Strange New Worlds #2: The Voyager-Hubble Connection
As early as when watching Star Trek: The Original Series as a teenager in Germany, I wondered about the purple and orange planets the crew seemed to be orbiting every other week. From my astronomy books, I knew that the planets in our Solar System were certainly interesting and colorful, but they didn’t have quite that sherbet-like coloring from Star Trek. Much later, while in astronomy g...
Strange New Worlds #1: NASA's Kepler Mission
StarTrek.com is pleased to introduce the newest member of our guest blogger family, Inge Heyer. A frequent convention guest, Heyer is an expert in physics and astronomy, as well as a Star Trek fan and former senior data analyst at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Below is her first "Strange New Worlds" blog feature. Having been part of fandom for over 40 years, the thought of plane...
