- 31 Jan 2011
- 30 Jan 2011
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23:22 UTC
NASA: Earth Observa...
Brasília at Night
The developed areas of Brasília and its satellite cities are clearly outlined by street grids and highway lights in this astronaut photograph taken from the International Space Station.
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22:34 UTC
NASA Watch
Once Again, NASA Seeks Animal Irradiation Proposals
NASA Research Announcement "Ground-Based Studies in Space Radiobiology" "This NRA solicits ground-based proposals for the Space Radiation Program Element (SRPE) component of the Human Research Program (HRP). Proposals are solicited ...
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22:24 UTC
NASA Watch
STS-134 Commander Decision In Mid-Feb
Giffords husband to decide on space trip in mid-Feb, Reuters "The astronaut husband of a U.S. congresswoman seriously wounded when she was shot in head will decide by mid-February whether ...
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21:38 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Blue Origin Files for Patent on Reuseable Booster Recover...
Blue Origin has filed for a patent for recovering a reusable booster system from the sea. Company founder Jeff Bezos is listed as a co-inventor with Gary Lai and Sean ...
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21:32 UTC
astropixie
lessons from australia #1
always walk behind someone who is slightly taller than you (especially in the morning)...comic from the oatmeal
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21:18 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Jeff Manber: Hire Capt. Kirk as Space Adventures’ Spokesm...
Jeff Manber isn’t very impressed with Space Adventures’ plan to send humans around the moon. He’s skeptical about whether the company has actually sold a $150 million ticket, thinks their ...
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20:49 UTC
Urban Astronomer
Carnival of Space #182
A new year, a new Carnival of Space! This time around, Brian Wang from Next Big Future has collected the very finest astronomy and space science related blog posts and ...
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20:22 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Taurus II Engine Tests Coming Along Nicely
NASA PROGRAM UPDATE You see a lot of smiles around the E-1 Test Stand at John C. Stennis Space Center these days. Engineers involved in testing Aerojet’s AJ26 rocket engine ...
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20:09 UTC
Tom's Astronomy Blo...
Stardust-NExT
Probably the best short overview so far. Only a couple of weeks to go. Click here to view the embedded video. Probably the best short overview so far. Only a ...
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20:04 UTC
Parabolic Arc
BrahMos to Produce ISRO Cryo Stage, Eyes Mach 7 Missile W...
BrahMos Aerospace to make cryogenic engines for Indian rockets Mangalorean.comMissile makers BrahMos Aerospace will manufacture the cryogenic engine once the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) perfects the technology, said a ...
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19:52 UTC
astrobites
The Databases of Astronomy: Organizing the Knowledge of t...
Astronomy is a field that has written records that date far back in history, much of it published in journals, books, and letters. However, only in the later part of ...
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19:43 UTC
Lights in the Dark
A Sense of “Scale”
Here’s a very cool animation by motion designer Brad Goodspeed, showing what our night sky might look like were some of the other planets in our solar system at the ...
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19:06 UTC
NASA Hack Space
Video: What Would Jupiter Look Like in Our Sky? Echoes o...
Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo. Brad Goodspeed: "Here's an animation I did to make you feel small. While watching the video of the lunar eclipse I posted the other ...
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18:30 UTC
Journey to the Star...
Rare Double Eruption on the Sun!
Source: Spaceweather.com | Movie by: NASA-Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Astronomers have captured an image of the Sun with two large solar eruptions occurring at almost the same time! The twin ...
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18:18 UTC
Coalition for Space...
Russia’s Progress 41 reaches International Space Station,...
Russia’s 41st Progress supply capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station late Saturday, the latest in a series of unmanned global cargo vessels headed for the six person orbiting ...
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18:02 UTC
Astro Bob
A paddle down the starry river
Surely the clouds will part and allow a little starlight in. That other variety of stars, the cold, crystalline type, has been falling every day and night the past week. ...
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17:46 UTC
Universe Today
Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon
Shortly after the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986, seven craters on the eastern rim of the Apollo basin were named after the crew: Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, ...
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17:42 UTC
Spaceports
U.S., EU Eye Code of Conduct for Space
The Obama administration is negotiating with the European Union on an agreement limiting the use of anti-satellite weapons, a move that some critics say could curb U.S. development of space ...
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17:37 UTC
Astronomy Blog
Sport reported like science
This afternoon a wormhole from a fictional universe opened in my living room. Through it fell a tabloid newspaper. This sort of fictional event doesn't happen every Sunday so, intrigued, ...
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17:20 UTC
Cosmic Variance
A Sense of Doubt
Jerry Coyne, cheerful fire-breathing atheist that he is, gets invited to a church to talk about evolution. That’s not how it worked out, as people were more interested in talking ...
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17:08 UTC
Slacker Astronomy
What Would Neptune Look Like if it Orbited Earth?
interesting data visualization. –Ben ============== What Would Neptune Look Like if it Orbited Earth? Here’s an animation I did to make you feel small. While watching the video of the ...
