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26 May 2013
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Arctic Amplification Temperatures are warming faster in the Arctic than anywhere else in the world. Here’s why.
- 02:42 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... MBIQ Detects MD VA Meteor 25MAY2013 MBIQ Detects MD VA Meteor 25MAY2013If you witnessed a meteor event please file a meteor sighting report on this site; thank you.http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.jp/2011/12/december-2011-meteorfireball-sighting.htmlPlease also get the word out about this website ...
- 02:07 UTC astrobites The Cosmic γ-Ray Horizon In today's astrobite, we discuss the opacity of the Universe to high energy photons. The cosmic gamma-ray horizon, constrained by the authors of this paper, is a measure of this ...
- 01:55 UTC Music of the Sphere... Carnival of Space #303 It's been a long time since I participated in the Carnival of Space. I've been doing other things like work and music, and I haven't been reading and writing as ...
- 01:14 UTC Space Politics Draft export control lists released Last week, a Commerce Department official said that the administration’s long-awaited revisions to Category XV of the US Munitions List, which covers satellites and related components, would be published in ...
- 00:46 UTC Beyond Earthly Skie... Cooling a Venus Rover An ocean flowed on Venus eons pastBefore a body blow reversed her spinAnd now alas, unlike her earthly twinHer waters to the heavens have been cast.Tectonic plates, unoiled, locking fastAnd ...
- 00:16 UTC Parabolic Arc Bolden Views Dream Chaser, Flies Simulated Landing Video Caption: NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden had the opportunity to fly a simulated landing of the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Dream Chaser while touring the agency’s Dryden Flight Research Center ...
- 00:00 UTC Sky Caramba June 2013 astronomy events The three planet meetup is ending, Mercury continues with its best show, the sun reaches its northernmost point, and maybe a meteor shower. Continue reading → ¡SkyCaramba! Weekly astronomy blog ...
25 May 2013
- 23:56 UTC The Meridiani Journ... Comment on Could life exist in Venus’ atmosphere? by Carn... [...] Could Life Exist in Venus’ Atmosphere? Paul Scott Anderson | The Meridiani Journal [...]
- 22:57 UTC Parabolic Arc SpaceX Works on Seventh Commercial Crew Milestone CCP Spotlight on Development Via NASA Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is working toward completing its seventh milestone for NASA’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative as part of the agency’s ...
- 22:39 UTC Parabolic Arc Perry Signs Beach Closing Bill for Proposed SpaceX Spacep... Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed a new law that will allow officials to temporarily close Boca Chica Beach near Brownsville for launches of SpaceX’s Falcon rockets. The California-based company ...
- 21:59 UTC Universe Today Opportunity Discovers Clays Favorable to Martian Biology ... Now nearly a decade into her planned 3 month only expedition to Mars, NASA’s longest living rover Opportunity, struck gold and has just discovered the strongest evidence to date for ...
- 21:57 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... MBIQ Detects Doha Meteor 25MAY2013 MBIQ Detects Doha Meteor 25MAY2013If you witnessed a meteor event please file a meteor sighting report on this site; thank you.http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.jp/2011/12/december-2011-meteorfireball-sighting.htmlPlease also get the word out about this website on ...
- 21:08 UTC EAAE News Proba-V opens its eyes Source: ESA/Proba Proba-V’s first image. Image credits: ESA. Earth watcher Proba-V is in good health following its launch last week. The Vegetation imager has been switched on and the first ...
- 20:55 UTC Not Even Wrong The “Unnatural” Standard Model The Standard Model is a physical theory of a spectacularly successful sort. It is built on beautiful and deep mathematics, covers almost all known physical phenomena, and agrees precisely with ...
- 20:55 UTC EAAE News Big Weather on Hot Jupiters Source: NASA Science News Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are making weather maps of an exotic class of exoplanets called "hot Jupiters."
- 20:27 UTC Universe Today Mars Society Proposes A Year-Long Arctic Mission To Bette... The Arctic’s a lot like Mars, according to the Mars Society. It’s cold, it’s isolated, and it’s kind of dangerous. And, the society says, it’s ready to bring humans to ...
