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10 Dec 2013
- 05:09 UTC Sydney Observatory Harry lists the super flares of the current solar cycle 2... Flares stronger than class X1 during the current solar cycle plotted as bars. Some have been shifted a little to avoid overlapping. Sketch and copyright Harry Roberts ©, all rights ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Smog Shrouds Eastern China December 2013 brought thick haze that stretched from Beijing to Shanghai.
- 04:50 UTC Astro Watch MIT’s Lincoln Lab Helps Speed Space Communication Building a broadband connection to outer space requires something entirely sci-fi: a laser beam that can hit the moon. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington recently ...
- 04:24 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... MBIQ Detects UK Meteor 09DEC2013 MBIQ Detects UK Meteor 0:25:00 09DEC2013 Report your meteor sightings please- http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2000/11/meteor-fireball-report-form.html Initial Meteor Sighting Reports- 09DEC2013 Simon Longden Seaton, Devon UK 0:29:00 5 N Blue with yellow tail Slight ...
- 04:09 UTC SPACE.com Allow NASA to Do Great Things Again (Op-Ed) If NASA were able to leave the rocket booster business, it could go back to true innovation.
- 04:04 UTC Universe Today Curiosity Discovers Ancient Mars Lake Could Support Life NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered evidence that an ancient Martian lake had the right chemical ingredients that could have sustained microbial life forms for long periods of time – and ...
- 03:11 UTC Space Safety Magazi... How Pop-Music Helps in Space Debris Detection As odd as it may sound, popular music can help detect space debris – at least pop-music broadcast via radio waves by terrestrial radio stations. Radio waves transmitted by ground-based ...
- 02:31 UTC The Planetary Socie... Curiosity results at AGU: Gale crater rocks are old, but ... In a Martian first, the Curiosity science team has measured the age of a Martian rock, in two totally different ways. They presented the result at the 2013 meeting of ...
- 02:30 UTC Astronomy.com News New neutrino cooling theory changes understanding of neut... Massive X-ray superbursts near the surface of neutron stars are providing a unique window into the operation of fundamental forces of nature under extreme conditions.
- 02:00 UTC Discover New Signs of Long-Gone Life on Mars A spectacular nail-biter of a landing was just the beginning. This was the year Mars’ rover Curiosity proved its worth by giving researchers unprecedented access to the Red Planet.
- 01:41 UTC Starts With A Bang! Messier Monday: A Spiral with an Active Black Hole, M106 “The proverb warns that ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.” -Thomas Szasz But on this Messier ...
- 01:34 UTC NASA Watch And Today's Lazy Photo Editor Award Goes To ... Virgin Galactic Could Bring Jobs to Rural NM, Public News Service "PHOTO: New Mexico's rural economy could get a boost after Virgin Galactic starts its flights into outer space. Photo ...
- 01:25 UTC ABC Moons leave their mark on Jupiter's aurora GLOWING FOOTPRINTS: Astronomers have discovered two spots in an auroral footprint caused by Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede.
- 01:07 UTC Astronomy Computing... Astroinformatics 2013 – Day Two Morning, December 10 Day Two of Astroinformatics 2013, hosted by CSIRO, where we are discussing advances in data processing, manipulation and management – crucial topics in modern astronomy. You can see the agenda ...
- 01:03 UTC Spaceports Wallops Island: Antares-Cygnus Launch Delayed 1-Day to De... The launch of the Antares-Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station has been delayed by one day to Wednesday, December 18, 2013 from Wallops Island, Va. carrying among its cargo ...
- 00:41 UTC Not Even Wrong What’s Next? Last week’s public lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study by Nati Seiberg is now available online. He was speaking with the title What’s Next? and promoting a story about ...
9 Dec 2013
- 23:51 UTC SPACE.com Coldest Place On Earth - NASA Finds It | Video Data from several NASA satellites have been analyzed and the lowest temperature detected was a record breaking -136° F (-93.2° C) on Aug 10th, 2013 on a high ridge in ...
- 23:33 UTC Spaceports Robonaut 2 Getting His Space Legs NASA engineers are developing climbing legs for the International Space Station's robotic crew member Robonaut 2 (R2), marking another milestone in space humanoid robotics. The legless R2, currently attached to ...
- 23:25 UTC Universe Today And the Coldest Place on Earth Is … What is the coldest place on Earth? Scientists say it’s a place so cold that ordinary mercury or alcohol thermometers won’t work there. At this place, the new record of ...
- 23:10 UTC SPACE.com Chinese Rocket Failure Destroys Earth-Observation Satelli... A $250 million Earth-observation satellite developed by China and Brazil was lost in launch mishap on a Long March 4B rocket early Monday (Dec. 9), officials said. The CBERS 3 ...
- 22:29 UTC SPACE.com Moon May Outshine Geminid Meteor Shower Peak This Week This week marks the peak of what is usually considered the most satisfying of all annual meteor displays: the Geminid meteor shower.
- 22:18 UTC SPACE.com Russian Rocket Launches Satellite to Boost On-the-Go Broa... A Proton rocket lifted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday (Dec. 8), launching a powerful satellite to kick off a $1.6 billion next-generation fleet for Inmarsat, the London-based operator specializing in ...
- 22:15 UTC The Daily Galaxy NASA Presents Hesperian-Era Evidence that Mars Could Have... In a little more than a year on the Red Planet, the mobile Mars Science Laboratory has determined the age of a Martian rock, found evidence the planet could have ...
- 22:13 UTC Urban Astronomer NASA's WISE decision In September this year, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope was reactivated to begin its new mission (NEOWISE) to search for and classify potentially hazardous Near-Earth Objects, like ...
