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20 May 2013
- 10:00 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 05/20/2013 – Ephemeris – Silicon rings around old stars i... Ephemeris for Monday, May 20th. Today the sun will be up for 15 hours and 0 minutes, setting at 9:09. The moon, 2 days past first quarter, will set at ...
- 09:00 UTC AmericaSpace Boeing Selected to Build ViaSat-2 Satellite Image Credit: The Boeing Company EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 16, 2013 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has a new satellite customer under a contract to design and deliver one Boeing 702HP ...
- 08:05 UTC NASA Astrobiology Rethinking Early Atmospheric Oxygen Field sampling of a pyrite-rich black shale outcrop. Credit: Chu Research Group, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of SciencesAstrobiologists supported in part by the Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology ...
- 08:03 UTC Supernova Condensat... Welcome to Monday… Tagged: silliness
- 07:12 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, May 20, 2013, 2-3:30 PM PDT (21-22:30 GMT) KIMBERLY ARCAND & MEGAN ...
- 07:10 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2013-05-19 SA: Tim SO: Siphelo Others: amanda gr. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- a night that started off with a bang in the form of a fairly hectic thunder and hail storm settled ...
- 06:58 UTC OpenLuna Foundation Commercial office interior When you run a business, you are necessary to invest in several effects, which include putting money in a couple of things, which are not the core of your business ...
- 06:31 UTC The Planetary Socie... Many More Colors than Red: Exploring Mars with Spectrosco... Mars gives up its secrets through the unseen colors of its rocks.
- 05:46 UTC OpenLuna Foundation website designs companies in india i like this post very much help full for every one website designs companies in india
- 05:10 UTC The Half-Astrophysi... Coke Commercials Go South (of the equator, that is) I went to see Iron Man 3 today and the played a Coke commercial before the movie. Watch the first few seconds of it and note the sunrise in particular. ...
- 04:26 UTC astropixie care for a cuppa? this is an amazing skill that i would practice it i had an appropriate pot!
- 04:18 UTC NASA Watch Another NASA Technology Data Dump No One Will Know About Keith's note: NASA just loves to tell everyone about its spinoffs, commercial applications, tech transfer, and the ways that the private sector uses things developed at NASA. As such, you'd ...
- 04:00 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... White House, NASA Honor Sally Ride NASA announced today that President Obama will posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sally Ride, the first American woman to make a spaceflight. Ride died on July 23, ...
- 04:00 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Patti Grace Smith: Extend Indemnification for 10 Years, A... Patti Grace Smith called on Congress last week to extend the FAA’s authority to provide third party indemnification for commercial launch services companies for 10 years or, better yet, permanently. ...
- 04:00 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Hale: Logistics Key To Deep Space Human Exploration, and ... Former NASA space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale told the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science and Space Thursday that it is difficult for his generation to change its “mental model” ...
- 04:00 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... A Roadmap for the Future of Astrobiology The NASA Astrobiology Program is now outlining the new 2013 Astrobiology Roadmap, which charts future directions for astrobiology research and technology development at the organization. The process h
- 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 The Future Of The Sun: 6.7 Billion Years Old And Most Dis... Astronomers systematically enrich their knowledge of stars located in our neighborhood and far away. Naturally, the most interesting stars are those that can help to reveal the future of our ...
- 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.