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22 Mar 2010
- 05:07 UTC 13.7 How Can Mind Act On Matter? By Stuart Kauffman Rene' Descartes in about 1650, when Descartes posted two substances, Res Extentsa and Res Cogitans. Res Extensa is to be the material, and for Descartes the mechanical ...
- 04:20 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Rising Waters in St. Paul Acquired on March 17, 2010 (top), and August 5, 2009 (bottom), these false-color images show differences in vegetation and river levels at different times of year. Vegetation appears bright green. ...
- 04:20 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Houston, Texas at Night Taken on January 31, 2010, this astronaut photograph shows Houston at night. Different land uses appear at varying levels of brightness, with bright lights in Houston proper, and no lights ...
- 03:53 UTC Simostronomy Unprecedented Eruption Catches Astronomers By Surprise An alert was raised March 11 when Japanese amateur astronomers announced what might have been the discovery of a new 8th magnitude nova in the constellation of Cygnus. It was ...
- 03:53 UTC Observing the Sky Lots of Cirrus. As the subject of the post says, there was a lot of cirrus clouds across my sky today, but I was able to get a clear look at the Sun ...
- 02:17 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com STS-131: RRCS testing positive ahead of FRR flight ration... A full set of testing on the primary and secondary regulators on Discovery’s Right Reaction Control System (RRCS) – located downstream of the leaking helium isolation valve – has being ...
- 00:19 UTC Lunar Networks Surveyor 6 on the plains of Sinus Medii Surveyor 6 casting 18-meter long shadow with Sun just 8° above the horizon, LROC NAC image M117501284L [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].Mark RobinsonLROC News SystemThe Surveyor spacecraft (1966-1968) were designed to characterize ...
21 Mar 2010
- 23:01 UTC Lunar Networks Surveyor 5: A hole-in-one Surveyor 5 (At least we found the right image), swept up by the LROC narrow-angle camera on-board LRO during orbit 870, September 4, 2009, from 122.38 km over the southeastern ...
- 22:13 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Another Good Reason Not to Shoot Nukes at Asteroids A new study suggests that even if you did successfully blow up an asteroid with a nuclear weapon, the newly radioactive asteroid pieces could reform under mutual gravity in an ...
- 22:12 UTC EAAE News APEX Snaps First Close-up of Star Factories in Distant U... Source: ESO Science Release eso1012 For the first time, astronomers have made direct measurements of the size and brightness of regions of star-birth in a very distant galaxy, thanks to ...
- 22:09 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Houston, Texas at Night Taken on January 31, 2010, this astronaut photograph shows Houston at night. Different land uses appear at varying levels of brightness, with bright lights in Houston proper, and no lights ...
- 21:59 UTC Astronomy.FM Skylog... Sky Safari March 21 - Galileo: Father of Modern Astronomy Join us on AFM*Radio, March 21 at 2 pm EDT (1600 UTC) for "Galileo - Father of Modern Astronomy"!
- 21:59 UTC Astronomy.FM Skylog... Galileo - Father of Modern Astronomy Travel back 400 years to meet Galileo Galilei, whose discoveries and scientific method set the foundation for science as we know it today.
- 21:13 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Demolition Derby is Never-Ending in Saturn's Rings A billion miles away there is a never-ending demolition derby taking place among myriad flying boulders that have been bumping and grinding inside Saturn’s magnificent rings since the early days ...
- 19:59 UTC Astroblog HowlerFest 2010 Way back in prehistory, when the world was young and the TalkOrigins archives were less than a megabyte, Ted Holden dubbed the denizens of the USENET forum TalkOrigins “Howler Monkeys”, ...
- 19:00 UTC South Texas Stargaz... Come Stare at the Moon Monday Night! SALSA, The San Antonio League of Sidewalk Astronomers, will be hosting a free astronomy event for the public tomorrow night: When: Monday - March 22nd, around 7:30 pm Where: Barnes ...
- 18:19 UTC Universe Today Galaxies in Early Universe Experienced "Growth Spurt" Looking back in time – and through a gravitational lens – astronomers found evidence that galaxies in the early Universe went through a "growth spurt" of rapid and vigorous star ...
- 17:50 UTC Starts With A Bang Weekend Diversion: A little Sun for everyone Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, ...
- 17:40 UTC In the Dark Dark Horizons Last Tuesday night I gave a public lecture as part of Cardiff University’s contribution to National Science and Engineering Week. I had an audience of about a hundred people, although ...
- 17:06 UTC Spaceports NASA to Talk Budget With Senator Mikulski NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin and NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Council member John Frost are now scheduled to appear before the US Senate Appropriations subcommittee ...
- 16:30 UTC Universe Today Unprecedented Eruption Catches Astronomers By Surprise An alert was raised March 11 when Japanese amateur astronomers announced what might have been the discovery of a new 8th magnitude nova in the constellation of Cygnus. It was ...
- 16:12 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... Lunokhod lost, sold, and found Russia's second of two robotic lunar rovers launched during the 1970s, Lunokhod 2 set the record for the longest trek on a celestial body at 23 miles. Rolling to a ...
- 15:00 UTC Alien Life Rosetta stone of exoplanet research and new wave of astro... Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Abodes - Astronomers have identified a gas giant exoplanet ...
- 13:54 UTC The e-Astronomer Joint post : UK space liftoff Three v.v.exciting things happened in the last few days. (i) I signed up for Twitter. You can find me here. Pretty quickly lots of old chums and blog readers sent ...
