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11 Mar 2010, 23:17 UTC
The international space station (ISS) partners have begun reviewing their on-board hardware with the goal of certifying it for use until 2028 even as they seek ways to reduce the annual operating costs of the orbital complex, the partners said in a joint statement March 11, 2010, reports SpaceNews.Commerce space launch firms in the United States will have a greater opportunity to provide services to the ISS with a neraly 20-year extended life of the hardware. Russia, Japan, and Europe each have cargo spacecraft with planned missions to the ISS.American firms Orbital Sciences Corporation and SpaceX both have commercial contracts set to commence within the next few months following the space shuttle fleet retirement later this year. Jack@JackKennedy.net Spaceports?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0">
Space Station to Orbit Until 2028 or Later
11 Mar 2010, 23:17 UTC
The international space station (ISS) partners have begun reviewing their on-board hardware with the goal of certifying it for use until 2028 even as they seek ways to reduce the annual operating costs of the orbital complex, the partners said in a joint statement March 11, 2010, reports SpaceNews.Commerce space launch firms in the United States will have a greater opportunity to provide services to the ISS with a neraly 20-year extended life of the hardware. Russia, Japan, and Europe each have cargo spacecraft with planned missions to the ISS.American firms Orbital Sciences Corporation and SpaceX both have commercial contracts set to commence within the next few months following the space shuttle fleet retirement later this year. Jack@JackKennedy.net Spaceports?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0">
Universe Today
11 Mar 2010, 21:52 UTC
In a manner somewhat like the formation of an alliance to defeat Darth Vader's Death Star, more than a decade ago astronomers formed the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope consortium to understand Nature's Death Ray Gun (a.k.a. blazars). And contrary to its at-death's-door sounding name, the GASP has proved crucial to unraveling the secrets of how [...] Recent observations of blazar jets require researchers to look deeper into whether current theories about jet formation and motion require refinement. This simulation, courtesy of Jonathan McKinney (KIPAC), shows a black hole pulling in nearby matter (yellow) and spraying energy back out into the universe in a jet (blue and red) that is held together by magnetic field lines (green). In a manner somewhat like the formation of an alliance to defeat Darth Vader's Death Star, more than a decade ago astronomers formed the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope consortium to understand Nature's Death Ray Gun (a.k.a. blazars). And contrary to its at-death's-door sounding name, the GASP has proved crucial to unraveling the secrets of how Nature's "LHC" works."As the universe's biggest accelerators, blazar jets are important to understand," said Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) Research Fellow Masaaki Hayashida, corresponding author on ...
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC"
11 Mar 2010, 21:52 UTC
In a manner somewhat like the formation of an alliance to defeat Darth Vader's Death Star, more than a decade ago astronomers formed the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope consortium to understand Nature's Death Ray Gun (a.k.a. blazars). And contrary to its at-death's-door sounding name, the GASP has proved crucial to unraveling the secrets of how [...] Recent observations of blazar jets require researchers to look deeper into whether current theories about jet formation and motion require refinement. This simulation, courtesy of Jonathan McKinney (KIPAC), shows a black hole pulling in nearby matter (yellow) and spraying energy back out into the universe in a jet (blue and red) that is held together by magnetic field lines (green). In a manner somewhat like the formation of an alliance to defeat Darth Vader's Death Star, more than a decade ago astronomers formed the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope consortium to understand Nature's Death Ray Gun (a.k.a. blazars). And contrary to its at-death's-door sounding name, the GASP has proved crucial to unraveling the secrets of how Nature's "LHC" works."As the universe's biggest accelerators, blazar jets are important to understand," said Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) Research Fellow Masaaki Hayashida, corresponding author on ...
On Orbit
11 Mar 2010, 21:29 UTC
By precisely tracking NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon's interior. The subtle gravitational tugs they measured suggest the interior has been too cold and sluggish to split completely into separate layers of ice and rock. read more
Ice and Rock Mixture Inside Titan
11 Mar 2010, 21:29 UTC
By precisely tracking NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon's interior. The subtle gravitational tugs they measured suggest the interior has been too cold and sluggish to split completely into separate layers of ice and rock. read more
The Once and Future Moon
11 Mar 2010, 20:33 UTC
Last fall, after much anticipation, the Augustine Committee presented us with their assessment of the future of space exploration. Its basic conclusion was that at currently envisioned budgets, the Program of Record (a.k.a. ESAS, Project Constellation) would not get us back to the Moon before many decades had passed, if then. This meme has been [...] The Moon is the key resource needed to open up the frontier of space Last fall, after much anticipation, the Augustine Committee presented us with their assessment of the future of space exploration. Its basic conclusion was that at currently envisioned budgets, the Program of Record (a.k.a. ESAS, Project Constellation) would not get us back to the Moon before many decades had passed, if then. This meme has been picked up by many in the space community to the point where is it now cliché to claim that we don’t have enough money to do anything in space. Hence, the direction proposed in the new budget takes NASA out of the space transportation business entirely, freeing up their budget to focus on technology development, and contracting with commercial providers to create access to low Earth orbit (LEO) and the International Space Station (ISS). How ...
