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27 Sep 2010
- 12:24 UTC Kentucky Space An "alien-eye" view of our solar system A dust model illustrates how our solar system might have looked during earlier stages of its development to a distant astronomer, and compares it to the structure around one star, ...
- 12:24 UTC Kentucky Space An "alien-eye" view of our solar system A dust model illustrates how our solar system might have looked during earlier stages of its development to a distant astronomer, and compares it to the structure around one star, ...
- 11:38 UTC Urban Astronomer Venus Announcing the second article in our series on The Planets. Today we meet sultry, sexy, unfaithful Venus. With thanks to Jody Terblanche from UrbanResolution for illustrating the Planets articles
- 11:12 UTC Pillow Astronaut Space Museums Map Space Map Update!So last week I toyed around with Google Maps, and put together a visual view of all the NASA Facilities in the United States.This week, I have researched ...
- 11:05 UTC The Launch Pad Prize Roundup: SEDS Videos, Waste Limitation, Mars Educat... @nss: Student video contest: http://seds.org/more/projects/video-ad-contest/. NSS will help judge & provide prizes.From the SEDS site:SEDS-USA is now accepting entries for the SEDS Video Ad contest. We challenge you, your friends, ...
- 10:19 UTC Space Fellowship This Week On The Space Show The Space Show, hosted by David Livingston under www.TheSpaceShow.com, will have the following guests this week: 1. Monday, September 27, 2010, 2-3:30 PM PDT (21-22:30 GMT) Joseph Casas, Dean Alhorn, ...
- 10:09 UTC My Big Fat Planet Bolt from the blue Lightning never strikes twice, but ...
- 10:09 UTC My Big Fat Planet Bolt from the blue Lightning never strikes twice, but ...
- 10:02 UTC Space Fellowship 1st SBSS Satellite Sends Initial Signals from Space EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has acquired initial on-orbit signals from the first Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite following its launch at 9:41 p.m. Pacific ...
- 10:00 UTC we are all in the g... Correcting Hubble images I’m going to be upfront here: this post is about CCDs and readout electronics. Wait, come back, it’s going to be interesting I promise*. It involves the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
- 09:56 UTC Supernova Condensat... 10 commandments...? I was browsing through my list of arXiv papers this morning, when I stumbled across a rather interesting title. Sitting there amidst the usual selection of papers about circumstellar disks ...
- 08:30 UTC The Daily Galaxy Radical New Theory: "Our Universe may be the interior of ... “Our own Universe may be the interior of a black hole existing in another universe.” In a remarkable paper about the nature of space and the origin of time, Nikodem ...
- 07:16 UTC The Daily Galaxy Was Complex Life on Earth Chemically Jump Started? New Fi... The evolution of complex life forms may have gotten a jump start billions of years ago, when geologic events caused large quantities of phosphorus to wash into the oceans. Phosphorus, ...
- 07:10 UTC The Daily Galaxy The Daily "140" Insight: Stephen Hawking on Time Travel "I do believe in time travel. Time travel to the future. Time flows like a river and it seems as if each of us is carried relentlessly along by time's ...
- 07:08 UTC Parabolic Arc XCOR Now Has Flyable Lynx Configuration Wind Tunnel Tests Clear Lynx Stability Mods Aviation Week XCOR Aerospace is finalizing the structure of the Lynx suborbital spacecraft following the completion of primary supersonic wind tunnel tests that ...
- 07:02 UTC In the Dark I Am I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in ...
- 06:10 UTC Centauri Dreams Data Clippers: Bringing the Science Home The European Planetary Science Congress ends today in Rome even as scientists and engineers on the astronautical side of things head for Prague, where the International Astronautical Congress convenes on ...
- 05:45 UTC Crowlspace SKYLON User’s Manual Updated For those who don’t know, SKYLON is a fully reusable spaceplane with Ramjets for speeds up to Mach 6. The current version is a bit beefier than the original design, ...
- 05:20 UTC Parabolic Arc Wayne Hale: VSE Was a Giant Sand Castle In a post on his blog, retired Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale has revealed what most of us have long suspected: the Vision for Space Exploration — George W. ...
- 04:50 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... More about XCOR Lynx development This article includes some additional details about the aerodynamics of the XCOR Lynx and about its development in general: Wind Tunnel Tests Clear Lynx Stability Mods - Aviation Week - ...
- 04:36 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Space Frontier Foundation video on NASA budget debate Via Spaceports blog comes a pointer to this video posted by the Space Frontier Foundation: "The NewSpace community speaks out on behalf of the 2011 NASA budget."
- 04:00 UTC The Year in Space September 27, 2010 - Like Father, Like Son The Week in SpaceSeptember 27 - October 3, 2010 Like Father, Like Son Being a pioneer in the field of astrophotography seems to run in the Draper family. John William ...
- 02:55 UTC The Daily Galaxy Saturn's New Discovered Enormous Outer Ring -"It could ho... "The volume of the ring is such that you could fit a billion earths inside of it," said Dr. Anne Verbiscer from the Department of Astronomy at the University of ...
- 02:52 UTC Spaceports Space Frontier Foundation Supports NewSpace In light of the heated discussions happening on The Hill about the 2011 NASA budget, the Space Frontier Foundation made this video to support the White House's version of the ...
- 02:46 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Space prizes roundup Space Prizes blog posts the latest collection of space competition related links: Prize Roundup: SEDS Videos, Waste Limitation, Mars Education, North Dakota Sats, More - Space Prizes
- 02:44 UTC Lights in the Dark A Close-Up on Oileán Ruaidh Here’s a processed image of Opportunity’s latest point-of-interest, the toaster-sized iron meteorite Oileán Ruidh (Gaelic for “Red Island”, pronounced “ay-lan ru-ah”) by Stuart Atkinson. This pitted, metallic chunk of rock ...
