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21 May 2013
- 22:32 UTC The Night Sky Guy Best Shots of May’s Solar Eclipse The first total eclipse of the sun occurred earlier this month in Australia and stunned skywatchers. A solar eclipse occurs when the Earth, moon, and sun line up so that ...
- 22:00 UTC SPACE.com China Space Program Ramping Up Capabilities, Pentagon Say... China is intent on becoming a major space power.
- 21:59 UTC SPACE.com Oklahoma Tornado Storms Seen from Space: Satellite Photos See photos of the Oklahoma tornadoes that struck on May 20, 2013, as viewed from space.
- 21:37 UTC StarStruck Oklahoma’s Monster Twister From Space The devastating tornado that barreled through the Oklahoma City area on Monday has produced some stunning on-the-ground video footage. But cameras aboard weather satellites are also putting a new perspective ...
- 21:18 UTC SPACE.com NASA Funds 3D Pizza Printer The 3D food printer could one day be used to feed astronauts on long-duration space missions.
- 20:52 UTC One-Minute Astronom... Mega-Maser in Messier 106 While elegant and symmetrical spiral galaxies are favorites of picture-book stargazers, I prefer ragged, bedraggled-looking galaxies because they betray violent and fascinating physical processes at their cores. Many such galaxies...Read ...
- 20:43 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... New posts in the Earth Matters blog - May Puzzler
- 20:43 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... New posts in the Earth Matters blog - May Puzzler
- 20:41 UTC The Original Rocket... Video of a Standard Missile-3 Block 1B This video is a montage of various views of a SM-3, fired from the USS Lake Erie, successfully intercepting a target missile that had been launched from the Pacific Missile ...
- 20:40 UTC SPACE.com Big Meteor Explosion on Moon Shows Lunar Exploration Risk... The lunar surface is incredibly exposed.
- 20:39 UTC Orbiting Frog openscience: The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D p... openscience: The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food “NASA just awarded 125K for a food synthesizer prototype! 3d printed #startrek food, here we come!” Tea, Earl Grey, ...
- 20:29 UTC SPACE.com Rare Chance to See Bright Saturn Near Moon on Wednesday Glowing Saturn will be close to the gibbous moon.
- 20:00 UTC Sydney Observatory Daily cosmobite: good bye to Orion The famous summer constellation Orion is now low in the west near the horizon in the early evening. It is lying on its side with reddish coloured Betelgeuse to the ...
- 19:57 UTC Universe Today Engineering Students Develop a Super “Space Stethoscope” Even though astronauts receive some general medical training in preparation for a stay aboard the ISS, most of them still aren’t medical professionals by any means — and with the ...
- 19:47 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 21MAY2013 A giant meteor - not overhunting - wiped out the woolly mammoth because it ...Daily MailThey believe a huge meteor smashing through the Earth's atmosphere broke up into ten million ...
- 19:36 UTC Dirty Skies Dance of the Planets: An Evening Under the Stars Dance of the Planets: An Evening Under the Stars FREE ADMISSION Saturday, June 1, 2013 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM Location Pier 1 at Brooklyn Bridge Park Brooklyn, NY 11201 ...
- 19:19 UTC Space Fellowship Expedition 36 Installs New Treadmill, Works Science Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin are installing a new treadmill in the Zvezda service module. Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy is working science and maintenance on the U.S. ...
- 19:07 UTC AMSAT-UK First picture taken by ESTCube-1 CubeSat amateur radio ca... The first picture taken by the amateur radio CubeSat ESTCube-1 in space has been released. ESTCube-1 was launched from Kourou in the Caribbean on May 7 at 0206 UT on ...
- 19:00 UTC SPACE.com First Trailer for Sci-Fi Thriller 'Europa Report' Unveile... A crew of astronauts venture to Jupiter's moon Europa in the new sci-fi thriller 'Europa Report.'
- 19:00 UTC Universe Today Giveaway: “Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier... Neil deGrasse Tyson’s new book, Space Chronicles: Facing The Ultimate Frontier, at times, reads like an updated version of some of Carl Sagan’s classic work about the history of astronomy ...
- 18:52 UTC Universe Today Book Review: “Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Front... For those fans of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, there’s finally a successor volume to that. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Space Chronicles: Facing The Ultimate Frontier, at times, reads like an ...
- 18:43 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Thunderstorms Spawn Tornado in Oklahoma Evolution of deadly storms over Oklahoma, viewed by GOES-East.
- 18:43 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Thunderstorms Spawn Tornado in Oklahoma Evolution of deadly storms over Oklahoma, viewed by GOES-East.
- 18:14 UTC NASA Hack Space An Interview with Don Pettit Kerry Ellis: Astronaut Don Pettit began his career with NASA seventeen years ago and has since flown on three spaceflight missions. Logging more than 370 days in space and over ...
- 18:06 UTC e! Science News NASA builds unusual testbed for analyzing X-ray navigatio... Pulsars have a number of unusual qualities. Like zombies, they shine even though they're technically dead, and they rotate rapidly, emitting powerful and regular beams of radiation that are seen ...
- 18:00 UTC Bad Astronomy Spacefest: Astronauts, Artists, and Astronomers Assemble ... This weekend I’ll be in Tucson, Arizona for Spacefest V, a fantastic convention featuring scientists, astronauts, and space artists. This will be the fourth time I’ll have attended, and it’s ...
