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21 May 2013
- 15:29 UTC The Original Rocket... Paper Mir and Atlantis STS-71 1/400 Mir and Atlantis STS-71 1/400, a photo by paper kosmonaut on Flickr.Click through to see the Paper Kosmonaut's fleet of paper rockets...and spacecraft, subs, busses...
- 15:20 UTC Universe Today Oklahoma Tornado on May 20, 2013 As Seen from Space The massive tornado that tore through parts of Oklahoma on My 20, 2013 left a 32 km (20-mile) swath of destruction and death, with winds approaching 320 km/hr (200 mph). ...
- 15:19 UTC The Daily Galaxy "The Google Brain" --Are Humans Entering a New Epoch of E... In June of 2012, The New York Times reported that inside Google's high-tech R&D "X" laboratory the search giant has been creating a simulation of the human brain. And rather ...
- 15:19 UTC NASA Watch FAA Will Allow Orion To Return to Earth FAA Reentry License to Lockheed Martin Corp. for Reentry of Orion MPCV From Earth Orbit to a Location in the Pacific "In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of ...
- 15:18 UTC NASA Watch FAA Requirements for Crew and Space Flight Participants FAA: Human Space Flight Requirements for Crew and Space Flight Participants "The FAA has established requirements for human space flight of crew and space flight participants as required by the ...
- 15:06 UTC SPACE.com Storms That Spawned Deadly Oklahoma Tornadoes Seen from S... The storms that gave rise to the Moore, Okla. tornado and others nearby were sighted from space.
- 15:04 UTC Discover Citizen Science Ventures into Space by Kiki Sanford Inside a nondescript office building in Mountain View, California, a gathering took place recently that might have been a glimpse into the future. At first, the people, ...
- 15:02 UTC Universe Today The Birth of a Saros – This Weekend’s Hidden Eclipse As the first eclipse season of 2013 comes to an end this weekend, an extremely subtle lunar eclipse occurs on the night of Friday, May 24th going into the morning ...
- 14:47 UTC Sky and Telescope A Bright Flash in the (Lunar) Night
- 14:44 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Severe Thunderstorms Strike Oklahoma Supercell thunderstorms spawned a destructive tornado that struck near Oklahoma City on May 20, 2013.
- 14:43 UTC NASA Tech Briefs 3D Design Tool Interprets Hand Gestures A new design tool interprets gestures, enabling designers and artists to create and modify three-dimensional shapes using only their hands as a "natural user interface," instead of keyboard and mouse.
- 14:42 UTC Space Politics Moon versus asteroids on the path to Mars The space subcommittee of the House Science Committee is holding a hearing at 2 pm EDT today on “Next Steps in Human Exploration to Mars and Beyond”. The focus of ...
- 14:41 UTC The Daily Galaxy Quantum Weirdness --New Insights Entanglement, by general consensus of physicists, is the weirdest part of quantum science. To say that two particles, A and B, are entangled means that they are actually two parts ...
- 14:39 UTC Universe Today Mystery of Escaping Atmopsheres Comes Under Japanese Scru... Venus and Mars may be all right tonight, but there’s still a lot we don’t understand about these planets. Why does one, Venus, have such a thick atmosphere? Why is ...
- 14:30 UTC SPACE.com Self-Destruction of a Gigantic Star | Space Wallpaper This stunning space wallpaper reveals Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Glittering stars and wisps of gas create a backdrop for the self-destruction of a massive star.
- 14:22 UTC SPACE.com Vancouver Link to Hadfield's Space Guitar A Vancouver company says it will re-start production of a guitar that was used by Chris Hadfield in space, prompting thousands of dollars in new orders. Powered by NewsLook.
- 14:21 UTC Pillow Astronaut Barringer Meteor Crater BIG. HOLE. IN. THE. GROUND. I took a photograph of the Meteor Crater years ago from an airplane, but it's something else altogether to stand at the edge of it! ...
- 13:57 UTC The Daily Galaxy Astronomers Probe 1st Large-scale Structures Produced by ... Numerical simulation of the density of matter when the universe was one billion years old. Galaxies formation follows the gravitational wells produced by dark matter, where hydrogen gas coalesces, and ...
- 13:52 UTC SPACE.com 3 Planets Performing Rare Night Sky Show: How to See It Such a tight three-planet grouping won't happen again until 2026.
- 13:43 UTC Astronomy.FM Under British Skies – Episode 33 – Looking forward to Spa... This month on UBS team talk about the upcoming Spacefest V, discuss the latest astro-news, and round up this months comet action. The shownotes for this episode can be downloaded ...
- 13:38 UTC SPACE.com Space History Photo: Engine Test in Ames Full-Scale Aerod... NASA engineers prepare a laser light sheet for a flow visualization test in a Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex wind tunnel.
- 13:21 UTC SPACE.com Oklahoma Tornadoes Seen From Space | Time-Lapse Video The NASA/NOAA GOES-13 satellite captured the midwest tornado outbreak. The time-lapse covers May 19th-20th, 2013. (Looped 3X)
- 13:18 UTC NASA NES Teacher's ... Activity Continues On the Sun Solar activity is extension to NES featured lesson, Solar Storms.
- 12:00 UTC AmericaSpace Atlantis Takes Flight at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Com... Photo Credit: Julian Leek / Blue Sawtooth Studio KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla — With less than a month to go before the doors open on what could be one of ...
