• Life in the Universe, Reflected by the Moon

    Updated: 2012-02-29 19:05:02
    Earthshine – a poetic, fanciful word for the soft, faint glow on the Moon when the light from the Sun is reflected from the Earth’s surface, onto the dark part of the Moon. And as unlikely as it might seem, astronomers have used Earthshine to verify there’s life in the Universe: Us. While we already [...]

  • Simpler Leap Day explanation | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-29 17:42:20
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Why we have leap days Simpler Leap Day explanation Note : Don't forget : I'll be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson tonight OK , so if you’re still scratching your head over my earlier mathified Leap Day explanation then here’s a simpler one by Minute Physics that nonetheless hits all the high : points Between my math and those animations , you’ve got it all now , right I sometimes wonder if , in the far future when we can terraform planets , we won’t adjust every planet’s day length to divide evenly into its year . That might be easier than adjusting the calendar Share

  • From Analog TV to Super WiFi: Spectrum Auction Will Open Way for Fast Wireless Future | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-02-29 17:18:04
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS IBM Snaps a Picture of the Charge Distribution of a Single Molecule From Analog TV to Super WiFi : Spectrum Auction Will Open Way for Fast Wireless Future For something that you can’t see or touch , the electromagnetic spectrum sure is valuable property . The  auction of a big slice of useful , empty airwaves used by television broadcasts before they went all digital in 2009—is expected to net the federal government 25 billion to fund  payroll tax cut extensions This auction is one thing everyone could agree on amidst all the bipartisan sniping in Congress . That’s how much

  • IBM Snaps a Picture of the Charge Distribution of a Single Molecule | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-02-29 17:10:57
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Defibrillators Malfunction at Shockingly High Rates From Analog TV to Super WiFi : Spectrum Auction Will Open Way for Fast Wireless Future IBM Snaps a Picture of the Charge Distribution of a Single Molecule Using an exquisitely sensitive probe , scientists at IBM have succeeded in making an image of where a single molecule’s positive and negative charges lie The molecule in question is X-shaped naphthalocyanine which can switch back and forth between two different configurations when voltage is applied to it , and which IBM has used in its research into tiny logic switches It

  • Astronomers See Stars Changing Right Before Their Eyes in Orion Nebula

    Updated: 2012-02-29 17:10:48
    A gorgeous new image from the tag team effort of the Herschel and Spitzer Space telescopes shows a rainbow of colors within the Orion nebula. The different colors reflect the different wavelengths of infrared light captured by the two space observatories, and by combining their observations, astronomers can get a more complete picture of star [...]

  • Complex Organic Matter Discovered Created by Stars Throughout the Universe

    Updated: 2012-02-29 14:00:00
    Physicists Freeman Dyson has said that it appears as though the Universe was anticipating our existence. A recent discovery seems to support his observation: In 2011, astronomers discovered that organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe, suggesting that...

  • Radical New 3-D Model of Planet Formation Unveiled

    Updated: 2012-02-29 13:16:00
    The prevailing model for planetary accretion, also called fractal assembly, and dating back as far as the 18th century, assumes that the Solar System’s planets grew as small grains colliding chaotically, coalescing into bigger ones, colliding yet more until they...

  • Comment of the Day: 'The Cosmic Connection'

    Updated: 2012-02-29 10:00:00
    I'm a little cynical about the human race's "advanceness" (look at the stupid things we're still doing), but when you consider that we really only became modern men within the last 10,000ish years, we're not doing to bad. There's a...

  • Moons Large and Small

    Updated: 2012-02-29 04:09:08
    It may be one of the best images from Cassini yet this year! Cloud-covered Titan and tiny Prometheus (can you see it just above the rings on the right?) are literally dwarfed by their parent Saturn in an image captured on Jan. 5, 2012. Prometheus’ pinpoint shadow can also be seen on Saturn’s cloud tops, [...]

