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23 Sep 2010
- 15:02 UTC NASA Watch SpaceX In The News SpaceX CEO Musk comes to Washington to lobby for Obama's NASA strategy, Washington Post "Our influence is a tiny fraction of any one of the giant contractors," he said. "We ...
- 15:00 UTC Alien Life Giant exoworlds snuggling up to stars and NASA's Desert R... 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 - A newfound alien solar system with planets ...
- 15:00 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Rosetta operations strategy modified following a RCS test In 2011 the Rosetta spacecraft will go into a 2.5 year hibernation until its reactivation to prepare for its encounter with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.
- 14:57 UTC The Daily Galaxy Image of the Day: The Supermassive Pistol Star -100 Milli... The Pistol Star, a luminous blue variable 1.7 million times as bright as the Sun, and 120-200 times as massive was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in the early ...
- 14:55 UTC The Daily Galaxy Does a Strange Supernova Point to Unknown Laws of the Uni... In the past decade, robotic telescopes have turned astronomers' attention to strange exploding stars that may point to new and unusual physics. An international team of astronomers has uncovered a ...
- 14:42 UTC Aviation Week: On S... Target Space: We're Outward Bound: Exploring Mars Reflections after 50 Years of SpaceA protege of Wernher von Braun, Jesco von Puttkamer has spent his long career working in human spaceflight. In this long essay, von Puttkamer gives ...
- 14:35 UTC Physics World Blog The Feynman Variations 'As curious as he was clever...' By Hamish Johnston The BBC has a wealth of archive material at its disposal – everything from Led Zeppelin performances to television programmes featuring ...
- 14:34 UTC The Daily Planet UAVs for Congress The bumper stickers available at the door read, “My other vehicle is unmanned.” More and more, that’s becoming true for a variety of government agencies—and not just the defense department—as ...
- 14:33 UTC Watch the Skies Bright September Meteor The reward for an early-morning run? Seeing an early-morning meteor.
- 14:11 UTC How I Am Becoming A... Discovery Rolling Out to the Pad (STS-133)
- 13:52 UTC Universe Today Watch the Effects of Earthquakes Hours After They Occur Princeton University has developed software that can produce realistic “movies” of earthquakes based on complex computer simulations, and these visualizations will be available on the internet within hours of a ...
- 13:49 UTC Simostronomy Shine On Harvest Moon This is an excellent picture of last night's full moon, the Harvest Moon. The harvest moon is the full moon at or nearest to the autumnal equinox.Usually, most of the ...
- 13:38 UTC Astroblog Me, Mercury and the European Planetary Science Congress This is an image of Mercury's tail obtained from combining a full day of data from a camera aboard the STEREO-A spacecraft. The reflected sunlight off the planet's surface results ...
- 13:24 UTC Space Fellowship Picture of the Day - Breaking Waves in the Stellar Lagoon A spectacular new Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the heart of the Lagoon Nebula. Seen as a massive cloud of glowing dust and gas, bombarded by the energetic radiation of ...
- 13:09 UTC Centauri Dreams Rosetta: A Southern Hemisphere Landing It’s hard to believe it’s been over six years since the launch of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, now well enroute to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a ten year journey that ...
- 12:44 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Asteroid Mission Modeled with LEGOs The European Space Agency creates a LEGO set modeled on their asteroid-landing mission.
- 12:36 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Why Does a Star Explode? Nothing lights up the cosmos like a supernova. But why does a star explode to begin with?
- 12:31 UTC Beyond Apollo JPL/JSC Mars Sample Return Study II (1986) In 1984, engineers and scientists from NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and Science Applications, Inc. (SAI) performed a detailed Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission study. ...
- 12:00 UTC John's Space / Astr... How Do You Know You Won't Blow Up The Moon? It's no secret that I'm a science nerd, so it shouldn't surprise you at all that I am a fan of the television sitcom The Big Bang Theory. At the ...
- 10:54 UTC Lunar Networks Copernicus In late afternoon. LROC Wide Angle Camera mosaic (LROC WAC Previewer, Microsoft ICE) from six consecutive passes during LRO orbits 2466-2471, January 8 & 9, 2010. (Closer view HERE. Images ...
- 10:26 UTC Space Politics Mr. Musk goes to Washington The Washington Post examines the lobbying efforts of SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who has become something of a lightning rod in the ongoing debate about the administration’s NASA proposals, specifically ...
- 09:42 UTC Space Politics Is a budget cut in NASA’s future? Later today House Republican leaders will unveil “Pledge to America”, their platform of policy changes they seek to enact if the GOP wins a majority in the House in November’s ...
- 09:16 UTC Physics World Blog Nano pioneers give food for thought Giants of the nano-world speak at the opening of a new centre in Bristol, UK By Louise Mayor This week I was at the scientific opening of the Centre for ...
- 08:51 UTC Armagh Observatory Research Technician Post: Radio Meteor Detection A fixed-term Research Technician position is available at the Armagh Observatory funded by the Europlanet Research Infrastructure (RI) under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (EU). Salary is ...
- 08:39 UTC Space Fellowship Lightning Storms on Venus Similar to Those On Earth Venus is a world not for the faint of heart. On its surface you’d have to endure high temperatures and intense air pressures, plus within the thick, sulfuric acid-laced atmosphere ...
- 08:30 UTC The Daily Galaxy Are Quantum ETs Possible? (Today's Most Popular) On a recent Discovery program on the Universe, Stephen Hawking voiced concern about the dangers, he believes, are posed by aliens who may arrive some day on Earth: "To my ...
