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20 May 2013
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Korangi, Pakistan This highly urbanized and industrialized area stands in stark contrast next to dense green mangrove forests and waterways of the Indus River Delta.
- 01:28 UTC Spaceports Bion-M space research lands with casualties After spending a month in orbit around the earth, the Russian Bion-M space capsule carrying a menagerie of small animals has returned home --- with most of its passengers dead ...
- 00:44 UTC Space Safety Magazi... The Plan to Save Skylab By Ben Evans This article continues the history recounted in Part 1: The Fateful Launch of Skylab The month of May 1973 quickly turned from one of euphoria into, potentially, ...
- 00:43 UTC People's Astronomy I'm Sorry I know sooner or later you'll come stalking me here. I'm sorry. That's all. Maybe I have more to say, maybe I don't, but I'm sorry for the way it ...
- 00:34 UTC The Daily Galaxy Complex Biochemistry Possible at Origins of Life on Earth A new study shows that RNA is capable of catalyzing electron transfer under conditions similar to those of the early Earth. Because electron transfer, the moving of an electron from ...
- 00:17 UTC Space Safety Magazi... NASA Records Most Powerful Lunar Meteorite Impact On March 17, NASA lunar observing telescopes detected a meteorite crashing into the Moon’s surface. The impact – later estimated at the equivalent of 5 tons of TNT – was ...
- 00:01 UTC Pale Blue Blog @HabWorlds Twitter Digest, 2013-05-13 to 2013-05-19 Here are the tweets from Ariel Anbar, author of the @HabWorlds twitter feed for the week of 2013-05-13 to 2013-05-19 Continue reading → Kepler's planet-finding mission may be at an ...
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues In Rock Altere... NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by ...
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com Ring Of Fire That "Burns Burns Burns" With Young Stars The spiral galaxy M94 also known as NGC 4736 is somewhat unusual in that it shows a great ring of bright young stars. How many rings do you see...
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com Bacteria Produce Electricity Using Hydrogen And Carbon Di... We have reported genetically modified E. coli bacteria that turn waste into fat for fuel and the metal-tolerant bacteria Cupriavidus metallidurans can withstand incredible amounts of toxicity in the process ...
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com War Of The Ants Worsens - Fire Ants vs. Crazy Ants - Who ... Invasive fire ants have been the real problem for residents of the Gulf Coast for years, but now, the situation worsens. The so-called "crazy ants" (tawny crazy ants) - Nylanderia ...
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com Small Quantum Computer Can Simulate Physical Phenomena A ... Innsbruck physicists led by Rainer Blatt and Peter Zoller experimentally gained a deep insight into the nature of quantum mechanical phase transitions. They are the first scientists that simulated the ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy.com News Scientists witness bright explosion on the Moon Astronomy Magazine News Article - Released:5/20/2013
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy.com News Asteroid nine times larger than cruise ship to sail past ... Astronomy Magazine News Article - Released:5/20/2013
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy.com News Mars rover Opportunity examines clay clues in rock Astronomy Magazine News Article - Released:5/20/2013
19 May 2013
- 23:55 UTC New Papyrus Stanford Torus Redux
- 22:58 UTC Space Safety Magazi... As ATV Launch Approaches, Damage to Docking Sensor Still ... While the fourth European ATV has been sitting on top of an Ariane 5 launcher set for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5, engineers are still ...
- 22:42 UTC Universe Today Drill, Baby, Drill! – How Does Curiosity ‘Do It’ It’s time at last for “Drill, Baby, Drill!” – Martian Style. Ever wonder how Curiosity “Does It” Check out this enlightening and cool new NASA video for an exquisitely detailed ...
- 21:34 UTC Carbon Based RIP Herschel space observatory How am I just now hearing about this?!
- 21:27 UTC moonandback NASA-Built Nanosatellite Launch Adapter System Ready for ... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Nanosatellites now have their own mass transit to catch rides to space and perform experiments in microgravity. A new NASA-designed and developed satellite deployer, dubbed the ...
- 21:13 UTC Parabolic Arc Hale: Approach to Funding Commercial Crew is Penny Wise, ... In prepared testimony last week before the Senate Subcommittee on Science and Space, former space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale urged lawmakers to boost spending for the commercial crew program: ...
- 20:00 UTC Sydney Observatory Daily cosmobite: large telescopes With optical telescopes bigger is better. The important size in a telescope is the width of the mirror that collects starlight. A wide mirror can collect more light than a ...
- 18:54 UTC AmericaSpace Photo Feature: Launch of GPS IIF-4 Photo Credit: Alan Walters / awaltersphoto.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — For those used to archival footage of the early days of space flight, watching modern-day launches must seem a tad ...
- 18:35 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Rodent Space Travelers Perish in Orbital Test A number of mice and eight gerbils sent into space in a Russian capsule perished during their journey, after a month-long mission touched back down on Earth.
- 18:04 UTC Starts With A Bang! Weekend Diversion: Against Scientific Racism “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” -Frederick Douglass ...
- 17:31 UTC Astro Bob Don’t let Comets PANSTARRS and Lemmon out of your sight …... What the heck have comets L4 PANSTARRS and Lemmon been up to anyway? Well, they’re still visible in 50mm binoculars and small telescopes. You can see them both sans moonlight ...
