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26 Nov 2010
- 22:02 UTC HobbySpace Blog Alan Boyle talks about science reporting I often point to space and science articles by MSNBC reporter Alan Boyle. Here is an interview with Alan: High 5: Alan Boyle, MSNBC.com - Pars3c.
- 21:52 UTC HobbySpace Blog Raising crops in space Here's an interesting overview of space farming: Could Space Farmers Grow Crops On Other Planets? - SPACE.com - Nov.26.10. Find more space farming resources here.
- 21:38 UTC HobbySpace Blog Saturn moon Rhea has tenuous oxygen atmosphere The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has discovered a thin oxygen and CO2 atmosphere on the ringed planet's second largest moon Rhea: /-- Saturn Moon Rhea's Surprise: Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere - SPACE.com ...
- 21:28 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Palin's space policy; Tech for contracts; Lunar S... Some space policy analysis from Sarah Palin: /-- NASA in Palin's new book - Space Politics /-- Palin Said What? - nasaengineer === ITAR overly restricts space exports from the ...
- 21:17 UTC Universe Today Tenuous Oxygen Atmosphere Found Around Saturn’s Moon Rhea A few years ago, astronomers thought they found wispy rings around Saturn’s moon Rhea. Although the possibility of rings around this icy moon was later nixed, astronomers knew there was ...
- 21:17 UTC Parabolic Arc HLVs, EELVs and the Future of NASA Three items have appeared over the past week concerning NASA’s future plans for human space exploration and what type of heavy-lift vehicle it needs to go beyond low Earth orbit. ...
- 21:13 UTC The Planetary Socie... A few Mars Express Phobos goodies To celebrate Mars Express' recent mission extension to 2014, here are some cool pictures that it took of Mars' inner and larger moon Phobos. They were part of the most ...
- 20:47 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Virgin Galactic responds to emissions study Virgin Galactic seems to be committed now to "recycled nylon" as its rocket fuel: Space tourism - a final frontier worth exploring? : Virgin Galactic hits back at recent report ...
- 20:45 UTC Parabolic Arc CSA Awards Lunar Rover Prototype Contracts to MDA, Neptec... CSA PRESS RELEASE Nov. 25, 2010 The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is awarding two contracts valued at $11.5 million each to MDA and Neptec Design Group of Ottawa. Each company ...
- 20:44 UTC NASA NES Teacher's ... Astronomy Picture (or video) of the Day Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
- 20:20 UTC The Discovery Enter... 7 Amazing Exoplanets Scientific American has an excellent interactive article on the planets we are finding beyond our Solar System: Hundreds of planets around other stars have been discovered recently, but many centuries ...
- 20:10 UTC Parabolic Arc Soyuz Lands Safely to Wrap Up First Decade of Space Stati... The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock and Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin touches down near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Friday, Nov. 26, ...
- 20:01 UTC Spaceports Saturn's moon Rhea has oxygen atmosphere NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a very tenuous atmosphere known as an exosphere, infused with oxygen and carbon dioxide around Saturn's icy moon Rhea. This is the first time a ...
- 19:56 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... No Shuttle Launch Before Dec. 17 Work on Discovery’s External Tank continues but there will be no launch before the 17th of December. The problems are more than just the fuel leaks that crop up from ...
- 19:43 UTC NASA Watch More Plutonium 238 Production Pressure Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee Urges Restart of Pu-238 Production, American Institute of Physics "On November 18, the Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee sent a letter regarding Pu-238 production to ...
- 19:21 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Snowstorm covers Western United States A storm system passing over the north-western United States left a trail of heavy snow as it passed, bringing many a white Thanksgiving Day.
- 19:06 UTC Spaceports Here comes the Sun: Our Star and SOHO The Sun is the source of life on Earth therefore we must understand how it works and affects our planet. Thanks to space science we now have a better knowledge ...
- 19:01 UTC The Sky Above Join U.P. Astronomical Society!
- 18:54 UTC Dear Astronomer Oxygen Detected On Saturn’s Moon Rhea NASA is reporting that the Cassini spacecraft has detected a very tenuous atmosphere comprised of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide. This marks the first time a spacecraft has directly sampled an ...
- 18:15 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com LIVE: Ariane 5 ECA set to launch HYLAS 1 and Intelsat 17 Arianespace are back on the pace, with another dual launch set to take place on Friday via their Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle. The European workhorse is set to loft ...
- 18:13 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... No NASA plan to restart a X-34 program The move of the X-34 vehicles apparently has more to do with storage space than space transportation: The Real Story Behind NASA’s Resurrected Space Plane - Danger Room/Wired.com. However, if ...
- 18:07 UTC TFOT Expedition 25 Returns Home Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock and Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan steppe Thursday, wrapping up a five-month stay aboard the ...
- 17:12 UTC Pillow Astronaut Our Astronaut Heroes Raising money for education! November 2010 saw the 8th Annual Astronaut Experiences & Memorabilia Auction, Online and Astronaut Autograph & Memorabilia Show at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida… ...
- 16:31 UTC Alien Life Alien evolution and habitability of other planets Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Stars - What Einstein called his worst mistake, scientists ...
- 16:29 UTC Cosmic Variance Special Relativity, Simply Explained Here’s how it starts. Click over to Abstruse Goose to see the exciting conclusion. Message to science journalists: if this actually happened, it would be pretty awesome.
- 16:12 UTC The Daily Galaxy "We Can Glimpse the Universe Before the Big Bang": One of... The circular patterns within the cosmic microwave background suggest that space and time did not come into being at the Big Bang but that our universe in fact continually cycles ...
