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7 Oct 2010
- 20:28 UTC NASA Watch Today's Dumb Press Release Title is from UC Berkeley Keith's note: Today's dumb press release title comes from UC Berkeley: "NASA mission asks why Mars has no atmosphere". DUH, last time I checked Mars most certainly has an atmosphere. ...
- 20:18 UTC NASA Watch President Obama Expected to Sign NASA Authorization Bill Hutchison: NASA Bill Provides Clear Direction and a New Path Forward for America's Space Agency "Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, ...
- 20:09 UTC The Daily Galaxy Quasars Violently Transformed the Universe in 11 Billion ... A team of astronomers who used the new capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to probe the invisible, remote universe have conculded that 11 billion years ago the entire universe ...
- 19:58 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... SSI conference, Lee Valentine interview, & new Space Show... Last night's interview on the Space Show with Dr. Lee Valentine of the Space Studies Institute (SSI) is now available on line. They focused on the SSI's upcoming conference: Space ...
- 19:45 UTC The Daily Galaxy Image of the Day: Awesome Beauty of Earth's Volcanic Viol... Volcano Tungurahua. located in Ecuador. has become active roughly every 90 years since for the last 1,300 years, erupting spectacularly last year. Pictured above, molten rock so hot it glows ...
- 19:30 UTC Astroblog Massing of Venus, Mars, and the crescent Moon, Sunday Oct... Evening sky looking North-west showing the Venus, Mars, and the crescent Moon at 8:00 pm local daylight saving time on Sunday October 10. Click to embiggen.Don't forget that on this ...
- 19:20 UTC Parabolic Arc Space Economy Career Fair Scheduled for Houston SPACE ECONOMY CAREER FAIR SCHEDULED FOR HOUSTON Fair brings together government leaders and space industry veterans to explore new employment opportunities and expansion plans in Houston area HOUSTON – October ...
- 19:13 UTC The Daily Galaxy From the X Files Dept: China's UFO Frenzy -Will it Go Glo... 2010 is apparently the year of China's UFO sightings- most recently when an unidentified flying object shut down a Chinese airport on Sept. 11. Newly released footage (of unconfirmed authenticity) ...
- 19:06 UTC Universe Today Could a Human Mars Mission Be Funded Commercially? What will it take to actually get humans to Mars? The best answer is probably money. The right amount of cold, hard cash will certainly solve a lot of problems ...
- 19:05 UTC The Space Advocate The China Syndrome http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-viral-video-ufo-china,0,5226156.htmlstorySo there was another UFO over China, sending the world into a frenzy! Okay, maybe not the world, but all the fun loving UFO nutters are chomping at the bit ...
- 18:54 UTC The Once and Future... The Authorized Version NASA’s new authorization bill (S.3729) has been passed by Congress before they cleared out of town and will soon be signed by the President, codifying into law the federal government’s ...
- 18:54 UTC The Once and Future... The Authorized Version
- 18:45 UTC The Mars Society Zubrin Tour of Chile Opens Way to Moon Mars Atacama Resea... Mars Society President Dr. Robert Zubrin toured Chile from September 30 to October 3 to rally support for Chilean participation in Mars exploration. The effort was an outstanding success.
- 18:15 UTC Universe Today Hawking(ish) Radiation Observed In 1974, Steven Hawking proposed a seemingly ridiculous hypothesis. Black holes, the gravitational monsters from which nothing escapes, evaporate. To justify this, he proposed that pairs of virtual particles in ...
- 18:14 UTC Pillow Astronaut Horizontal Exercise Fixture More good news this week from the Human Test Subject Facility (HTSF) and the folks who function as screeners for the NASA studies. Not only will the new feasibility tests ...
- 18:08 UTC MilkyWay@home updated the CPU applications Due to the validation issues, I've updated the CPU applications. Hopefully this should fix the problem. Let me know how they're working here. --Travis
- 18:04 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... COMSTAC meeting update The FAA/AST COMSTAC meeting is continuing today (see yesterday's post). Jeff Foust is tweeting notes again. Here is a sampling: /-- "Mike Gold: Bigelow Aerospace has spent over $1M on ...
- 18:01 UTC Parabolic Arc SSI Space Manufacturing Conference to Plan Humanity’s Fut... 14th Space Studies Institute Conference on Space Manufacturing and Space Settlement Set for Oct. 29-31 in Silicon Valley SUNNYVALE, Calif. (Oct 7, 2010) — Space scientists and entrepreneurs will meet ...
- 17:56 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... NASA carries out experiments on ZERO-G parabilic flights As part of the Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology (FAST) program, NASA recently sponsored a series of flights on ZERO-G's Boeing 727 to test various technologies in ...
- 17:47 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Soyuz launch tonight; Leonardo module for the ISS Soyuz TMA-01M, the first "all-digital" Soyuz, is scheduled to launch tonight at 7:10 pm EDT: Space Station Mission Report | Three men prepare for blastoff to the space station - ...
- 17:29 UTC Universe Today Hubble: Helium Reionization Was a Hot Time in the Ol’ Uni... Using Hubble’s newest tool, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), researchers have nailed down and enhanced our understanding of the reionization of helium in the early Universe, clarifying the time frame ...
- 17:20 UTC LCOGT news Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Featured... Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope’s (LCOGTLas Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network) Faulkes Telescope North (FTN) was featured in The Pfluke Times of Kihei, Hawai’i in two articles in a recent ...
- 17:19 UTC 62 Mile Club California Undersea Voyage Week 1 – Ocean Gate The following footage released by our friends at Ocean Gate has a space like quality. This fall their, submarine Antipodes is working in the Catalina Island area. Ocean Gate is ...
