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7 Mar 2014
- 20:00 UTC CosmoQuest Mountains of Stars Weekend Hello, all! I wanted to share an upcoming event with you that was passed along by Douglas Arion, previous and future Learning Space guest. If you can get to New ...
- 19:56 UTC Dear Astronomer Carnival of Space #333
- 19:54 UTC Universe Today Weekly Space Hangout – March 7, 2014 Host: Fraser Cain Astrojournalists: David Dickinson, Matthew Francis, Casey Dreier, Jason Major, Brian Koberlein This week’s stories: David Andrew Dickinson: Watch the Close Pass of NEO 2014 DX110 Daylight Saving ...
- 19:52 UTC The Planetary Socie... Why Cosmos should matter, especially to Hollywood For a town dependent on Stars, there are far too few people here who look up at the sky. But come this Sunday, March 9, the epic series of science, ...
- 19:23 UTC Astrocast.TV Blog Crashing Comets Explain Surprise Gas Clump Around Young S... Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in northern Chile have today announced the discovery of an unexpected clump of carbon monoxide gas in the dusty disc around ...
- 19:19 UTC AMSAT-UK ‘Travel’ to Space for £40 / $70 Researchers from the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey have launched a unique campaign that will enable the public to ‘travel’ to space for the cost of a pair of ...
- 19:16 UTC Astrocast.TV Blog Hubble Witnesses an Asteroid Mysteriously Disintegrating The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid, which has fragmented into as many as ten smaller pieces. Although fragile comet nuclei have been seen ...
- 19:13 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA Picks 108 Small Business Tech Proposals WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA has selected 108 research and technology proposals from U.S. small businesses that will enable NASA’s future missions while benefiting America’s new high technology-driven economy right ...
- 19:01 UTC Space Fellowship NASA's WISE Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No '... After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized celestial body in our solar system ...
- 19:00 UTC Sydney Observatory Daily cosmobite: happy birthday Yuri! Tomorrow is the anniversary of the birth of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1934. At the age of 27 he became the first human in space when he circled the ...
- 19:00 UTC SPACE.com Telescope Bigger Than A Galaxy, Really - Thanks Einstein!... Einstein's Theory of Relativity predicts that a mass of star cluster Abell 2744 warps the fabric of space around it, bending and magnifying passing starlight. The Hubble Space Telescope's exposure ...
- 18:50 UTC Scientific American Found: The Fastest-Approaching Object in the Universe A giant black hole may have hurled a star cluster toward us at record speed -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 18:45 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... Land the STA One of NASA's four Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) is set to land at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center for display, but not without your help. The Alabama home to ...
- 18:27 UTC The Daily Galaxy Gigantic Magnetic Loops Solve Stars "Infra-Red-Light Myst... Astronomers say that magnetic storms in the gas orbiting young stars may explain a mystery that has persisted since before 2006. Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to study developing ...
- 18:16 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Infrared Stellar Mystery Solved With Magnetic Fuzz NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has helped solve an infrared mystery surrounding baby star systems that has puzzled astronomers since the 1980s. Continue reading →
- 18:16 UTC Astro Watch Mystery of Planet-forming Disks Explained by Magnetism Astronomers say that magnetic storms in the gas orbiting young stars may explain a mystery that has persisted since before 2006. Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to study developing ...
- 18:09 UTC The Original Rocket... Project Morpheus, free flight #8
- 18:04 UTC SPACE.com Disintegration | Space Wallpaper This space wallpaper from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the rare sight of the asteroid P/2013 R3 breaking apart. This image, the first in a series, was taken on Oct. ...
- 18:00 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... Space Camp launches crowd-funding effort to land NASA shu... One of four business jets converted to train NASA astronauts to land the space shuttle is on final approach to the Alabama home of Space Camp, pending the result of ...
- 18:00 UTC New Scientist Most Mars meteorites may be from same giant crater Fresh evidence hints that most Martian rocks found on Earth could be from the same ancient terrain, but the claim has set off a firestorm among meteorite experts
- 17:58 UTC Space Politics Arizona and Colorado legislatures consider space industry... The Arizona House approved this week legislation to provide liability indemnification for commercial spaceflight operators in the state. The bill, HB2163, passed unanimously Wednesday after goes on to the state ...
- 17:56 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com SpaceX advances drive for Mars rocket via Raptor power SpaceX Co-Founder and Vice President of Propulsion Development Tom Mueller has revealed the company is deep into the development of the first “full flow methane-liquid oxygen” rocket engine. Known as ...
- 17:51 UTC SPACE.com Alien Comet Swarms Hint at Mysterious Undiscovered Exopla... An enormous belt of carbon monoxide gas lies in the disk of debris surrounding Beta Pictoris, a young star 63 light-years from Earth. The source of the gas is probably ...
- 17:50 UTC Astro Watch Russia Begins Large-Scale Reform of Space Industry Regist... The United Rocket and Space Corporation has been registered in Russia, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “The United Rocket and Space Corporation has been ...
- 17:37 UTC Sky and Telescope Hubble Catches a Crumbling Asteroid
- 17:37 UTC Universe Today TV Show ‘Cosmos’ Gets An Epic Reboot This Sunday Sunday is going to be a once-in-a-generation moment. For those of us who were too young to remember the original Cosmos (writer puts hand up) or those who are eager ...
