Do you know which Canadian city this is? Take our quiz below to find out. (Photos: Chris Hadfield/Canadian Space Agency)
For five months, astronaut Chris Hadfield has kept the world’s rapt attention from the International Space Station as he beamed photos and videos down to Earth. More than 900,000 Twitter followers waited for his latest pictures, which Hadfield liked to capture while the ISS passed over Canadian cities.
Commander Chris Hadfield is the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA)
Over the past five months, Commander Chris Hadfield has stolen the hearts of millions as he zooms around the Earth’s orbit, sending tweets to internet users far below. These correspondences, like thousands of digital message-in-a-bottles, spanned multiple mediums and ranged from the playful to the poetic. But together, they formed Hadfield’s invitation to the public to join him in his fascination and love of science.
Posted by Jessica Bell
on Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Imagine yourself at the age of 10. You're playing hide-and-seek with your friends and you end up hiding behind your mother's old jackets in a dark, mothball closet. You hear the seeker count down from 100 and when they reach the 'ready or not, here I come' part, you hold your breath.
That closet can become tight while you're waiting to be found. It is small, dingy and claustrophobic. At the last second, as it seems the seeker will never find you, you open the closet door for fresh air and give ...
The Large Hadron Collider at the European Centre for Nuclear Research broke a new barrier Tuesday. They snapped particles together at record speeds — 7 tera-electron volts(TeV) — bringing us one step closer to recreating the conditions at the time of the Big Bang.
The point of recreating the Big Bang is to produce massive particles that have never been observed before, says Kevin Graham, a physics professor at Carleton University.
One of the main particles they’re looking for, Graham says, ...
