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18 Nov 2010
- 16:45 UTC A Lab Aloft Of Fish, Astronauts, and Bone Health on Earth This week, comments from guest blogger Dr. Scott M. Smith as he reflects on recent space station research, which connects a diet rich in fish intake and omega-3 fatty acids ...
- 16:37 UTC Armagh Observatory Relative Humidity at Armagh Observatory, 1838-2008 Research paper published in the International Journal of Climatology. PDF format.
- 16:27 UTC Universe Today Hollywood-like Galactic Encounter Results in Baby Stars Like news ripped from a Hollywood tabloid, this saga includes an encounter between two individuals; one aging, and thought to be past its prime, the other youthful and vigorous. And ...
- 16:22 UTC Sky and Telescope Planet from Another Galaxy
- 16:20 UTC NASA Watch Question for Mike Coats Keith's note: Question for NASA JSC Center Director Mike Coats: How much Lockheed Martin stock do you currently own?... Keith's note: Question for NASA JSC Center Director Mike Coats: How ...
- 16:18 UTC Aviation Week: On S... China's new rocket family seems to have a gap China is developing a new family of rockets that will replace at least part of the current series of Long March 2, 3 and 4 space launchers.I say "at least ...
- 16:18 UTC Aviation Week: On S... China's new rocket family seems to have a gap China is developing a new family of rockets that will replace at least part of the current series of Long March 2, 3 and 4 space launchers.I say "at least ...
- 16:16 UTC AmericaSpace The Engineer Interviews Surrey Satellite Founder SpaceNews has a post about a very interesting interview in The Engineer of Sir Martin Sweeting, founder of Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL). Aside from the discussion about Sir Sweeting’s fascinating ...
- 16:01 UTC Cosmic Variance Autonomously Moving Colloidal Objects that Resemble Livin... That’s the name of a new paper by Akihisa Shioi, Takahiko Ban, and Youichi Morimune. Abstract: The design of autonomously moving objects that resemble living matter is an excellent research ...
- 16:00 UTC Alien Life Universal fear leads to Great Silence and New Mexico spac... Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Abodes - Earth is constantly manufacturing new crust, spewing ...
- 15:55 UTC Starry Critters Swimming in the Starry Seas A glowing jellyfish floats in a starry sea. Instead of floating in water, what appears to be a translucent sea creature is actually a dying star surrounded by rings of ...
- 15:45 UTC Association of Bang... Antimatter trapped by LHC Scientists at LHC claim to have trapped a large number of anti-hydrogen atoms that too with a long life (read the article to know how many were trapped and how ...
- 15:40 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: A call for a new NASA chief; Space agency chiefs ... Rand Simberg proposes that the administration change the administrator of NASA: Opinion: NASA Goes Badly Off Course, Needs a New Commander - AOL News. === Meanwhile, the NASA administrator, who ...
- 15:36 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com STS-133: Managers discussing numerous options including C... With numerous repair operations ongoing with Discovery’s External Tank (ET-137), managers are creating a number of options to provide some additional flexibility in launching STS-133. As part of the evaluations, ...
- 15:34 UTC Slacker Astronomy Slacker Mike Live on Astronomy.FM I have been asked to appear on the Astronomy.FM Radio program Event Horizon this Friday to discuss the AAVSO, our upcoming centennial celebration, variable stars, citizen science and whatever else ...
- 15:32 UTC Space Politics Mollohan: “don’t know” if Congress will approve an approp... In an accepting an award from the Space Transportation Association during a Capitol Hill event this morning, Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV), the outgoing chairman of the Commerce, Justice, and Science ...
- 15:29 UTC TFOT Space Laboratory Open for Business After nearly 12 years of development and a price tag of $100 billion, the International Space Station (ISS) is fully assembled, and the White House has extended the length of ...
- 15:26 UTC Coalition for Space... Radar Mosaics Provide Unique Views of Earth For the last 15 years, Canada’s RADARSAT-1 has observed the Earth from space. RADARSAT-1 is a sophisticated Earth observation satellite developed by Canada to monitor environmental changes and the planet’s ...
- 15:18 UTC The Daily Galaxy Amazon Goes Hollywood: Now, You Can Too! Amazon.com is getting into the movie business by opening Amazon Studios, with the goal of using the Internet to put fresh movies on the big screen. The new Internet movie ...
- 15:12 UTC Simostronomy LIVE! on the Event Horizon I have been asked to appear on the Astronomy.FM Radio program Event Horizon this Friday to discuss the AAVSO, our upcoming centennial celebration, variable stars, citizen science and whatever else ...
- 15:00 UTC John's Space / Astr... Hubble Who? Check Out Keck! The Hubble Space Telescope gets all the glory. The images that the orbiting observatory beams back to Earth captivate the imagination, allowing us to peer deeper and deeper into the ...
- 14:32 UTC Supernova Condensat... What's the opposite of a bubble? The last time I tried telling someone about antibubbles, they asked me if I was making stuff up. I honestly wasn't. Weird as it might sound, there is such a ...
- 14:11 UTC Beyond Apollo Martian polar exploration (1995, 2003) Earth's last great age of land exploration played out at its poles during the 20th century. The ice, harsh weather, and prolonged winter darkness of the polar regions severely tested ...
- 14:07 UTC Cosmic Diary The Great Debate is Now!! The Kroupa/White Debate on Dark Matter just started! See the live blog here.
- 13:43 UTC Physics World Blog Reflections on a complete life in physics Highlights from my recent interview with Roy Glauber By James Dacey What is it that makes a dedicated scientist out of a kid with an everyday background? This is how ...
- 12:29 UTC SciBuff Astronews Daily (2455519) Top Stories Physicists Create and Trap Antimatter, Universe Doesn’t Explode – In a paper today, scientists from Switzerland’s CERN lab reveal they created and trapped a form of antimatter for ...
