• You Can Purchase Your First Home Without A Credit Rating

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  • Wrapping Up the Semester: Fests, Workshops and Exams | Cosmic Variance

    Updated: 2012-04-30 12:39:46
    We are very close to the end of the semester here at Penn, and the last couple of weeks have been the usual flurry of activity as teaching comes to an end, exam period begins, and a few late semester/early summer meetings all take place at the same time. A week or so ago, I [...]

  • On the road Northeast Astronomy Forum April 29, 2012 Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community

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  • Carnival of Space #247

    Updated: 2012-04-30 01:50:50
    This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at Next Big Future Click here to read Carnival of Space #246. 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 [...]

  • Mesmerizing time lapse of Saturn and Jupiter from spacecraft | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-04-30 01:29:14
    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 Where in the Universe is Castalia Macula Mesmerizing time lapse of Saturn and Jupiter from spacecraft One of the single greatest advantages of the modern age of astronomy , in my opinion , is that digital images from telescopes and spacecraft and telescopes on spacecraft have been placed in the hands of everyone . It can take years of training to correctly process and interpret astronomical data , but even without that these images can be put together to make art , scenes of surpassing beauty that professional astronomers might not even think to . create Dutch video editor

  • Where in the Universe is Castalia Macula? | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-04-29 14:00:13
    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 Medium , well done Mesmerizing time lapse of Saturn and Jupiter from spacecraft Where in the Universe is Castalia Macula Hey Did you know there’s a mountain range on Mercury called Caloris Montes Didja Or a large depression on Europa called Castalia Macula , which is oddly dark and red Or a long , steep-sided ditch called Baba-Jaga Chasma on Venus Or a chaotic region on Mars called , awesomely , Chryse Chaos Well , I do , now that I’ve discovered the way cool Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature a fancy way of saying planet feature name list brought to you by International

  • On the road Northeast Astronomy Forum April 28, 2012 Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community

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  • On the road Northeast Astronomy Forum April 28, 2012 Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community

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  • Dogs Are Manipulable, Cats Are Manipulative, and Both Act Like Babies | Discoblog

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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 NCBI ROFL : Why Miss Poland is more beautiful than generic med . students Dogs Are Manipulable , Cats Are Manipulative , and Both Act Like Babies How you doin’ After thousands of years living in our homes , cats and dogs have gotten pretty good at tuning into human social cues—as good as as human babies . anyways Dogs , with their adorable puppy faces , are easily swayed by the actions of humans . A new study in PLoS ONE shows that dogs will prefer a plate of food preferred by a person , even if that plate has less food on it . Cats , on the other hand , have an  especially

  • Weekend Feature: "Humans May be One of the First Advanced Species in the Universe"

    Updated: 2012-04-28 15:40:00
    Intelligent life may be in it's "very young" stage in the observable Universe. Its 200 billion galaxies show a clear potential to continue on as we see them today for hundreds of billions of years, if not much longer. Because...

  • Medium, well done | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-04-28 15:18:45
    , 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 Angry Birds make Phil angry kinda Where in the Universe is Castalia Macula Medium , well done My friends at Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe put together a nice little video lambasting psychics . Stay with it it’s pretty funny . Some NSFW gestures , I’ll note . Took me a second to recognize the guy at the very end , which in itself is pretty funny . I’ll leave it to you . You may recognize various other people in it . too Share April 28th , 2012 8:18 AM Tags : psychics SGU by Phil Plait in Antiscience Cool stuff Debunking Humor Skepticism 16 comments RSS feed Trackback 16

  • "Extraterrestrial Life May Not be Based on DNA or RNA" --New Research (Today's Most Popular)

    Updated: 2012-04-28 14:55:30
    Synthetic biologists have discovered that six other molecules can could store genetic information and pass it on. A host of alternative nucleic acids have been made in labs over the years, but no one has made them work like DNA.... </img

  • Saturday's 'Comment of the Day' --Extraterrestrial Life Common in the Universe --Wishful Thinking?

    Updated: 2012-04-28 12:00:00
    "There is absolutely no reason to believe that life wouldn't evolve exactly as it has here given the enormity of the universe. It will be carbon based and have DNA coding very similar to ours. Why? Because that is the...

