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2 Sep 2010
- 16:24 UTC Universe Today Oh Canada! Hadfield Named First Canandian Commander of IS... Congratulations to one of our favorite astronauts, Chris Hadfield from Canada. Today NASA and the Canadian Space Agency announced Hadfield will be heading to the International Space Station in 2012, ...
- 16:22 UTC Cosmic Variance Look, but don’t touch There is a struggle going on for NASA’s soul. Is NASA all about sending human beings into space? Or is NASA about elucidating the secrets of the cosmos? The former ...
- 16:12 UTC Young Astronomers The Dusty Mysteries of NGC 4696 This is NGC 4696, an NGC 4696 credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA This is NGC 4696, an ancient ball of old and dying stars 150 million light years away. This elliptical ...
- 15:57 UTC Cosmic Diary Good bye, Paranal Last evening's cloudy sunset seen from the top of Paranal Everything, sooner or later, comes to an end. This is my last day on Paranal, and it is quite unusual. ...
- 15:54 UTC Astro Bob Side by side, these giants stalk the night The name of Anthony Wesley, an amateur astronomer from Australia, often comes up in this blog because of his remarkable discoveries of two meteoroid impacts on Jupiter over the past ...
- 15:41 UTC NASA Watch Making Space Food TV's 'Top Chefs' cook up ultimate astronaut takeout, space.com "Among those who tasted the cosmically inspired dishes during the show were former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the ...
- 15:40 UTC Astronomy magazine ... Celestron and Granite Gap team up for dark skies Celestron Community Relations Coordinator Kevin Kawai (right) delivers a Celestron CGE Pro 1400HD telescope to Gene Turner for his new astronomy development, Granite Gap near Animas, New Mexico. Kevin Kawai ...
- 15:35 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs; Copenhagen Sub. update; Solar sails; Space prizes... Saturday, Sept. 4th is the current target date for the Copenhagen Suborbitals launch of the HEAT-1X rocket. ==== An overview of current solar sail projects and speculation on future applications: ...
- 15:31 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... Assignments NASA and its partners in the International Space Station (ISS) named on Thursday the crew of Soyuz TMA-08M, who will join the Expedition 34 crew in December 2012 and then, ...
- 15:29 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Space UP DC review; Nobel winners et al letter Here's an audio clip of a discussion about the recent SpaceUP DC event: Evadot Podcast #33 - SpaceUp DC, the aftermath. BTW, esources related to the event are at SpaceUpDC ...
- 15:00 UTC Alien Life What If everybody is listening and nobody is transmitting... Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Stars - A striking galaxy buzzing with energetic star ...
- 14:58 UTC NASA Astrobiology I... Montana's First Fellow of the American Chemical Society Tim Minton, a researcher and professor at Montana State University and member of the NAI Astrobiology Biogeocatalysis Research Center (ABRC), has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, ...
- 14:58 UTC Starry Critters Galactic Pac-Man Interacting galaxies form a Pac-Man shape moving in to devour a distant galaxy in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Explore the pair known as NGC 6090. Credit: NASA, ...
- 14:51 UTC Space Politics Garver: “a lessening of tensions” in the NASA budget deba... In a luncheon speech Tuesday at the AIAA Space 2010 conference in Anaheim, California, NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver sounded an optimistic and even a bit of a conciliatory note ...
- 14:34 UTC Universe Today Hawking: God Not Needed for Universe to be Created Physicist Stephen Hawking has written a new book called "The Grand Design." While the title might seem like Hawking might be delving more into the “mind of God” that he ...
- 14:28 UTC Astroblog See Baroness Greenfield at the Florey Lecture (Friday Sep... The Florey Lecture is an Annual Public Lecture at the University of Adelaide where a distinguished international scientist talks about some aspect of medical science and how it touches our ...
- 14:15 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Dissecting Hurricane Earl: Big Pics Satellites are giving us amazing new looks inside the guts of Hurricane Earl as it bears down on the U.S. coast.
