- 31 Jan 2011
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18:44 UTC
Cosmic Variance
LHC to Run in 2012
The Large Hadron Collider is currently (or at least, once it gets off winter break) smashing protons together with an energy of 7 trillion electron volts. The original plan was ...
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18:15 UTC
Physics World Blog
Schrodinger's quantum kittens
BBC Radio 4 documentary revisits the famous feline paradox Erwin Schrodinger has proved a lasting inspiration to scientists and writers alike By James Dacey BBC Radio 4 is famed in ...
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18:13 UTC
NASA: Earth Observa...
Fires in Oklahoma
A cluster of fires burns in eastern Oklahoma in this photo-like image taken on January 29, 2011.
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18:09 UTC
Bad Astronomy
Bill O’Reilly: tidal bore
Look, I know. Bill O’Reilly is a far-right ideologue who couldn’t grasp reality with a hundred meters of velcro and a ton of Crazy glue. He’s mean-spirited, loud, and wrong, ...
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18:07 UTC
Astro Bob
Saturn moon pops its cork
Darkness is slipping away at the rate of almost 3 minutes a day as January gives way to the month of candy hearts. That’s how an astronomer might look at ...
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18:04 UTC
Journey to the Star...
2011 National Astronomy Week in the Philippines
It’s almost February once again. To all Filipino amateur astronomers, this month is an important time of the year as this is when the astronomical community in the Philippines celebrates ...
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18:01 UTC
Centauri Dreams
Jupiter Impactor Probably an Asteroid
What was it that left such an interesting infrared signature in Jupiter’s atmosphere on July 19, 2009? The images below, made with a wide variety of instruments, show what appears ...
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17:56 UTC
Evadot
Where then are our leaders?
In the run-up to this year’s State of the Union address, I’m sure that there were many of us out there holding out hope for the announcement of some grand ...
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17:50 UTC
PeteUplink's Univer...
Planets viewed from Earth as if they were at the distance...
Planets viewed from Earth as if they were at the distance of the moon.
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17:48 UTC
NASA Watch
Challenger Center: Looking Ahead
Interview with the Challenger Center's Scott Parazynski, Space News "Some 4 million students have been through the program since 1986, and in recent years the annual average has been about ...
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17:30 UTC
HobbySpace RLV Spac...
Abstracts available forNSRC 2011
The program for the 2011 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC 2011) includes links to abstracts submitted by the authors. Here is a small sampling: /-- The Existential Pleasures Of Suborbital ...
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17:27 UTC
One Astronomer's No...
Spacey Carnival Goodness
The Carnival of Space is back with edition #182 at Next Big Future after a month-long hiatus. It includes this lovely flyby of Phobos by Mars Express: And I am ...
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17:06 UTC
HobbySpace RLV Spac...
UAE & Bigelow Aerospace sign MOU
Bigelow Aerospace gets another sovereign partner for its space platforms: UAE signs with Bigelow Aerospace to work on human spaceflight programme - Arabian Aerospace (via spacetoday.net). Space organizations in six ...
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16:56 UTC
The American Associ...
AAVSO Special Notice #230
Nova Sagittarii 2011 = PNV J17474639-2335112
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16:51 UTC
Physics World Blog
A load of bull, part 2
Researchers disupte magnetoreception in cows Heading north By Michael Banks Do cows align their bodies along the Earth’s magnetic field lines when grazing? What at first seems like a simple ...
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16:48 UTC
Lunar Networks
Forty years since America's 2nd Return to Space
January 31, 1971 - Apollo 14, with Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell & Stu Roosa on board, departs Kennedy Space Center for the Moon, twenty-two months after the aborted Apollo 13 ...
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16:38 UTC
HobbySpace RLV Spac...
The Space Show this week
The Space Show this week: 1. Monday, January 31, 2011 , 2-3:30 PM PST. We welcome Meidad Pariente of Israel to discuss GEO satellite collision issues. 2. Tuesday, January 31, ...
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16:28 UTC
NASA NES Teacher's ...
Remember to Complete On-line Surveys
Completing the surveys counts towards your eligibility for the NES Recognition Program.
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16:19 UTC
HobbySpace RLV Spac...
HostedPayloads.com from Space News
Space News has opened the website www.HostedPayload.com dedicated to what they clearly believe will be a growing activity - piggybacking a payload onto another spacecraft. This can involve sharing power, ...
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16:19 UTC
Astronomy.com Blog
Astronomy mobile adds daily observing events
Astronomy magazine’s mobile-friendly website just added another reason you should immediately bookmark http://m.astronomy.com in your smart phone’s browser. Already offering on-the-go access to the latest astronomy and space news, staff ...
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16:00 UTC
Alien Life
New metabolic pathway discovered and observational strate...
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 - The temperatures of North Atlantic Ocean water ...
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16:00 UTC
The Space Review
Memorials and malaise
This time of year is traditionally a somber one at NASA, as the agency recognizes those who lost their lives on missions. Jeff Foust examines a deeper angst that is ...
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15:59 UTC
The Space Review
All space politics is local
In the new Congress, as in previous ones, the leadership of key space-related committees is dominated by people from states with major NASA facilities. Lou Friedman discusses the importance of ...
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15:58 UTC
The Daily Planet
Junk Mail From Above
Once you get used to the slightly overcaffeinated host, this is a pretty cool project —to drop a bunch of paper airplanes from a high-altitude balloon and see where they ...
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15:58 UTC
The Space Review
Launch failures: the "Oops!" factor
Launch vehicles are complex machines that sometimes can be felled by simple failures. Wayne Eleazer describes several such failures of rockets, and how a simple "oops", compounded by other problems, ...
