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26 Jan 2011
- 20:42 UTC Young Astronomers Royal Greenwich Observatory – Astronomy Photographer of t... Fancy yourself as an Astrophotographer? Fancy yourself as an Astrophotographer? Then why not enter the Royal Greenwich Observatory – Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011 competition? All the information is ...
- 20:26 UTC HobbySpace Blog Baen Free Library - science fiction ebooks The Baen Free Library on the Baen Books Science Fiction & Fantasy website offers a big selection of free books in electronic format.
- 20:22 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... NASA’s Salt-Seeking Instrument Gets Blanketed in Silver NASA technicians are busy prepping for the dawning of the age of Aquarius/SAC-D, the mission.
- 20:22 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Little Instrument that Could Reaches Flight Milestone One thousand flight hours might not sound like a lot of time on an airplane, but for a NASA remote-sensing instrument, it's a milestone.
- 20:21 UTC HobbySpace Blog Chambliss Award for contributions by amateur astronomer t... Amateur astronomer R. Jay GaBany wins an award for his "outstanding contributions to scientific research": California Amateur Wins Chambliss Award - SkyandTelescope.com - Jan.25.11.
- 20:18 UTC 13.7 Speaking, That Is Drawing A recent performance at MoMa asks us to rethink the relation of drawing to movement. We have an opportunity to remember that drawing, like speech, and writing, is a record ...
- 20:18 UTC 13.7 Speaking, That Is Drawing A recent performance at MoMa asks us to rethink the relation of drawing to movement. We have an opportunity to remember that drawing, like speech, and writing, is a record ...
- 20:14 UTC Young Astronomers A Radically Different Pair The well known galaxy pair The well known galaxy pair M81 and M82 have been captured in this stunning image from NASA’s WISE spacecraft. M81 and M82 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA The ...
- 20:13 UTC HobbySpace Blog ARISSat-1 update Alexandru Csete, at OZ9AEC, describes the ARISSat-1, an AMSAT spacecraft that will be launched from the ISS during a spacewalk in February: ARISSat-1: Why is it cool and why do ...
- 20:02 UTC Space Photos The Rippled Red Ribbons of SNR 0509 Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: J. Hughes (Rutgers U.) Explanation: What is causing the picturesque ripples of supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5? The ripples, as well ...
- 19:57 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Open source rocketry; Talking Space Podcast Nathan Bergey of the Portland State Aerospace Society talks about open source rocketry with Evadot: Evadot Podcast #60 – Hacking space with Open Source Rockets. === Here is another space ...
- 19:56 UTC The New York Times For NASA, Longest Countdown Awaits Worries are growing that compromises will leave NASA without enough money to accomplish anything.
- 19:55 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... First Light for EarthKAM Funny to think about a “first light” image and instead of referring to a camera on Earth looking at something in space, it’s the other way around. The Window Observational ...
- 19:29 UTC Cosmic Log Oil spill dispersants don't disappear When nearly 800,000 gallons of a chemical dispersant were injected into the oil gushing from the busted wellhead on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico during last year's Deepwater ...
- 19:25 UTC Spaceports Discovery Launch Date Target Feb. 24, 2011 Technicians reapplied foam insulation around space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 25, 2011. Discovery was ...
- 19:23 UTC Spaceports "BUONGIORNO space station!" Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 26 Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency discussed the progress of his mission and its importance to Europe with officials of ...
- 19:20 UTC WikiSky Still believing in aliens invasion in 2012? The news about so-called space ships found by SETI shaking internet community for more than a month now (though origin of the news I found on some blogs and youtube ...
- 19:15 UTC East Central Minnes... January 25th Meeting on Celestial Targets is a Bullseye! With another fun-filled educational eperience under our belts, the ECMAC bi-monthly meeting covered a very interesting topic: Objects for Observation, presented by club president Jim Williams. Eleven different categories of ...
- 18:57 UTC Colony Worlds Asteroid Mining Is Nothing But A Pipe Dream? (Image Credit: How Stuff Works) If there was one future space industry with the potential of making space affordable it was asteroid mining. With many of these space rocks harboring ...
- 18:56 UTC Spaceports Progress Spacecraft Readied at Baikonur Work at the Baikonur Cosmodrome is underway for the launch of the next Russian Progress M-09M spacecraft for launch Friday, January 28, 2011 carrying essential supplies and cargo to the ...
- 18:40 UTC Spaceports Hubble Space Telescope sets new record Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what they believe is the most distant, ancient object ever seen in the universe. Its light traveled 13.2 ...
- 18:37 UTC Astro Bob Be part of history, send your name to Mars Feel like going to Mars? The good folks at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invite you to send your name on a microchip that will fly to the planet later this ...
- 18:21 UTC EAAE News Hubble finds a new contender for galaxy distance record Source: Hubble/ESA Pushing the Hubble Space Telescope to the limit of its technical ability, an international collaboration of astronomers have found what is likely to be the most distant and ...
- 18:18 UTC The Planetary Socie... IKAROS: self-portrait with Venus; primary mission complet... JAXA posted a report today stating that IKAROS "has completed its regular operations." As a part of that report, they included this tiny photo, taken from the cameras that were ...
- 18:03 UTC Bad Astronomy Another record breaker: ultra-deep image reveals ultra-di... Astronomers have just announced they have discovered what may be the most distant galaxy ever seen, smashing the previous record holder. This galaxy is at a mind-crushing distance of 10.2 ...