- 13:38 UTC Universe Today This Week in Space — Chicken Little Edition Incoming? This Week in Space looks at the sinister stealthy near earth asteroids that the WISE mission is finding that are lurking dangerously near Earth and only visible in the ...
- 11:22 UTC Cumbrian Sky More martian poetry… Take a look… http://astropoetry.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/museum-peace
- 11:20 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Candor Chasma This animation of a virtual flight over of the southwestern part of the Candor Chasma on Mars was made from HiRISE Digital Terrain Models (DTM’s). Essentially DTM’s are made from ...
- 11:11 UTC Astroblog Opposition of Saturn 22 March 2010. The northern sky at 11:00 pm local daylight saving time as seen from mid latitudes in Australia on March 22, 2010. Similar views will be seen elsewhere in the Southern ...
- 10:41 UTC Space Fellowship ILS Proton Successfully Launches EchoStar XIV BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan, (ILS) – International Launch Services (ILS), a leading mission and launch services provider for the global commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the EchoStar XIV satellite into orbit ...
- 10:19 UTC astropixie the only chat roulette you need to bother watching i've watched this several times and laugh every time!
- 09:55 UTC IYA2009 Updates International Sidewalk Astronomy Night Fourth annual event on 20 March Amateur Astronomers everywhere should take their telescopes out on the street to share with the public! John Dobson started on the corner of Jackson ...
- 08:59 UTC Lunar Networks Surveyor 7 Speculation From among the commissioning and first of the nominal LRO mission LROC NAC imagery including published landing sites of five of the seven successful U.S. Surveyor robotic landers perhaps the ...
- 08:05 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Why Sea Lilies Walk New research has shown that sea urchins have been preying on sea lilies for over 200 million years, and this interaction led to lilies developing the ability to creep along ...
- 07:05 UTC The Discovery Enter... The Universe - The Wildest Weather in the Cosmos Today on Discovery Enterprise we are going to take a guided tour to locals far removed where the weather is distinctly inclement. Imagine a tornado so powerful, it can form ...
- 06:26 UTC Universe Today Obama Made Mistake Cancelling NASAs Constellation; Sen. B... "The President made a mistake," said Sen. Bill Nelson (D) of Florida in referring to President Barack Obama’s recent decision to completely terminate Project Constellation from the 2011 NASA Budget. ...
- 04:12 UTC Spaceports Will Obama See The Red Planet from Florida? President Barack Obama will be playing to a skeptical NASA pro-space audience come April 15, 2010 at the Kennedy Space Center meeting venue and the much larger Interstate 4 Florida ...
- 04:11 UTC Spaceports This Week in Space with Miles O'Brien Jack@JackKennedy.net
- 03:57 UTC Observing the Sky Moon: Day 5 - “Bold Ridges.” Another clear evening to observe the Moon, this time in Taurus & its own diameter left of M-45, the Pleiades star cluster. Daylight on the Moon has just recently revealed ...
- 03:37 UTC New Papyrus Is CANDU a Success Story? Re: Time to rethink AECL's meltdown, Tom Adams, Feb. 26 After reading Tom Adams' dismal portrayal of AECL and CANDU, I felt compelled to respond to your readers with a ...
- 01:28 UTC Astronomy.FM Skylog... Sky Safari March 21 - On March 21 at 2 pm EDT (1600 UT), Sky Safari travels back 400 years to meet Galileo Galilei.
- 00:57 UTC Space Politics Houston’s delegation optimistic about Constellation On Thursday morning eight members of the House from the greater Houston area held a press conference with Houston mayor Annise Parker (at the podium above, flanked by the House ...
- 00:57 UTC Spaceports Commercial Human Launch by 2015 Orbital Sr. VP Frank Culbertson appearing before the Augustine Commission in 2009.Former NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson, now Senior Vice-President at Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation, appeared before a Senate Commerce subcommittee ...
- 00:09 UTC Astro Bob Saturn closest to Earth tonight plus Mercury's on the way Watch for Mercury to return to the evening sky this coming week.
- 00:03 UTC Spacevidcast “Space is Boring” remix by VaxHeadroom In the Spacevidcast Live 3.10 post show this last week we all had a good laugh over the idea of a ‘Space is Boring’ song. Maybe a techno beat. Something ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA Watch Nelson's Compromise Emerges Sen. Nelson Floats Alternate Use for NASA Commercial Crew Money, Space News "As the Senate Commerce Committee begins work on a 2010 NASA authorization bill, science and space subcommittee chairman ...
20 Mar 2010
- 23:41 UTC reevesAstronomy: As... How to Install / Upgrade RAM and Hard Drives in a Desktop... A video I made showing how to swap out RAM and hard drives.
- 23:34 UTC Spacevidcast SxSW and your Moon 2.0 passion – 3.10 Cariann went to SxSW and spoke on the Moon 2.0 panel. She delivers a quick wrapup of the SxSW Interactive week as well as getting in to finding your inner ...
- 23:26 UTC Universe Today Astronomy Without A Telescope – How To Impress An Alien (... It's about fifty years since Frank Drake sent out our first chat request to the wider universe. I say about as I think the official date is 11 April 1960 ...
- 23:17 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Rising Waters in St. Paul Acquired on March 17, 2010 (top), and August 5, 2009 (bottom), these false-color images show differences in vegetation and river levels at different times of year. Vegetation appears bright green. ...
- 23:05 UTC Spaceports Soyuz Plans April 2, 2010 Flight to ISS Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, fellow Russian Mikhail Korniyenko and American NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, will take off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan on April 2, 2010 ...