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16 Feb 2011
- 04:26 UTC Sydney Observatory After travelling over five billion km the Stardust spacec... Comparison between the 2005 Deep Impact image of Comet Tempel 1 and the February 2010 image from the Stardust/NExT spacecraft shows the fantastic navigation of the latter craft. Image from ...
- 04:22 UTC NASA Watch Spinoffs No One Ever Expected Applied Knowledge: NASA Aids the Chilean Rescue Effort "In the summer and fall of 2010, the world followed the story of thirty-three Chilean miners trapped nearly half a mile underground ...
- 03:33 UTC Astronomy in Lipan ... WHAT IS A LARGE STAR PARTY ALL ABOUT? The other night during the regular LASS observing session the conversation turned to the various star parties that are held on a state wide or even national level. What are ...
- 03:22 UTC The Daily Galaxy Andromeda Provides New Clue to the Evolution of Galaxies U.S. astronomers studying the Andromeda galaxy says a thick stellar disk of older stars offers clues to how large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way form. UCLA research astronomer Michael ...
- 03:13 UTC The Daily Galaxy Rare Masers -Cosmic 'Water Fountains'- Discovered Three new water masers have been discovered in the Milky Way, including what could be one of the fastest ever found - reaching speeds of up to 350 km per ...
- 03:12 UTC Cosmic Log Watson's triumph isn't in 'Jeopardy' IBM's Watson supercomputer looks like the clear favorite to win this week's man-vs.-machine match on the "Jeopardy" TV game show in the wake of today's action. Right now, the score ...
- 03:08 UTC Astroblog Venus and Zeta Sagittarii (16 Feb 2010) Venus close to Zeta Sagittarii on the morning of 16 February at 5:00 am ACDST. Click to embiggen.
- 03:05 UTC Universe Today Fiscal Squeeze Could Freeze NASA Budget for Five Years NASA officials put on happy faces on February 14 to discuss their new budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2012, but it wasn’t exactly cheerful news. President Barack Obama proposed freezing ...
- 02:59 UTC The Daily Galaxy New Tech Zooms in on Potential Twin Earths The search for habitable planets outside our solar system is heating up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, but confirming their planetary status remains a challenge. ...
- 02:43 UTC The American Associ... VSP Improvements With the help of various staff and volunteers Michael Koppelman and Chris Watson, we've made some improvements to the Variable Star Plotter (VSP). Here is a list:
- 02:34 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Astrium/Singapore spaceplane update AvWeek has a bit more information on the Astrium/Singapore collaboration to develop the Astrium suborbital spaceplane. They will start with an unpowered scaled prototype version for drop tests: Astrium Turns ...
- 02:27 UTC The Sky Above Romance Under the Stars From Seven Suites Hotel Observatory: It’s Never too late to celebrate Valentine’s Day! Our Romance Under the Stars promo is valid for the whole month of February. From Seven Suites ...
- 02:25 UTC Astro Bob Comet Tempel 1′s manmade crater and fluid landscape Here are the most recent images showing some of the changes in Comet Tempel 1′s landscape between last night’s flyby and the first visit in 2005. Click NASA’s image gallery ...
- 02:24 UTC Astroblog Close Up with Comet Temple 1 Comet Temple 1 imaged at closest approach by the Stardust spacecraft.The full image sequence, including the close approach images, from the Stardust encounter with comet Temple 1 is now up ...
- 02:22 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Apollo s Lost Voyagers Apollo 14 not only brought astronauts to the moon, but also a collection seeds. Astrobiologists were not sure if the seeds would germinate after orbiting the Moon 34 times, but ...
- 02:22 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Using Math to Predict Future Extinctions A new mathematical model is helping scientists understand the complex interactions within ecological food webs. The model could help astrobiologists understand the future of extinction events on our p
- 02:21 UTC Astrocast.TV Blog Closeup of a Comet On February 14 at about 8:40 in the evening (Pacific Standard Time), the Stardust-NExT mission passed within 183 kilometers of Comet Tempel-1. Both the spacecraft and comet were at a ...