- 20:00 UTC Sydney Observatory Daily cosmobite: Mars landing anniversary NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the north polar region of Mars on this day (Australian time) in 2008. Phoenix landed in the late northern hemisphere spring on Mars and continued ...
- 19:45 UTC Eastside Astro-Blog Bowie in Space. Not quite David Bowie, but pretty darn cool otherwise. Not the first music video from space, but probably the most appropriate. Chris Hadfield performed this video just before he left ...
- 17:50 UTC Not Even Wrong Various Links The Smithsonian has a long article about Lisa Randall here. The Wall Street Journal has a shorter article about Randall’s high school classmate Brian Greene here. Brian’s World Science Festival ...
- 17:47 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Lunar Eclipse Did you miss the eclipse and why did I NOT mention it? First off, don’t worry, you didn’t miss much if anything. Secondly I didn’t mention it because, well if ...
- 17:39 UTC Science 2.0 The Surfing Is Great On Titan This Time Of Year Saturn's moon Titan might be in for some wild weather as it heads into its spring and summer, if two new models are correct. Scientists think that as the seasons ...
- 17:37 UTC SPACE.com Student-Built Robots to Race in Mock Mars Rover Challenge In less than a week, students from around the world will gather in a remote desert similar to the terrain found on Mars to test their homebuilt rovers.
- 17:17 UTC Astromick The Eastern Veil - Colour The Eastern Veil - Colour, a photo by Mick Hyde on Flickr.Sky 90 Takahashi, Atik 460EX, Baader filters - 5 x 600s 35nm Ha 1x1, 1 x 600s OIII 2x2 ...
- 17:16 UTC Astromick My guidescope set-up. My guidescope set-up., a photo by Mick Hyde on Flickr.Guidescope is a Nikon 135mm lens. Camera is a b/w DMK with 2x barlow lens screwed into the nosepiece. Works great.
- 17:15 UTC Astromick The Eastern Veil - Negative Mono The Eastern Veil - Negative Mono, a photo by Mick Hyde on Flickr.
- 16:43 UTC Astro Bob Cool moon, hot sun and a laser-like PANSTARRS comet Click to watch the nearly full moon cover the bright star Beta Scopii last night. I caught a glimpse of the moon last night but clouds ruled soon after. Too ...
- 16:33 UTC In the Dark The Thought Fox I imagine this midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive Besides the clock’s loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move. Through the window I see no star: Something ...
- 16:08 UTC The Daily Galaxy Giant Mysterious Blobs --"Precursors of Galaxies Powered ... Blobs were first discovered about six years ago by visible-light telescopes, located billions of light-years away in ancient galactic structures or filaments, where thousands of young galaxies are clustered together. ...
- 15:51 UTC SPACE.com Powerful New US Military Satellite Launches Into Orbit A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket launched the new Wideband Global SATCOM 5 satellite into space on May 24, 2013.
- 15:38 UTC SPACE.com Amazing Night Launch Photos: Delta 4 Rocket Launches Mili... See night launch photos of a Delta 4 rocket carrying the WGS-5 satellite for the U.S. military on May 24, 2013.
- 14:34 UTC The Daily Galaxy A "Global-Extinction-Sized" Asteroid to Sail Past Earth N... Near-Earth Objects (NEO) have long been a dilemma for scientists, especially since the discovery of 99942 Apophis in 2004. Apophis was first believed to be heading directly towards earth, and ...
- 14:03 UTC Mars Artists Commun... Nevosoft: Illiterate "Expedition Mars" iPhone Game (...th... "Stay calm, explore the mysterious red planet, research unexpected discoveries, figure out how to get home alive and become part of modern space exploration history!""Mars 2020 - Smoke burns your ...
- 14:01 UTC AMSAT-UK Raw 9K6 ESTCube-1 Data from Surrey Space Centre Groundsta... Chris Bridges ‏@DrChrisBridges tweets the following Raw 9K6 ESTCube-1 Data. http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ssc/ ESTCube-1 is the first Estonian satellite. Developed as part of the Estonian Student Satellite Program, it was launched on ...