- 16:07 UTC Space Cynic It’s a MAE MAE MAE MAE MAE MAE World…. A recent article in TheStar.com discusses how space may be the first frontier for the next major conflict. By major conflict I assume one in which the US is engaged ...
- 16:00 UTC Alien Life 500th exoplanet discovered and cosmic dust essential Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Stars - Astronomers find cosmic dust annoying when it ...
- 15:53 UTC Space Fellowship Picture of the Day - Looking into the Milky Way's Heart The centre of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is again in the sights of ESO telescopes. This time it’s the turn of ISAAC, the VLT’s near- and mid-infrared spectrometer ...
- 15:46 UTC Coalition for Space... Saturn’s Moon, Rhea – Thin Atmosphere Detected It is the first time a spacecraft has captured direct evidence of an oxygen atmosphere at a world other than Earth. The flyby measurements of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft at Saturn’s ...
- 15:19 UTC IYA2009 Updates Adventure Astronomy: Archaeoastronomy and Modern Astronom... The focus of this Astronomy Tours is to learn more about Astronomy in cultures: yesterday's, today's and tomorrow's astronomy. The tours are accompanied by experts in their fields, including Prof. ...
- 15:14 UTC LCOGT news Linking Data One of the great advantages of the world wide web has been the ability for anyone to make a website and link it to any other. This openness, and the ...
- 15:13 UTC IYA2009 Updates Beyond IYA2009 Updates Summary of International Year of Astronomy 2009 Released The brochure, called the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Final Report Executive Summary, offers an overview of the many events that took ...
- 15:12 UTC NASA Watch Management Style of NASA JSC PAO's Ellen Engleman Conners... Report: Transportation Safety Board Less Aggressive in Last Decade, Fox "... Carmody and Goglia are two NTSB members who faulted the leadership style of Ellen Engleman Conners, who was chairwoman ...
- 15:08 UTC SciBuff Astronews Daily (2455527) Top Stories Oxygen found on Saturn’s moon Rhea – Nasa’s Cassini probe has scooped oxygen from the thin atmosphere of Rhea – the first time the gas has been detected ...
- 15:00 UTC Space Politics NASA in Palin’s new book Earlier this week America by Heart, the latest book by former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, hit store shelves. The book, as it turns out, spends ...
- 14:51 UTC Universe Today Soyuz and 3 ISS Crewmembers Return Home The Expedition 25 crew landed safely in Kazakhstan at 11:46 p.m. EST Thursday (Friday 10:46 a.m. Kazakhstan time). The trio — Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin ...
- 14:46 UTC Parabolic Arc IAA Summit Declaration Focuses on HSF, Robotic Exploratio... IAA Summit Declaration IAA Introductory Remarks On November 17, 2010, leaders of 30 space agencies from around the world gathered in Washington, D.C. for the International Academy of Astronautics’ (IAA) ...
- 14:01 UTC Centauri Dreams Astrobiology on the Cheap Keeping space missions separate can be a difficult challenge when so many satellites are launched on a single rocket. Take O/OREOS (Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses). The small satellite rode ...
- 13:37 UTC Urban Astronomer Visitors from another star As any astronomer knows, there are two zones in the Solar System packed with small loose bodies, two to three kilometers across, of rock and ice: The Kuiper belt out ...
- 13:29 UTC NASA Watch Expedition 25 Crew Returns to Earth Soyuz Landing Caps Space Station's First Decade of Expeditions "Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock and Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan ...
- 13:25 UTC Simostronomy J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets! Bipolar jet from a young stellar object (YSO). Credit: Gemini Observatory, artwork by Lynette CookIt seems oddly appropriate to be writing about astrophysical jets on Thanksgiving Day, when the New ...
- 13:12 UTC Universe Today The Fall and Rise of ‘X’ They are at the very edge of current U.S. technological capabilities; one is a supposedly mothballed technology test-bed, the other a super-secret space plane that is currently on orbit – ...
- 12:31 UTC Astroblog Framing the Image Chart of Comet 103P near Mel 71 visualized in SkyMap, the rectangle is the approximate size of the global-rent-a-scope G14 instrument's CCD imager field of view (155.8 x 233.7 arc ...
- 12:01 UTC In the Dark A Gloom of Uninspired Research I don’t mind admitting that I’m a bit down today. Being stuck at home with a fever and sore throat, and with mounting backlog of things to do isn’t helping ...
- 10:25 UTC IYA2009 Updates World map of Galileoscope distribution As you mouse-over each country, it tells you the number of Galileoscopes distributed there. The data plots the 179,910 Galileoscopes we distributed to 105 countries as of the end of ...
- 09:25 UTC Space Fellowship Young-star discovery hints magnetism common to all cosmic... Radio observations show first evidence for magnetic field in protostar jet Astronomers have found the first evidence of a magnetic field in a jet of material ejected from a young ...
- 09:09 UTC Space Fellowship Expedition 25 Lands in Kazakhstan Expedition 25 landed safely in Kazakhstan at 11:46 p.m. EST Thursday (Friday 10:46 a.m. Kazakhstan time). The trio -- Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin -- undocked ...
- 09:02 UTC IYA2009 Updates Summary of International Year of Astronomy 2009 Released The brochure, called the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Final Report Executive Summary, offers an overview of the many events that took place during the Year, as detailed in full ...
- 08:53 UTC astropixie the art and science of cooking this is a photo from the upcoming book modernist cuisine: the art and science of cooking. WANT! via fresh photons