  • NCBI ROFL: It was as big as my head, I swear! Biased spider size estimation in spider phobia. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-02-29 00:00:39
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  • Making “Astronomer’s Paradise” | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-28 22:59:35
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS I’ll be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Wednesday night Why we have leap days Making Astronomer’s Paradise” In early February I posted a gorgeous time lapse video of the night sky in Chile called Astronomer’s Paradise One of the astrophotographers who created that video , Christoph Malin , has written an article about what went into making the video and it’s as complex as you might expect . The article discusses equipment , processing , and the location of the shoot , and yikes , what a haul it must have been There are gorgeous pictures posted there too , like this

  • Salty Soil on Mars Could Be Slurping Water from the Atmosphere

    Updated: 2012-02-28 22:16:35
    It happens every summer in humid air: the salt in your salt shaker clumps together as the salt draws in the water from the air. Researchers have found this happens even in the frigid but dry McMurdo Dry Valley in Antarctica, a cold, polar desert. The sandy, salty soils there are frequently dotted with moist [...]

  • Ultra-fast outflows help monster black holes shape their galaxies Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-28 19:31:24
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  • Ultra-fast outflows help monster black holes shape their galaxies Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-28 19:31:23
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  • Lunar scientists shed light on Moon†s impact history Astronomy Magazine

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  • Lunar scientists shed light on Moon†s impact history Astronomy Magazine

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  • The conclusion of the 2012 Winter Star Party Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forum

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  • The conclusion of the 2012 Winter Star Party Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forum

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    Updated: 2012-02-28 19:31:16
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  • Yes, Antibiotics Used on Livestock Do Breed Drug-Resistant Bacteria That Infect Humans | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-02-28 18:33:40
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  • Video: The 3-D Sun, Now in HD!

    Updated: 2012-02-28 18:29:16
    The science team from the Solar Dynamics Observatory invites you to put on your 3D glasses and enjoy our active Sun in high definition 3-d, fading from white light into extreme ultraviolet. © nancy for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), sun Feed [...]

  • I’ll be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Wednesday night! | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-28 17:36:34
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Pump up the galaxy Making Astronomer’s Paradise” I’ll be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Wednesday night I am really ridiculously happy to announce that I’ll be a guest on the CBS TV program The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Wednesday night February 29 I’m a huge fan of Craig’s see Related Posts below for articles I’ve written about his show for a lot of reasons , mostly because he’s obviously very smart he did a five minute bit in his opening monologue once about Copernicus and also because he’s a friend of the geek , having had guests on like Adam Savage ,

  • Today’s Martian Weather: Partly Cloudy

    Updated: 2012-02-28 17:03:09
    Changing seasons in Mars’ northern hemisphere brings a change in the weather, and the clouds have rolled in to cover part of the polar surface in this intriguing image from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. (...)Read the rest of Today’s Martian Weather: Partly Cloudy (122 words) © Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | [...]

  • Antarctica's Dry Valleys Point to Posssible Mars Biology

    Updated: 2012-02-28 16:21:01
    The McMurdo Dry Valleys (image above) are a row of valleys west of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, named because of their extremely low humidity and lack of snow and ice cover. Photosynthetic bacteria have been found living in the relatively moist...

  • Full genome of Otzi the Iceman is published | Not Exactly Rocket Science

    Updated: 2012-02-28 16:00:33
    After years of anticipation, the full genome of Otzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy found in the Alps, has finally been published. The genome reveals that Otzi carried a large genomic region known as the ‘Y chromosome’, which significantly increases the risk of traipsing about in the a*se-end of nowhere with very little protective clothing, [...]

  • Pump up the galaxy | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-28 14:00:20
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Q BA : The Science of Science Fiction I’ll be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Wednesday night Pump up the galaxy This is a galaxy Yup . It is Click to galactinate . This is the dinky Antlia Dwarf Galaxy located in the southern constellation of Antlia , the pump technically called a dwarf elliptical . It’s so faint and sparse that it wasn’t discovered until 1985 and confirmed as being a galaxy in 1997 even though it’s only 4 million light years from Earth not terribly farther than the Andromeda Galaxy , which is so big it’s visible to the naked eye Antlia may be a

  • Martian rocks indicate relatively recent quakes volcanism on the Red Planet Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-28 11:30:29
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  • Massive computer simulation detects cause of high-speed electronics in space Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-28 11:30:27
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  • Massive computer simulation detects cause of high-speed electronics in space Astronomy Magazine

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  • Explore the constellations Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-28 11:30:26
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  • Watch stars orbit our galaxy†s central black hole Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-28 11:30:22
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  • Sands of the solar system Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-28 11:30:17
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  • Hot image of the Sun by John Chumack Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Gal

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  • NCBI ROFL: Probing pooch paw preferences. | Discoblog

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  • Sri Lankan safari – green turtles mating | Not Exactly Rocket Science

    Updated: 2012-02-27 22:50:01
    [After a brief problem with the slideshows, they should be working again - Ed] I can’t escape animal sex, even on holiday. On our Sri Lankan boat trip, it took us an hour or so to find some blue whales. But the first animals we saw were no less spectacular. From a distance, they looked [...]

