• Cate & Co Carbon Idiots - Say Yes Australia

    Updated: 2011-05-31 02:04:48
    Quick version Breaking down the lies version Going through line by line & scene by scene exposing the Cate Blanchett (Carbon Cate) say yes ( sayyes) propaganda tv ads. How will a Carbon tax help Australia? Here are the references mentioned in the second ...

  • Spirit’s Last Panorama

    Updated: 2011-05-30 14:22:44
    Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) features an image mosaic put together in part by Universe Today’s Ken Kremer, along with his imaging partner Marco De Lorenzo. It’s the last thing the Spirit rover ever saw: a panoramic view of the Home Plate region of Gusev Crater where the rover now silently sits. In [...]

  • Exoplanet Kepler-7b Unexpectedly Reflective

    Updated: 2011-05-30 02:35:59
      Early on in the hunt for extra solar planets, the main method for discovering planets was the radial velocity method in which astronomers would search for the tug of planets on their parent stars. With the launch of NASA’s Kepler mission, the transit method is moving into the spotlight, the radial velocity technique provided [...]

  • How Space Flight Keeps Us ‘Closer and Safer’

    Updated: 2011-05-29 17:18:05
    The Coalition for Space Exploration, a collective of many prominent, established aerospace firms has released the second part of its “Think Outside the Circle” campaign that highlights the positive influence of space exploration on our everyday lives.(...)Read the rest of How Space Flight Keeps Us ‘Closer and Safer’ (142 words) © Jason Rhian for Universe [...]

  • Weekend Feature: 'Endeavour' Astronauts on Extraterrestrial Life -- "We'll find something out there."

    Updated: 2011-05-29 13:53:40
    The human race will find life elsewhere in the Universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, reported astronauts of the space shuttle Endeavour. The US space shuttle Endeavour prepares today to undock from the International Space Station and jet...

  • Scientists make lunar watershed discovery Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-05-28 02:37:06
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  • NASA to launch new science mission to an asteroid in 2016 Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA to launch new science mission to an asteroid in 2016 Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA's Spitzer sees crystal rain in outer clouds of infant star Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA's Spitzer sees crystal rain in outer clouds of infant star Astronomy Magazine

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  • Astronomy magazine’s legacy and a mini museum” Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums

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  • 3D Map of Galaxies and Dark Matter Up to 1 Billion Light-Years from Earth

    Updated: 2011-05-27 07:40:00
    The new 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) mapCovering 95 per cent of the sky in the infrared part of the spectrum, shows the distribution of galaxies and dark matter that make up the local Universe up to 380 million light years...

  • The Case for Pluto Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Galleries Blogs

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  • Astronomy tests QSI's 583 CCD camera Astronomy Magazine

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  • Mars formed rapidly into runt of planetary litter Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA concludes attempts to contact Mars rover Spirit Astronomy Magazine

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  • Mars formed rapidly into runt of planetary litter Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA concludes attempts to contact Mars rover Spirit Astronomy Magazine

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  • On the Road American Astronomical Society May 2011 meeting Wednesday recap Astronomy.com blog Astron

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  • JFK and the promise of space Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Galleries B

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  • The double star 24 Comae Berenices the Needle Galaxy and the Lost Galaxy Astronomy Magazine

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  • Cosmic Catastrophes: NASA Maps Past and Future Galaxy Collisions

    Updated: 2011-05-26 08:00:00
    In five billion years the Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. The two galaxies will lose their separate identities as they merge into one. At the same time, the building blocks of life in the Universe --...

  • Gigantic Star 150 Times Sun Found in Adjacent Galaxy

    Updated: 2011-05-26 07:40:00
    A super massive, isolated star has been discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud, adjacent to the Milky Way. The star, VFTS 682, is one of the more massive stars ever known -- about 150 times the mass of the Sun....

  • Image of the Day: Giant Natural Particle Accelerators 40 Kilometers Above Earth

    Updated: 2011-05-26 07:14:00
    A lightning researcher at the University of Bath has discovered that during thunderstorms, giant natural particle accelerators can form 40 kilometers above the surface of the Earth -- a fascinating example of the interaction between the Earth and the Universe....

  • NASA to Launch Mission to Asteroid in 2016 -- Seeking Organic Molecules that may have Seeded Life on Earth.

    Updated: 2011-05-26 07:10:00
    NASA has selected the University of Arizona to lead a sample-return mission to an asteroid. The team is led by Michael Drake, director of the the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. OSIRIS-REx will rendezvous with asteroid 1999 RQ36, extend a...

  • NASA's "Opportunity" -- Now a Human Technology Artifact Abandoned on Mars

    Updated: 2011-05-25 08:00:00
    In this Jan. 28, 2004 photo provided by NASA/JPL of a photo shot by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. NASA is ending efforts to revive the sand-trapped rover Spirit, which has been silent for more than a year most likely...