- 17:01 UTC The Sky Above Gallia Asteroid Occultation Project (148 Gallia occults H... Paul Maley of NASA Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society contacted Philippine Astronomical Society (PAS) last April 2009 to ask for assistance in an occultation research project. Zeta Hydrae, a 3.1 ...
- 17:00 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Advanced Space Propulsion Workshop The 18th Advanced Space Propulsion Workshop (ASPW2010) will be held November 15-17, 2010 at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado (UCCS). It is sponsored by NASA JPL, NASA Glenn ...
- 16:26 UTC Astronomy.com Blog On the Road: Granite Gap, New Mexico, follow-up The Celestron and Astronomy Magazine observatories stand side by side at Rancho Hidalgo, near Animas, New Mexico, with Clyde Tombaugh’s 16-inch telescope in the background. David J. Eicher photoWell, you ...
- 16:14 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Bigelow prospects; To the Moon via SpaceX; Ventio... Rand Simberg comments on the hint from Bigelow that they will be revealing their initial customers soon: Bigelow Business Prospects - Transterrestrial Musings. === Trent Waddington ponders a manned lunar ...
- 16:04 UTC Imagine the Univers... News: NASA's WMAP Project Completes Satellite Operations After nine years of scanning the sky, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has concluded its observations of the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light in the universe. The spacecraft ...
- 15:57 UTC Universe Today Comet Hartley 2 Scouted by WISE, Hubble for Upcoming Enco... In a little less than a month, NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft (its current mission is called EPOXI) will fly by the comet Hartley 2 to image the comet’s nucleus and ...
- 15:55 UTC Evadot Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Summit Night Life This week I traveled to the Isle of Man in the UK for the Google Lunar X PRIZE team summit. I now have a TON of content I need to ...
- 15:53 UTC Astro Bob Comet Hartley stares down the two-eyed cluster Tonight and tomorrow night Comet Hartley 2 passes near the Double Cluster in Perseus, one of the prettiest deep sky objects in the sky. These two side-by-side star clusters, also ...
- 15:52 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: NASA Authorization signing; NASA poll The President will sign the NASA Authorization bill today: NASA authorization bill to be signed today - Space Politics Yet another poll shows what previous ones on NASA have shown ...
- 15:31 UTC Slacker Astronomy Visualizing Epsilon Aurigae with Ryan Wyatt
- 15:31 UTC Slacker Astronomy Visualizing Epsilon Aurigae with Ryan Wyatt We got skipped last month but we are back on The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast this month with another exciting installment! This time we are interviewing the über cool ...
- 15:06 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Altius Space Machines new blog and first contract Jon Goff has gotten the official blog for Altius Space Machines up and running and one of the first posts describes their first contract: Altius Space Machines Lands First Contract ...
- 15:00 UTC Alien Life Quantum communication between the stars and could Jupiter... 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 - Can there be life in the environment ...
- 14:25 UTC Sky and Telescope Last Call for Martian Volcanism
- 14:24 UTC Watch the Skies 'Only' 14 Million Miles Away! Comet Hartley 2 is about 14 million miles from Earth as it passes through the constellation Perseus.
- 14:13 UTC TFOT NASA Witnesses a Galactic Spectacle NASA has recently released a marvelous image of two tangled galaxies, captured using three different telescopes: the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
- 14:08 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Ancient Galaxies Found in Modern Universe We didn't think these galalaxies existed, but they are lurking in our cosmic neighborhood.
- 13:52 UTC The Daily Planet Bon Voyage, Soyuz TMA-01M NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka are due to launch to the space station at 7:10 P.M., U.S. Eastern time, from the Baikonur launch ...
- 13:28 UTC Universe Today 100 Epic Astronomy Images from ESO The European Southern Observertory pumps out incredible astronomical images, usually weekly, and they have now put together a collection of their top 100 images. They are all wonderfully amazing, so ...
- 13:27 UTC Beyond Apollo Beyond Earth's Boundaries (1988) Following the Challenger accident (January 1986), many aspects of NASA's space program came under close scrutiny. A widespread consensus emerged that NASA lacked a long-term goal. In response, NASA Administrator ...
- 13:23 UTC Space Fellowship Picture of the Day - A Galaxy Playing Twister The Hubble telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new ...
- 13:11 UTC Astronomy Weather B... Venus Express Update Hello, astro-nuts! Venus Express, which was launched by ESA back in 2005, has been studying the atmosphere of Venus from different levels within it, as well as from its highly ...
- 13:09 UTC Space Fellowship Lightning Mixes a Dark and Stormy Brew at Saturn Cassini data indicate that methane zapped by lightning produces soot and an array of other carbon products in Saturn’s atmosphere resulting in the dark clouds that have been detected in ...
- 13:09 UTC Space Fellowship Lightning Mixes a Dark and Stormy Brew at Saturn NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the large asteroid Vesta that will help scientists refine plans for the Dawn spacecraft's rendezvous with Vesta in July 2011. Launched in ...
- 13:00 UTC Bad Astronomy The warmth of star birth When stars are born, mayhem ensues. The gas and dust collapse to form the stars themselves, but when they switch on the stars blow out vast and terrible winds, which ...
- 12:45 UTC Astroblog Iridium Flare Near Jupiter - Adelaide, Friday October 8 North-eastern evening sky as seen from Adelaide at 21:07 pm ACDST on Friday evening October 8. An Iridium flare occurs just above Jupiter.On the evening of Friday October 8 a ...
- 12:43 UTC Centauri Dreams Advanced Propulsion in Context I want to run through the particulars on the upcoming 2010 Advanced Space Propulsion Workshop at the University of Colorado in a moment, as the deadline for abstracts is still ...