- 17:30 UTC SPACE.com Space-y Photos from Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 See space crafts photos, homemade tech and more from the Maker Faire Bay Area in May 2013.
- 17:29 UTC Space Politics Differing perspectives on commercial crew Speaking at the meeting Wednesday of the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) in Washington, NASA administrator Charles Bolden made another pitch—this time to a rather sympathetic audience—for the ...
- 17:08 UTC NASA Watch Senate Hearing on Partnerships to Advance the Business of... Prepared Statement by Wayne "Poised on the cusp of these new systems, we run the risk of being penny wise and pound foolish as we make the same mistake that ...
- 17:00 UTC Astronomy Box A Week In Tenerife - The Mt Tiede Observatory Part 5 Finally, it's my great pleasure to show you all the fruits of our labor on the Tenerife trip. I hope this journey will help and inform anyone considering studying physics ...
- 16:57 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Impact! I put up a picture of a relatively new crater on the moon a few days back. Some good questions came up and I thought I’d post a link to ...
- 16:50 UTC SPACE.com How Space Tourism Could Help Save Planet Earth Seeing our fragile Earth hanging alone in space could inspire people to take the long view.
- 16:50 UTC SPACE.com How Space Tourism Could Help Save Planet Earth Seeing our fragile Earth hanging alone in space could inspire people to take the long view.
- 16:42 UTC Astro Bob Watch as Venus, Jupiter and Mercury align after sunset Hey, hey, hey. Three planets are now lining up in a neat row at dusk. Watch for the trio starting 30-35 minutes after sunset when they’ll be low in the ...
- 15:04 UTC SPACE.com Comet ISON: How to See Potential 'Comet of the Century' O... The online Slooh Space Camera will provide live views of Comet ISON Sunday (May 19) at 4:45 p.m. ET (2045 GMT).
- 15:04 UTC SPACE.com Comet ISON: How to See Potential 'Comet of the Century' O... The online Slooh Space Camera will provide live views of Comet ISON Sunday (May 19) at 4:45 p.m. ET (2045 GMT).
- 14:46 UTC In the Dark The Threat to STEM from HEFCE’s Funding Policies In my job here as Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) at the University of Sussex, I’ve been been spending a lot of time recently on ...
- 14:24 UTC Wayne Hale's Blog Making a Difference When I started blogging, it was in connection with my work, at that time as a government civil servant. I tried to stay strictly on topic (space) and never ever ...
- 14:11 UTC SALT Astronomy High Resolution Spectrograph: Red Arm Lab first-light Following on from the HRS blue-arm laboratory first-light, this week also saw the red-arm achieving the same milestone. The photo below shows a red solar echellogram covering orders from n=51 ...
- 13:31 UTC The Daily Galaxy Saving Kepler! --The Mission That Changed Our View of the... The NASA mission that has changed our view of the probability of life in the Universe is in jeopardy. The Kepler has shown that planets are common throughout the Milky ...
- 13:00 UTC SPACE.com Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week - May 19, 2013 What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
- 13:00 UTC SPACE.com Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week - May 19, 2013 What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
- 13:00 UTC AmericaSpace Launch Complex 39A for Lease? NASA has announced that Launch Complex 39A will be open to take on commercial clients. Photo Credit: Julian Leek / Blue Sawtooth Studio CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — NASA is moving ...
- 12:53 UTC moonandback Building a Home in Space | This Week In Space History The drawing was simple, almost crude, but direct. And it would change space history. On August 19, 1966, George Mueller, NASA associate administrator for Manned Space Flight, sketched an idea ...
- 12:00 UTC The Daily Galaxy Image of the Day: Star Being Ripped Apart by a Supermassi... Results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes suggest that a dense stellar remnant was ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the ...
- 12:00 UTC Bad Astronomy Lunar Hook Shot It’s been a while since I’ve posted a cool close-up picture of the Moon from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (or LRO), and this one is too nifty not to share: ...
- 12:00 UTC Space Exploration N... Cassini creates the first global topographic map of Titan NASA's Cassini radar team have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan. Detail of the new topography map. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/JHUAPL/Cornell/Weizmann(Sen) - Scientists from NASA's Cassini radar ...
- 11:41 UTC Galaxy Zoo Blog Observing Run: Raw Data versus Finished Product So let’s say you have a galaxy: And you know this galaxy has a growing black hole, and probably hasn’t had any significant mergers, because it has very little, if ...
- 11:39 UTC AmericaSpace A Most “Egg-cellent” Competition: Space Florida and Kenne... Third graders from Lithia Springs Elementary show off their “Lithia Lynx Lander” at the Planetary Lander Egg Drop. Photo credit: Emily Carney/AmericaSpace. DOVER, Fla — While it has been said ...
- 11:38 UTC Space Fellowship Space Capsule Returns Cosmic Rodents to Earth after Month... MOSCOW – The returnable capsule of a biological research satellite has landed in the Russian Orenburg Region near the border with Kazakhstan, bringing mice, Mongolian gerbils, geckos and various microorganisms ...