- 14:01 UTC 13.7 Life Is A Patchwork Quilt Even single cell creatures have most of the genomes responsible for complex life. But why are they there? by Ursula Goodenough Marcello treated us to a blog yesterday on the ...
- 14:01 UTC 13.7 Life Is A Patchwork Quilt Even single cell creatures have most of the genomes responsible for complex life. But why are they there? by Ursula Goodenough Marcello treated us to a blog yesterday on the ...
- 14:00 UTC NASA Watch Rocket Motors to Nowhere? Frank's note: Heaven forbid that the 5-segment solid rocket motor test would have blown up - nobody in their right minds would want that. But I have to ask why ...
- 13:56 UTC In the Dark Hawking and the Mind of God I woke up this morning to the news that, according to Stephen Hawking, God did not create the Universe but it was instead an “inevitable consequence of the Law of ...
- 13:56 UTC IYA2009 Updates Online Universe Wins AAAS Education Website Award A website that brings the universe into the homes and onto the computer screens of professional and amateur astronomers alike has won a Science Prize for Online Resources in Education, ...
- 13:52 UTC Evadot Evadot Podcast #33 – SpaceUp DC, the aftermath Joining Michael today is a great group of SpaceUp DC participants. Michael called them “attendees” in the beginning which isn’t correct. There are only participants at SpaceUp. These 4 people ...
- 13:38 UTC IYA2009 Updates Postcards from the Edge of the Universe On 7 September at 10:30 a book based on the IYA2009 Cornerstone project, Cosmic Diary, entitled Postcards from the Edge of the Universe, will be launched at the ESO exhibition ...
- 13:38 UTC Astroblog The Return of We can be Heros (just for one Day) After a break of a year, due to family commitments, I am entering the City to Bay fun run. In 2008 I ran a whole 6 kilometres. This year, I'm ...
- 13:34 UTC Space Fellowship Picture of the Day - A Bright Supernova The explosion of a massive star blazes with the light of 200 million Suns in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The arrow at top right points to the stellar blast, ...
- 12:59 UTC NASA Watch Buzz Says Send English Speakers to Mars Buzz Aldrin calls for NZ to help in Mars exploration, Stuff.co.nz "Moonwalk pioneer Buzz Aldrin says Australia and New Zealand should be part of an international coalition to explore and ...
- 12:43 UTC IYA2009 Updates JENAM2010 Special Session: New Trends in Global Astronomy... Science Education is acknowledged globally as a major aspect of a modern education system. But it is also known that the interest of the younger generations in science topics has ...
- 12:03 UTC Pillow Astronaut The Dark Side The downside of doing journalistic-type media reviews is that every time I promote a book or a movie I enjoyed, I get an onslaught of suggestions for other books and ...
- 11:44 UTC Space Fellowship Cluster turns the invisible into the visible Cluster has spent a decade revealing previously hidden interactions between the Sun and Earth. Its studies have uncovered secrets of the aurora, solar storms, and given us insight into fundamental ...
- 11:37 UTC Space Fellowship The Superwind Galaxy NGC 4666 The galaxy NGC 4666 takes pride of place at the centre of this new image, made in visible light with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ...
- 11:35 UTC Universe Today NASA & ATK Turn Sand to Glass With DM-2 Test The deserts of Promontory, Utah came alive with fire as NASA and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) tested the Development Motor-2 (DM-2). The five-segment, first-stage of the Ares rocket was activated at ...
- 11:31 UTC The Launch Pad Prize Roundup: MICI Presentations, MoonBots Winners, More... @doug_comstock: Congrats to X-Hab proposers Oklahoma St, Univ of Wisc, and Univ of Maryland. Now let the competition begin! http://tinyurl.com/x-hab-selNASA Selects University Finalists for Inflatable Loft Competition - NASA (so ...
- 11:13 UTC The Discovery Enter... Red Rain - Alien life? Alex has posted on Panspermia , the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, and planetoids, previously, but finding real evidence has been difficult. In 2001 ...