  • Is Discovery of Earth's Twin Imminent? Kepler Mission Finds Numerous Small, Rocky Planets (Sound Familiar).

    Updated: 2011-05-25 07:50:00
    "It could happen almost any time now. We now have the technological capability to identify Earth-like planets around the smallest stars." David Latham -- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics One of the most intriguing results of the Kepler Mission is the...

  • Has a Massive Collision in the Pleiades Been Creating Earthlike Planets?

    Updated: 2011-05-25 07:48:00
    Rocky terrestrial planets, perhaps like Earth, or Venus, appear to be forming or to have recently formed around a star in the Pleiades star cluster, astronomers using the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and the Spitzer Space Telescope have observed. The...

  • NASA's "Star Trek" Era: Unveils New Orion Spaceship for Manned Deep-Space Exploration

    Updated: 2011-05-25 07:16:00
    NASA on Tuesday announced a plan to develop a new deep space vehicle to send astronauts on expeditions to an asteroid, and then on to Mars. The spaceship, known as the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), will be based on designs...

  • From the 'X-Files' Dept: Alien IQ -- Could We Measure the Level of Extraterrestrial Intelligence?

    Updated: 2011-05-25 07:10:00
    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...

  • EcoAlert: Antarctica's Ozone Hole Healing -- Experts Report

    Updated: 2011-05-25 07:06:00
    In the 80s and 90s, a lot of effort was put into banning chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, a family of organic compounds that like to devour the ozone that's protecting us all from dying of skin cancer. A couple decades later,...

  • Space shuttle Atlantis launch scheduled Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Med

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  • Black holes spin faster and faster Astronomy Magazine

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  • Are Odds for Discovery of Life Unfolding Expontentially? Kepler's Prolific Discoveries of Multiple-Planet Systems

    Updated: 2011-05-24 08:00:00
    Within just the first four months of data delivered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have found evidence for more than 1,200 planetary candidates, of which 408 orbit in systems containing two or more planets. The experts have discovered that...

  • The Search for Habitable Planets: "Life is a Natural Planetary Phenomenon”

    Updated: 2011-05-24 07:30:00
    “Columbus forced everyone to rethink, redesign and rebuild their world view.That’s what we’re doing here. To put it in 15th-century terms, we’ve reached the Canary Islands." Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astrophysics and director of Harvard University’s Origins of Life Initiative...

  • The great space debate Astronomy Magazine

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  • Ask Astro web extra How does Earth compare to the rest of the planets in our solar system in radio w

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  • Pioneering astronomy at Lick Observatory Astronomy Magazine

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  • Access an astroimaging archive Astronomy Magazine

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  • The Pale Purple Dot -- Alien Plant Life as Sign of Habitable Planets

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    With the discovery of more and more planets outside the solar system by the Kepler Space Telescope and other ESO observatories, there is growing interest in devising methods to detect life on Earth-sized extrasolar planets. To do this, scientists rely...

  • Image of the Day: Most Massive Black-Hole Jets Ever Captured

    Updated: 2011-05-23 07:14:00
    An international team using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere has produced the most detailed image ever of particle jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in Centaurus A (Cen A), a nearby galaxy with a supermassive black hole...

  • Distant rocky planet "could be future human home"

    Updated: 2011-05-19 10:28:44
    A rocky world orbiting a nearby star has been confirmed as the first planet outside our solar system to meet key requirements for sustaining life, scientists said on Monday. Modelling of planet Gliese 581d shows it has the potential to be warm and wet enough to nurture Earth-like life, they said. It orbits a red dwarf star called Gliese 581, located around ...

  • Lonely Planet: Worlds Found Wandering Interstellar Space

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  • Don't Fear Comet Elenin - It's a Wimp

    Updated: 2011-05-12 15:56:02
    A comet first discovered just six months ago will be making a visit to the inner solar system soon, but don't expect to be completely dazzled. This comet is a bit of a wimp, NASA says. Comet Elenin (also known by its astronomical name C/2010 X1), was first detected on Dec. 10, 2010 by Leonid Elenin, an observer in Lyubertsy, ...

  • Giant Asteroid to Pass Between Earth and Moon

    Updated: 2011-05-09 15:20:38
    An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will come closer to Earth this autumn than our own moon does, causing scientists to hold their breath as it zooms by. Asteroid 2005 YU55 is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) wide. It was discovered in December 2005 by the Spacewatch program. Because of the asteroid’s size and orbital characteristics, astronomers have flagged 2005 YU55 as potentially dangerous down the road. But the upcoming encounter is no cause for alarm, researchers said.

  • 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite yields new mineral

    Updated: 2011-05-09 15:19:53
    A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite from northwest Africa has yielded one of the earliest minerals of the solar system. Officially called krotite, the mineral had never been found in nature before, though it is a human-made constituent of some high-temperature concrete, according to study researcher Anthony Kampf, curator of Mineral Sciences at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Photo Credit: Chi ...

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