  • Q&BA: The Science of Science Fiction | Bad Astronomy

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    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Zen Pencils and words of wisdom Pump up the galaxy Q BA : The Science of Science Fiction On Sunday , February 26, 2012, I did one of my Q BA live video chats on Google+ This one was a little different than usual : it was part of the online convention Dot Con Fest 2012 celebrating geek life . In honor of that , the topic was The Science of Science Fiction I talked about time travel , faster-than-light travel , Star Trek , Contact , Ringworld , Dyson spheres , artificial gravity , and a lot of other fun nerd topics . I got a lot more comments than usual , which was fantastic

  • Zen Pencils and words of wisdom | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-27 18:37:25
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Frosty blue dunes on Mars Q BA : The Science of Science Fiction Zen Pencils and words of wisdom I’m a big fan of Carl Sagan of course . His books are simply amazing , and they are all worth your time reading . He had a way with words that made them not just profound , not just inspiring , but also warm and rich and . enveloping He was a dreamer , an optimist , willing to look beyond the immediate problems we have now and see a better future , if only we could change our ways just a little bit . I’m not the only person he affected . Zen Pencils the nom de plume of young artist

  • Bat’s Very Strange-Looking Nose May Be Used For Echolocation | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-02-27 18:01:30
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Study : Raindrops Take Energy Out of Air Can Women Grow More Eggs Stem Cells That Might Lead to Fresh Eggs Discovered in Humans Bat’s Very Strange-Looking Nose May Be Used For Echolocation Whatcha looking at This is just my . face This new leaf-nosed bat species was recently discovered in Vietnam . What’s with the strange nose Scientists think that its protuberances and indentations help the bat in echolocation . Come to think of it , it does kind of resemble another excellent sound detector : the inside a cat’s ear As strange as the  Hipposideros griffini’s  nose is , it’s

  • Women Have Egg-Producing Stem Cells

    Updated: 2012-02-27 17:17:18
    For 60 years, doctors have believed women were born with all the eggs they’ll ever have. Now Harvard scientists are challenging that dogma, saying they’ve discovered the ovaries of young women harbor very rare stem cells capable of producing new eggs. If Sunday’s report is confirmed, harnessing those stem cells might one day lead to better treatments for women left infertile ...

  • Rare Earth Element Detected for the First Time in 12-Billion-Year-Old Stars in Milky Way's Halo

    Updated: 2012-02-27 16:55:39
    A new MIT study supports the theory that tellurium, along with even heavier elements in the periodic table, likely originated from a very rare type of supernova during a rapid process of nuclear fusion. Nearly 13.7 billion years ago, the...

  • The "Dark Galaxies" Orbiting the Milky Way

    Updated: 2012-02-27 16:30:00
    The outer edges of the Milky Way's appear to be orbited by innumerable invisible galaxies, one of which appears to be crashing into our own. In 2005 astronomers discovered the first evidence of mysterious dark galaxies with no starlight -...

  • "Billions of Earth-like Planets will have Chemical Makeups that Create Strange Worlds"

    Updated: 2012-02-27 16:12:20
    "There could be billions of Earthlike planets in the Universe but a great majority of them may have a totally different internal and atmospheric structure. Building planets in chemically non-solar environments (which are very common in the Universe) may lead... <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond?a=YgWSzB7mX_o:gLlYSzCcGds:yIl2AUoC8zA"

  • Controlling Cancer: Today’s ebook review at Download the Universe | The Loom

    Updated: 2012-02-27 15:59:30
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Emotions and Survival Circuits Controlling Cancer : Today’s ebook review at Download the Universe Download the Universe the new science ebook review that I and a group of other writers and scientists recently launched , is now entering its second week . I’ve written this week’s first review , of an ebook called Controlling Cancer by evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald . Ewald argues that the best way to reduce the death rate from cancer is to treat it like an infectious disease–which , to a surprising extent , it really is . Check it out Image : Dividing lung cancer cell NIH