- 02:08 UTC NASA Watch Another PAO Press Release Title SNAFU NASA Releases Images Of A Crater On A Comet Made By Humans "The data indicate Stardust went through something similar to a B-17 bomber flying through flak in World War ...
- 02:08 UTC The Daily Galaxy IBM's "Watson" AI Trumps Jeopardy's Humans On the 30-question game board, veteran "Jeopardy!" champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter managed only five correct responses between them during the Double Jeopardy round that aired today, ending the ...
- 01:52 UTC AmericaSpace Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental: Incredible, Again. On February 13, 2011 in Everett, Washington, the Boeing Company unveiled its newest airplane – the 747-8 Intercontinental. This aircraft is 250 feet long and has a 224 foot wingspan ...
- 01:31 UTC NASA Watch Another Video NASA Will Not Link To Keith's note: This video, "The Sagan Series (Part 2): Life Looks for Life" is the second video by Reid Gower. You may recall that an earlier video of his (the ...
- 00:46 UTC The Daily Galaxy Volcanic Life-Sources Discovered Deep in Southern Ocean: ... New sources of extreme life forms have been discovered by scientists aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook. The expedition has located a new set of deep-sea volcanic vents in ...
- 00:29 UTC The Flame Trench Stardust-NExT spots Deep Impact crater NASA's Stardust spacecraft successfully snapped images of the crater the Deep Impact mission made in comet Tempel 1, excited scientists announced today. Stardust flew within 110 miles of Tempel 1 ...
- 00:28 UTC The Daily Galaxy From the X Files Dept: ET Monoliths -Could They Possibly ... The 2001 monolith is a science-fiction icon. It can represent technology, God, alien influence or intense monkey violence, depending on what exactly you got out of Kubrick's masterpiece. But will ...
- 00:21 UTC Chandra X-ray Obser... Math + Science = Fun When I was a kid, my class was given ‘word problems’ for an alternative math lesson. You probably know the kind: two different trains traveling at different speeds, which one ...
- 00:19 UTC The Daily Galaxy Richard Dawkins: "Life Exists Elsewhere in the Universe" It's no accident that we see stars in the sky, says famed Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins: they are a vital part of any universe capable of generating us. But, as ...
- 00:15 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Out of This World? The Mars Climate Change Mystery By Erik Conway, writing for My Big Fat Planet Mars has been a grand scientific mystery ever since the first modern images were beamed back from the Mariner 4 spacecraft ...
15 Feb 2011
- 23:52 UTC Parabolic Arc Video: The Future Ain’t What It Never Was A video about the future of transportation featuring Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides and Apollo astronaut/man-about-town (and-everywhere-else) Buzz Aldrin. It’s slickly done, but someone needs to tell them that there ...
- 23:34 UTC Team Astrobotic Blo... Taking Lunar Exploration Online A screencap of Red Rover's Facebook profile in beta. The social engine is not currently operating this profile. With the acquisition of a Falcon 9 launch contract, Astrobotic is embarking ...
- 23:25 UTC Parabolic Arc India Plans Hypersonic Vehicle Tests By Early Next Year DRDO likely to test fly hypersonic plane by early next year Brahmand.comDRDO expects to test fly India’s indigenous hypersonic technology demonstrator vehicle (HSDTV) by early next year, the defence agency’s ...
- 23:23 UTC Spaceports Comet Close Encounter by Stardust-NExT NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft whizzed within 181 km of comet Tempel 1 on February 15th 2011, allowing scientists to see changes in the comet's nucleus since it was visited by NASA's ...
- 23:14 UTC Lunar Update Latest from STARDUST NExT mission Valentines day has come and the folks at JPL are very pleased with the latest results of their comet chaser STARDUST-NExT.- LRK ---------------------------------------------------------http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/Stardust-NExT Introduction On January 15, 2006, the Stardust ...
- 23:13 UTC Parabolic Arc Stardust-NExT Flies By a Comet Comet Tempel 1 as Seen by NASA’s Stardust NASA’s Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:39 p.m. PST (11:39 p.m. EST) on Feb 14, 2011. The ...
