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29 Dec 2010
- 14:06 UTC The Flame Trench Discovery tank inspections continue at KSC Kennedy Space Center teams are almost finished scanning the midsection of Discovery's external tank inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. A decision is expected Thursday on whether the tank needs to ...
- 14:02 UTC basic space Scientific American Guest Blog post I have a post up on the Scientific American Guest Blog today. It’s all about strange exoplanet discoveries, and what they can tell us about our own solar system. I ...
- 14:00 UTC Bad Astronomy The ISS sails above the waves I’m fairly well-acquainted with the night sky. I love to go outside and just look at the stars, with or without binoculars or a telescope, and over the years I’ve ...
- 13:58 UTC The Daily Planet “Roger, Roger. What’s our Vector, Victor?” Proceed direct to National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The 1980 movie, “Airplane!” is one of 25 films judged to be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically” significant and therefore ...
- 13:58 UTC Sky and Telescope SOHO: World's Greatest Comet Finder
- 13:42 UTC Centauri Dreams WISE Studies the Triangulum A new image from WISE is always of interest, given our hopes that the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer will help us understand the distribution of nearby brown dwarfs. This image ...
- 13:25 UTC Spaceports Medvedev Seeks 'Performance Discipline' Energia vice-president Vyacheslav Filin and Roskosmos deputy head Viktor Remishevsky have been fired for "the mistakes made in the fuel calculations," in the failed launch of three Glonass-M orbiters in ...
- 12:29 UTC EAAE News Brasil will become newest ESO member Source: SPA announcement by Teresa Lago The Extraordinary ESO Council Meeting held last week (by teleconference) the ESO Council has authorized the Director General of ESO to sign the Accession ...
- 12:20 UTC EAAE News SOHO Spots 2000th Comet Source: NASA Home SOHO's 2000th comet, spotted by a Polish amateur astronomer on December 26, 2010. Image Credit: SOHO/Karl Battams As people on Earth celebrate the holidays and prepare to ...
- 12:13 UTC In the Dark The Ashes Retained I couldn’t resist a short post to mark the success of England’s cricketers down under in successfully retaining The Ashes. After getting themselves comprehensively thrashed in the Third Test of ...
- 12:13 UTC In the Dark The Ashes Retained
- 11:47 UTC Space Politics Adams on human spaceflight, delayed budgets, and sea vers... More end-of-the-year odds and ends: Among the new members of Congress taking office next week is Rep.-elect Sandy Adams (R-FL), who defeated Suzanne Kosmas in November in Florida’s 24th district, ...
- 11:43 UTC EAAE News Fisheye from Edge of 'Santa Maria' Crater Source: NASA Home Image Release Image credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity gained this view during the 2,459th Martian day, or sol of the rover's work on Mars (Dec. 24, 2010) ...
- 11:03 UTC Parabolic Arc Chart: California’s Space Industry’s Large Impact on Stat... The California Space Authority has released a fact sheet on the impact of the state’s space sector, which accounts for $37.7 billion in direct revenue and more than over 450,000 ...
- 10:41 UTC Weirdwarp Robots and Their Potential Uses in Warfare I recently read an article that talked about robots in Afghanistan being used to disarm IEDs and it got me thinking. What would a world be like where robots did ...
- 10:30 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Doing Cartwheels to Celebrate the End of an Era An image of the Cartwheel Galaxy taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been reprocessed using the latest techniques to mark the closure of the Space Telescope European Coordination ...
- 10:19 UTC Discovery News - Sp... 'Zombiesat' Is Alive! The Galaxy 15 satellite that had its "brains fried" by a solar flare nine months ago is communicating with Earth again. Has this reanimated satellite corpse been resurrected?
- 10:17 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Astronomy Picture of the Day Eclipse at Moonset Image... Astronomy Picture of the Day Eclipse at Moonset Image Credit: Itahisa N. González (Grupo de Observadores Astronómicos de Tenerife) Explanation: Hugging the horizon, a dark red Moon greeted early morning ...
- 09:40 UTC The Daily Galaxy "Dark Flow" of Billions of Stars Racing Towards Edge of O... "Dark Flow" sounds like a new SciFi Channel series. It's not! The dark flow is controversial because the distribution of matter in the observed universe cannot account for it. Its ...
- 09:30 UTC The Daily Galaxy Does a Supernova of Unknown Origin Hint at New Laws of Ph... In the past decade, robotic telescopes have turned astronomers' attention to strange exploding stars that may point to new and unusual physics. An international team of astronomers has uncovered a ...
- 09:00 UTC The Daily Galaxy Mysterious Ring Galaxy 600-Million Light-Years Distant The mystery is: Is this one galaxy or two? This question came to light in 1950 when astronomer Art Hoag discovered this odd extragalactic object. On the outside is a ...
- 08:40 UTC The Daily Galaxy The Great Eruption of Eta Carinae Eta-carinae-big Situated just East of the Keyhole Nebula in the Southern Sky, lies the super-luminous eruptive star eta Carinae at a distance of only about 7500 light years from Earth. ...
- 08:20 UTC The Daily Galaxy The Solar Systems Largest Impact Crater Yields Clues to R... The prehistoric Chicxulub crater left by an asteroid collision in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula could yield clues about what Mars was like billions of years ago, according to NASA planetary geologist ...
- 08:14 UTC The Daily Galaxy Image of the Year: Billion-Year Old "Black Widow" Pulsar ... The "Black Widow" pulsar is zipping through the galaxy at a speed of almost a million kilometers per hour. A bow shock wave due to this motion is visible to ...