- 18:00 UTC Centauri Dreams The Most Distant Galaxy Yet? As we improve our ability to look back to the early universe, the changes we see in galaxies at this period compared to later eras are striking. A new study, ...
- 18:00 UTC Universe Today Long Ago and Far, Far Away… Hubble Discovers Most Distant... No Princess is sending holographic help messages. No Hans Solo is warming up a Millenium Falcon to jump into hyperdrive. We don’t even have a Death Star waiting around the ...
- 18:00 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Hubble finds a new contender for galaxy distance record Pushing the Hubble Space Telescope to the limit of its technical ability, an international collaboration of astronomers have found what is likely to be the most distant and ancient galaxy ...
- 18:00 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Oldest Galaxy Uncloaked by Hubble The object is the newest contender for the title of the most ancient object in our universe.
- 17:59 UTC Cosmic Log Hubble spots farthest galaxy ... again? The Hubble Space Telescope has outdone itself by catching sight of what may be the most distant galaxy ever seen, lying about 13.2 billion light-years from Earth. If the observations ...
- 17:50 UTC NASA Watch A Bigelow Module on the ISS? International Space Station Could Get Private Inflatable Room, Space.com "The International Space Station could get a new inflatable module supplied by the private American company Bigelow Aerospace, sources say. NASA ...
- 17:35 UTC TheSpaceWriter's Ra... Aliens Why Are They Always Acting Like Bad Humans? I was browsing around the vast pool of Web knowledge about aliens the other day and I was struck by how awful ...
- 17:32 UTC The Daily Galaxy The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (1/26) First Earth-Orbiting Solar Sail Unexpectedly Unfurls After a month and a half trapped in its mothership, NASA’s NanoSail-D spacecraft has finally unfurled the first solar sail to circle the Earth. ...
- 17:24 UTC NASA Watch House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Shaping... House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Members Named "Today the Democratic Caucus of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology met to elect Subcommittee Ranking Members and ...
- 17:22 UTC Physics World Blog Who is the best male tennis player of all time? There is an answer, though it's probably not what you would expect... No, it's not Tim Henman. (Courtesy: Wikimedia commons) By James Dacey With the Swiss superstar Roger Federer looking ...
- 17:21 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Runaway Star Plows Through Space A massive star flung away from its former companion is plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc in a new ...
- 17:18 UTC SPACE.com Spectacular Photos From The Revamped Hubble Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope is taking spectacular new images after its last ever overhaul by astronauts in May 2009.
- 17:16 UTC Weirdwarp Mars Express Gives New Images & Video of Martian Moon Pho... The European Space Agency has released close-up portraits of Mars’s moon Phobos, taken as the ESA Mars Express spacecraft flew within 60 miles of it. The images show a load ...
- 17:04 UTC NASA NES Teacher's ... 2012-Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End? Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Read how NASA scientists answer this, and other questions about 2012.
- 17:01 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com STS-134: Endeavour set for February 28 rollover – ET-122 ... Endeavour is set to depart from her Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-2) on February 28, as milestones begin to align for her April 19 (No Earlier Than) launch to the International ...
- 16:55 UTC 13.7 Can Machines Fall In Love? Will machines ever be able to love? If so, what will they teach us about being human? by Marcelo Gleiser iStockphoto.com This past weekend, I re-watched the classic scifi movie ...
- 16:55 UTC 13.7 Can Machines Fall In Love? Will machines ever be able to love? If so, what will they teach us about being human? by Marcelo Gleiser This past weekend, I re-watched the classic scifi movie Blade ...
- 16:50 UTC Atomic Rockets A Renewed Concern: Flares and Astrobiology A Renewed Concern: Flares and Astrobiology by Paul Gilster on January 17, 2011 Before the recent American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle gets too far behind us, I want to ...
- 16:44 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Cella Energy - low-cost hydrogen storage materials A reader sends a pointer to Cella Energy, which has developed a "a way to nanostructure and encapsulate complex chemical hydride materials" such that they can store significant amounts of ...
- 16:42 UTC Supernova Condensat... Shocking For those of us astronomers who're crazy enough to study the stuff between the stars, there are a few dramatix personae dotted about the sky which are particularly noteworthy. Zeta ...
- 16:35 UTC Blackholes and Astr... Winter Solstice Total Lunar Eclipse Movie Well I finally put together some of my images from the eclipse to make this movie. The next Total Lunar Eclipse visible from my area will be December 10 2011. ...
- 16:30 UTC Aviation Week: On S... Sputnik Moment President Barack Obama says it's a "Sputnik moment" for the U.S., but in his State of the Union speech he mentioned NASA only as part of the U.S. response to ...
- 16:30 UTC Aviation Week: On S... Sputnik Moment President Barack Obama says it's a "Sputnik moment" for the U.S., but in his State of the Union speech he mentioned NASA only as part of the U.S. response to ...
- 16:17 UTC Deep Astronomy What Caused the Big Bang? The question of what caused the Big Bang is one of the most difficult facing humanity. We may never find an answer, and even if we do, we probably won't ...
- 16:14 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... itsfullofstars: Abandoned Remains of the Russian Space S... itsfullofstars: Abandoned Remains of the Russian Space Shuttle Project Buran Images here.