- 08:29 UTC AmericaSpace Musk Lobbies on Capitol Hill as Dragon Launch Slips Again According to Parabolic Arc’s Doug Messier in Musk Lobbies on Capitol Hill as Dragon Launch Slips Again, even as SpaceX sees its launch date for its next Falcon 9 mission ...
- 08:27 UTC Space Fellowship Martian Methane Gets Even More Mysterious Methane in the atmosphere of Mars lasts less than a year, according to a study by Italian scientists. Sergio Fonti (Università del Salento) and Giuseppe Marzo (NASA Ames) have used ...
- 08:17 UTC Space Fellowship X-48B Resumes Flight Tests at NASA Dryden After undergoing a major overhaul and upgrades, the Boeing / NASA X-48B Blended Wing Body research aircraft resumed flight tests with a checkout flight Sept. 21 from NASA's Dryden Flight ...
- 08:11 UTC Space Fellowship In the Grip of the Scorpion's Claw Gripped in the claw of the constellation Scorpius sits the reflection nebula DG 129, a cloud of gas and dust that reflects light from nearby, bright stars. This infrared view ...
- 08:09 UTC My Big Fat Planet Quote of the week The canary in the coal mine
- 08:09 UTC My Big Fat Planet Quote of the week The canary in the coal mine
- 08:05 UTC Space Fellowship Mercury found to have comet-like appearance by satellites... Scientists from Boston University’s Center for Space Physics reported today that NASA satellites designed to view the escaping atmosphere of the Sun have also recorded evidence of gas escaping from ...
- 08:02 UTC Urban Astronomer Coronal Mass Ejections can change direction Coronal Mass Ejections (CME's) occur when violent magnetic activity on the Sun lifts plasma from the solar surface and ejects it out into space. If a CME reaches Earth, it ...
- 08:02 UTC Urban Astronomer Coronal Mass Ejections can change direction Coronal Mass Ejections (CME's) occur when violent magnetic activity on the Sun lifts plasma from the solar surface and ejects it out into space. If a CME reaches Earth, it ...
- 08:01 UTC Space Fellowship Thales Alenia Space to supply components for Russian sate... Satellite manufacturer Thales Alenia Space signed a three-party agreement with two Russian space enterprises to supply electronic components for three communications satellites, the company said Wednesday.The space enterprises are the ...
- 07:58 UTC Space Fellowship First Kourou launch of Soyuz-ST rocket could be March 201... The first flight of Russia's Soyuz-ST carrier rocket from the European space center in French Guiana may take place in March 2011, a senior Russian space official said on Wednesday. ...
- 07:40 UTC Space Fellowship International Partners Discuss Space Station Extension An... The International Space Station partner agencies met Tuesday, Sept. 21, by videoconference to discuss continuation of space station operations into the next decade and its use as a research laboratory.The ...
- 07:36 UTC Space Fellowship Departure Preps and Handover Activities for Crew Expedition 24 Commander Alexander Skvortsov and Flight Engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko made final preparations Wednesday for their departure from the International Space Station and their return home. ...
- 07:33 UTC Space Fellowship MDA to Develop Next Generation Tech for Space Exploration MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that it has signed a contract worth $6 million (CAD) with the Canadian Space Agency ...
- 07:30 UTC Space Fellowship Rosetta's Cometary Lander Philae goes LEGO What does a scientist do to help visualise a spacecraft's journey? Build a model of course. A model of Europe's Rosetta comet chaser constructed out of LEGO® blocks started out ...
- 07:05 UTC The Discovery Enter... Sci-Fi Science - Earth 2.0 Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the first second season episode of Dr. Michio Kaku’s Sci Fi Science and explore the exciting possibility of Terraforming the planet Mars. In this ...
- 06:40 UTC astropixie the north star, polaris this beautiful artwork shows you how to find the north star using ursa major, the big dipper.Encyclopédie du livre d’or pour garçons et filles-livre 6 Adaptation américaine(Editions des deux coqs ...
- 06:13 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Astronauts4Hire inaugural mission to be a spirited one This is a mission that I bet would get Homer back in space again: Astronauts4Hire Selected for Historic Microgravity Research Flight - Astronauts4Hire - Sept.22.10 - Astronauts4Hire Selected for Historic ...
- 06:03 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Skylon design review update I noted here the other day that Reaction Engines Ltd and the UK Space Agency would host a design review of the Skylon system this week. This UKSA press release ...
- 05:33 UTC Parabolic Arc Musk Lobbies on Capitol Hill as Dragon Launch Slips Again A couple of brief SpaceX related news items. Space News reports that the next Falcon 9 launch has slipped from Oct. 23 to Nov. 8 or 9. The rocket will ...
- 05:22 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Planchón-Peteroa Volcano Planchón-Peteroa Volcano emitted a dark gray plume of ash on September 21, 2010.
- 05:22 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Water Level Changes in Lake Mead In August 2010, Lake Mead reached its lowest level since 1956, the result of a persistent drought and increasing human demand.
- 05:06 UTC The Urban Astronome... Autumnal Equinox and the rate of change of the length of ... Today is the Autumnal Equinox, one of two Equinoxes of the year. These are days that mark the transition from one season to the next, but also are days that ...
- 05:00 UTC Spaceports Jupiter and the Moon Dominate Night Sky! September 2010 presents the only time in your lifetime that you will be able to witness the moon and Jupiter’s simultaneous all-night appearance on the equinox. On this the first ...