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17 Aug 2017
- 15:26 UTC SPACE.com Apollo's Deep-Sea Fisherman: Jeff Bezos Recounts Saturn V...
- 15:25 UTC SPACE.com Don't Bother Neil deGrasse Tyson During the Solar Eclipse
- 15:24 UTC Universe Today Prelude to Totality: A Final Look at the Total Solar Ecli... Totality! The view during the November 2012 total solar eclipse. Image credit and copyright: Sharin Ahmad (@Shahgazer) It’s hard to believe: we’re now just one short weekend away from the ...
- 15:23 UTC Women in Planetary ... Solidarity Statement on Charlottesville Dear fellow planetary scientists: This is a cross-posting in full support of Astronomy in Color’s Statement on Charlottesville. As members of the Division for Planetary Science’s Professional Culture and Climate ...
- 15:23 UTC 13.7 Bears Can Face Summer Challenges In Roadside Zoos Even when the Animal Welfare Act is followed, bears may not live in conditions that many would find reasonable for such large, intelligent animals to flourish, says anthropologist Barbara J. ...
- 15:13 UTC Universe Today Can Astronauts See Stars From the Space Station? I’ve often been asked the question, “Can the astronauts on the Space Station see the stars?” Astronaut Jack Fischer provides an unequivocal answer of “yes!” with a recent post on ...
- 15:02 UTC Spaceflight Now Video: Atlas/TDRS-M pre-launch news briefing Watch the pre-launch news conference held Thursday, Aug. 17 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to preview liftoff of the agency’s TDRS-M data relay satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas ...
- 14:55 UTC Astro Bob Sunspots To The Rescue / Watch The Eclipse Live Online This is what the sun looked like at 8:45 a.m. CDT this morning (Aug. 17). The busy sunspot group 2671 coming around the east side of the sun’s face will ...
- 14:52 UTC NASA Space Station ... Cosmonauts Begin Spacewalk Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin (left) and Sergey Ryazanskiy are pictured in the Orlan spacesuits they are wearing during today’s spacewalk. Credit: @SergeyISS Expedition 52 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Sergey ...
- 14:48 UTC The Daily Galaxy NASA's Mars 2020 Mission Ups the Ante --"Techniques and L... Will NASA discover signs of ancient life at one of the largest and oldest impact craters in the Solar System? "Mars 2020 represents a crucial first step towards a possible ...
- 14:45 UTC All About Space Supermassive black holes thrive in ‘jellyfish’ galaxies The ‘tentacles’ of gas and stars feed the supply the central region with the fuel for the supermassive black hole, creating the spectacular central concentration of light. Image credit: ESO/GASP ...
- 14:37 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com Russian EVA begins – set to include satellite deployments A Russian EVA has begun on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS) with two Russian cosmonauts set to deploy several nanosatellites, collect research samples and perform structural maintenance. ...
- 14:36 UTC NASA Education Expr... NASA Education Express Message — Aug. 17, 2017
- 14:19 UTC Sky and Telescope Solar Eclipse Activities for Kids and Families Enrich the eclipse experience — especially the long, partial phases — with solar eclipse activities for kids and families. Of the people who will be viewing an eclipse — total ...
- 14:06 UTC Starts With a Bang! Humans can’t tell legitimate science from junk science The idea of traveling back in time has long fascinated humans, such as in Back To The Future’s Delorean DMC-12. But claims that we’ve done it, like claims of perpetual ...
- 14:02 UTC Nepal Astronomical ... Nepal Review: Global Space Exploration Conference 2017! Submitted by Er. Anmol Mittal, NepalThe Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX 2017) I attended discussed recent results, current challenges, and innovative solutions on to advancing human space exploration. The conference ...
- 14:00 UTC Starts With A Bang! Voyager’s ‘Cosmic Map’ of Earth’s location is hopelessly ... “We [are] a species endowed with hope and perseverance, at least a little intelligence, substantial generosity and a palpable zest to make contact with the cosmos.” -Carl Sagan When the ...
- 13:51 UTC EarthSky Blog Cassini prepares for last look at Titan This article was originally published at AmericaSpace.com. Reprinted with permission. There are now fewer than five orbits left in the Grand Finale until Cassini’s awe-inspiring mission at Saturn comes to ...
- 13:45 UTC The New York Times Art Review: How Do You Paint an Eclipse? Work Fast in the... In 1918, astronomers invited the artist Howard Russell Butler to record the last total solar eclipse to cross the continental United States.
- 13:22 UTC Spudis Lunar Resour... Eclipse Happens I have a new post up over at Air & Space discussing the upcoming total solar eclipse, mainly as a vehicle to proselytize for lunar return. Enjoy the spectacle next ...
- 13:21 UTC OrbitalHub Scenic Shock NASA dixit: “January 11, 2011. Saturn’s northern storm marches through the planet’s atmosphere in the top right of this false-color mosaic from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Saturn’s atmosphere and its rings ...
- 13:19 UTC OrbitalHub SDO Watches a Sunspot Turn Toward Earth NASA dixit: “An active region on the sun — an area of intense and complex magnetic fields — has rotated into view on the sun and seems to be growing ...
- 13:05 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Mars 2020 mission to use smart methods to seek signs of p... NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth.
