• LHC to Run in 2012 | Cosmic Variance

    Updated: 2011-01-31 18:44:18
    The Large Hadron Collider is currently (or at least, once it gets off winter break) smashing protons together with an energy of 7 trillion electron volts. The original plan was to work at twice that energy, and the engineers think they can upgrade the machine to achieve it — but only after a year-long shutdown. [...]

  • An Entirely Possible Legend: Vikings Steered Ships Using “Sunstones” | Discoblog

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  • When Did Proto-Life Emerge in the Universe?

    Updated: 2011-01-31 08:42:00
    Three of Europe's cosmologists believe that the key to understanding the origin of life lies in identifying the time onset and the conditions which prevailed in our universe when life was first fashioned. Based on recent cosmological measurements complex life...

  • First Ever Whole Sun View .. Coming Soon from STEREO

    Updated: 2011-01-31 07:02:37
    “For the first time in the history of humankind we will be able to see the front and the far side of the Sun … Simultaneously,” Madhulika Guhathakurta told Universe Today. Guhathakurta is the STEREO Program Scientist at NASA HQ. Courtesy of NASA’s solar duo of STEREO spacecraft. And the noteworthy event is timed to [...]

  • Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon

    Updated: 2011-01-30 17:46:32
    Shortly after the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986, seven craters on the eastern rim of the Apollo basin were named after the crew: Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Dick Scobee, Michael Smith. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Wide Angle Camera recently took this image of the region. Below [...]

  • Challenger astronauts memorialized on the Moon | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-01-30 14:00:55
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs Bad Astronomy Galaxy on the edge of space Repeat after me : Apophis is not a danger Challenger astronauts memorialized on the Moon Friday was the 25th anniversary of the loss of the Shuttle Orbiter Challenger which I already wrote about as part of a post about Apollo 1 and Columbia But I wanted to add that after that event in 1986, seven craters on the Moon were named after the astronauts This mosaic of LRO images is about 190 km wide , so these craters are actually quite large . Interestingly , these craters are themselves inside a much larger 524-km wide impact basin named . Apollo Image credit : NASA GSFC

  • A Sense of Planetary Scale

    Updated: 2011-01-29 22:31:46
    Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo. This is great! Blogger Brad Goodspeed created an animation which shows different planets in our solar system as they would appear in the sky if it shared an orbit with our Moon, 380,000 km from earth. On his blog, he said he created it “to make you feel small.” [...]

  • Ken Kremer on Today’s APOD

    Updated: 2011-01-29 17:59:29
    Congrats to Universe Today writer Ken Kremer and his image processing partner Marco Di Lorenzo for their handiwork being featured on today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. It’s one of their great images they have enhanced of the Opportunity Rover peering into its current location at Santa Maria Crater on Mars. Check it out on [...]

  • Carnival of Space 182

    Updated: 2011-01-29 16:38:22
    The Carnival of Space 182 is up at nextbigfuture After a one month hiatus, the Carnival of Space is back. Nextbigfuture will be working with Universe today on the organization of the Carnival of Space. There are hosts signed up into April already. This week Carnival of space has an animation video of the Mars [...]

  • First light for Virus-W spectrograph Astronomy Magazine

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  • First light for Virus-W spectrograph Astronomy Magazine

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  • Double Explosions on the Sun Today

    Updated: 2011-01-28 19:15:29
    The Sun had a fit and popped off two large events at once early today, Jan. 28, 2011. A filament on the left side became unstable and erupted, while an M-1 flare (mid-sized) and a coronal mass ejection on the right blasted into space. Neither event was headed towards Earth. This SDO movie, which is [...]