  • The week in pictures April 21–27, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • The week in pictures April 21–27, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Dawn reveals secrets of giant asteroid Vesta Astronomy Magazine

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  • Dawn reveals secrets of giant asteroid Vesta Astronomy Magazine

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  • On the road Northeast Astro Imaging Conference April 27, 2012 Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online C

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  • The Real Problem with Driverless Cars | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-04-28 01:08:03
    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 Want to Make Rational Decisions Think About Them In a Foreign . Language The Real Problem with Driverless Cars When Nevada made driverless cars legal in the state last year we armchair futurists sat up a little straighter . All of a sudden a number of meandering philosophical questions about how our society would have to change to embrace such technology seemed quite a bit more urgent . This question seemed especially pressing : Driverless cars are safer than those piloted by humans , but how would we feel about deaths caused by machines rather than people In our post on the

  • NCBI ROFL: Why Miss Poland is more beautiful than generic med students. | Discoblog

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  • NASA†s WISE catches aging star erupting with dust Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA†s WISE catches aging star erupting with dust Astronomy Magazine

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  • Take a Trip Inside the Minds of Eccentric Inventors With Context-Free Patent Art | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-04-27 19:58:46
    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 This Scientist Endures 15,000 Mosquito Bites a Year NCBI ROFL : Why Miss Poland is more beautiful than generic med . students Take a Trip Inside the Minds of Eccentric Inventors With Context-Free Patent Art The new Tumblelog  Context Free Patent Art confirms what we always thought : there is a lot of weird stuff lurking in archives of the patent office And sometimes , you just don’t need want an . explanation Here are some of our favorites . Take your best guess at the context for these images—or at least some legitimate excuse explanation—in the comments via Context Free

  • This Scientist Endures 15,000 Mosquito Bites a Year | Discoblog

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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 NCBI ROFL : How your brain is like . Google Take a Trip Inside the Minds of Eccentric Inventors With Context-Free Patent Art This Scientist Endures 15,000 Mosquito Bites a Year The things we do for . science Researchers who study mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects sometimes use themselves as skeeter chow . In some cases , it’s because certain species of mosquitoes seem to prefer human blood to animal blood . In others , though , it’s a cheap , convenient alternative to keeping animals around for the insects to feed on or buying blood . And as it turns out , once you’ve

  • Angry Birds make Phil angry (kinda) | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-04-27 17:30:09
    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 A red nursery with a long smoke stack Medium , well done Angry Birds make Phil angry kinda A few weeks ago , I got a note from my pal Brian Brushwood via Ashley Paramore and , somehow , Veronica Belmont the actual email path was Möbius-like asking if I’d like to be a part of a short , funny video about Angry Birds Space for his videocast Game On Not being an idiot , I said yes . Here’s the . result I had fun filming this Angry Birds is evil and addicting and I don’t recommend downloading it unless you like evil and addicting games , which of course I . do Sadly , Game On was

  • A Multitude of Hands: My new essay for National Geographic | The Loom

    Updated: 2012-04-27 16:26:38
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  • Expedition 30 Crew Returns to Earth Safely

    Updated: 2012-04-27 16:00:26
    Welcome back home to the Expedition 30 crew of the International Space Station! The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin landed in Kazakhstan on Friday, April 27 at 11:45 UTC (7:45 a.m. EDT). They undocked earlier from the International Space Station at 8:18 UTC (4:18 a.m. [...]

  • Image of the Day: A Billion Stars of the Milky Way

    Updated: 2012-04-27 12:15:00
    British scientists have produced a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy that reveals the detail of a billion stars. The iamge was built from thousands of individual images acquired by two UK-developed telescopes operating in Hawaii and in Chile,...

  • The Silver Streak Galaxy spiral galaxy M100, and barred spiral galaxy M91 Astronomy Magazine

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  • The Silver Streak Galaxy spiral galaxy M100, and barred spiral galaxy M91 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Extraterrestrial Life Common in the Universe --Wishful Thinking?

    Updated: 2012-04-27 11:57:25
    When speaking about the probability of extraterrestrial life, Carl Sagan, always said that extraordinary claims required extraordinary evidence. Recent discoveries of planets similar to Earth in size and proximity to the planets' respective suns have sparked scientific and public excitement...