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15:57 UTC
The Space Review
Review: Launch On Need
Had the damage to the shuttle Columbia had been understood early enough in its fateful final mission eight years ago, it would have been possible, if just barely, to mount ...
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15:52 UTC
EAAE News
In 2011 ESA will use three types of lauchers
Source: ESA embed_flash('width="400" height="225"', 'www.esa.in/esa-mmg/export/images/16_9_L,365.swf') Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Ariane 5, Europe's heavy-lift workhorse, will be complemented by the Soyuz medium-class launcher and the new Vega small launcher. With ...
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15:50 UTC
Atomic Rockets
Website Updates
Added to Space Suits images of the 1960 Bell Remora space pod. Added to Atomic Radiation a diagram of the radiation flux around a NERVA nuclear thermal engine. Added to ...
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15:34 UTC
Aviation Week: On S...
The Week in Images
Last week was one full of fantastic space images. Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz and Leiden University), and ...
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15:34 UTC
Aviation Week: On S...
The Week in Images
Last week was one full of fantastic space images. Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz and Leiden University), and ...
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15:31 UTC
Cosmic Variance
Morality, Health, and Science
In our last discussion of morality and science, an interesting argument was raised in the comments (by rbd and then in more detail by Ben Finney), concerning an analogy between ...
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15:26 UTC
Parabolic Arc
This Week on The Space Show
This week on The Space Show with Dr. David Livingston….1. Monday, January 31, 2011 , 2-3:30 PM PST: We welcome Meidad Pariente, ME of Israel to discuss GEO satellite collision ...
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15:20 UTC
Deep Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope: The Largest Telescope Eve...
The James Webb Space Telescope is among the most sophisticated instruments ever built, using technology that had to be invented specifically for its mission. Everything must deploy and work flawlessly ...
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15:19 UTC
Parabolic Arc
SpaceX Opens Office in Northern Virginia
SPACEX PRESS RELEASE Today SpaceX announced it is opening a new office in Chantilly, VA to serve customers looking for reliable, affordable launch solutions. The community is home to some ...
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15:08 UTC
Lunar Networks
IAU names craters to honor Columbia crew
This crater grouping on the southeastern side of the immense and deep Apollo basin has been preliminarily designated after the astronauts of Space Shuttle Columbia who perished during re-entry February ...
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15:03 UTC
Parabolic Arc
NASA CCDev Update: Three Down, Two to Go
The government has published status updates on NASA’s five Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) 1 grants which were awarded last February. Sierra Nevada Corporation, Blue Origin and Paragon Space Development Corporation ...
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14:49 UTC
Evadot
That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for… Masten...
That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for… Masten Space’s astronauts! Wait a minute. What? Masten Space has an astronaut corps now? Let’s back up a little… Shortly...
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14:05 UTC
Kentucky Space
Pic: Grappled HTV-2 with supplies, CubeLabs
The HTV-2 berthed with the ISS on Thursday and is currently disgorging tons of supplies, as well as three CubeLabsm research modules. Working in strategic partnership with NanoRacks, LLC, Kentucky ...
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14:00 UTC
Bad Astronomy
Repeat after me: Apophis is not a danger!
What is it with all the bad media reports of cosmic doomsdays? Betelgeuse last week, giant spaceships before that, and now Apophis. Sigh. Here’s the scoop: I was tipped off ...
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13:58 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Bigelow Signs MOU to Create Human Spaceflight Program for...
EIAST PRESS RELEASE The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) and Bigelow Aerospace LLC, an organisation dedicated to providing affordable options for spaceflight to national space agencies and ...
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13:41 UTC
Universe Today
More Space Anniversaries: Apollo 14 and Ham
Forty years ago today, the Apollo 14 crew launched on their Saturn V rocket, the 6th human flight to the Moon and the third that landed. Following the heart-stopping problems ...
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13:34 UTC
The Flame Trench
Discovery set to make final trip to launch pad
Discovery tonight is scheduled to make its final trip from the Vehicle Assembly Building to a Kennedy Space Center launch pad. The 3.4-mile "rollout" to pad is expected to begin ...
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13:17 UTC
Kentucky Space
Pic: Solar Sailor IKAROS with Venus in background
At Centauri Dreams, Paul Gilster writes about two solar sailors, IKAROS and the three unit CubeSat, NanoSail-D, posting a really incredible picture of the former with its destination, Venus, in ...
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12:52 UTC
Coalition for Space...
CSExtra – Monday, January 31, 2011
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12:50 UTC
Atra Materia
Global eruption on the Sun
On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. It consisted of over a dozen shock waves, flares, filament eruptions, and coronal mass ejections that covered half of ...
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12:46 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Mars500 Diary: Approaching the Red Planet
In this 11th Mars500 Mission Diary, Diego Urbina writes about the preparations for the ‘arrival’ at Mars on 1 February and about his feelings now that the action is hotting ...
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12:21 UTC
The e-Astronomer
Particle Astrophysics and the Sponge House of Doom
As the bard said, the best laid plans o’ mice and men gang aft awry. Of course, if you are the Princes Serendip, ye gang doon that path, and find ...
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12:21 UTC
13.7
Can We Have A Responsible Free Will?
Do we have free will? by Stuart Kauffman I have now published a substantial series of posts, starting with "Closed Quantum Systems" to yesterday's "Standing The Brain On Its Head." ...
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12:19 UTC
we are all in the g...
Blogging about Pan-STARRS
So for the last year I’ve been involved in exploiting data from the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope. PS1 is the first telescope of the larger Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid ...
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12:00 UTC
collectSPACE.com: S...
Smithsonian considering display of fallen shuttles Challe...
The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum may incorporate debris from space shuttles Columbia and Challenger in its new gallery dedicated to the soon-ending shuttle program. The exhibit will only ...