- 13 Jan 2015
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19:58 UTC
Astro Watch
Russia to Decide on Future Participation in ISS in May
Russia will decide on its future involvement in the International Space Station (ISS) project in 2020-2024 only in May, although the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) was supposed to provide an ...
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19:23 UTC
Fermi Gamma-Ray Sky
Fermi LAT Weekly Report N. 343
Covered period: 2014 December 29 - 2015 January 04LAT Mission week: 343.57 - 344.57 PKS 1441+25 was detected on Jan. 3 with a daily averaged flux of (0.7 +/- 0.2) ...
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19:11 UTC
One-Minute Astronom...
Comet Lovejoy Peaks
Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) is expected to reach peak brightness of about 4th magnitude during this week of January 12, 2015. The comet is speeding past the Pleiades and the ...
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19:07 UTC
Spacefan.org
Galaxies in the box
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19:01 UTC
SPACE.com
SMASH, SAURON & POOPSY, Oh My! Astronomers Get Clever wit...
Astronomers like to get creative when naming their projects and collaborations. Acronyms from this year's American Astronomical Society meeting included SLoWPOKES, ASAS-SN, ANGST and AGHAST.
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19:00 UTC
Sydney Observatory
Daily cosmobite: 10 years since Huygens landed on Titan
Ten years ago the Huygens probe landed on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. It photographed drainage channels and landed on a dry sea bed of ‘sandy’ ice grains scattered ...
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19:00 UTC
Fermi Gamma-Ray Sky
Fermi LAT Weekly Report N. 342
Covered period: 2014 December 22 - 28LAT Mission week: 342.57 - 343.57 3C 454.3 was detected all week with a daily averaged flux between (2.1 +/- 0.3) and (2.9 +/- ...
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18:59 UTC
SPACE.com
Blooming Solar Flare Seeds Coronal Loops | Video
Like a multi-petal flower, an M5-class flare erupted from the sun on Jan. 12th, 2015 prodding the magnetic field phenomenon. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths.
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18:57 UTC
Astronomical Societ...
Astronomical Society of the Pacific and IOP Publishing fo...
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have announced a new partnership to publish the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP).Established in ...
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18:52 UTC
JP Aerospace Blog
Bellavia So Far
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18:46 UTC
JP Aerospace Blog
MHD Test 110
We conducted our 110th MHD firing Saturday. We got a great electrical power output. The motor had an odd start up.In the first fraction of a second you can see ...
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18:44 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Musk: SpaceX to Announce Satellite Engineering Center in ...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his company will announce on Friday the opening of an engineering center to produce satellites. “We’re creating an engineering center in Seattle,” Musk said in ...
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18:37 UTC
Sky and Telescope
C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy from Croatia
The post C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy from Croatia appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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18:37 UTC
Sky and Telescope
Comet Lovejoy and airplane
The post Comet Lovejoy and airplane appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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18:37 UTC
Sky and Telescope
NGC1499 California Nebula
The post NGC1499 California Nebula appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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18:37 UTC
Sky and Telescope
NGC1499 California Nebula captured in Ha
The post NGC1499 California Nebula captured in Ha appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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18:37 UTC
Sky and Telescope
The First Half of Lunation from 24-12-14 to 05-01-15 .. I...
The post The First Half of Lunation from 24-12-14 to 05-01-15 .. It too includes christmas moon,31st moon,2015 first night’s moon and first full moon of 2015 .. :) appeared ...
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18:37 UTC
Sky and Telescope
Conjunction of Venus and Mercury January 10, 2015
The post Conjunction of Venus and Mercury January 10, 2015 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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18:37 UTC
Sky and Telescope
Comet Lovejoy imaged on 01-09-2015
The post Comet Lovejoy imaged on 01-09-2015 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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18:37 UTC
Sky and Telescope
Venus & Mercury Conjunction from a light polluted sky
The post Venus & Mercury Conjunction from a light polluted sky appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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18:37 UTC
Sky and Telescope
Venus and Mercury at dawn, from a high polluted light are...
The post Venus and Mercury at dawn, from a high polluted light area south from Madrid (Spain) appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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18:37 UTC
Sky and Telescope
Reflections of Venus and Mercury
The post Reflections of Venus and Mercury appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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18:37 UTC
Sky and Telescope
Abyaneh 360
The post Abyaneh 360 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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18:36 UTC
Gary Seronik.com
Weekend Stargazer: January 16 - 18
Comet Lovejoy finder chart for the January 16 – 18 weekend.With the Moon out of the way, Comet Lovejoy takes centre stage this weekend.read more
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18:20 UTC
NASA Commercial Cre...
Don’t Let the Year Slip By!
We’re almost two weeks into 2015, so if you don’t have some new digits dangling from your door or wall by now it’s time to catch up. The good news ...
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18:03 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Roscosmos Boss Throws Cold Water on New Space Station, Ch...
Roscosmos head Sergey Savelyev said Russia has no current plans to build a successor to the International Space Station before 2025. He also characterized the possibility of the Chinese Shenzhou ...
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18:02 UTC
Sky and Telescope
Black Hole Binary En Route to Merger?
Astronomers poring through two decades of archival and survey observations have discovered what looks like a pair of supermassive black holes closing in for a merger.When galaxies merge, astronomers expect ...
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17:50 UTC
What's Up? The Spac...