  • Celestron AstroMaster LT 76AZ Telescope Astronomy Magazine

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  • Orion 10x50 Binocular Stargazing Kit Astronomy Magazine

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  • A red nursery with a long smoke stack | 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 Q BA : How many exoplanets have been discovered Angry Birds make Phil angry kinda A red nursery with a long smoke stack Something like 6000 light years away , roughly toward the downtown area of our galaxy , lies NGC 6604, a tight cluster of young , massive , hot , bright stars . Just starting to shrug off the gas cloud of its birth , these stars emit a fierce light that makes the gas glow . When you point the 2.2 meter ESO MPG telescope at this cluster what you get is startling beauty Click to ennebulenate , or grab the cosmic 8600 x 8400 pixel version NGC 6604 is the compact

  • NCBI ROFL: How your brain is like Google. | Discoblog

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  • Saturn's Planet-Like Moon, Phoebe Came from Kuiper Belt

    Updated: 2012-04-26 23:00:00
    Scientists had their first close-up look at Phoebe when Cassini began exploring the Saturn system in 2004. Using data from multiple spacecraft instruments and a computer model of the moon's chemistry, geophysics and geology, scientists found Phoebe was a so-called...

  • NASA's Spitzer finds galaxy with split personality Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA scientists find history of asteroid impacts in Earth rocks Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA scientists find history of asteroid impacts in Earth rocks Astronomy Magazine

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  • Q&BA: How many exoplanets have been discovered? | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-04-26 19:52:39
    : 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 A land not too far away I don’t know . Maybe it was . Utah A red nursery with a long smoke stack Q BA : How many exoplanets have been discovered Q BA is a live video chat session I do every weekend , more or less , on Google+ where people can ask me questions about space and astronomy . I’m very excited about all the news we’re getting of planets orbiting other stars . For Q BA I got a good question about them : How many exoplanets are there Note : the aspect ratio on this video is messed up a bit , like it was on the last one I understand the problem now , but cannot fix it

  • A land not too far away… I don’t know. Maybe it was Utah. | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-04-26 17:03:18
    . . 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 More debunking of the ex-NASA 49 climate change deniers Q BA : How many exoplanets have been discovered A land not too far away I don’t know . Maybe it was . Utah Do you live in Utah Near Logan Then come see me destroy the world Friday night I’m giving my Death from the Skies talk at Utah State University at 7:00 p.m . on April 27 tomorrow I’ll be in Room 130 of the Emmert Auditorium . It’s open to the public and admission is . free Yes , free . It costs nothing to wipe out life on Earth via asteroid . impact This is part of USU’s Science Unwrapped lecture series , a pretty

  • Ancient Microbes (“Bacteriasicles”) From Melting Glaciers Are Spilling Into Oceans | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-04-26 16:47:24
    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 Early Skeleton Stolen From Underwater Cave in Mexico Want to Make Rational Decisions Think About Them In a Foreign . Language Ancient Microbes Bacteriasicles” From Melting Glaciers Are Spilling Into Oceans Melting polar ice has a worrisome list of consequences— methane gas release rising sea levels and the liberation of long frozen 750,000-year-old microbes . While melting glaciers probably aren’t going to turn into Jurassic Park , scientists are understandably concerned how they might affect the environment . Scientific American h as a new feature on the impact of these

  • Early Skeleton Stolen From Underwater Cave in Mexico | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-04-26 16:47:03
    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 New Study That Allegedly Found the Fabled G-Spot Is Deeply Flawed Ancient Microbes Bacteriasicles” From Melting Glaciers Are Spilling Into Oceans Early Skeleton Stolen From Underwater Cave in Mexico The interior of a cenote The cenotes of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo are peppered with mysterious skeletons Over the millennia , these water-filled caves have served as burying grounds and sacrificial sites for native peoples , and in fact , several ancient sets of remains have been found so deep in the caves that they are inaccessible without diving equipment , suggesting that

  • Dark 'Seas' of Glass Hint at Mars' Subglacial Lakes --Hotspots for Microbial Life

    Updated: 2012-04-26 16:15:00
    The surface of Mars exhibits numerous lava flows and other signs of effusive volcanism. Although models suggest that explosive volcanism should also have produced extensive deposits, direct evidence for large-scale explosive volcanism has been scarce. A new study by Briony...