  • Frosty blue dunes on Mars | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-27 14:00:40
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Special Q BA tonight at 8:00 p.m . EST Zen Pencils and words of wisdom Frosty blue dunes on Mars It’s been a while since I’ve posted a jaw-dropping high-res picture from Mars , so how about this one a gorgeous shot of frost coating dunes on the surface of the Red Planet Oh yes , you want to click that to enaresenate . This picture was taken by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter , which takes extremely detailed images of the surface of the planet . It shows wind-driven sand dunes on Mars , rippling in a similar way as on Earth . The sunlight is coming

  • Investigating the “Charlie Brown Effect”: Astronauts’ Chubby Faces and Hot-Sauce Cravings | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-02-27 13:45:05
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS NCBI ROFL : College hookup SMACKDOWN : Extroverts vs . Introverts NCBI ROFL : Probing pooch paw . preferences Investigating the Charlie Brown Effect” : Astronauts’ Chubby Faces and Hot-Sauce Cravings One of these pockets must have . Tabasco Does this zero gravity make me look fat Yup . It’s called the Charlie Brown effect , according to Michele Perchonok , NASA’s shuttle food system manager , and it’s not because she’s fattening them up with shrimp cocktail and chicken consommé Without the benefit of gravity , bodily fluids accumulate in the head , giving the astronauts

  • Monday's Debate: Is the Evolution of Intelligence a Given in the Universe?

    Updated: 2012-02-27 03:09:26
    "The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on...

  • Monday's 'Comment of the Day': Michio Kaku on Extraterrestrial Life

    Updated: 2012-02-27 02:00:00
    "Dr. Kaku uses a critical term, 'chances…' in his thesis about what ET might be like and I appreciate and understand his pulling punches about characterizing the ET we have not yet met. I tend to go along with Dr...

  • Special Q&BA tonight at 8:00 p.m. EST! | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-26 19:07:21
    . Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS The rocket , the laser , and the northern lights Frosty blue dunes on Mars Special Q BA tonight at 8:00 p.m . EST This weekend I’ve been participating in Dot Con 2012 an online convention celebrating the geek lifestyle see my previous post for moreinfo For my part , tonight I’ll be doing my Q BA live online video chat on Google+ at 20:00 EST 01:00 UTC Since this is part of Dot Con , I’m going with the theme of The Science of Science Fiction a favorite of mine . Got a question about astronomy , time travel , rockets , aliens , whatever from something you saw on a TV show or

  • Image of the Day: Gigantic Cosmic Bubbles

    Updated: 2012-02-26 18:05:18
    This image shows central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4631 as seen edge-on from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data (shown in blue and purple) provide the first unambiguous evidence for a halo of...

  • Sunday's 'Comment of the Day': Michio Kaku on the Threat of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life

    Updated: 2012-02-26 15:00:00
    'I don't believe for a second that highly sophisticated technological advancement (like interstellar travel) will make us less predators towards others.' "Yes, technological progress per se does not change our primitive instincts of aggressiveness, anger and domination. But evolution is...

  • The rocket, the laser, and the northern lights | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-26 14:00:53
    , , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS See Venus in broad daylight today Special Q BA tonight at 8:00 p.m . EST The rocket , the laser , and the northern lights Some pictures just have it all . Like , say , a rocket and a laser and an aurora OK , that’s awesome All it needs is a rampaging T-Rex to be the greatest single picture ever taken . Click to enalfvénate . So what you’re seeing here is a wide-angle lens time exposure of a rocket launch on February 18, 2012, from Fairbanks Alaska at the Poker Flat Research Range . The aurorae are obvious enough they’re the green glow in the sky . The bright streak is the

  • Parkinson’s disease patients & free 23andMe | Gene Expression

    Updated: 2012-02-25 23:09:26
    Michelle tipped me off to 23andMe’s new initiative to get Parkison’s disease sufferers genotyped. Basically, if you are a sufferer, you get the service for free. The goal presumably to increase the sample size so as to pick up new possible associations. But a question: can you think of a downside for Parkinson’s disease sufferers? [...]

  • Weekend Feature: "Coming of Age in the Young Universe" --Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (VIDEO)

    Updated: 2012-02-25 16:40:28
    This gorgeous island universe just begs the question: "are we alone?" With an estimated 200 billion galaxies in the known Universe, we think not. Well, perhaps in the Milky Way. NGC 7331, 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation...