Sun Spews 1st Solar Flare for 2015
Hey Space Placers!The Sun remains active into 2015 as it produced the year's 1st solar flare visible on the right:NASA SDOAs provided by NASA:The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, ...
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17:45 UTC
Science World Repor...
Worms on the International Space Station May Help Astrona...
There are several hazards when it comes to space travel, and one of them is muscle and bone loss. Now, a tiny roundworm may help keep astronauts healthy on long-duration ...
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17:43 UTC
Astrobiology Magazi...
ESA: Fresh Supplies and Experiments for Samantha
Yesterday, ESA and NASA astronauts captured the Dragon spacecraft with its supplies and new experiments for the six astronauts living 400 km above our planet.
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17:43 UTC
Space Fellowship
First Notable Solar Flare of 2015
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 11:24 p.m. EST on Jan. 12, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the ...
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17:41 UTC
Space Fellowship
Station Crew Opens Dragon for Business
The hatches to Dragon were opened for business Tuesday morning at 3:23 a.m. EST and the crew began unpacking critical gear that will support 256 science experiments. The SpaceX commercial ...
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17:30 UTC
Universe Today
One of the Milky Way’s Arms Might Encircle the Entire Gal...
Given that our Solar System sits inside the Milky Way Galaxy, getting a clear picture of what it looks like as a whole can be quite tricky. In fact, it ...
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17:21 UTC
Starts With A Bang!
Everything you ever wanted to know about nothing (Synopsi...
Have you ever thought about what “nothing” truly is? We used to think about it in terms of simply removing all the particles from a given region of space, which ...
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17:21 UTC
Starts With a Bang!
Everything you ever wanted to know about nothing
What physics says about the vacuum: A visit to the seashore.Continue reading on Medium »
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17:02 UTC
NASA Tech Briefs
New Vision Algorithm Enables Household Robots
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believe that household robots should take advantage of their mobility and their relatively static environments to make object recognition easier, by ...
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17:00 UTC
Discovery News - Sp...
Unprecedented Flare Blasts from Galaxy's Black Hole
The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy recently spit out the largest X-ray flare ever seen in that region.
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17:00 UTC
io9 Space
The Remains Of Britain's Missing Lander May Have Been Spo...
Rumors are swirling that the British Beagle 2 lander — missing since Christmas Day in 2003 — has been spotted on the surface of the Red Planet by NASA's Reconnaissance ...
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16:52 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Firefly Space Systems, NASA Ink Space Act Agreement
AUSTIN, Texas (Firefly PR) — Firefly Space Systems, Inc. (“Firefly”), a small satellite launch company, is pleased to announce it has entered into a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with the ...
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16:51 UTC
NASA Space Station ...
Crew Opens Dragon for Business
The hatches to Dragon were opened for business Tuesday morning at 3:23 a.m. EST and the crew began unpacking critical gear that will support 256 science experiments. The SpaceX commercial ...
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16:51 UTC
Universe Today
Faster-Than-Light Lasers Could “Illuminate” the Universe
It’s a cornerstone of modern physics that nothing in the Universe is faster than the speed of light (c). However, Einstein’s theory of special relativity does allow for instances where ...
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16:50 UTC
Sky and Telescope
Lodestar X2 Autoguider from Starlight Xpress
Starlight Xpress announces the Lodestar X2 Autoguider ($649), a tiny imaging and autoguiding camera.The post Lodestar X2 Autoguider from Starlight Xpress appeared first on Sky & Telescope. Starlight XpressUnit 3, ...
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16:48 UTC
SPACE.com
Supernova Blast in Superwind Galaxy Glows in Amateur Phot...
This stunning image shows a bright supernova in the Superwind galaxy taken on Jan. 2 by astrophotographer Justin Ng.
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16:47 UTC
ISS On-Orbit Status...
ISS Daily Summary Report – 01/13/15
SpaceX-5 Dragon Ingress and Cargo Ops: The crew started their day by opening the Dragon hatch, obtaining an air sample, and installing Inter-module Ventilation (IMV) ducting. They then began cargo ...
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16:30 UTC
Discover
Bees Drink with Expandable Mop Tongues
A perennially fascinating question to scientists is how animals get liquids into their faces without cups, straws or hands. In recent years they've cracked the puzzle in dogs and cats, ...
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16:23 UTC
SPACE.com
Chinese Moon Lander Spots Pinwheel Galaxy from Lunar Surf...
China's first lunar lander Chang'e 3 remains is still operation after more than a year on the moon, and has captured a photo of a distant galaxy as seen from ...
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16:18 UTC
Symmetry
Dark horse of the dark matter hunt
Dark matter might be made up of a type of particle not many scientists are looking for: the axion. The ADMX experiment seems to be an exercise in contradictions.Dark matter, ...
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16:08 UTC
SPACE.com
Comet C/2014 Lovejoy Snapped By Amateur Astronomer | Time...
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16:02 UTC
Of Particular Signi...
Giving Public Talk Jan. 20th in Cambridge, MA
Hope all of you had a good holiday and a good start to the New Year!I myself continue to be extraordinarily busy as we move into 2015, but I am ...
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16:00 UTC
io9 Space
Eight Types Of Ice Halos Are Crammed Into One Glorious Wi...
This incredible display isn't some a futuristic domed city in an alien icy landscape or an artist's concept of magnetic fields, but a very real optical phenomena here on Earth. ...