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20 Dec 2010
- 22:14 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... NASA awards $500k to 3 firms in lunar demo data project NASA announces further awards in lunar demonstration technical data purchase program: NASA Selects Companies for Further Lunar Demonstrations Data WASHINGTON -- NASA has issued delivery orders to three companies as ...
- 22:07 UTC Lowell Observatory ... Clouds in Forecast for Night of Eclipse Viewing tonight’s total lunar eclipse is looking unlikely from many parts of the southwestern United States due to significant cloud cover. If there’s a break in the clouds and you ...
- 21:38 UTC Universe Today Big Moon, Little Moon This image reminds me of when I was young, my parents would line me and my siblings up for pictures, oldest and tallest in the back and youngest and smallest ...
- 21:28 UTC Urban Astronomer December Solstice In a little more than 24 hours time (at 03h38 UTC, on 22 December 2010) the Sun will reach it's southernmost point in our skies and begin moving back North. ...
- 21:22 UTC Time Human Total Lunar Eclipse Will Be Live Streaming Via NASA! (Mr. Eclipse/Fred Espenak) Remember that tonight is the night! The night of the lunar eclipse! If you are feeling the anxiety of the possibility of bad weather hindering your view, ...
- 21:13 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Lago Alajuela, Panama Acquired December 17, 2010, this natural-color image shows a sediment-laden Lago Alajuela, a reservoir of the Panama Canal.
- 21:05 UTC OrbitalHub How Easy is it to Measure the Universe? Credits: NASA/ESA/A.Zezas/JPL/Caltech/GALEX Team/J.Huchra et al. One thing that I find fascinating about astronomy is the ingenious ways astronomers have come up with to solve the puzzles laid out in the ...
- 21:05 UTC OrbitalHub AISsat-1 Mission Needs Votes The place where space exploration, science, and engineering meet
- 20:51 UTC Time Human Dreaming Of A White Christmas? Create Your Own Snow Cryst... With little more than a plastic soda bottle, some fishing line, a sponge, and dry ice, anyone can make it snow, make it snow, make it snow... one flake at ...
- 20:51 UTC The Launch Pad Checking In with Potential Google Lunar X PRIZE Teams By now, you all know that the registration window for Google Lunar X PRIZE teams is nearly closed. You are probably also aware that potential teams are working hard to ...
- 20:38 UTC Starts With A Bang! Hubble for the Holidays: Eta Carinae "We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be ...
- 20:27 UTC The Planetary Socie... Akatsuki update: more detail on first failure report Ordinarily it's not my thing to do so many updates on a mission that failed to arrive in orbit, but I know that it's difficult for English-speaking readers to locate ...
- 20:26 UTC Professor Astronomy Two stars merge on camera No, it's not the latest celebrity scandal. But a group of astronomers think they may have seen two stars in space spiral together, combine in a rare type of stellar ...
- 20:25 UTC Lunar Update China celebrates success of 2nd lunar probe Chang'e-2 Well someone is happy about sending probes to the Moon.Will be interesting to see what China reports of its findings.They made a lunar map with Chang'e 1.A lunar map has ...
- 20:25 UTC Time Human An Answer To Green Energy Could Be In The Air In Mark Moore's world, long nanotubes reach into the clouds, serving at once to tether a turbine-vehicle flying at 2,000 feet, or 10,000 feet, or 30,000 feet (610, 3,050 and ...
- 20:20 UTC Time Human How Often Do Giant Black Holes Become Hyperactive? 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. This discovery clarifies how supermassive ...
- 20:20 UTC To the Moon, Mars a... China celebrates success of 2nd lunar probe Chang'e-2 Well someone is happy about sending probes to the Moon.Will be interesting to see what China reports of its findings.They made a lunar map with Chang'e 1.A lunar map has ...
- 20:14 UTC Parabolic Arc Will Space Tourism Sizzle or Fizzle? A new quarterly, New Space Magazine , has launched. It includes an article from Philip A. Janquart titled, “Space Tourism: Will it go far or fizzle out?” in which I’m ...
- 20:07 UTC The American Associ... ejaavso preprint "Anchoring the Universal Distance Scale ... http://www.aavso.org/ejaavso
- 19:48 UTC Parabolic Arc The Two Bobs (Richards and Zimmerman) on The Space Show This week on The Space Show…. Monday, December 20 , 2010, 2-3:30 PM PST. We welcome Dr. Al Koller of SpaceTEC to the show. Dr. Koller founded SpaceTEC – the ...
- 19:24 UTC Astronomy.com Blog Become a Planet Hunter! What a busy week in astronomy! With last week's Geminid meteor shower, tonight's total lunar eclipse, and the winter solstice tomorrow, it's easy to overlook another event that may not ...
- 19:23 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... SpaceShipTwo testing update The latest issue of Aviation Week (Dec.20-27) has an article about SpaceShipTwo testing. The article is not yet in the on line section so I'll list some highlights: /-- They ...
- 19:21 UTC Laurel's Pluto Blog The Solstice Is the Reason for the Season “All that lives must die to be reborn again.” As far back as I can remember, this time of year felt sacred, even otherworldly. At first, I thought it was ...
- 19:12 UTC Chandra X-ray Obser... Remembering Carl Sagan Today is the anniversary of Carl Sagan's death back in 1996. For those of us who have dedicated our professional lives to communicating astronomy to the general public, we owe ...
- 19:07 UTC Spacevidcast 2010 Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse You may have heard of the December 2010 Winter Solstice Eclipse, a very rare phenomenon that has been known to have happened only once before, 372 years ago, and will ...
