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22 Dec 2010
- 15:30 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Discovyer update; Bolstering commercial spaceflig... The latest on Discovery, which is now back in the Vehicle Assembly Building: /-- STS-133 Shuttle Report | Discovery makes return trip to assembly building - Spaceflight Now /-- STS-133: ...
- 15:30 UTC Parabolic Arc Three Google Lunar X PRIZE Competitors Awarded Lunar NASA... X PRIZE PRESS RELEASE Today, NASA announced that it purchased data related to innovative lunar missions from three private firms. All three contracts, valued at $500,000 each, were awarded to ...
- 15:25 UTC Universe Today Will the Milky Way’s Black Hole Become ‘Hyperactive’? From a NASA press release: A new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory tells scientists how often the biggest black holes have been active over the last few billion years. ...
- 15:09 UTC Astronomy.com Blog The gauntlet has been flung Do you like seeing new objects when you’re out observing? Well, a wonderful new reference, Cosmic Challenge — The Ultimate Observing List for Amateurs (Cambridge University Press, 2011), just arrived ...
- 15:04 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Catalyzing H2O2 tank; ARCA goes supersonic; Solar... Paul Breed describes another unboxed concept for his nanolauncher project: Way out of the box pressure system... - Unreasonable Rocket. === I know ARCA likes water systems but a supersonic ...
- 15:01 UTC NASA Watch Arsenic, Astrobiology, NASA, and the Media Exclusive Interview: Discoverer of Arsenic Bacteria, in the Eye of the Storm, Science Now "Q: So, NASA approached you about doing a press conference, and you thought that was a ...
- 15:00 UTC Starry Critters Ornaments Like a hollowed out ornament, NGC 6357 glows red in the constellation Scorpius. Or, maybe, what I see in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image is a Christmas tree reaching ...
- 14:55 UTC Galaxy Zoo Blog Galaxy Zoo Multi Mergers Our latest merger paper is called “Galaxy Zoo: Multi-Mergers and the Millennium Simulation.” We used to the original catalogue of 3003 mergers from the previous study to find the interesting ...
- 14:46 UTC Evadot Evadot Podcast #54 – Kate the Space Nomad Guest: Kate Arkless Gray Twitter: @spacekate and @radiokate Kate has gone and done something rather cool (crazy?). She’s become a space nomad and her enthusiasm is addicting. Plus you get...
- 14:31 UTC Universe Today Shuttle Discovery Rolls Back to Vehicle Assembly Building Overnight, space shuttle discovery left launch pad 39A and was rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building. There, engineers can use digital X-ray equipment to look at the external fuel ...
- 14:29 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA: We Kicked Ass in 2010 NASA YEAR-END UPDATE NASA in 2010 set a new course for human spaceflight, helped rewrite science textbooks, redefined our understanding of Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor, put the finishing touches on ...
- 14:15 UTC The Daily Planet Rare Views Inside the Soyuz I was surprised by these photos, but I shouldn’t have been. Most pictures of Russian space crews in the Soyuz TMA vehicle show them squished together like sardines, sitting side ...
- 14:15 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Cassini Spots Tectonic Activity on Saturn Moon Deep cracks, fractures and craters in the surface of Rhea suggest its surface is still rumbling.
- 14:08 UTC Centauri Dreams New Imagery from Saturn’s Moons
- 14:08 UTC Centauri Dreams New Imagery from Saturn’s Moons Cassini continues to wow us with holiday imagery, not the least of which is this view from the Enceladus encounter on the 20th, with not only the plumes from Enceladus ...
- 13:58 UTC EAAE News Total Lunar Eclipse - December 21st, 2010 For almost four centuries a total lunar eclipse hasn't coincided with the December solstice, called the Winter Solstice in Northern Hemisphere and Summer Solstice in Southern Hemisphere. If weather conditions ...
- 13:53 UTC Dear Astronomer NASA’s LRO Creating Unprecedented Topographic Map of Moon From the NASA LRO mission page: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is allowing researchers to create the most precise and complete map to date of the moon’s complex, heavily cratered landscape. ...
- 13:26 UTC 13.7 Santa Claus And Lunar Landings: Do You Believe? There is a surprising number of grown-ups that believe we never landed on the moon. Maybe they should believe in Santa Claus as well. by Marcelo Gleiser If you are ...
- 13:25 UTC Spaceports Entanglement: "Beam me up Scotty?" Until this year, all human-made objects have moved according to the laws of classical mechanics. In March, a group of researchers designed a gadget that moves in ways that can ...
- 13:08 UTC Coalition for Space... CSExtra – Wednesday, December 22, 2010 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 ...
- 13:05 UTC The Flame Trench Discovery back in assembly building at KSC Discovery is safely back inside the Vehicle Assembly Building after completing an overnight return from launch pad 39A. An eight-tracked crawler-transporter began rolling off the pad at 10:48 p.m. Tuesday ...
- 13:05 UTC The Flame Trench Discovery back in assembly building at KSC Discovery is safely back inside the Vehicle Assembly Building after completing an overnight return from launch pad 39A. An eight-tracked crawler-transporter began rolling off the pad at 10:48 p.m. Tuesday ...
- 13:02 UTC Sydney Observatory January 2011 night sky guide and podcast To help you learn about the southern night sky, Sydney Observatory provides an audio guide/podcast, transcript of that audio, and a sky map or chart each month. This month’s audio ...
- 13:02 UTC Sydney Observatory January 2011 audio guide transcript This is a transcript of a podcast of the January 2011 night sky guide presented by Geoff Wyatt. Download and listen to the podcast as you gaze up at the ...
