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19 Jun 2013
- 18:31 UTC SDO is GO What is space weather and what research is SDO doing with... Space weather is (1) the study of eruptive solar activity (solar storms) such as solar flares, coronal mass ejections, solar energetic particles, (2) the effect these storms have on Earth, ...
- 18:21 UTC SDO is GO How long will it take SDO to complete its mission? Although it is difficult to determine exactly when the SDO mission will end, we know it will be around for at least another decade. Once the mission has ended, we ...
- 18:12 UTC NASA Astrobiology Martian Clay Contains Compound Important to the Origin of... Electron microscope image showing the 700-million-year-old Martian clay veins containing boron.Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa NASA Astrobiology Institute (UHNAI) have discovered high concentrations of boron in a ...
- 18:09 UTC SDO is GO What has been the most surprising discovery SDO has made ... That is a tough one. Here is one surprising discovery for each of the instruments.AIA: AIA observed a comet travel through the sun’s corona, travel behind the sun and emerge ...
- 18:08 UTC SPACE.com Wave to Saturn! NASA Probe to Photograph Earth from Deep ... Scientists are asking Earthlings to pose for our planet's portrait July 19.
- 18:03 UTC SDO is GO What are the 3 instruments on SDO? HMI (Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager)The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager extends the capabilities of the SOHO/MDI instrument with continual full-disk coverage at higher spatial resolution and new vector magnetogram capabilities.PI: Phil ...
- 18:00 UTC New Scientist Cosmic preheating baked planets, stars and people A new model bridges the gap between the cold, empty universe after inflation and the dense, hot soup that gave rise to all matter
- 17:54 UTC The Guardian Earth will be a 'pale blue dot' in portrait by Nasa's Cas... Nasa's Cassini spacecraft will take an image of Earth from 1.44bn kilometres away. From there, our planet will look like the expected images of alien earths around other starsNasa takes ...
- 17:52 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... The End If this group appears a bit melencholy they probably are. What you are looking at is ESA’s Herschel project scientist, Göran Pilbrat (left) and Spacecraft Operations Manager Micha Schmidt (right), ...
- 17:47 UTC The Daily Galaxy Billion-Pixel View of Mount Sharp --Mars' Curiosity Rover... This full-circle view combined nearly 900 images taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, generating a panorama with 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution version. The view is centered toward the ...
- 17:46 UTC NASA Hack Space 3D Printer Headed for the ISS Passes Critical Microgravit... The first 3D printer bound for space passed a series of critical microgravity tests at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Made in Space, the space manufacturing company, conducted ...
- 17:33 UTC NASA Watch NASA Begins SLS Preliminary Design Review NASA's Space Launch System Program Kicks Off Preliminary Design Review, NASA "NASA is beginning a preliminary design review for its Space Launch System (SLS). This major program assessment will allow ...
- 17:30 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Congress Considers Axing NASA's Asteroid Mission A draft authorization bill from the House Science space subcommittee would cap NASA spending at about $16.87 billion for the next two years and prohibit a proposed asteroid retrieval mission.
- 17:25 UTC SPACE.com Photos: Amazing Images of Earth from Space See spectacular views of Earth from space by astronauts and spacecraft across the solar system.
- 17:24 UTC New Science through... Are Aliens and UFOs Real? (video) – Part 2/2 Are Aliens and UFOs Real? — Are there advanced aliens? Physicist Louis Del Monte addresses the question: Are there advanced aliens? In this concluding segment, Del Monte argues that there ...
- 17:15 UTC Parabolic Arc Made in Space 3-D Printer Headed for International Space ... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Made in Space PR) — The first 3D printer bound for space passed a series of critical microgravity tests at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. ...
- 17:10 UTC SPACE.com New Clues Into Mystery of Mars Meteorites & Rocks Reveale... Look to the rocks to peer into a Martian past.
- 17:09 UTC Universe Today 3-D Printer Passes Key Step On Road to Space Station The joke about home renovation projects is it takes at least three trips to the hardware store to finish the work. In space, of course, spare parts are a lot ...
- 17:09 UTC Parabolic Arc Baikonur: Decrepit and America’s Only Gateway to ISS The New York Times has a rather depressing story on the increasingly decrepit state of the Russian-run city of Baikonur, which supports the once-might cosmodrome where Yuri Gagarin roared off ...
- 17:07 UTC Pembrokeshire Astro... Active Regions on a happy Sun. There have been beautiful blue skies in Pembrokeshire today. After coming home from work this afternoon, I put the kettle on and prepared Tal1 for some solar observing.The Sun seems ...
- 17:06 UTC e! Science News Unusual supernova is doubly unusual for being perfectly n... August, 2011, saw the dazzling appearance of the closest and brightest Type Ia supernova since Type Ia's were established as "standard candles" for measuring the expansion of the universe. The ...
- 17:00 UTC ABC Rocks reveal red planet's oxygen past MARTIAN MANTLE: New research comparing Mars meteorites and Martian surface rocks suggests the red planet had more oxygen than Earth four billion years ago.
- 16:50 UTC AmericaSpace Retro Space Images: Shock & Awe The Saturn V which would carry the Apollo 16 crew to the Moon, surrounded by lightning. Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Light and Sound: Lightning dances around Apollo ...
- 16:50 UTC Universe Today “Horizons” — Gorgeous New Views from Dakotalapse We’ve oohed and ahhed many times over the handiwork of Randy Halverson and his Dakotalapse timelapse videos and imagery of the night sky. He may have outdone himself with his ...
- 16:48 UTC Lunar Networks The Moon's antipodal magnetism mystery A new study of areas diametrically opposite from the Moon's youngest basins goes beyond crustal magnetic fields and swirl albedo features at these opposite coordinates to proposes examples of highly ...