- 23:11 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Heavy Snow on the Korean Peninsula Acquired February 15, 2011, this natural-color image shows snowfall along the east coast of the Korean Peninsula.
- 23:11 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Astrobotic and Falcon 9; Armadillo telemetry test A brief item about Astrobotic's contracting of a Falcon 9 launch: Astrobotic Books Falcon 9 To Launch Rover to the Moon - SpaceNews.com. === John Carmack tweeted this today: Successful ...
- 23:09 UTC To the Moon, Mars a... Latest from STARDUST NExT mission --------------------------------------------------------http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/comet_hunter_pr.htmlNASA Comet Hunter Spots Its Valentine JPL Press ReleaseJanuary 26, 2011 - PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Stardust spacecraft has downlinked its first images of comet Tempel 1, the target of ...
- 23:00 UTC Parabolic Arc Showdown Looms Over NASA Commercial Crew, HLV and Climate... A showdown between the Obama Administration and Congress is looming over the respective funding levels for NASA’s commercial human space flight program, its heavy-lift vehicle development effort, and climate research ...
- 22:59 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: CSF lauds tech budget; AvWeek on budget; Robert Z... The CSF also likes the space technology support in the Administration's proposed NASA budget: Commercial Spaceflight Federation Applauds Boost to Innovative Technology Programs in New NASA Budget - CSF. === ...
- 22:52 UTC Astroengine When Stardust Met Tempel, a Love Story A NASA spacecraft, a lonely comet and a Valentine’s date with no comparison. Last night, NASA’s veteran Stardust-NExT mission successfully visited its second comet, Tempel 1. Having already been visited ...
- 22:49 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Competitive Space Task Force website Rand Simberg has opened the Competitive Space Task Force website. This group describes itself as a coalition of leading conservative and libertarian thinkers from organizations committed to creating a free ...
- 22:32 UTC Universe Today ATV ‘Johannes Kepler’ Launch to Space Station Delayed to ... The European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 (ATV-2) “Johannes Kepler” launch that was scheduled for Tuesday Feb. 15 was scrubbed due to a technical issue on the launch pad. Technicians ...
- 22:26 UTC The Flame Trench Ariane Launch No Earlier Than Wednesday A potential problem with a fuel manifold on the first stage of an Ariane rocket prompted the European Space Agency to delay for at least a day launch of a ...
- 22:23 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... A Little Bit Of Magic — Kepler Are you interested in Earth-like exoplanets? If so, Kepler is for you. The mission was designed to continuously monitor around 145,000 main sequence stars at a time, watching for periodic ...
- 22:23 UTC Spaceports NASA Chief Technologist Calls on Students Braun invites college student applications for NASA's new Space Technology Graduate Fellowships program. "We want you to be part of NASA, and we want NASA to help you fulfill your ...
- 22:22 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Heavy Snow on the Korean Peninsula Acquired February 15, 2011, this natural-color image shows snowfall along the east coast of the Korean Peninsula.
- 22:20 UTC Spaceports NanoSail-D May Give Sky Watching Flash High overhead, out of the darkness, a bright light surges into view. For 5 to 10 seconds it outshines the brightest stars in the sky, mimicking a supernova, perhaps even ...
- 22:17 UTC Spaceports Sex in Space Concerns Scientists
- 22:11 UTC The Flame Trench Ariane 5 Launch Scrubbed In South America The planned Ariane 5 launch from South America was scrubbed as a result of a technical problem with the rocket and the flight has been postponed 24 hours.It's unclear at ...
- 22:10 UTC The Planetary Socie... Highlights from today's Stardust Tempel 1 press briefing It was a very happy science team at this afternoon's press briefing following the Stardust encounter with Tempel 1. I'll just post some brief notes now; they haven't posted the ...
- 22:03 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Stunning Photos from a Comet Near-Kiss Mission success! Stardust-NExT completes comet Tempel 1 flyby.