- 19:02 UTC Time Human World's Largest Neutrino Observatory Completed At South P... IceCube Lab SP, Antarctica. Credit: NSF/F. Descamps Culminating a decade of planning, innovation and testing, construction of the world's largest neutrino observatory was successfully completed today. The final string of ...
- 19:01 UTC The Sky Above Dec. 21, 2010 Total Lunar Eclipse Live Webcast For those who want to witness the total lunar eclipse from different parts of the world, below is a list of websites that host live streaming of the astronomical event: ...
- 18:58 UTC The Daily Galaxy This Week's Debate: "Machines Can't Understand" Philospher John Searle's "Chinese room'' contains a man who knows no Chinese. He uses a book of rules to form Chinese replies to Chinese sentences passed in to him. Searle ...
- 18:39 UTC Universe Today Total Lunar Eclipse Information – December 21, 2010 Are you ready? As promised, here comes more detailed information on the 2010 total lunar eclipse. Step inside and find out where and when to watch! (...)Read the rest of ...
- 18:31 UTC Chandra X-ray Obser... How Often do Giant Black Holes Become Hyperactive? This two-panel graphic contains two composite images of galaxies used in a recent study of supermassive black holes. In each of the galaxies, data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory are ...
- 18:28 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Great Minds: Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot I was linked this... Great Minds: Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot I was linked this video by some friends over at www.thegeekgroup.org, it comes from FfreeThinker’s YouTube channel
- 18:15 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... This Year at NASA - 2010 (Part 1) Part one of NASA’s... This Year at NASA - 2010 (Part 1) Part one of NASA’s review of the year video
- 18:09 UTC Eastside Astro-Blog Science fiction to reality. Phil Plait is doing his "Top 10 photos for 2010" on his blog site today. I liked the comparison he had between these two photos. We are still a long ...
- 18:07 UTC The Planetary Socie... Door 20 in the 2010 advent calendar (special news update) Time to open the twentieth 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 ...
- 18:07 UTC NASA Watch NASA's Year End Summary NASA Completes Space Station, Fosters Commercial Spaceflight And Makes Amazing Discoveries During Ambitious Year Of Exploration "NASA in 2010 set a new course for human spaceflight, helped rewrite science textbooks, ...
- 18:01 UTC Cosmic Variance Science of TRON I don’t know about any of you, but I was extremely excited about the release of TRON: Legacy. Partly because the light cycles are cool, but also for a personal ...
- 17:59 UTC NASA Watch NASA's ExplorNet Keith's note: According to a Tweet by @KevinDJones, a NASA MSFC-associated social networking consultant, "Recording videos for NASA's soon-to-be ExplorNet. I love this!" I'll be willing to bet that most ...
- 17:56 UTC Journey to the Star... Partial Lunar Eclipse in the Philippines on December 2010 A Total Lunar Eclipse will darken the Moon on December 21. The entire event will be visible from North America with areas to the east, such as South America, Europe, ...
- 17:55 UTC The Planetary Socie... Lunar eclipse tonight, mid-eclipse at 08:17 Dec 21 UT Unless you live under a rock you probably know that there is a total lunar eclipse tonight, one that should be particularly favorable for viewing from North America but which ...
- 17:49 UTC The Daily Galaxy TOTAL Eclipse! December 21 (A Viewer's Guide) The combination of a total eclipse of the moon and the winter solstice will make for a rare late tonight and tomorrow. Although lunar eclipses are common, there hasn't been ...
- 17:45 UTC Atomic Rockets Emerging Technologies May Fuel Revolutionary Launcher As NASA studies possibilities for the next launcher to the stars, a team of engineers from Kennedy Space Center and several other field centers are looking for a system that ...
- 17:26 UTC TheSpaceWriter's Ra... We Need More Cloud-Be-Gone Over Here! Hit or Miss on the Lunar Eclipse You may have heard there’s a spectacular lunar eclipse starting late tonight and going in to early tomorrow morning, visible to those of ...
- 17:25 UTC The Stay-At-Home Mo... Lunar Eclipse Tonight! This year's only lunar eclipse happens tonight, and is visible throughout North America. It starts at 10:33 PST (that's 1:33 AM Tuesday for those on the East Coast), with total ...
- 17:21 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Get Ready for the Solstice Lunar Eclipse! The first total lunar eclipse in two years will grace the sky the night of Monday, Dec. 20, and we want you to be there. Sure, it’s a school night, ...
- 17:09 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... The Space Review this week The new issue of The Space Review begins with Lou Fredman decrying the waste of money in the NASA budget for a near term heavy launch vehicle: Rocket to nowhere. ...
- 17:02 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day notte in malga by Vi... Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day notte in malga by Vittorio Poli
- 16:57 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Red, Red Moon and Other Lunar Eclipse Phenomena Tiny airborne particles, or aerosols, can affect the appearance of the moon during a total lunar eclipse, sometimes giving it a reddish hue By Dr. David Diner Tiny airborne particles, ...
- 16:52 UTC 13.7 We Seem To Be Zombies As you read this blog, many of you do not know that, according to some of our finest scientific minds, you are not conscious at all. You are a mechanical ...
- 16:49 UTC The Mars Society The Italian Mars Society The second issue of Mars Transactions, the review of the Italian Mars Society, is now available.
- 16:38 UTC Spaceports Permission to Launch in Augusta County? Virginia Lawyers Weekly is providing coverage today of a Virginia zoning dispute relating to the launch of STEM education model rockets. It has been resolved to be settled in the ...