- 13:25 UTC Universe Today Rocky Alien Planets: What The Heck Is On Their Surfaces? We don’t have the budget yet to send Star Trek‘s U.S.S. Enterprise to probe the surface of strange new worlds, but luckily for humanity, astronomers are figuring out techniques to ...
- 12:59 UTC SPACE.com Best Space Photos of the Week - May 25, 2013 From a view of the devastating Oklahoma tornado from space to the Milky Way shining over a state park, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week.
- 12:59 UTC Universe Today Famed Pair of Stars Closer To Earth Than We Imagined If you’re a semi-serious amateur astronomer, chances are you’ve heard of a variable pair of stars called SS Cygni. When you watch the system for long enough, you’re rewarded with ...
- 12:00 UTC Bad Astronomy The Beautiful Death of the Sun’s Big Brother The Ring Nebula is one of every amateur astronomer’s favorite objects. From the northern hemisphere it gets up high in the sky in the summer, is ridiculously easy to find, ...
- 12:00 UTC Space Exploration N... Bigelow to test habitat prototype in desert near Las Vega... Bigelow Aerospace plans to test an inflatable module near Las Vegas as part of a set of steps the company is taking to establish expertise for a lunar colony. An ...
- 11:00 UTC Pillow Astronaut SpaceFest V SpaceFest V is in full swing! I cannot believe this is the 5th SpaceFest, and I am just now getting on board. To be fair, it's probably the most expensive ...
- 10:00 UTC AmericaSpace Sifting Through the Atmospheres of Far-off Worlds This image shows the HR 8799 planets with starlight optically suppressed and data processing conducted to remove residual starlight. The star is at the center of the blackened circle in ...
- 10:00 UTC AmericaSpace ‘No Experience Necessary’: The Story of Project Juno (Par... Surrounded by Soviet cosmonauts Musa Manarov, Sergei Krikalev, and Viktor Afanasyev, the first Briton in space enjoys the weightless environment. Helen Sharman’s flight was mired in controversy, as well as ...
- 09:00 UTC AmericaSpace Retro Space Images: Skylab Stars Shine 73HC-453 Photo Credit: NASA Astronaut Pete Conrad leads fellow Skylab 2 astronauts Paul Weitz and Joe Kerwin into the crew transfer van at Kennedy Space Center on the morning of ...
- 09:00 UTC AmericaSpace Countering the Threat Posed by Orbital Debris In this computer simulation, the sheer amount of orbital debris becomes apparent—as does the need to find a way to prevent it. Image Credit: NASA There’s a lot of junk ...
- 08:00 UTC All About Space Could the universe actually be a multiverse? Could there be many different universes, rather than just one? It’s possible: the idea of parallel universes or the multiverse has been around in science fiction for many years and ...
- 07:10 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2013-05-24 SA: Petri SO: Veronica Others: Jonathan, Paul, Vic, Eben; Hitesh on phone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost couple of hours in the beginning to tracker issues, fairly smooth sailing after that, ...
- 05:19 UTC Spaceports SETI: Exploration of the Titan Lakes A SETI Institute Hangout with Nathalie Cabrol (Senior researcher at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute), Liam Pedersen (Senior Robotics Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley / ...
- 05:08 UTC Spaceports NASA Administrator Flies Dream Chaser Sim NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden had the opportunity to fly a simulated landing of the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Dream Chaser while touring the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center in California ...
- 04:22 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... Quebec, Canada - Meteorite Hits Car? 21MAY2013 Quebec, Canada - Meteorite Hits Car? Radio-Canada.CA Germain Laberge of Quebec Claims Meteorite Hit His Car Windscreen Unfortunately there is NO meteorite shown to prove his claims. Video report starts ...
- 04:08 UTC astropixie astrophoto contest winners the 2013 Earth & Sky Photo Contest winners have been announced, and what incredible photos they have taken.here are some personal favorites: