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26 Jan 2011
- 12:12 UTC Space Politics Reaction to past and future space policy in the State of ... Reps. Sandy Adams and Bill Posey (R-FL) must be disappointed: contrary to their desires expressed earlier this week, the president did not directly address space policy in his State of ...
- 12:07 UTC Dear Astronomer Was the Apollo Program an Anomaly? Nancy Atkinson at Universe Today writes: How often have you heard (or thought) the sentiment that all NASA really needs is a President who will issue a bold challenge for ...
- 12:03 UTC Universe Today Hidden Companion Responsible for Surprising Disk Around S... For several years, astronomers have been trying to get a good look at a peculiar supergiant star that is surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. The star, HD ...
- 11:42 UTC In the Dark “Astrology is rubbish”, but… (via Whewell’s Ghost) Here’s a very nicely reasoned and invective-free blog post, on the subject of the decision by the Astrological Association of Great Britain to petition the BBC in complaint about its ...
- 11:32 UTC Space Politics When a 25-percent cut is getting off easy Lost in yesterday’s hubbub about the State of the Union address was the introduction of legislation to radically cut spending by new Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). Paul’s plan would cut ...
- 11:15 UTC Astroblog Australia Day, 26 January 2011 Sun, sea, picnic, beach cricket. What more could you want? (well, maybe an unclouded sky, but hey!)
- 10:14 UTC Atra Materia Stardust on its way to Tempel 1 An extraordinary mission is being prepared, and yet there are many unknowns. NASA’s Stardust is tearing along space at 10 kilometers per second, 300 million kilometers away from Earth. In ...
- 08:30 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Eruption of Colima Volcano Evidence of four types of volcanic activity at Mexico’s Colima Volcano.
- 08:30 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Arctic Oscillation Chills North America, Warms Arctic This color-coded map shows temperature anomalies for the United States, Canada, eastern Siberia, and Greenland for January 9 to 16, 2011.
- 08:30 UTC Mars and Me Spirit Sol 734 I woke up at 3AM with a bad feeling about the drive. I logged in from home, checked out the data, and sure enough, something bad happened. This would sound ...
- 08:28 UTC Spaceman Chasing the dream of human spaceflight Form follows function, they say. And if a machine works like a dream, perhaps it ought to look like one as well. Right? The Dream Chaser could be in orbit ...
- 08:14 UTC The Daily Galaxy Image of the Day: Immense Shock Waves Observed Bigger tha... This false-color composite image of the Stephan's Quintet galaxy cluster clearly shows one of the largest shock waves ever seen (the green arc above), produced by one galaxy falling toward ...
- 08:10 UTC The Daily Galaxy EcoAlert: Great Antarctica Melt Contributing 10% of Globa... Thinning ice in Antarctica is currently contributing nearly 10 per cent of global sea level rise according to scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) and ...
- 07:32 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Of Aliens, Dark Matter, and Poe's Law Could dark matter be... alien life? If a letter in the New York Times is to be believed, then, yes.
- 07:14 UTC EAAE News First Light for VIRUS-W spectrograph Source:Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics: "First Light" for VIRUS-W: This image (from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey) shows the galaxy NGC2903 and the field of view of the spectrograph. ...
- 06:39 UTC The Sky Above ALPers, Ophiuchus, and PAGASA Observatory John Ray Cabrera, Andrew Ian Chan, and Christopher Louie Lu of the Astronomical League of the Philippines (ALP) were interviewed by GMA-7 for an episode of “Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho” ...
- 06:20 UTC Space Fellowship Russian space programs underfunded - scientist Russia is not in a position to carry out global space programs single-handedly and should team up with India and Kazakhstan, veteran rocket scientist Boris Chertok said on Tuesday. He ...
- 06:19 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Starting-up steroid mining; Advocating space & pr... Colin Doughan follows up his asteroid mining discussions with an interview with an asteroid mining start-up founder: Interview with Michael Heartsong: Asteroid Miner - Space Business Blog. === Trent Waddington ...
- 06:17 UTC Space Fellowship Station Crew Prepares for Japanese, Russian Cargo Craft Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Catherine Coleman continued additional robotics training Tuesday as they prepare for the arrival of the Kounotori2 H-II Transfer Vehicle ...
- 06:14 UTC Astronomy Weather B... The Latest on the Search for Life on Mars Work is being done on a specialized rover for Mars (called Curiosity) to prepare it for a launch later this year. Curiosity is expected to travel for several months through ...
- 06:10 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: India deals with rocket setbacks; NASA Ames in se... A review of efforts in India to get its rocket development program back on track after two highly visible failures: Is India star-crossed in Asian space race? - BBC News. ...
- 05:44 UTC The Sky Above Planetary Imaging using SPC900NC Toucam Finally after years of trying to get decent planetary images through a webcam, I was able to get it right last Jan. 13, 2011 and Jan. 24, 2011. I used ...
- 05:23 UTC Lights in the Dark Beautiful Barchans Barchan sand dunes in Mars’ Arkhangelsky Crater This image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera features a barchan dune within the floor of Arkhangelsky Crater on Mars, one of ...
- 05:20 UTC The Meridiani Journ... See beautiful Ontario Lacus For those who would like to take a vacation somewhere a little different, how about a lakeside retreat on Titan? There is a nice video preview of what it would ...
- 05:15 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Spacecraft Buzzes Martian Moon Phobos : Big Pic The European Mars Express orbiter flew within 100 kilometers of the moon, snapping photos of proposed landing sites for a Russian sample return mission.