  • PhD Comics Explains the Higgs Boson | Cosmic Variance

    Updated: 2012-04-26 16:06:20
    Jorge Cham visits CERN, and comes back with tales of particles and mass.

  • Star System With a Record 9 Planets Found

    Updated: 2012-04-26 15:45:00
    The sun-like star, called HD 10180, located approximately 127 light-years away in the constellation Hydrus, is home to a record nine planets, making it the most populated system of extrasolar planets yet found. In a previous study that was published...

  • Images from an Alien World --Asteroid Vesta's Landscape

    Updated: 2012-04-26 12:30:00
    Findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition, sharp temperature changes and clues to its internal structure. The Space images, taken 420 miles (680 kilometers) and 130 miles (210 kilometers)...

  • NCBI ROFL: Wish you could get drunk without blacking out? Next time, have a coffee. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-04-26 00:00:57
    : , . 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 Found : The Cause of Brain Freeze and Ice Cream Headaches NCBI ROFL : How your brain is like . Google NCBI ROFL : Wish you could get drunk without blacking out Next time , have a . coffee Alcohol-induced retrograde memory impairment in rats : prevention by . caffeine : RATIONALE Ethanol and caffeine are two of the most widely consumed drugs in the world , often used in the same setting . Animal models may help to understand the conditions under which incidental memories formed just before ethanol intoxication might be lost or become difficult to . retrieve : OBJECTIVES

  • New Study That Allegedly Found the Fabled G-Spot Is Deeply Flawed | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-04-25 17:54:23
    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 Blood in Leeches Alerts Scientists to the Presence of Hard-to-Spot Endangered Animals Early Skeleton Stolen From Underwater Cave in Mexico New Study That Allegedly Found the Fabled G-Spot Is Deeply Flawed You may have heard the G-spot buzz today : a gynecological surgeon claims to have discovered an actual structure in a vagina that corresponds to this reputed female pleasure center Just by itself , any invocation of the G-spot should set off alarms it has been called a “ gynecologic UFO : much searched for , much discussed , but unverified by objective means There is much

  • What Particle Are You? | Cosmic Variance

    Updated: 2012-04-25 16:45:50
    A flowchart I put together for The Particle at the End of the Universe. Feel free to spread around, with appropriate attribution. Sorry for the tiny writing, there are a lot of particles! Click to embiggen and get a legible version.

  • Help Wanted: "Asteroid Miners for Ice, Precious Metals & Minerals"

    Updated: 2012-04-25 15:30:00
    Planetary Resources, the new space venture backed by Google and Microsoft founders that's planning to mine near-Earth asteroids, has begun advertising for 'asteroid miners'. The new company revealed details of its first exploratory missions to mine ice deposits as well...

  • "Most Ancient Cluster of Galaxies in Universe Discovered" --Japanese Claim

    Updated: 2012-04-25 14:00:00
    Japanese astronomers Using a powerful telescope based in Hawaii, said Wednesday they had found a "protocluster of galaxies" 12.72 billion light-years away from Earth, which they claim is the most distant cluster ever discovered. The team peered back through time...

  • Image of the Day: Supernova Ring in Satellite Galaxy of Milky Way

    Updated: 2012-04-25 11:00:00
    A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a gaseous ring surrounding the supernova 1987A, which exploded on February 23, 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The image, taken with the European Space...

  • Cassini Saturn Probe --New Insights into Titan's "Chemical Factory"

    Updated: 2012-04-25 01:30:00
    Saturn's giant moon Titan hides behind a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system --a productive "factory" cranking out hydrocarbons that rain down on Titan's icy surface...

  • Get ready for National Astronomy Day 2012 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-04-24 22:35:06
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  • Citizen scientists Target an asteroid Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media

    Updated: 2012-04-24 22:35:02
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  • June 2012 Do billions of rogue planets drift through space Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-04-24 22:34:56
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  • Mystery Objects Revealed in Saturn's Rings by Cassini Space Probe

    Updated: 2012-04-24 20:45:00
    Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed half-mile-sized (kilometer-sized) objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails behind them. These trails in the rings, which scientists are calling "mini-jets," fill in a missing link in our story... <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond/~4/6g484MksXS8" height="1" width="1"/

  • Moonglow and Orion all-sky cameras Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-04-24 14:16:09
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  • Moonglow and Orion all-sky cameras Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-04-24 14:16:05
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  • How Ancient Viruses Invaded Our Genomes --New Clues Discovered

    Updated: 2012-04-24 04:30:00
    Scientists have uncovered clues as to how our genomes became riddled with viruses. The study reveals important information about the so–called 'dark matter' of our genome. For years scientists have been struggling with the enigma that more than 90 percent...