  • A boy and his dog | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-25 14:00:42
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Dot Con 2012 See Venus in broad daylight today A boy and his dog I actually got a note on twitter recently asking me why I haven’t posted a picture of my dogs recently . That was a refreshing idea since I get complaints when I don’t write about astronomy So here you go : nothing profound or deep or cosmic or philosophical . Just me and Canis . Minor Happy Caturday and as for the title of this , Harlan Ellison fans know what I’m talking about I think I showed marvelous judgment , if not particularly good . taste Share February 25th , 2012 7:00 AM Tags : Canis Minor by Phil Plait

  • Saturday's 'Comment of the Day': Michio Kaku on Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life

    Updated: 2012-02-25 12:00:00
    "As one commenter smartly points out: 'I see most commenters above are confusing predator with carnivore. Humans are omnivores, but we are still predators. Dr. Kaku is making a reasonable, but presently untestable assumption that intelligence arises from predatory behavior.'... </img

  • Episode 13 The speed of light Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-24 17:57:06
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  • Mars rules the night Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-24 17:57:05
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  • The 2012 Winter Star Party is underway Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Medi

    Updated: 2012-02-24 17:56:53
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  • The 2012 Winter Star Party is underway Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Medi

    Updated: 2012-02-24 17:56:51
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  • "Rogue Planets May Help Seed Microbial Life in the Universe" --Stanford University Researchers

    Updated: 2012-02-24 15:41:11
    There may be 100,000 times more wandering “nomad planets” in the Milky Way than stars, and some may carry bacterial life, according to a new study by researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). A nomadic...

  • "The 1st Habitable World We Find Will Likely be Around a Nearby Red Dwarf"

    Updated: 2012-02-24 15:00:00
    Stars known as red dwarfs might have larger habitable zones friendly to ‘life as we know it’ than once thought, based, for example, on a potentially habitable "super-Earth" at least 4.5 times the mass of Earth, GJ 667Cb, was recently...

  • Comment of the Day: "Ignoring 500 Billion Galaxies: Mathematics vs Common Sense in the Debate About the Probability of Extraterrestrial Life"

    Updated: 2012-02-24 13:00:00
    "They seem to be overlooking the fact that we're using more than human existence as evidence for life elsewhere. We're using all life on earth as an example. Humans weren't the first life forms to pop up. We are at...

  • The Omicron Velorum Cluster spiral galaxy NGC 2784, and spiral galaxy NGC 2787 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-24 01:51:32
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  • The Omicron Velorum Cluster spiral galaxy NGC 2784, and spiral galaxy NGC 2787 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-24 01:51:26
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  • Ignoring 500 Billion Galaxies: Mathematics vs Common Sense in the Debate About the Probability of Extraterrestrial Life

    Updated: 2012-02-24 01:23:30
    Carl Sagan said that "extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence." In a stunning display of mathematical logic vs common sense, David Spiegel of Princeton University and Edwin Turner from the University of Tokyo published a paper last summer that turns the...

  • Seasons of Saturn's Titan --Oddly Mirror Earth's

    Updated: 2012-02-23 18:12:57
    A set of new studies, many of which draw on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveal fascinating details in the emerging picture of how Saturn's moon Titan shifts with the seasons and even throughout the day. The papers, published in...

  • Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-17 19:03:41
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    Updated: 2012-02-17 03:01:02
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    Updated: 2012-02-17 03:01:01
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  • Let’s get ourselves a New Horizons-Pluto stamp Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums

    Updated: 2012-02-09 03:43:25
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  • Illinois reactor suffers shutdown, steam containing tritium vented

    Updated: 2012-02-02 00:48:19
    Operators at Byron Generating Station [around 110 miles from Chicago] declared an Unusual Event at 10:18 a.m.CT, due to the loss of offsite power and Unit 2 coming offline. The nuclear facility’s diesel generators activated as designed to provide power to the facility when there is a loss of offsite power to the facility. The facility remains in a safe ...

  • NASA probe discovers ’alien’ matter from beyond our solar system

    Updated: 2012-02-02 00:47:27
    For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system - material that came from elsewhere in the galaxy, researchers announced today."This alien interstellar material is really the stuff that stars and planets and people are made of - it’s really important to be measuring it," David McComas, IBEX principal investigator and assistant vice ...

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