- 10:52 UTC Mars and Me Spirit Sol 592 Just in front of Spirit are a couple of tasty-looking rocks -- concave, with some kind of striations, almost as if they were wheel prints. At the SOWG there's a ...
- 09:33 UTC IYA2009 Updates Babak Tafreshi: Hosting Star Parties in Iran Babak Tafreshi featured on Dicover Magazine: http://discovermagazine.com/2010/may/17-questions-hosting-star-parties-in-iran Inspired by Carl Sagan, Babak Tafreshi is on a mission to bring the wonder of astronomy to the Middle East, and to the ...
- 09:13 UTC Space Fellowship Three more GLONASS satellites put into orbit MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti) Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket put three GLONASS satellites into orbit on Thursday, a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said. The rocket blasted off from ...
- 09:09 UTC Space Fellowship Seven Things You Didn't Know About Mercury Pity poor Mercury. The tiny planet endures endless assaults by intense sunlight, powerful solar wind and high-speed miniature meteoroids called micrometeoroids. The planet's flimsy covering, the exosphere, nearly blends in ...
- 09:00 UTC Space Fellowship Science and Maintenance for Station Crew As part of the ongoing Russian Seiner experiment, Expedition 24 Commander Alexander Skvortsov photographed and documented developments and conditions in the Earth’s oceans Wednesday. His unique perspective of the oceans ...
- 08:53 UTC Space Fellowship Herschel Finds Water in a Cosmic Desert ESA’s Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is ...
- 08:47 UTC Space Fellowship Fly your experiment to the edge of space! ESA is inviting students to propose experiments to fly on sounding rockets and stratospheric balloons. The winning teams will have the opportunity to design and build an experiment for the ...
- 08:46 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Two Chinese Satellites Have Close Encounter in Orbit It would appear that China has successfully carried out a satellite rendezvous maneuver in orbit. And on August 19, the two satellites may have even touched, one probe being shunted ...
- 08:36 UTC Space Fellowship Boeing-built GOES-15 Weather Satellite Enters Service for... Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that GOES-15, the company's eighth Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, has completed on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service by NASA and the National Oceanic ...
- 08:06 UTC 21st Century Waves Readers’ Favorite Posts — August, 2010 This is an updated end-of-August list of our readers’ favorite posts, based on the number of times each post was visited during the times indicated below. The lists below include ...
- 07:05 UTC The Discovery Enter... Carl Sagan's Cosmos – The Persistence of Memory Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the eleventh episode of Carl Sagan’s highly acclaimed PBS documentary series – Cosmos: The Persistence of Memory.In this instalment of Cosmos, The Brain is ...
- 06:32 UTC The Sky Above Mind Museum Volunteers Needed! The Mind Museum’s announcement over Facebook: The Mind Museum is currently looking for interested applicants who will serve as Mind Museum Representatives in the following: 1. Roving Space Shell Man ...
- 05:49 UTC Beyond Apollo Lunar base or space station? (1984) In December 1983, the National Science Foundation's Division of Policy Research and Analysis enlisted Science Applications Incorporated (SAI) of McLean, Virginia, to compare the science and technology research potential of ...
- 05:43 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Commercial spaceflight countdown Another overview of commercial spaceflight companies: Counting Down to Commercial Space Launches: The next few years will see at least two new commercial spacecraft put into orbit - Technology Review ...
- 05:11 UTC HobbySpace Blog Moonbots Challenge winners announced The winners of the Moonbots competition, which started with 200 teams from 16 nations, have been selected: /-- X PRIZE Foundation and LEGO Group Announce Winners in "MoonBots" Educational Contest ...
- 05:06 UTC The Gish Bar Times Io Volcano of the Week: Tvashtar - Part Three Over the last few days, we have focused on the geology and volcanic history of Tvashtar Paterae, a string of four volcanoes located within Io's high northern latitudes. During the ...