• Two grassroot skeptic events coming up | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2010-02-28 15:00:59
    There are two skeptical events coming up you should know about: 1) The first Skepchicamp, a skepticamp thrown by the Skepchicks, will be held on Saturday, March 6 in Chicago. You can get more details here. Skepticamps are audience-participation events, where everyone can help in some way. They’re fun, so if you’re in Chicago then, [...]

  • Searching at Milky Way's Core for Origins of Life (Weekend Feature)

    Updated: 2010-02-28 09:30:00
    Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some 25,000 light-years from Earth for new, complex molecules in interstellar space that...

  • This Week in Space #8 With Miles O'Brien

    Updated: 2010-02-27 19:28:44
    On this edition of "This Week in Space" – the NASA Administrator hits some Congressional turbulence over NASA's new budget, shuttles Endeavour and Discovery are on the move, new pics of ice geysers on one of Saturn's moons, Orbital Sciences says its safety first for its new commercial spaceship, astro-immigrants are spotted in the Milky [...]

  • "The Great Silence" -Stephen Hawking & Others Look At Why Life Has Yet to be Discovered Beyond Earth (Weekend Feature)

    Updated: 2010-02-27 14:11:43
    "The idea that we are the only intelligent creatures in a cosmos of a hundred billion galaxies is so preposterous that there are very few astronomers today who would take it seriously. It is safest to assume therefore, that they...

  • Image of the Day: "The Cosmic Eye" - Helix Nebula (A Weekend Feature)

    Updated: 2010-02-27 13:53:11
    The Helix Nebula is the closest example of a planetary nebula created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. The Helix Nebula, given a technical designation of NGC 7293, lies about 700 light-years away towards the constellation...

  • Improving the Conversation: NASA Begins Upgrade to Deep Space Network

    Updated: 2010-02-26 21:45:30
    All the robotic missions to various points in our solar system wouldn't be possible if not for the Deep Space Network. It's not just sending commands and receiving data, but also orbit determination, or keeping track of where the spacecraft are with radiometric tracking data so that spacecraft navigators can get probes exactly where the [...]

  • Buy Your Own Space Underwear

    Updated: 2010-02-26 20:48:16
    Remember the "long duration underwear" tested out by Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata on board the ISS last year? Now you can buy your very own. The specially designed undies and other clothing called “J-ware” are on sale now for 10,500 yen or about $115 USD. J-ware is treated with antibacterial and deodorizing [...]

  • New Results from Stardust Mission Paint Chaotic Picture of Early Solar System

    Updated: 2010-02-26 19:44:10
    One of the most surprising results from the Stardust mission – which returned comet dust samples to Earth in 2006 – is that comets don't just consist of particles from the icy parts of the outer solar system, which was the common assumption, but also includes sooty dust from the hot, inner region close to [...]

  • Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – February 26-28, 2010

    Updated: 2010-02-26 18:39:05
    Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's another snowy, moonlit weekend, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy some astronomy together! It's time to check out Saturn, walk along the ejecta on the Moon and just take a look at a very beautiful star. If you're ready to learn some history, mystery and facts, then [...]

  • Spacecraft-Collected Comet Dust Reveals Surprises From the Solar System’s Boondocks | 80beats

    Updated: 2010-02-26 18:21:49
    Since NASA’s Stardust mission returned in 2006 from its trip of billions of miles collecting the dust of a comet called Wild2 and dropped it samples down to Earth in the Utah desert, the samples have raised all sorts of questions about how comets formed and what the early solar system was like. In a [...]

  • Snow Day Special: Warbling Scientists on the Newest Symphony of Science | Discoblog

    Updated: 2010-02-26 18:18:46
    Scientific superstars like Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins are sounding better and better. In the series Symphony of Science, creator John Boswell uses the auto-tune program so beloved by R&B and pop stars to tweak such nerdy delights as Carl Sagan’s monologues from “Cosmos,” and sets them to electro-funk music. The result? Highly watchable videos [...]