- 05:00 UTC Spaceports Vostochny Spaceport Pushed by Putin Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered the government to complete the paperwork for the construction of the new $2.7-billion Vostochny spaceport, located in the middle of the Siberian ...
- 04:49 UTC One Astronomer's No... The Grad Monster Finally got a chance to watch this fantabulous Lady Gaga spoof about a grad student’s worst nightmare…
- 04:43 UTC Out of the Cradle A little something over at The Space Review Howdy everyone! Some of y’all might be interested in an article I got posted over at The Space Review. It’s not my first article there, but it has been a ...
- 03:53 UTC Spaceports Roscosmos: Show us the money for Soyuz Virginia-based Space Adventures, which had announced the conclusion of an agreement with Russian Federal Space Agency and Rocket Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia) to commercially offer three seats on the ...
- 03:41 UTC Cosmic Log Science shifting in 'Sputnik moment' President Barack Obama wasn't even born when the last "Sputnik moment" took place — and despite tonight's State of the Union declaration that another such turning point in science, technology ...
- 03:39 UTC Spaceports Stardust-Next: Closes on Temple-1 Comet
- 03:22 UTC NASA Administrator ... Thoughts on the President's State of the Union Address Tonight, President Obama delivered a powerful State of the Union message to the nation. His focus on innovation, education and building are the foundations for our future success as a ...
- 03:20 UTC Universe Today Rings on the Horizon The Cassini spacecraft has taken a some recent images of two of Saturn’s most notorious moons, where in both images the planet’s rings serve as a backdrop. Above, Enceladus stands ...
- 03:01 UTC NASA Hack Space Avatar: Your Virtual Self NSF Science Nation wth Miles O'Brien: Your avatar may be just a virtual identity, but it can also affect how you are in the real world. "In this world of ...
- 03:01 UTC NASA Hack Space Avatar: Your Virtual Self NSF Science Nation wth Miles O'Brien: Your avatar may be just a virtual identity, but it can also affect how you are in the real world. "In this world of ...
- 02:47 UTC Universe Today First Light for New Spectrograph From the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics: The new observing instrument VIRUS-W, built by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University Observatory Munich, saw “first light” ...
- 02:27 UTC astropixie australia day 2011 there are so many events happening today around sydney in honor of australia day that i just cant keep up. i managed to walk to the harbour to watch the ...
- 02:08 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com NASA Ames looking for solutions to internal mistrust and ... NASA Ames Research Center held an All Hands meeting last Wednesday, revealing a surprisingly honest assessment of its own weaknesses – both internally and within the the NASA family. The ...
- 01:48 UTC The Daily Galaxy The "Rare Earth" Theory: Human Logic and Math Says It's W... There is no hope of finding alien life in space because conditions on all other planets are too hostile, according to Howard Smith, a senior astrophysicist at Harvard/ Smith made ...
- 01:28 UTC The Daily Galaxy Massive Rogue Star Racing Through the Milky Way 'A massive star named Zeta Ophiuchi flung away from its former companion is racing through space dust, creating a brilliant bow shock, seen above as a yellow arc in this ...
- 01:23 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... NM spaceport construction continues The main terminal building at Spaceport America is starting to get its big windows: I'm hanging glass today! - Spaceport_NM/yfrog.com.
- 01:21 UTC One Astronomer's No... Runaway Star! And no, not the spoiled-teenage-actor type… Instead, it’s this: WISE, or the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, captured a quickly moving star creating a bow-shock as it plows through interstellar gas ...
- 00:56 UTC The Daily Galaxy Hitchhiking the Milky Way: Will We Upload the Human Mind ... Athena Andreadis wrote an article on why the human mind can't be uploaded, explaining how any ghosts in the machine would just be copies. But we ask the more important ...
- 00:55 UTC SpaceUp What SpaceUp is All About CraftLass summed up the importance of SpaceUp (and other BarCamps) quite well today: Modern society is very disjointed. We like to divvy everyone up into little groups and then slice ...
- 00:42 UTC The Daily Galaxy Texting Ford Prefect: "Exploding Black Holes Generating M... Gamma Ray Bursts are the brightest things to happen to the universe since its beginning - extraordinarily intense electromagnetic events releasing more energy per second than the sun does in ...
- 00:37 UTC NASA Watch NASA Mentioned in State of the Union - the NASA of 50 Yea... Obama to Declare 'The Rules Have Changed' (text of President's Speech), National Journal "Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite ...
- 00:04 UTC Cosmic Diary Virtual Telescope Live Observing Session - First Light Right now I am really excited, Gianluca Masi with his Virtual Telescope is sharing first light with his new set up for the Virtual Telescope, and there are some amazing ...
25 Jan 2011
- 23:34 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Delta IV Heavy vs Ram 3500 Heavy A reader points me to this cool macho showdown: Delta IV Heavy Rocket vs. 2011 Ram 3500 Heavy Duty Diesel - PickupTrucks.com News.
- 23:30 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... NASA budget prospects look chilly It appears that NASA's best case scenario is a budget frozen at $19B level for at least 5 years: Could NASA warm up to a budget freeze? - Space Politics.
- 23:22 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Masten engine test; Armadillo engine test Ian Kluft has posted photos of a Masten Space engine test today: Masten Space Systems static engine test firing - ian.kluft.com - Jan.25.11. === Ben Brockert posts a photo: Successfully ...