  • Huge, Mysteriously Silent Satellite Spotted by Another Spacecraft

    Updated: 2012-04-23 23:32:09
    A massive European satellite the size of a school bus that has mysteriously stopped communicating with Earth has been spotted by another satellite in orbit. The giant Envisat satellite, which is the world’s largest imaging satellite for civilian use, was photographed in stunning detail by a French spacecraft. ESA satellite operators lost contact with the 10-year-old Envisat on April 8 and ...

  • Episode 15 The lives of the stars Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-04-23 22:18:31
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  • More imaging under Namibia's pristine skies Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-04-23 22:18:27
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  • Carry around the universe's top numbers Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-04-23 22:18:22
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  • See microlensing in action Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-04-23 22:18:17
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  • EcoAlert: ISS Camera to Provide World's Real-Time Climate Data

    Updated: 2012-04-23 15:40:00
    NASA announced plans last week to send a new telescopic camera to the International Space Station to give developing countries critical new environmental data on forest fires, floods, volcanoes, droughts, hurricanes and landslides in Central America, Africa and Asia. ISERV...

  • Robotic Search for Life on Jupiter's 'Ocean Moon' Europa

    Updated: 2012-04-22 22:14:14
    At NASA’s Astrobiology Science Conference held in Atlanta last week, visionary space inventor Bill Stone announced that he intends to get an autonomous six-foot by ten inch robotic cylinder called Valkyrie ready to visit the icebound sea of Jupiter’s moon... </div

  • Weekend Feature: A 3-D Journey Through the Observable Universe

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    Updated: 2012-04-20 22:24:56
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  • The Mars' "Methane Mystery" --A Sign of Life or an Earth-Based Illusion? We'll Know Soon

    Updated: 2012-04-20 15:30:00
    NASA will soon have some answers to a long-standing puzzle over what could be producing methane gas detected in the thin Martian air with the August 5th touchdown of the Mars Science Laboratory. It will deliver an S.U.V.-size rover named...

  • Astronomy magazine hiring managing editor Astronomy Magazine

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  • C2E2 was a real eye-opener Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Galleries

    Updated: 2012-04-18 11:54:12
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  • What are you doing for International Dark Sky Week Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community

    Updated: 2012-04-18 11:54:10
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  • Did NASA find life on Mars in 1976, and then cook it?

    Updated: 2012-04-18 00:46:20
    Two spacecraft that landed on the Red Planet in 1976 are now thought to have detected live microbes in Martian soil. Scientists at the time failed to spot the signs of life - and COOKED the bugs at 160°C during experiments. Now an international team has used modern techniques to re-examine data collected by the two unmanned Viking probes.

  • Spectacular Solar Explosion, M1.7 - April 16, 2012

    Updated: 2012-04-18 00:45:05
    Magnetic fields on the sun’s northeastern limb erupted around 17:45 UT on April 16th, producing one of the most visually-spectacular explosions in years. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the blast at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. The explosion, which registered M1.7 on the Richter Scale of solar flares, was not Earth-directed, but it did hurl a CME into space. Analysts at the ...

  • How would you sound on Mars?

    Updated: 2012-04-07 00:52:35
    Astronauts on Mars would probably speak with each other on the surface through radio links — but if they were to pick up voices or sounds transmitted through Martian air, would they sound different? Acoustics experts say they would.

  • Could Ancient Aliens Live on Methuselah Planets?

    Updated: 2012-04-04 15:56:56
    The announcement of a pair of planets orbiting a 12.5 billion-year old star flies in the face of conventional wisdom that the earliest stars to be born in the Universe shouldn’t possess planets at all. 12.5 billion years ago, the primeval universe was just beginning to make heavier elements beyond hydrogen and helium, in the fusion furnace cores of the first ...

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