  • More Jaw-Droppers from Cassini

    Updated: 2010-02-26 18:12:54
    The Cassini mission keeps churning out the hits, and here's a collection of some of the latest stunning images released by the CICLOPS (Cassini Imaging for Central Operations) team. Above, the small moon Janus is almost hidden between the planet's rings and the larger moon Rhea. The northern part of Janus can be [...]

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

    Updated: 2010-02-26 08:12:00
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  • Monitoring The Water Planet -1st Images from Space!

    Updated: 2010-02-26 08:10:00
    The European Space Agency has released the first images (of Australia) created with data from the the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission satellite. By learning more about water on the planet researchers hope to improve the planet's climate...

  • We Knew It Would Come to This!

    Updated: 2010-02-26 08:08:00

  • Answer to This Week's WITU Challenge Now Available

    Updated: 2010-02-26 03:54:02
    You can now find the answer to this week's Where In The Universe challenge, back on the original post. Thanks to UT reader Rob Bowman for submitting this week's image. Check back next week for another test of your visual knowledge of the cosmos! © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add [...]

  • This Week's astro-ph Preprints: Jean Tate's Best Pick

    Updated: 2010-02-26 01:44:38
    It goes by the super-catchy (not!) title "A Catalog of MIPSGAL Disk and Ring Sources". I chose it, over 213 competitors, because it's pure astronomy, and because it's something you don't need a PhD to be able to do, or even a BSc. Oh, and also because Don Mizuno and co-authors may have found two, [...]

  • Ripped to Shreds, Exoplanet Suffers Painful Death

    Updated: 2010-02-25 18:09:26
    WASP-12b, discovered in 2008, is a real outlier among the 400 or so exoplanets discovered to date. Not that it's particularly massive (it's a gas giant, not unlike Jupiter), nor that its homesun (host star) is particularly unusual (it's rather similar to our own Sun), but it orbits very close to its homesun, and is [...]

  • Viewing the Universe Through "Alien Eyes"

    Updated: 2010-02-25 09:26:00
    "Our human window on the Universe is terribly small within a stunningly small range of wavelengths. With our eyes we see wavelengths between 0.00004 and 0.00008 of a centimeter (where, not so oddly, the Sun and stars emit most of...

  • Saturn's Moon Enceladus: Do Huge Reservoirs of Water (and Life) Exist Beneath Its Surface?

    Updated: 2010-02-25 09:10:00
    This image by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the extraordinary tectonic deformation in the fractured south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where jets of water ice spray outward to form Saturn's E ring. Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray...

  • Dwarf Galaxy Remnants Invading Milky Way

    Updated: 2010-02-25 09:02:00
    The Milky Way has an estimated 160 globular clusters of which one quarter are thought to be ‘alien’ invaders from other galaxies, new research from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) shows. Swinburne astronomer Professor Duncan Forbes has shown that many...

  • Mystery Nebula with the Hottest, Most Massive Stars in the Universe

    Updated: 2010-02-25 09:00:00
    Quite a few of the most beautiful objects in the Universe are still shrouded in mystery. Even though most of the nebulae of gas and dust in our vicinity are now rather well understood, there are some which continue to...

  • Nailing Down Goldilocks: What's "Just Right" for Exo-Earths?

    Updated: 2010-02-24 22:26:13
    For Goldilocks, the porridge had to be not too hot, and not too cold … the right temperature was all she needed. For an Earth-like planet to harbor life, or multicellular life, certainly temperature is important, but what else is important? And what makes the temperature of an exo-Earth "just right"? Some recent studies have concluded that [...]

  • Where In The Universe Challenge #93

    Updated: 2010-02-24 19:41:16
    Its time for another “Where In The Universe” challenge, and this one is actually on time this week! The WITU challenge will test your visual knowledge of the cosmos, and this week's image was submitted by UT reader Rob Bowman. Rob is hoping to stump everyone this week, but try to guess/name [...]

  • New Citizen Science Opportunity: Solar Storm Watch

    Updated: 2010-02-24 18:22:46
    Sun-worshiper alert! Now you can have the chance to help scientists spot and track solar storms and be involved in the latest solar research. The 'hottest' new Citizen Science project from the "Zooniverse" is Solar Storm Watch. Volunteers can spot storms and track their progress as they hurtle across space towards [...]