- 12:00 UTC Space Exploration N... Storms on Uranus and Neptune may only be surface features New research shows clouds, storms and jet streams that encircle Uranus and Neptune may be only surface features. Clouds of Neptune. Image Credit: NASA/JPL(Sen) - New research shows the swirling ...
- 11:58 UTC Coalition for Space... CSExtra – Tuesday, May 21, 2013 To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject ...
- 11:45 UTC Bad Astronomy The Violent Oklahoma Weather, From Far Above The storms that swept through Oklahoma yesterday left astonishing devastation in their wake. The live video and photos taken from the ground are horrifying, grim, and heart-breaking. Whenever there is ...
- 11:43 UTC Beyond Earthly Skie... An Intensely Scorched Planet Using data collected by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, a team of researchers have reported the discovery of an Earth-sized planet that whips around its parent star (KIC 8435766) in an ...
- 11:32 UTC SDO is GO SDO is Featured on the BBC Website SDO images are featured in a slideshow on the BBC website In Pictures: Raw Power of the Sun. Check and see if favorites are there.
- 11:05 UTC SPACE.com Stargazer Snaps Amazing Photo of Deep Space Oasis The galaxy NGC 4214 glows brightly in this photo captured by space photographer Jeffrey O. Johnson.
- 11:05 UTC SPACE.com Lost Apollo 11 Moon Dust Found in Storage An archivist rediscovered lunar samples brought back to Earth by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
- 11:05 UTC SPACE.com National Tribute Honors Memory of Sally Ride, 1st America... Astronauts, celebrities and the public honored the late Sally Ride with a tribute to her life and work.
- 11:05 UTC SPACE.com Extreme Solar Storm Could Cause Widespread Disruptions on... A large coronal mass ejection from the active sun could affect entire continents, scientists say.
- 11:02 UTC Coalition for Space... Sally Ride, America’s First Female Astronaut, to Receive ... Dr. Sally Ride, American’s first female astronaut, will be honored posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House later this year, President Obama announced Monday. Astronaut Sally ...
- 11:00 UTC AmericaSpace Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record On the 3,309th Martian day, or sol, of its mission on Mars (May 15, 2013), NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity drove 263 feet (80 meters) southward along the western rim ...
- 10:39 UTC Hyperbola Dr Sally Ride is given postumous award of Presidential Me... President Barack Obama has posthumously awarded fomer astronaut and first US female in orbit, Dr. Sally Ride, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The award is the highest US civilian honour ...
- 10:00 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 05/21/2013 – Ephemeris – Dances with Planets Ephemeris for Tuesday, May 21st. Today the sun will be up for 15 hours and 2 minutes, setting at 9:10. The moon, 3 days past first quarter, will set at ...
- 10:00 UTC AmericaSpace NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity drilled into this rock target, “Cumberland,” during the 279th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on Mars (May 19, 2013) and collected a powdered ...
- 09:43 UTC Universe Awareness ... Workshops Break Out the Universe in a Box! Last year Universe Awareness reached almost 125,000 children around the world with our activities and resources about the wonders of the Universe. This year, we aim to reach even more, ...
- 09:30 UTC Women in Astronomy ADVICE: Dealing with Discrimination and Harassment This is the third in our new series of ADVICE posts as CSWA tries to ensure that information gathered over the years remains available to the current generation of students, ...
- 09:17 UTC AMSAT-UK BBC News: US Teenager’s Space Ambitions BBC News reports that fifteen-year-old Abby Harrison is training to be an astronaut and has set herself the goal of being the first person to reach Mars. “I remember looking ...
- 09:00 UTC AmericaSpace NASA and the White House Pay Tribute to Sally Ride Photo Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA and President Obama are honoring the life and legacy of Sally Ride on the day a national tribute was held for the first American ...
- 08:52 UTC In the Dark An Apology: The Royal Institution Earlier this year, in common with other media, this blog pledged its support to a campaign to save the Royal Institution from financial oblivion. In doing so I may have ...
- 08:00 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... First look at Amazon CEO's historic rocket engines being ... Despite having stood up to the tremendous thrust needed to launch the mighty Saturn V rocket toward the moon, it turns out that the mammoth Apollo F-1 engines that powered ...
- 08:00 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... First look at F-1s Before the public is let in on Friday, take a first look at the historic F-1 engines now being conserved at the Kansas Cosmosphere's SpaceWorks facility. Raised off the seafloor ...
- 07:12 UTC The Planetary Socie... Planetary Science Echoes Through the Halls of Congress The Planetary Society just returned from a big trip to Washington, D.C. to advocate for continued planetary exploration. Here's what happened.
- 07:10 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2013-05-20 SA: Tim SO: Siphelo Others: amanda gr., keith, dave c (phone), kai ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- another night with a very rocky start that settled into smooth sailing under good weather. ...
- 06:22 UTC Spaceports Japan Space Agency to launch Kounotori 4 cargo spacecraft... The H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 4 (H-IIB F4) carrying the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV4, a cargo transporter to the International Space Station) will be launched on August 4, 2013, (Sunday, ...
- 06:19 UTC Space Fellowship Hubble Peers Through a Spacetime Magnifying Glass This Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster Abell S1077. Galaxy clusters are large groupings of galaxies, each of them including millions of stars. They are the largest existing structures in ...
- 05:38 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Curiosity Drills into Second Mars Rock NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has drilled into another rock and plans are afoot to analyze the pulverized material. Continue reading →