- 22:10 UTC Lunar Networks It's not bragging if you do it Climbing high over the central Pacific, a forward camera on the Long March 3B third stage captured the deployment of Chang'e-3 on its 112 hour "Journey to the Moon." Launched ...
- 22:00 UTC ABC How on Earth does gold get into gum trees? GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: Gold originally came from exploding stars, but there are many layers to the story of how this precious metal found its way into eucalyptus trees. Dr ...
- 21:59 UTC Astro Watch First Age Measurement on Mars NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. In a little more than a year ...
- 21:58 UTC New Scientist Alien life could have basked in big bang's afterglow The cosmic radiation that existed about 15 million years after the big bang could have made the whole universe warm enough to support life
- 21:56 UTC SPACE.com Northern Lights Dance Over Maine Farmhouse in Stunning Ph... Northern Lights dance over a farmhouse in this jaw-dropping night sky photo recently sent to SPACE.com.
- 21:52 UTC SPACE.com Spectacular Night Sky Photos by Stargazers: December 2013... See amazing solar eclipse and night sky photos taken by SPACE.com readers in December 2013 in this amateur astronomer image gallery.
- 21:52 UTC Space Fellowship Hidden Details Revealed in Nearby Starburst Galaxy: Green... Using the new, high-frequency capabilities of the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have captured never-before-seen details of the nearby starburst galaxy M82. These new ...
- 21:51 UTC Space Fellowship Station Crew Supports Science, Preps for Cargo Ship Captu... The six-person Expedition 38 crew of the International Space Station began the week Monday supporting a variety of scientific experiments, performing maintenance activities and preparing for the arrival of the ...
- 21:47 UTC AMSAT-UK Say Hi to Juno – Presentation In a post on the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Andy Thomas G0SFJ informs us of a presentation on Tuesday, December 10 regarding the amateur radio “Say Hi to Juno” project. ...
- 21:43 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Mars Radiation Risk 'Manageable' for Human Missions The risk of radiation exposure is not a show-stopper for a long-term manned mission to Mars, new results from NASA's Curiosity rover suggest.
- 21:39 UTC SPACE.com Looks Like a Comet But Feels Like an Asteroid? That's Wil... Scientists had always characterized comets and asteroids as completely different before NASA's Stardust Mission.
- 21:36 UTC e! Science News Hidden details revealed in nearby starburst galaxy Using the new, high-frequency capabilities of the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have captured never-before-seen details of the nearby starburst galaxy M82. These new ...
- 21:35 UTC e! Science News CU-Boulder scientist: 2012 solar storm points up need fo... A massive ejection of material from the sun initially traveling at over 7 million miles per hour that narrowly missed Earth last year is an event solar scientists hope will ...
- 21:31 UTC Sky and Telescope New View of Saturn's Hexagon
- 21:30 UTC Lunar Networks "Lunar Aspirations" - Beijing Review Saleswoman in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, displays a model of China's lunar rover, Yutu, on December 4, 2013 [Wu Lu/Beijing Review].Yuan YuanBeijing Review.com.cnAfter 10 years of space exploration efforts, China has ...
- 21:21 UTC Space Fellowship NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Expl... NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. In a little more than a year ...
- 21:14 UTC Astro Watch IRIS Provides Unprecedented Images of Sun The region located between the surface of the sun and its atmosphere has been revealed as a more violent place than previously understood, according to images and data from NASA's ...
- 21:12 UTC Universe Today See What the Moon Will Look Like in All of 2014 in Just 5... Here’s how the Moon will look to us on Earth during the entire year of 2014. Using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization ...
- 21:08 UTC JP Aerospace Blog Mach Two Shock Tube We’re getting ready to start testing the airship’s drag reduction systems. The main tool we will be using is a mach two shock tube. A shock tube is a very ...
- 21:00 UTC SPACE.com Amateur Astronomer Sees Jupiter, 2 Moons & a Shadow (Phot... Andrew Kwon took this image of Jupiter on Nov. 20 from his backyard observatory in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
- 20:53 UTC Astro Watch China-Brazil Satellite Fails to Enter Orbit A joint Chinese-Brazilian high-resolution remote-sensing satellite CBERS-3 failed to enter orbit after its launch earlier Monday, military sources said. "The rocket malfunctioned during the flight, and the satellite failed to ...
- 20:44 UTC The New York Times Out There: ‘The Unbelievers’ Chronicles Road Tripping Sci... In the new documentary “The Unbelievers,” an engaging, if contrasting, pair of scientists set off on a worldwide tour to promote reason.
- 20:34 UTC Artsnova Digital Ar... Roadmap to Space Settlement 2014 International Student Ar... The National Space Society (NSS) has announced its Roadmap to Space Settlement 2014 International Student Art Contest, a contest for which I am one of the art judges. Art must ...
- 20:31 UTC SPACE.com Orbital Sciences Names Next Private Space Station Freight... The next U.S. commercial spacecraft to fly to the International Space Station has been named for Gordon Fullerton, the late NASA astronaut who helped to deploy air-launched rockets built by ...
- 20:28 UTC What's Up? The Spac... Curiosity's Latest News From Mars Hey Space Placers!NASA's Curiosity rover has been busy on Mars. Latest from American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference being held this week in San Francisco.NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and ...
- 20:18 UTC Astro Watch Northumberland Hopes to Turn 'Dark Sky Park' Into Star At... The last stretch of England that rolls and dips from Hadrian's wall to the Scottish border loses none of its beauty in the winter months. Yet as the days get ...