Stuck in Transit – Unchaining Ourselves From the Rocket Equation
11 Mar 2010, 20:33 UTC
Last fall, after much anticipation, the Augustine Committee presented us with their assessment of the future of space exploration. Its basic conclusion was that at currently envisioned budgets, the Program of Record (a.k.a. ESAS, Project Constellation) would not get us back to the Moon before many decades had passed, if then. This meme has been [...] The Moon is the key resource needed to open up the frontier of space Last fall, after much anticipation, the Augustine Committee presented us with their assessment of the future of space exploration. Its basic conclusion was that at currently envisioned budgets, the Program of Record (a.k.a. ESAS, Project Constellation) would not get us back to the Moon before many decades had passed, if then. This meme has been picked up by many in the space community to the point where is it now cliché to claim that we don’t have enough money to do anything in space. Hence, the direction proposed in the new budget takes NASA out of the space transportation business entirely, freeing up their budget to focus on technology development, and contracting with commercial providers to create access to low Earth orbit (LEO) and the International Space Station (ISS). How ...
Simostronomy
11 Mar 2010, 18:49 UTC
I don't do a lot of 'eye-candy' posts about pictures, but this one really caught my eye as I scanned my Google reader at lunch time today. I've blogged about this before, but this is just an awesome picture from the Hubble Space Telescope. One of the final stages of stellar evolution of a Sun-like star results in nebulae like this one, NGC 6302, also known as the Bug Nebula. This glowing, expanding shell of ionized gas is known as a planetary nebula.NGC 6302 The 'Bug Nebula'Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO TeamAt the end of the star's life, during the red giant phase, the outer layers of the star are expelled via pulsations and strong stellar winds. This is not a nice breeze on a cool day. We're talking winds up to 600,000 miles per hour. Eventually all that is left in the center is the ash of the previous star's core, a white dwarf. The hot white dwarf emits ultraviolet radiation that ionizes the ejected outer layers of the star. This energized shell radiates as a planetary nebula.They are a relatively short-lived phenomenon, lasting a few tens of thousands of years, as compared to a typical ...
The Bug Nebula
11 Mar 2010, 18:49 UTC
I don't do a lot of 'eye-candy' posts about pictures, but this one really caught my eye as I scanned my Google reader at lunch time today. I've blogged about this before, but this is just an awesome picture from the Hubble Space Telescope. One of the final stages of stellar evolution of a Sun-like star results in nebulae like this one, NGC 6302, also known as the Bug Nebula. This glowing, expanding shell of ionized gas is known as a planetary nebula.NGC 6302 The 'Bug Nebula'Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO TeamAt the end of the star's life, during the red giant phase, the outer layers of the star are expelled via pulsations and strong stellar winds. This is not a nice breeze on a cool day. We're talking winds up to 600,000 miles per hour. Eventually all that is left in the center is the ash of the previous star's core, a white dwarf. The hot white dwarf emits ultraviolet radiation that ionizes the ejected outer layers of the star. This energized shell radiates as a planetary nebula.They are a relatively short-lived phenomenon, lasting a few tens of thousands of years, as compared to a typical ...
Centauri Dreams
11 Mar 2010, 18:41 UTC
When you’re studying galaxy clusters, it doesn’t pay to be in a hurry. Harald Ebeling (University of Hawaii) is an expert on the matter, working with a catalog of over a thousand such clusters in a new study of the so-called ‘dark flow,’ the apparent motion of galaxy clusters along a path centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. Says Ebeling: “It takes, on average, about an hour of telescope time to measure the distance to each cluster we work with, not to mention the years required to find these systems in the first place. This is a project requiring considerable followthrough.” The study, led by Alexander Kashlinsky (NASA GSFC), relies on hot X-ray emitting gas within a cluster, which scatters photons from the cosmic microwave background. The wavelength of scattered photons then tells us something about the motion of individual clusters. This tiniest of shifts in the CMB’s background temperature in the cluster’s direction, known as the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect, is small enough that it has never been measured in a single galaxy cluster. That’s where the large number of clusters comes in. The researchers used a catalog of 700 clusters from a 2008 study and folded in another ...
The ‘Dark Flow’ Pushes Deeper into the Cosmos
11 Mar 2010, 18:41 UTC
When you’re studying galaxy clusters, it doesn’t pay to be in a hurry. Harald Ebeling (University of Hawaii) is an expert on the matter, working with a catalog of over a thousand such clusters in a new study of the so-called ‘dark flow,’ the apparent motion of galaxy clusters along a path centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. Says Ebeling: “It takes, on average, about an hour of telescope time to measure the distance to each cluster we work with, not to mention the years required to find these systems in the first place. This is a project requiring considerable followthrough.” The study, led by Alexander Kashlinsky (NASA GSFC), relies on hot X-ray emitting gas within a cluster, which scatters photons from the cosmic microwave background. The wavelength of scattered photons then tells us something about the motion of individual clusters. This tiniest of shifts in the CMB’s background temperature in the cluster’s direction, known as the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect, is small enough that it has never been measured in a single galaxy cluster. That’s where the large number of clusters comes in. The researchers used a catalog of 700 clusters from a 2008 study and folded in another ...
