth #RedDwarf #cats
Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet that could be in the habitable zone of its star. Therefore, it has garnered a lot of attention, including several missions designed to visit it and send back information. Unfortunately, due to technological constraints and the gigantic distances involved, most of those missions only weigh a few grams and require massive solar scales or pushing lasers to get anywhere near their target.
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