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16:43 UTC
Spacevidcast
STS-135, cool space stuff and news – Live Show 4.01
Show links available on our Wiki. STS-135 is an official yet unfunded mission, the most complex EDL ever, China test unmanned craft, Nanosail comes back to life and more news. ...
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16:36 UTC
OrbitalHub
Sustainability in LEO: A Short History
The place where space exploration, science, and engineering meet
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16:11 UTC
NewSpace Journal
Branson appealed to keep Homans’ job
The turmoil surrounding the management of Spaceport America in New Mexico has been relatively quiet the last couple of weeks, after the resignation of executive director Rick Homans at the ...
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16:11 UTC
Coalition for Space...
Mars Rover’s Robotic Arm Performs Up-Close Observations
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover – Opportunity – is busy at work at the edge of “Santa Maria” crater, surveying the diverse textures of the geological feature. Recent imagery shows the ...
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16:00 UTC
Alien Life
Fizzy ocean on Enceladus and imagining ETI
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 - In 2005, Cassini spotted plumes erupting from ...
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14:00 UTC
Steve's Astro Corne...
A Little Fun With Your New Astrological Sign
Now I know you are a little distraught over the fact you are not what you think you are when it comes to astrological signs so I have decided to ...
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13:54 UTC
In the Dark
Certain Scientists aren’t Good Scientists
Just time for a quickie today because tomorrow is the first day of teaching (in what we optimistically call the “Spring Semester”) and I’ve decided to head into the department ...
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12:56 UTC
Astronomy Weather B...
We Can Expect Brilliant Northern Lights in Early February
A coronal hole has opened up on the surface of the sun this month. This hole is characterized by being colder and darker with lower density plasma as compared to ...
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12:19 UTC
13.7
Standing The Brain On Its Head
Stuart Kauffman stands the brain on its head. by Stuart Kauffman My aim in this post is to consider a new scientific hypothesis: Standing the Brain on its head. I ...
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12:04 UTC
Young Astronomers
Image of the Week – The Cosmic Potato – 30/01/11
NASA’s Mars Express has recently had a close encounter with Mars’ moon Phobos (from the Greek god of fear and horror). The Mars Express image of Phobos Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin ...
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11:20 UTC
WikiSky
Dark days for Internet in Canada are coming
CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) by recent decision let very few corporations, who owns all telecom in Canada to practically get rid of their smaller competitors, who offered better ...
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10:35 UTC
Astrobiology Magazi...
The Cold Facts of a Mass Extinction
Researchers have discovered new details surrounding the second-largest mass extinction in Earth s history. The new study shows that a loss of more than 75 percent of species in the ...
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10:14 UTC
WikiSky
SDSS-III cleaner version has been released
We’ve done some cleaning on new SDSS-III survey. New version is now available online. Basically we lowered priorities on drawing “dirty” SDSS frames on main survey, leaving cleaner frames on ...
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08:48 UTC
astropixie
if jupiter orbited the earth...
Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo.
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08:45 UTC
Dear Astronomer
Scale
From Brad Goodspeed at bradblogspeed.com: …the basic idea is, each planet you see is the size it would appear in the sky if it shared an orbit with the moon, ...
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08:05 UTC
The Discovery Enter...
Secrets of the Stone Age 1: The Wisdom of the Stones
Hagar Qin Megalithic Temple Complex on the Island of MaltaToday on Discovery Enterprise we begin a three-part series titled "Secrets of the Stone Age" in which anthropologist and author Richard ...
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07:22 UTC
Young Astronomers
The Quasars: Light Fantastic!
So here is a summed up part on Quasars. When quasars were discovered in 1963, they instantly became astronomy’s number-one enigma. Measurements of their special redshifts, caused by the expansion ...
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07:12 UTC
HobbySpace RLV Spac...
Briefs: Delta IV H. picts; Space prizes roundup; Armadill...
A reader points me to this cool set of pictures showing the recent Delta IV launch and highlighting the "toasted marshmellow" effect from the burst of flames around the ship ...
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07:02 UTC
HobbySpace RLV Spac...
Briefs: Progress docks at ISS; Manber on commercial lunar...
The latest Progress cargo ship makes it to the ISS: Russian cargo ship docks with space station: Unmanned Progress craft carrying tiny satellite and birthday presents - msnbc.com/space.com - Jan.29.11. ...
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06:13 UTC
we are all in the g...
Observatory life
Hello again from the top of Mauna Kea. It’s night 5 of my 7 night run using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and it’s all going pretty smoothly so ...
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06:01 UTC
Spaceports
ARISSat-1 Arrives at International Space Station Exciting...
The Russian Progress-41 flight carrying the ARISSat-1 Amateur Radio Experiment to the International Space Station arrived safely Saturday, January 29, 2011.The unpiloted flight of the Progress resupply craft automatically berthed ...