- 17:52 UTC Kentucky Space "K2 Tuesdays" - Working together "K2 Tuesdays" is a series on the development of KySat-2, the latest spacecraft from Kentucky Space. Prior installments, new to old, are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, ...
- 17:52 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Moonrise I decided I needed to find something sort of quiet to post today considering the tragic events of yesterday and the loss of the kids in Oklahoma. Have heard from ...
- 17:50 UTC SPACE.com Sci-Fi Film 'Europa Report' Sends Astronauts to Icy Jupit... An intrepid crew of astronauts explores Jupiter's most famed icy moon in "Europa Report." See photos from the 2013 science fiction film.
- 17:30 UTC MilkyWay@home New Separation Runs Started I started 2 separation de_separation_p-79-dr8-rev-4 and de_separation_p-79-dr8-rev-5 If you notice anything out of sorts with these runs please post here. Thank you,
- 17:29 UTC Universe Today Astrophoto: Sun Pillar of Fire and Ice Astrophotographer Rick Ellis from Toronto, Canada recently imaged a Sun pillar against a truly fiery sunset. Sun pillars are a vertical shaft of light extending upward or downward from the ...
- 17:27 UTC NASA Hack Space NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts: Phase II Studies This NRA will solicit multiple studies, each of which will investigate an architecture, mission, or system concept with the potential to enable a great leap in space or aeronautics. NIAC ...
- 17:26 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Can Space Tourism Save Earth? Opening spaceflight up to the masses could help spark a global conservation ethic that stems the tide of environmental destruction on Earth.
- 17:21 UTC NASA Astrobiology RNA’s Hidden Abilities on Ancient Earth Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry postdoctoral fellow Chiaolong Hsiao (left) and professor Loren Williams. Georgia Tech Photo: Gary MeekAstrobiologists supported in part by the NAI have made an ...
- 17:14 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA Signs Agreement With United Paradyne For Use Of KSC ... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (NASA PR) – NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has signed a new partnership agreement with United Paradyne Corporation of Santa Maria, Calif., for use of the ...
- 17:14 UTC Universe Today Carnival of Space #303 This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by that old cheapskate, Steve Nerlich from Cheap Astronomy. Click here to read Carnival of Space #303, where you can also listen to ...
- 17:08 UTC Dear Astronomer NASA Images Storms Over Oklahoma This image of the storm system that generated the F-4 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma was taken by NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard one of the Earth Observing ...
- 17:08 UTC moonandback The Lonely Universe: Are We All There Is? by mark stewart In a forthcoming article in Odyssey, I’ll be suggesting that the likelihood read more » by mark stewart In a forthcoming article in Odyssey, I’ll be suggesting ...
- 17:04 UTC SPACE.com Amazon CEO's Moon Rocket Engines Being Conserved in Kansa... A set of F-1 rocket engines from a Saturn V booster will soon go on display.
- 16:36 UTC Coalition for Space... New Stethoscope for Space Travelers Even in outer space…the beat goes on! The heart beat that is. But how best to monitor its condition on lengthy space treks, say to Mars? An engineering team of ...
- 16:30 UTC Spaceports NASA funds pizza prototype synthesizer Anjan Contractor’s 3D food printer might evoke visions of the “replicator” popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea. Contractor’s company, Systems and ...
- 16:28 UTC The Original Rocket... 1TB of free photo storage? No, it's a well crafted market... When I first saw that Flickr was giving me 1TB of free storage, I got excited and immediately started building my rocket photo archive. Then I hit the 300MB/month limitation. ...
- 16:21 UTC Discovery News - Sp... EXPOSED: Taking Astronomical Pictures Ever wanted to take dazzling photos of the night sky? Here are some essential tips before you start slapping your DSLR to the back of your telescope!
- 16:11 UTC SPACE.com Alien Planets Could Shed Light on Earth's Climate Future Scientists are studying other rocky planets and moons to better understand Earth.
- 16:06 UTC The Planetary Socie... India's Mars Orbiter Mission update: six months from laun... A couple of articles on India's Mars Orbiter Mission were published on the news website The Week yesterday, and they're much more in-depth and insightful than the norm.
- 15:59 UTC Bad Astronomy "Europa Report" Trailer, By Jove This summer, a different kind of science fiction movie, "Europa Report", is coming out. I saw some buzz about it last year, and it looked interesting—it's a science fiction movie ...
- 15:46 UTC astrobites Kepler Reaction Wheel Failure Cripples Spacecraft, but Mi... Although the reaction wheel failure incapacitates the telescope, we are still finding new Earth-sized planets in the plethora of existing data. You have probably heard that the Kepler Space Telescope, ...
- 15:42 UTC The Planetary Socie... Report from the Starship Century Conference This week Jon Lomberg is attending the Starship Century conference, which brings together scientists, writers, and futurists to imagine the future of interstellar travel. The organizers are Greg and Jim ...
- 15:40 UTC SPACE.com Aurora Nights In Finland: Almost 60 In Time-Lapse Video Photographer Thomas Kast (facebook.com/salamapaja) imaged the aurora borealis from September 2012 to March 2013. Different shooting locations include the frozen Baltic Sea, Lapland and Oulu in Finland.
- 15:34 UTC All About Space Five amazing facts about the New Horizons probe Five things you might not have known about this Pluto-bound spacecraft. It’s the fastest spacecraft ever launched New Horizons entered directly into an Earth and Sun escape trajectory after launching ...