- 13:00 UTC Parabolic Arc Suborbital Spotlight: Masten’s Xaero and Xogdor Vehicles NASA’s Office of Chief Technologist has published detailed information about suborbital vehicles that will be available beginning in 2011 for researchers to conduct microgravity experiments. The vehicles are being built ...
- 12:55 UTC In the Dark Wales set for university mergers Just another quick post to pass on the news just out that the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) has announced that the number of universities in Wales must ...
- 12:54 UTC EAAE News Merry Christmas The EAAE wishes our members, readers and all their beloved ones a Merry Christmas.
- 12:34 UTC Astronomy Weather B... Lunar Eclipse 2010 Images! Hello, astro-nuts! I hope many of you were able to catch the beautiful lunar eclipse early Tuesday morning. If not, no worries, I'll have some great pictures for you and ...
- 12:24 UTC Coalition for Space... Discovery Back in Vehicle Assembly Building for X-rays Shuttle Discovery will spend the holidays in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The winged spacecraft was moved by crawler-transporter from Launch Pad 39A to the VAB ...
- 12:23 UTC The Sky Above Dec. 21, 2010 Partial Lunar Eclipse Observation and Image... The sight of the moon near the horizon has always been my dream to image. Last Tuesday night, God gave me this opportunity – I witnessed the partially eclipsed moon ...
- 12:05 UTC Discovery News - Sp... New Zealand Government Opens UFO Files Following hot on the heels of a series of international UFO sighting disclosures, the New Zealand government has joined the party and made public 2,000 pages of UFO eyewitness accounts.
- 11:08 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA Seeks Proposals for Suborbital Flights NASA ANNOUNCEMENT NASA is seeking proposals from researchers interested in testing new technologies during suborbital flights. The agency also is requesting information from commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicle providers and ...
- 10:17 UTC Young Astronomers A Hive of Stars Globular clusters are dense groupings Globular clusters are dense groupings of old stars found within galaxies. They appear as dense spheres (hence globular) of stars, and are thought to be ...
- 10:00 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... More Meteors Inbound Tonight (But Don't Get Too Excited) Just been checking my calendar and it appears that the Ursids Meteor Shower is due to reach it’s peak tonight. However the shower does have a very low ZHR of ...
- 09:55 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Lack of News I’ve been rather busy with one thing or another this week and that means I’ve not been able to spend as much time on the PC looking for news and ...
- 09:54 UTC The e-Astronomer Spitting on Authority One should be careful when making assumptions about religious divisions. In the High Street, just uphill from St Giles Cathedral, is the shape of a heart, laid out in cobblestones, ...
- 09:50 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Astronomy Picture of the Day Hidden Galaxy IC 342 Image..... Astronomy Picture of the Day Hidden Galaxy IC 342 Image Credit: Ed Henry (Hay Creek Observatory) Explanation: Similar in size to other large, bright spiral galaxies, IC 342 is a ...
- 09:40 UTC Space Fellowship Robotics and Research Aboard Station Tuesday With Expedition 26 recently expanded to its full crew complement of six, the International Space Station’s residents checked out robotics systems to prepare for the arrival of a Japanese cargo ...
- 09:38 UTC Space Fellowship Cassini Finishes Sleigh Ride by Icy Moons On the heels of a successful close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is returning images of Enceladus and the nearby moon Dione. Several pictures show Enceladus backlit, ...
- 09:35 UTC Space Fellowship Cassini Marks Holidays With Dramatic Views of Rhea PASADENA, Calif. -- Newly released for the holidays, images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the ...
- 08:47 UTC In the Dark Shine on me Pianist Jaki Byard was one of the most consistently original musicians of his jazz generation, but he was also consistently underrated. His eclectic style embraced the avant garde free jazz ...
- 08:16 UTC The Daily Galaxy Shift in Earth's Orbit Transformed 'Green Sahara' into Pl... Changes in the Earth’s tilt cause changes in weather patterns. Such a change is believed to have made the “Green Sahara” go dry. A change in the Earth’s orbit, many ...
- 08:14 UTC The Daily Galaxy Image of the Day: Planet's Longest Telescope Buried Under... The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, longer than the world's tallest skyscrapers combined built over a decade buried under the South Pole at the National Science Foundation's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in ...
- 08:08 UTC The Daily Galaxy EcoAlert: Mauna Loa Observatory Shows Carbon Dioxide Leve... The first machine to measure carbon dioxide levels was installed on Mauna Loa in the 1950s at the behest of Charles David Keeling, a scientist from San Diego. His resulting ...
- 08:05 UTC The Discovery Enter... Lost Worlds – Atlantis Today on Discover Enterprise we are going to rediscover what could be the ancient city that inspired Plato’s tale of the vanished island of Atlantis.The island of Santorini was destroyed ...
- 08:00 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Space: CPR in Space Now Easier What's the best way to perform CPR in space? A University of Louisville researcher thinks he has the answer and floats it by Discovery News' James Williams.
- 08:00 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Space: NASA Puts Satellites Through Wringer Breaking satellites is the goal of some NASA engineers who make sure the equipment is ready for orbit. The Discovery News team checks out how they do it.
- 07:20 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Affordable lunar bases Paul Spudis and Tony Lavoie have posted a paper describing an ambitious lunar development program that they believe can fit within NASA's expected budget by relying heavily on in-situ resource ...
- 06:57 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Ice Volcanoes on Titan The Cassini spacecraft has found possible ice volcanoes on Saturn s moon Titan. The unique moon continues to teach astrobiologists about the evolution of rocky bodies around giant planets and ...
- 06:25 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... Worldwide wave Star light, star bright, first moving star we see tonight, wish we may, wave we might... For one week starting Dec. 24, people from around the world will look into ...