- 08:08 UTC The Daily Galaxy Ice Sheets Act as Giant Solar Mirrors Controlling Future ... Recent Antarctica research may provide critical clues to understanding one of the most dramatic periods of climatic change in Earth's history - and a glimpse into what might lie far ...
- 08:05 UTC The Discovery Enter... The New Twilight Zone - Profile in Silver Today on Discovery Enterprise we present an episode of “The New Twilight Zone” entitled “Profile in Silver” that takes us back in time to the fateful day of November 22nd ...
- 07:34 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Astrobiology Top 10: Trapped Rover Finds Evidence of Wate... Astrobiology Magazine is highlighting the top 10 stories of 2010. At number 5 is evidence from NASA s Spirit rover that water trickled into the subsurface of Mars fairly recently. ...
- 06:41 UTC Eastside Astro-Blog Bad science in space movies. How does your favorite space movie rate? Star Trek isn't on the list since it's science is way too screwed up.
- 04:09 UTC Cosmic Log How to pour that drink, scientifically What's the best way to pour a glass of New Year's Eve champagne? Scientists have the answer. If you want to make the most of your glass of bubbly, you ...
- 03:48 UTC Science and Reason Recent research findings on M87 (NGC 4486) M87 (Messier 87), also known as NGC 4486, is a giant elliptical galaxy, located about 53.5 million light-years away. It is noteworthy for several reasons, including the presence of an ...
- 03:37 UTC The Planetary Socie... Door 28 in the 2010 advent calendar Time to open the twenty-eighth door in the advent calendar. Until the New Year, I'll be opening a door onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where ...
- 03:28 UTC The Discovery Enter... Stan Rosen and Potentially Revolutionary Space Applicatio... Image via Wikipedia I'm a regular listeners to Dr David Livingston's Space Show but have never commented on his shows. Today I want to change that. On 26th December he ...
- 01:25 UTC Cosmic Log Alien invaders vs. the truth squad If you repeat UFO fiction often enough, does it eventually get reported as fact? Yes ... especially if you add in a 2012 doomsday angle and some dodgy astronomical imagery. ...
- 00:56 UTC Starts With A Bang! How did we get here? You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack You may find yourself in another part of the world You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile ...
- 00:05 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... A review of NewSpace developments in 2010 In preparation for my chat with David Livingston tonight (7-8:30 pm PST, 10-11:30 pm EST) on The Space Show, I've been reviewing the NewSpace Log and trying to condense an ...
- 00:02 UTC Pillow Astronaut Trekking Through Texas And the Lunar Eclipse, Continued... Well fans, this will be the last of the Texas photograph galleries for quite some time, as I have relocated temporarily to California to be ...
28 Dec 2010
- 23:47 UTC Astronomy in Lipan ... LUNAR ECLIPSE DEC 2010 Nothing brings out those "wannabe" astronomer observers any better than a Lunar or Solar eclipse. There are a lot of folks in my community that are aware that visual astronomy ...
- 23:18 UTC Cosmic Log Christmas on a virtual Mars trip The Christmas spirit didn't bypass the six-man crew confined to an isolation chamber for 520 days to simulate a grueling round-trip flight to Mars. Nope. They built themselves a green ...
- 23:12 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska Semisopochnoi is the “Island of the Seven Mountains, ” or more precisely in Russian: “having seven hills.” This uninhabited volcanic island is also an important nesting area for maritime birds ...
- 22:10 UTC Spaceports Alan Shepard to be honored on US stamp Alan Shepard will be depicted on a 2011 U.S. postage stamp wearing the silver spacesuit in which he made history as the first American astronaut to fly into space and ...
- 22:07 UTC Universe Today Bad Science in Movies If you’re finding the time to watch a few movies during the holidays, you might want to make your choices based on this “report card” put together by the website ...
- 21:59 UTC The Half-Astrophysi... A Rube Goldberg Holiday I just saw this today…it’s still the holiday season so I don’t think it’s too late to post it!
- 21:57 UTC Universe Today SOHO Finds Its 2000th Comet From a NASA Press Release: As people on Earth celebrate the holidays and prepare to ring in the New Year, an ESA/NASA spacecraft has quietly reached its own milestone: on ...
- 21:53 UTC Cosmic Log Wonder and whimsy on the Web Vimeo: The high desert and the Geminid meteor shower Cracked: Six animals humanity accidentally made way scarier ONN: Snowy conditions proving hazardous to nation's idiots Neatorama: Magical beer dispenser pours ...
- 21:44 UTC Universe Today Zombie Satellite Now Under Control A geostationary satellite that become a “zombie” earlier this year and stopped communicating with ground controllers has now finally been reset and is under control. The Galaxy 15 communications satellite ...
- 21:35 UTC Journey to the Star... Celestial Grouping on May 2011 As soon as I came across this website shared by Daniel Fischer and read about the proximity of Venus and Jupiter to each other during one particular date on May ...
- 21:24 UTC Coalition for Space... Missed Meeting in Space by Twins One Less Thing for Famil... Curious students took a break from the Christmas holidays Tuesday to gather at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio, for a question-and-answer session with U. S. and European ...
- 21:20 UTC Time Human Let It Snow! New Jersey Blizzard Time Lapse Video Check out this awesome time lapse video of a blizzard that hit New Jersey recently. The video was created by Michael Black and he used a Canon DLSR on a ...
- 21:08 UTC Time Human Santa Has A Rocket Ship? You don't really believe that Santa with his little reindeer's can deliver toys to all the children of the world overnight do you? Well, if you do, I have some ...
- 21:06 UTC The Night Sky Guy Cosmic Canine in the Sky Skywatchers heading out to walk their dogs these late evenings may have noticed a very bright star in the southern sky. This white beacon is Sirius, the lead star in ...