  • Elements of the Universe Shown in New Image

    Updated: 2010-02-24 16:57:32
    It's not Earth, Wind and Fire*, but light, wind and fire in this dramatic new image of the Small Magellanic Cloud (NGC 346) that will make you want to Keep Your Head to the Sky**. The light, wind and heat given off by massive, Mighty Mighty ** Shinging Star(s)** have dispersed the glowing [...]

  • Answer to Universe Puzzle No. 2 Now Posted

    Updated: 2010-02-24 11:06:02
    I've now posted the answer in the original post. Check back next week for another Universe Puzzle! © Jean Tate for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

  • MIT Team Offers 'Snapshot' of Life in Other Universes

    Updated: 2010-02-24 10:00:00
    Modern cosmology theory holds that our universe may be just one in a vast collection of universes known as the multiverse. MIT physicist Alan Guth has suggested that new universes (known as “pocket universes”) are constantly being created, but they...

  • Answer Posted for *Last Week's* WITU Challenge

    Updated: 2010-02-24 05:26:22
    Apologies everyone! I have just posted the answer to last week's Where In The Universe challenge, which you can find back at the original post. I vow to be more punctual from now on! So, look for a new WITU Challenge for this week, coming soon! © nancy for Universe Today, [...]

  • Carnival of Space #142

    Updated: 2010-02-24 02:31:56
    This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Ian Musgrave over at Astroblog. Click here to read the Carnival of Space #142. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an entry [...]

  • Cassini Finds "Heat" and More Geysers on Enceladus

    Updated: 2010-02-24 02:17:05
    Newly released images from last November's close flyby over Saturn's icy moon Enceladus the Cassini spacecraft reveal geyser jets spraying all along the prominent fractures, or "tiger stripes" that cross the moon's south polar region. Additionally, a new detailed temperature map of one fracture reveals warmer temperatures than what was expected. "Enceladus continues [...]

  • Professor: We have a 'moral obligation' to seed universe with life - Panspermia

    Updated: 2010-02-10 16:55:18
    : Professor : We have a moral obligation' to seed universe with life Panspermia 2010 02 10 From : physorg.com Directed panspermia missions could target interstellar clouds such as the Rho Ophiuchus cloud complex located about 500 light-years away . This view spans about five light-years across . The false-color image is taken from the Spitzer Space . Telescope Eventually , the day will come when life on Earth ends . Whether that’s tomorrow or five billion years from now , whether by nuclear war , climate change , or the Sun burning up its fuel , the last living cell on Earth will one day wither and die . But that doesn’t mean that all is lost . What if we had the chance to sow the seeds of terrestrial life throughout the universe , to settle young planets within developing solar systems many light-years away , and thus give our long evolutionary line the chance to continue indefinitely According to Michael Mautner , Research Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University , seeding the universe with life is not just an option , it’s our moral obligation . As members of this planet’s menagerie , and a consequence of nearly 4 billion years of evolution , humans have a

  • USA already went to Mars : NASA astronaut Gene Cernan

    Updated: 2010-02-08 17:05:34
    : Mexico UFO UK UFO USA UFO Sun Moon Mars Web Bot UFO Hunters UFO Research Organizations Contact Submit Home UFO RADIO CURRENT UFO REPORTS Documentary X- File Documents LIVE CHAT RSS Twitter Subscribe VIA EMAIL USA already went to Mars NASA astronaut Gene Cernan Posted by UFO Blogger USA already went to Mars NASA astronaut Gene Cernan According to last man on Moon Gene Cernan , Americans went to Mars.Gene Crenan was the last human to leave footprints on the Moon . Recently Obama canceled NASA's plans to return to the Moon , so Gene Cernan went on Fox News to voice his . disapproval The video is worth watching just for his take on the situation , but listen to what he says at the 3:00 minute mark . Buzz Aldrin has released a statement saying that he thinks canceling the Moon mission was the right decision , but Cernan says that Buzz does wants to go back to Mars and he also support that but not on this issue Maybe Cernan did make a mistake , but not by saying Mars when he went to the Moon , but instead that he just let the cat out of the bag when it comes to what we have really been up . to He did not only say it once , but twice . Google NSA Teaming Up to SPY on You Iphone and

  • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

    Updated: 2010-02-04 14:33:12
    , Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Redirected from Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis Jump to : navigation search Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is , according to the Oxford English Dictionary a factitious word alleged to mean a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust , causing inflammation in the lungs . A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis Look up pneumono . in Wiktionary the free . dictionary It occurs chiefly as an instance of a very long . word 1 The 45-letter word was coined to serve as the longest English word and is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary It is listed in the current edition of several . dictionaries 2 Contents 1 Disease 2 Coinage 3 Cultural references 4 See also 5 Notes Disease Main article : Silicosis This disease is classified into four types : asymptomatic , acute , accelerated and chronic . The chronic form is the most common it develops only after years of exposure to low levels of silica dust . A.k.a Black Lung Disease After inhalation , the dust embeds itself in the alveolar sacs of the lungs

  • Golden cat

    Updated: 2010-02-04 14:15:27
    David Bradley Science Writer A more environmentally friendly way to make ethylene (a primary feedstock for the chemical industry, which also goes by the name of ethene) would use natural gas as the raw material rather than cracking crude oil. Now, a golden opportunity in the form of a two-centred gold complex has come to light. Ethylene [...]

  • Black hole

    Updated: 2010-02-04 14:10:15
    David Bradley Science Writer The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has helped an international team of astronomers to detect a stellar mass black hole that lies at a much greater distance from Earth than any observed before. The black hole is in the spiral galaxy NGC 300, about six million light years away in [...]

  • NASA gives up trying to make Mars rover mobile again

    Updated: 2010-02-03 13:08:40
    Primary Navigation Home Canada . U.S World Business Entertainment Sports Health Tech Science Odd Travel Popular Secondary Navigation Video Audio Photos Weather Lottery Local In Depth News Archive RSS My Yahoo SUBMIT A NEWS STORY : Search All News Yahoo Canada News Only News Photos Advanced News Home Science News NASA gives up trying to . NASA gives up trying to make Mars rover mobile again Spirit can still do stationary research Module body Tue Jan 26, 6:15 PM By Alicia Chang , The Associated Press LOS ANGELES The Mars rover Spirit has logged nearly five miles during six years of rolling around the red planet . It has driven forward , backward and uphill over plains , plateaus , and even a mountain as tall as the Statue of Liberty . No more . NASA on Tuesday declared an end to Spirit's roving career after repeated attempts to free it from a sand pit where it's been stuck for nine months . With Martian winter approaching , the focus instead will turn to improving Spirit's tilt so its solar panels can receive maximum sunlight . Spirit has encountered a golfer's worst nightmare : the sand trap that no matter how many strokes you take you can't get out of it , said Doug McCuistion ,

  • Karl von Eckartshausen - Illuminati

    Updated: 2010-02-02 14:22:02
    , Karl von Eckartshausen From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Jump to : navigation search Karl von Eckartshausen Karl von Eckartshausen Born 28 June 1752 1752-06-28 Haimhausen Germany Died 12 May 1803 aged 50 Munich Germany Occupation essayist , philosopher Nationality German Ethnicity Bavarian Subjects religion , mysticism magic , alchemy Influenced Arthur Edward Waite Aleister Crowley Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Karl von Eckartshausen 28 June 1752 1752-06-28 12 May 1803 was a German Catholic mystic author , and . philosopher Born in Haimhausen Bavaria Eckartshausen studied philosophy and Bavarian civil law in Munich and Ingolstadt He was the author of The Cloud upon the Sanctuary de:Die Wolke über dem Heiligtum a work of Christian mysticism which was later taken up by occultists The book was given a high status in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn particularly by Arthur Edward Waite It is known to have attracted English author and the founder of Thelema Aleister Crowley to the . Order 1 von Eckartshausen joined the masonic order of the Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt but withdrew his membership soon after discovering that this order only recognized enlightenment

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