- 02:44 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Lovell pans NASA plan but Boeing gets his attention Trent Waddington points me to this interview with Jim Lovell who keeps to the silly Armstrong-Cernan narrative that the Administration's plan for NASA "eliminates the forward efforts of manned spaceflight.": ...
- 02:20 UTC Space Archaeology Interview with John Armitage In a previous post I reviewed a paper on astropalaeontology which I had serendipitously discovered. I tracked down the author of The Prospect of Astro-Palaeontology, John Armitage, who is Director ...
- 02:16 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Barnaby Wainfan patents 1st stage return technique I recently mentioned that aerodynamicist Barnaby Wainfan was involved with designing the XCOR Lynx rocket vehicle. He also is designing orbital launch vehicle architectures as seen by this patentproducts/vehicles/lynx_suborbital.html" target="_d">XCOR ...
- 02:11 UTC The Daily Galaxy Image of the Day: 10 Billion B.C. The image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars. Globular clusters, ancient swarms of stars united by gravity, are the ...
- 02:09 UTC My Big Fat Planet NASA?s hurricane hunters Video diary
- 02:09 UTC My Big Fat Planet NASA?s hurricane hunters Video diary
26 Sep 2010
- 22:21 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Smoke Plume, Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan Astronauts on the International Space Station took in this view of the north coast of the Caspian Sea and two river deltas in Kazakhstan and Russia on September 11, 2010.
- 21:39 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... As Others Might See Us Maybe, it a good sim. I wonder if anybody has done a sim based on our star’s wobble or its drop in brightness as the planets cross in front of ...
- 20:55 UTC Parabolic Arc Review: Lord British Makes Space Travel Seem Dull A not-so-positive review of Richard “Lord British” Garriott’s Man on a Mission documentary that chronicled his space tourism trip to the International Space Station. © Douglas for Parabolic Arc, 2010. ...
- 20:26 UTC Parabolic Arc Israel Focuses on Carving Niche in Microsats, Closer Coop... ‘Smaller is better’ as Israel launches itself as space contender Jewish Herald Voice The Netanyahu administration reportedly is placing a major thrust on space research and development. The aim is ...
- 20:09 UTC Spaceports United Nations to Appoint Alien Ambassador The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is expected to appoint an astrophysicist to spearhead an effort to develop protocols for "first contact" with potential alien civilizations among ...
- 19:57 UTC Parabolic Arc Frustration in Utah as House Delays NASA Funding Vote No ATK vote upsets Bishop / Lawmaker: Congress needs to get moving to save jobs Standard Examiner A frustrated Rep. Rob Bishop left Washington, D.C., for Utah on Friday afternoon, ...
- 19:50 UTC Parabolic Arc Will Starchaser Fly Tourists Into Space Before Virgin Gal... Look out, Sir Richard Branson! You’ve got competition in your own backyard. A small group of British rocket scientists hope to beat you into commercial suborbital space tourism service with ...
- 19:15 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Minotaur IV launch Some more info about the Minotaur/SBSS launch last night: /-- Minotaur Launch Report | Space surveillance project successfully blasts off - Spaceflight Now /-- U.S. Air Force Gains Satellite Spotter ...
- 18:52 UTC The Half-Astrophysi... Jupiter and Uranus I was up in Flagstaff on Friday night and decided to visit Lowell Observatory. Near the top of Mars Hill is a little pullout where you can stop and look ...
- 17:43 UTC Journey to the Star... Skygazing from Antipolo and Induction of Batch Zenith To the new members of the UP AstroSoc, batch Zenith, congratulations and welcome to the family! I just came home from an overnight event to welcome the new members of ...
- 17:32 UTC Lights in the Dark Titan’s High-Level Haze Composite RGB spectral data image from Cassini’s latest flyby of Titan, September 24, 2010. Not much image adjustment needed, this was basically “out of the box”! I love the coloration ...
- 16:51 UTC Starts With A Bang! Weekend Diversion: I get busted; I confess! "You lost your way I tried to find it for you A brighter day to clear your name The thing is where you are and Where you're going is the ...
- 16:25 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Starchaser update The latest on Starchaser's rocket plans: British 'rocket man' launches mission to become first private company to put tourists into space... and hopes it's a sky-high earner - Mail Online ...
- 16:08 UTC Alien Life Source of Martian methane and unique account of the origi... 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 - A majestic new image from the Hubble ...
- 15:06 UTC TFOT New Type of Solar Wind Interaction Scientists have discovered a new type of solar wind interaction with airless bodies in our solar system. Magnetized regions called magnetic anomalies, mostly on the far side of the Moon, ...
- 14:52 UTC The Daily Galaxy From the X File Dept: United Nations Creating New Post: "... Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian physicist, is being appointed by the United Nations to the post of ambassador to aliens, and will be the first person to officially hold talks with ...
- 14:50 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Anybody Want This? Hey, guys: I have the PBS Stephen Hawking’s Universe in VHS, three tape set, never opened. I’d like to pass it on to someone who can use it. Anybody out ...
- 13:28 UTC Beyond Apollo Mars Rover/Sample Return Pre-Phase A (1988) In August 1986, in the aftermath of the January 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle accident, NASA Administrator James Fletcher appointed astronaut Sally Ride to serve as his Special Assistant for Strategic ...