  • Devious Mating 101: The Lesson of the Fairy Wren and the Butcherbird | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-01-28 18:11:49
    : Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs Discoblog NCBI ROFL : The planetary positions and relationships at the dates of birth of a cohort of Nigerian . schizophrenics Happy Friday Here’s Your Jetpack Video Round-up Devious Mating 101 : The Lesson of the Fairy Wren and the Butcherbird You’d think birds would hush up at the sound of a predator , especially if that predator’s name is the butcherbird . 8221 But that’s not the style of the male splendid fairy-wren , and it turns out he has a good reason for raising a ruckus when the butcherbird calls : it helps him get a . mate Researchers studied this wren-butcherbird interaction in Southern Australia

  • The Kiss in History | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-01-28 17:52:41
    I have a guest post up at Wonders and Marvels: Classicists and anthropologists have traced kissing history over millennium. The earliest and best literary evidence we have dates to around 1500 B.C. from India’s Vedic Sanskrit texts. While there were no words for “kissing,” there are intriguing lines such as the “young lord of the [...]

  • Snowed In? Contribute to Science! | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-01-28 17:50:55
    Guest Post by Darlene Cavalier As record levels of snow blanket much of the United States this year, ScienceForCitizens.net is collaborating with an important climate research project at the University of Waterloo called Snow Tweets. We’re pleased that this is the first of many scientific projects that you’ll be able to do on ScienceforCitizens.net. To [...]

  • Is There a Vast Buried Ocean on Saturn's Enceladus?

    Updated: 2011-01-28 09:30:00
    NASA and ESA researchers have been debating whether Saturn's tiny moon, Enceladus, harbors a vast underground ocean. New evidence suggests that Enceladus has an ocean that is probably seltzer-like and could be friendly to microbial life. In 2005 NASA's Cassini...

  • Image of the Day: How an Invisible, Supermassive Black Hole Looks to NASA Astronomers

    Updated: 2011-01-28 08:14:00
    This is how the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M84 looks to astronomers. M84 is in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, 50 million light-years from Earth. This black hole has the mass of 300 million Suns. Scientists...

  • Universal IQ Test: Measuring the Level of Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence

    Updated: 2011-01-28 08:11:00
    How could we assess the intelligence of an extraterrestrial civilization? A team of Spanish and Australian researchers have come up with the answer. They have taken a first step towards use a scientific method to measure the intelligence of a...

  • Gemini South shines first sodium laser constellation Astronomy Magazine

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  • Gemini South shines first sodium laser constellation Astronomy Magazine

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  • Jupiter scar likely from rocky body Astronomy Magazine

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  • Space Rocks Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Galleries Blogs

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  • NCBI ROFL: The planetary positions and relationships at the dates of birth of a cohort of Nigerian schizophrenics. | Discoblog

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  • The double star Adhara globular cluster NGC 2298, and Hubble†s Variable Nebula Astronomy Magazine

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  • "Jupiter CSI": 2009 Impact Scar Big as the Pacific Caused By Titanic-Sized Asteroid

    Updated: 2011-01-27 09:10:00
    A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to Glenn Orton, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Leigh Fletcher, researcher at Oxford University, U.K....

  • "Galactic Flashes May Signal Transmissions By Other Civilizations": NASA/JPL

    Updated: 2011-01-27 09:00:00
    "We'll be looking for the occasional celestial flash," said Joseph Lazio, a radio astronomer at JPL. "These flashes can be anything from explosions on surfaces of nearby stars, deaths of distant stars, exploding black holes, or even perhaps transmissions by...

  • Astronomy Day Astronomy Magazine

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  • Astronomers find most distant galaxy candidate yet seen Astronomy Magazine

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  • Astronomers find most distant galaxy candidate yet seen Astronomy Magazine

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  • Supergiant star gains thick dusty waist Astronomy Magazine

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  • Supergiant star gains thick dusty waist Astronomy Magazine

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  • Deep Space Products T-REX mount Astronomy Magazine

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  • The "Rare Earth" Theory: Logic and Math Says It's Wrong -We're Not Alone in Universe

    Updated: 2011-01-26 09:50:00
    There is no hope of finding alien life in space because conditions on all other planets are too hostile, according to Howard Smith, a senior astrophysicist at Harvard. Smith made the claim after an analysis of the 500 planets discovered...

  • Featured Why Gen X and Y should care about astronomy Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Communi

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  • Farpoint's small refracting telescope delivers big results Astronomy Magazine

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