- 16:19 UTC The Mars Society Curiosity's Radiation Results By Robert Zubrin, SpaceNews, 06.18.13Last month, the investigators on the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) instrument aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover announced some of their findings. According to the scientists, the RAD ...
- 16:02 UTC SPACE.com Tour The Latest Supply Freighter To The ISS | Video Take a tour around the ATV 4 'Albert Einstein', the ESA's fourth space freighter built to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
- 16:00 UTC Bad Astronomy Announcing the Boulder Science Festival 2013! I am very pleased to announce Boulder Science Festival 2013! The Science Festival is a celebration of the amazing amount of science being done in my hometown of Boulder, Colorado. ...
- 15:56 UTC AMSAT-UK CubeSat Demo Flight Tests Technologies A quartet of small satellites, better known as CubeSats, flew high above California’s Mojave Desert on June 15, 2013 on a demonstration mission to study the launch environment all the ...
- 15:53 UTC Discovery News - Sp... The Real Story Behind Yuri Gagarin's Death In 1968, the first man in space was killed in a crash during routine flight training -- but the circumstances around his death have remained a mystery. Until now. Continue ...
- 15:42 UTC Universe Today Morpheus Aborts, Then Recovers For a Second Go In Tether ... The above video should satisfy your daily need for rocket foom. Morpheus — a NASA testbed for vertical landing systems — did two firing tests this week that produced a ...
- 15:27 UTC The Guardian People of Earth, say cheese! Nasa to take everyone's pict... On 19 July, the Cassini probe will take our portrait from Saturn. Let's make it a good oneEarth, are you ready to have your picture taken? On 19 July, the ...
- 15:22 UTC Science 2.0 Unusual Supernova SN 2011fe - Move Along, Nothing To See ... In August of 2011, astronomers witnessed the dazzling appearance of the closest and brightest Type Ia supernova since Type Ia's were established as the "standard candles" for measuring the expansion ...
- 15:14 UTC The Daily Galaxy Image of the Day: Brilliant Supernova 12 hours After it E... August, 2011, saw the dazzling appearance of the closest and brightest Type Ia supernova since Type Ia's were established as "standard candles" for measuring the expansion of the universe. The ...
- 15:02 UTC The Discovery Enter... When We Left Earth Part Six – Home in Space Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the sixth and final episode of the acclaimed Discovery Channel documentary series When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions. : auto; text-align: center;"> Space ...
- 14:55 UTC AMSAT-UK Open access to latest research output from Surrey Space C... The Surrey Space Centre (SSC) Research blog is dedicated to improving access to the cutting edge research output of the Surrey Space Centre. The standard process for disseminating research output ...
- 14:52 UTC SPACE.com New 'Charmed' Particle Represents Rare State of Matter The new particle seems to be made of four quarks.
- 14:50 UTC Universe Today Did a Piece of Mir Really Land in Massachusetts? We love a good space debris mystery. Hey, who doesn’t, right? Regular readers of Universe Today know that it’s a shooting gallery out there, from meteor fireballs caught on dashboard ...
- 14:42 UTC The Daily Galaxy "Cosmic Evolution Tends to Extinguish Species that Advert... “Evolutionary selection, acting on a cosmic scale, tends to extinguish species which conspicuously advertise themselves and their habitats,” according to Adrian Kent, Centre for Quantum Computation, University of Cambridge. Science ...
- 14:38 UTC Astro Bob Celebrate summer’s start ’round about midnight Friday “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” - Henry James So it’s always seemed to me at the start ...
- 14:35 UTC SPACE.com Russia May Team With Europe on Jupiter Probes Russia's Ganymede lander could launch with Europe's JUICE probe.
- 14:20 UTC Space Fellowship Unusual supernova is doubly unusual for being perfectly n... From the 'Backyard Supernova,' the Berkeley Lab-led Nearby Supernova Factory has built a benchmark atlas for normal Type Ia's August, 2011, saw the dazzling appearance of the closest and brightest ...
- 14:17 UTC SPACE.com Space History Photo: Rendezvous with Zarya The Space Shuttle Endeavour prepares to rendezvous with the FGB.
- 14:00 UTC Bad Astronomy Webcam Catches the Popocatepetl Volcano Blowing Its Stack I don’t think most people are aware that Mexico has a lot of volcanoes, and some are quite active. Popocatépetl is located just 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Mexico City ...
- 13:55 UTC Space Fellowship NASA-Led Study Explains Decades of Black Hole Observation... A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light. "Our work ...
- 13:55 UTC SPACE.com Overlooked NASA Center Researches Flight | Video NASA's Langley research center in Hampton, Virginia, established in 1917 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA's predecessor), works to pioneer and refine safe air travel and aeronautics science.
- 13:55 UTC SIdeways Orion Optimizing images for Google docs likely to be printed I needed an image for a Google Document that most people will probably print. The takeaway: assume a resolution of 300 ppi. Save it as a gif or png. Find ...
- 13:55 UTC NASA Tech Briefs Researchers Develop Microfluidic Test-Bed for Solar Syste... Solar technologies must convert solar energy into electrochemical energy efficiently and on a massive scale. A key to meeting this challenge may lie in the ability to test such energy ...
- 13:54 UTC Space Fellowship NASA's LRO: Four Years in Orbit NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter or LRO, in orbit around the moon for four years, has forever changed our view of our nearby neighbor. LRO launched on an Atlas V rocket ...
- 13:36 UTC Kentucky Space Space Tango supports early stage space-related ventures Business First reporter Ed Green has written a nice article on Space Tango, a business accelerator for early stage, entrepreneurial efforts related to space. Space Tango’s mission — a fitting ...