EAAE News
11 Mar 2010, 16:58 UTC
Source: Nature Simulation of a particle collision at ATLAS (CERN).Credit: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Physicists have rooted through a morass of collisions to find the heaviest antimatter nucleus yet inside one of their particle accelerators. Collisions between gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) on Long Island, New York, have yielded heavy isotopes of [...]
Heavy antimatter created in gold collisions
11 Mar 2010, 16:58 UTC
Source: Nature Simulation of a particle collision at ATLAS (CERN).Credit: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Physicists have rooted through a morass of collisions to find the heaviest antimatter nucleus yet inside one of their particle accelerators. Collisions between gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) on Long Island, New York, have yielded heavy isotopes of [...]
13.7
11 Mar 2010, 14:45 UTC
From time immemorial, faced with the complexity of Nature, man has searched for repetitive patterns, for some kind of order. This approach makes a lot of sense. All we have to do is look at the skies to see periodic motions, defining natural cycles to which we are deeply connected: the setting and rising of the Sun, the phases of the Moon, the four seasons, the planetary orbits. With Pythagoras and his followers, some 2500 hundred years ago, the search for ordered patterns was transformed into a search for a mathematical order: the patterns that we see in Nature reflect an underlying mathematical order, the mathematics of Creation. The philosopher's goal is to decipher these patterns, to reveal Nature's hidden code. As the world is the work of some kind of cosmic architect (not the Jewish-Christian-Muslim super God but a creative deity nonetheless), to unveil the secrets of the world is akin to unveil the "mind of God." Recently, I wrote how this metaphor remains very much alive today, being used by many scientists such as Steven Hawking and others. The search for Nature's hidden mathematical code has been -- and continues to be --extremely fruitful. It lies at the ...
Making Sense Of An Imperfect World
11 Mar 2010, 14:45 UTC
From time immemorial, faced with the complexity of Nature, man has searched for repetitive patterns, for some kind of order. This approach makes a lot of sense. All we have to do is look at the skies to see periodic motions, defining natural cycles to which we are deeply connected: the setting and rising of the Sun, the phases of the Moon, the four seasons, the planetary orbits. With Pythagoras and his followers, some 2500 hundred years ago, the search for ordered patterns was transformed into a search for a mathematical order: the patterns that we see in Nature reflect an underlying mathematical order, the mathematics of Creation. The philosopher's goal is to decipher these patterns, to reveal Nature's hidden code. As the world is the work of some kind of cosmic architect (not the Jewish-Christian-Muslim super God but a creative deity nonetheless), to unveil the secrets of the world is akin to unveil the "mind of God." Recently, I wrote how this metaphor remains very much alive today, being used by many scientists such as Steven Hawking and others. The search for Nature's hidden mathematical code has been -- and continues to be --extremely fruitful. It lies at the ...
Bad Astronomy
11 Mar 2010, 14:24 UTC
The Cassini spacecraft recently passed very near the tiny moon Helene and returned amazing pictures of it. Helene is a dinky iceball, only about 36×32x30 km (22×19x18 miles) in size (this picture has an incredible resolution of about 113 meters (103 yards) per pixel). It circles Saturn in the same orbit as the much larger Dione, and is in fact in the larger moon’s leading Trojan point: a peculiar artifact of gravity when an object orbits another. It’s a gravitational stable point, like a valley between two mountains. Clearly battered, Helene has an oddly smooth appearance, which may be due to the feeble gravity of the moon collecting dust also trapped in the Trojan point. At The Planetary Society Blog, Emily has more info on Helene and speculates about its appearance. She also has a good description of how the Trojan points work. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Helene of Saturnian Troy
11 Mar 2010, 14:24 UTC
The Cassini spacecraft recently passed very near the tiny moon Helene and returned amazing pictures of it. Helene is a dinky iceball, only about 36×32x30 km (22×19x18 miles) in size (this picture has an incredible resolution of about 113 meters (103 yards) per pixel). It circles Saturn in the same orbit as the much larger Dione, and is in fact in the larger moon’s leading Trojan point: a peculiar artifact of gravity when an object orbits another. It’s a gravitational stable point, like a valley between two mountains. Clearly battered, Helene has an oddly smooth appearance, which may be due to the feeble gravity of the moon collecting dust also trapped in the Trojan point. At The Planetary Society Blog, Emily has more info on Helene and speculates about its appearance. She also has a good description of how the Trojan points work. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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