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31 Jan 2011
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 16:56 UTC The American Associ... AAVSO Special Notice #230 Nova Sagittarii 2011 = PNV J17474639-2335112
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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, ...
- 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.
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 12:52 UTC Coalition for Space... CSExtra – Monday, January 31, 2011 To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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." ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...