- 12:28 UTC Parabolic Arc Video: NASA’s Flexible Path Exploration Architecture Expl... Dr. David Korsmeyer of NASA Ames discusses the agency’s flexible path exploration architecture during a SETI Institute Colloquium talk in September.© Douglas for Parabolic Arc, 2010. | Permalink | No ...
- 12:15 UTC Coalition for Space... CSExtra – Thursday, November 18, 2010 To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject ...
- 11:36 UTC EAAE News 15th EAAE-IAU Astronomy Summer School in Germany 15th EAAE-IAU Astronomy Summer School November 18rd – 20th 2010 Heidelberg, Germany Organisers: German SOFIA Institute (DSI) House of astronomy (HdA) European Association for Astronomy Education (EAAE) International Astronomical Union ...
- 11:22 UTC The Sky Above Leonids Observation by the UP Astronomical Society If you missed to watch the Leonids last Nov. 17-18, you may join UP Astrosoc Leonids observation on Nov.19-20, 2010 at the PAGASA Observatory, U.P. Diliman. Here’s an article by ...
- 11:15 UTC Space Fellowship NASA's FASTSAT Microsatellite Ready to Share Ride to Spac... As the holiday season approaches, people are already planning ways to share with others, because sharing is always good. This is also true for NASA's Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology ...
- 11:07 UTC Space Fellowship Ikeya-Murakami: The New Comet on the Cosmic Block Comet Ikeya-Murakami was discovered very recently on Nov. 3, 2010, by Japanese amateur astronomers Kaoru Ikeya and Shigeki Murakami. Their discovery is unusual because they both used manual observations through ...
- 11:00 UTC Space Frontier Foun... 2010: A Year of Accomplishments Things sure have changed during the last 12 months and we plan to make sure they change even more... if only we can find the money and volunteers to make ...
- 10:39 UTC Space Fellowship Astronomers Discover Merging Star Systems that Might Expl... Cambridge, MA - Sometimes when you're looking for one thing, you find something completely different and unexpected. In the scientific endeavor, such serendipity can lead to new discoveries. Today, researchers ...
- 10:37 UTC Space Fellowship First compelling evidence for a black hole after recent s... Possible birth of a black hole in our cosmic backyard Amsterdam -- Black holes, or the remnants of hyper-or supernova explosions, have intrigued scientists since the concept was first introduced ...
- 10:34 UTC Space Fellowship Researchers trap antimatter atoms Discovery may challenge physics fundamentals In the movie Angels and Demons, scientists have solved one of the most perplexing scientific problems: the capture and storage of antimatter. In real life, ...
- 10:32 UTC Space Fellowship KLM Announces Suborbital Flight Relationship with Space E... Using XCOR's Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft KLM will support future Lynx suborbital flights out of Curacao through a variety of programs and packages. Mojave, CA: Today KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced ...
- 10:32 UTC Cosmic Diary The Great Debate is Today! Today is THE day. Marcel Pawlowski just informed me that there will be a live blog, reporting on the White/Kroupa debate in Bonn. You can have a look, for instance, ...
- 10:29 UTC Space Fellowship Russia to launch new generation satellite in 2013 MOSCOW - Russia's next generation Glonass-K2 navigation satellite will be launched in 2013, Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said on Tuesday. "We have decided to modernize the Glonass signal system. ...
- 10:27 UTC Space Fellowship Popular Science Names Falcon 9 Best of What's New in 2010 Praises Innovation of "The First Astronaut-Worthy Private Rocket In Orbit" Hawthorne, CA – SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has won a 2010 Popular Science Best of What's New award in Aviation ...
- 10:26 UTC NewSpace Journal Third glide flight for SpaceShipTwo SpaceShipTwo during its first glide test on October 10, 2010. (credit: Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic) Scaled Composites carried out a third glide test flight of SpaceShipTwo (SS2) on Wednesday. According to ...
- 10:24 UTC Space Fellowship Hayabusa Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Artifacts From Space Scientists involved with the first space mission attempting to sample asteroid surface material and return to Earth, have confirmed presence of particles collected from a small container aboard the Japan ...
- 10:21 UTC Space Fellowship Expedition 25 Landing Rescheduled The landing of Expedition 25 is now planned for Nov. 25 at 11:46 p.m. EST (Nov. 26 at 10:46 a.m. Kazakhstan time). Due to Kazakhstan airspace considerations Russian mission managers ...
- 10:17 UTC Space Fellowship WISE Image Reveals Strange Specimen in Starry Sea PASADENA, Calif.-- A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea. In reality, this ...
- 10:11 UTC Space Fellowship Propellant and fluid delivery processes are validated for... The validation of delivery methods for propellant and fluids to the Spaceport’s new Soyuz launch site is nearing completion, marking another step toward the medium-lift vehicle’s maiden flight from French ...
- 09:33 UTC Urban Astronomer Hayabusa Samples Revealed Close-up of the special teflon scoop used to wipe material from inside the sample cannister. credit: JAXAYou may remember the fuss surrounding the Japanese Space Agency's (JAXA) brave little spacecraft ...
- 09:11 UTC My Big Fat Planet Got game? Name the inkblot from space
- 09:11 UTC My Big Fat Planet Got game? Name the inkblot from space
- 09:02 UTC In the Dark A Sign of the Times Given yesterday’s announcement of cuts to the Higher Education budget in Wales, and the likely outcome in terms of increased costs to students, this picture of a sign I found ...
- 08:13 UTC The Daily Galaxy Human Gene Mutation Creates Resistance to A Rare, Violent... "It's absolutely fascinating to see Darwinian principles at work here. This community of people has developed their own biologically unique response to a truly terrible epidemic. The fact that this ...