- 12:27 UTC In the Dark Clearing Advice for Physics and Astronomy Applicants! Today’s the day! This year’s A-level results are out today, Thursday 17th August, with the consequent scramble as students across the country to confirm places at university. Good luck to ...
- 12:00 UTC Scientific American New Group Works to Preserve Apollo Lunar Landing Sites For All Moonkind is working with space agencies to develop formal protections for space archaeology sites -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 11:47 UTC Astronaut.com The Epic Journey of Both Voyager Spacecraft We dream of going to the stars, but the reality is that we haven’t made it any farther than our own moon. We’re reaching for Mars now, but to date, ...
- 11:25 UTC EarthSky Blog Studying sun’s atmosphere at solar eclipse A total solar eclipse gives scientists a rare opportunity to study the lower regions of the sun’s corona. These observations can help us understand solar activity, as well as the ...
- 11:01 UTC SPACE.com Perseid Meteor Shower Wows Stargazer with 'One-in-a-Milli...
- 11:00 UTC One Universe at a T... What’s In It For Me? Whenever I give a presentation to the general public, there’s one type of question I always get. Why should we spend money on this stuff? What good does it do? ...
- 10:58 UTC SPACE.com US Air Force Prepping Mysterious X-37B Space Plane for Se...
- 10:56 UTC SPACE.com Solar Eclipse Science: 'Sun Moon Earth' Author Explains t...
- 10:54 UTC SPACE.com Your Soundtrack to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
- 10:44 UTC NPR Where Will You Be Watching The Eclipse? If you're one of the lucky ones, you'll get to watch the eclipse from the deck of a cruise ship specially chartered for sky watchers. Bonnie Tyler will sing her ...
- 10:23 UTC NPR Make Your Own Eclipse Viewer No eclipse glasses? No problem. Make your own solar viewer; (almost) no tools required.
- 10:00 UTC The Guardian Porta-potties, police, prayers: how a tiny Idaho town get...
- 09:59 UTC Insight Observatory The 'Great American' Solar Eclipse This upcoming solar eclipse is almost exclusive to the continental US, and all of the US will see it, in some fraction. It is, I think, going to change American's ...
- 09:40 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Eclipse 2017 The eclipse of 2017 is just a few days away and now I am going to be able to see part of it — weather permitting. I’ll be well north ...
- 09:29 UTC The Imagineer's Chr... The hunt for the graviton For the past 50 years, the Standard Model of particle physics has given us a complete mathematical description of the particles and forces that shape our world. It predicts with ...
- 08:30 UTC NASA IV&V Matters IV&V Intern Abigail Ida Name: Abigail Ida Age: 20 Education: Senior at Arizona State University Area of Study: Software Engineering Unique Fact: I’m a certified Starbucks Barista Why NASA? I was introduced to NASA ...
- 08:08 UTC Space Fellowship NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans
- 07:49 UTC American Meteor Soc... Meteor Activity Outlook for August 19-25, 2017 Composite image of perseids over Turkey – 2016 © Tunç Tezel (TWAN) During this period the moon will reach its new phase on Monday August 21st. At this time the ...
- 05:58 UTC Spaceflight Now Proton launcher takes off with dual-use Russian communica... File photo of a previous Proton launch. Credit: Roscosmos A high-power Russian satellite designed to deliver broadband Internet connections and relay television and videoconferencing signals fired into orbit Wednesday from ...
- 05:53 UTC CosmoQuest Info: The Great North American Solar Eclipse Here’s some basic information about the Solar Eclipse on August 21st, 2017 #SolarEclipse2017 #GreatNorthAmericanSolarEclipse #KtSeery ©KtSeery
- 05:53 UTC Cosmosphere Info: The Great North American Solar Eclipse Here’s some basic information about the Solar Eclipse on August 21st, 2017 #SolarEclipse2017 #GreatNorthAmericanSolarEclipse #KtSeery ©KtSeery
- 05:50 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2017-08-16 SA: Petri SO: Veronica Others: Ted over skype. Fred, Steve, Jeremy and tourists visiting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- After a snowy day, a totally icy night. High humidity and cloud, did ...
- 05:22 UTC Astronomy.com Blog St. Joseph, Missouri, has eclipse fever!
- 04:01 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 08/17/2017 – Ephemeris – How do you view the solar elipse... Ephemeris for Thursday, August 17th. The Sun rises at 6:47. It’ll be up for 13 hours and 56 minutes, setting at 8:44. The Moon, 3 days past last quarter, will ...
- 04:00 UTC SpaceFlight Insider Atlas V rolls to pad as TDRS-M is prepared for launch An Atlas V with NASA’s TDRS-M spacecraft encapsulated rolls out of the Vertical Integration Facility and over to Space Launch Complex 41 for a planned Aug. 18, 2017, liftoff. Photo ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Record-Breaking Smoke Over Canada Dense plumes darkened the skies over the Northwest Territories in August.
- 03:01 UTC Universe Today Station Crew Grapples SpaceX Dragon Delivering Tons of Sc... The SpaceX Dragon CRS-12 cargo craft is now attached to the International Space Station after arriving on Aug. 16, 2017. It delivered over 3 tons of science and supplies to ...

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