- 17:33 UTC The Daily Galaxy Kepler Mission Moves Humanity into a New Era --Closing in... Five years ago today, on March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies to find planets around other stars within a field of view 1/400th the ...
- 17:24 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 03/07/2014 – Ephemeris – Astronomy events at the Rogers O... Ephemeris for Friday, March 7th. The sun will rise at 7:09. It’ll be up for 11 hours and 28 minutes, setting at 6:38. The moon, 1 day before first quarter, ...
- 17:10 UTC Physics World Blog Bananaman, fusion boy, an astronaut and more Excerpts from the red folder
- 17:00 UTC NPR How Can We All Listen Better? Sound expert Julian Treasure says we are losing our listening in a louder world. He shares ways to re-tune our ears for conscious listening — to other people and the ...
- 16:58 UTC The Daily Galaxy Beta Pictoris --A Young, Violent Star System Near Ours Ha... Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in northern Chile have today announced the discovery of an unexpected clump of carbon monoxide gas in the dusty disc around ...
- 16:50 UTC Parabolic Arc Airbus to Drop Test Suborbital Space Plane Space.com has an update on plans by Airbus (nee EADS Astrium) to develop a suborbital space plane, which has apparently not gotten to the scale model air drop stage of ...
- 16:46 UTC 13.7 What Is The Funniest Joke In The World? A new book by Scott Weems on humor and human nature raises fascinating questions about why we laugh. Commentator Alva Noë cracks up easily and asks for help collecting some ...
- 16:12 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Comet Swarm Smash-Up Spied Around Nearby Star A giant clump of carbon monoxide found around a nearby star hints at collisions between comets and the presence of a massive hidden planet. Continue reading →
- 16:05 UTC SPACE.com Astronauts Spend 3 Days In Below Freezing Temps For Survi... In case of an off-course Soyuz landing (and the rescue teams inability to reach the crew in a reasonable time period), astronauts are trained in outdoor winter survival. ESA astronaut ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA: Solar System ... NASA's WISE Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No '... After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized celestial body in our solar system ...
- 15:56 UTC Universe Today Giant Planet May Be Lurking In ‘Poisonous’ Gas Around Bet... A Saturn-mass planet might be lurking in the debris surrounding Beta Pictoris, new measurements of a debris field around the star shown. If this could be proven, this would be ...
- 15:48 UTC NASA Watch Is A NASA Mission to Europa Real? NASA Wants to Explore Europa On the Cheap, Planetary Society "Over the past few years, JPL and APL has been working on a reduced-cost Europa concept called the Europa Clipper, ...
- 15:37 UTC SPACE.com NASA's Shuttle-Ferrying Jet Dismantled for Move to Space ... NASA's historic jumbo jet that ferried retired space shuttles piggyback to their museums is being prepared for its own lift to where it'll be put on public display. The Shuttle ...
- 15:37 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Hubble Catches Breakup I first saw this and thought Hubble caught a comet breaking up, turns out it isn’t it’s an asteroid! Not to mention another Hubble first. The four largest fragments are ...
- 15:17 UTC Parabolic Arc Crystal Growth Experiment Bound for ISS This Month The New York Times has a story about a crystal growth experiment led by Lawrence J. DeLucas of the University of Alabama at Birmingham that will fly to the space ...
- 15:09 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... New posts in the Earth Matters blog - Last Day to Vote in...
- 15:08 UTC Coalition for Space... CSExtra – Top Space News for Friday, March 7, 2014 To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject ...
- 15:07 UTC Universe Today Evidence Of Giant, Growing Louisiana Sinkhole Showed Up I... A Louisiana sinkhole the size of 19 American football fields shifted sideways in radar measurements before its collapse and resulting evacuations in 2012, a study reveals. The implication is that ...
- 15:00 UTC ESO Announcements Win a trip to Paranal in the Photo Nightscape Awards 2014 ESO invites you to take part in the first edition of the Photo Nightscape Awards (PNA) — an international photo nightscape competition to celebrate astrophotography. As a partner in the ...
- 14:58 UTC Universe Today See Light Pollution in Action Like anyone else who’s ever looked up at the night sky in any but the smallest cities, I’ve seen light pollution first-hand. Like anyone else even marginally involved in amateur ...
- 14:53 UTC SPACE.com Space History Photo: Armstrong and Scott with Hatches Ope... Two astronauts await recovery after completing the Gemini VIII mission.
- 14:47 UTC New Scientist Hubble catches first disintegrating asteroid on camera The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a space rock as it breaks apart – the first one ever caught in the act. What's to blame?
- 14:45 UTC NASA Tech Briefs Researchers Mass-Manufacture Using Compostable Material Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute have developed a method to carry out large-scale manufacturing of everyday objects — from cell phones to food containers and toys — using a fully ...
- 14:38 UTC SPACE.com Colliding Comets May Be Hiding Alien Planet | Video Astronomers studying the dust and gas around bright star Beta Pictoris have discover a cloud of debris from collisions of icy comet-like bodies. Its possilbe that the comets are trapped ...