• Hubble Movies Reveal Solar-System-Sized Traffic Jams

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    Hubble Movies Reveal Solar-System-Sized Traffic Jams

  • Hubble Movies Show Supersonic Jets from Young Stars

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    New movies created from years of still images collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope provide new details about the stellar birthing process, showing energetic jets of glowing gas ejected from young stars in unprecedented detail.

  • Mars scientist Philip Christensen to receive ASU Shoemaker Memorial Award

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    Mars scientist Philip Christensen to receive ASU Shoemaker Memorial Award

  • The Northrop Grumman Foundation Announces Weightless Flights of Discovery "Class of 2011"

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    The Northrop Grumman Foundation Announces Weightless Flights of Discovery "Class of 2011"

  • Progress 44 accident and its consequences for Space Station

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    The six astronauts on the International Space Station are safe and continuing their normal work after the loss of their space-bound cargo craft on 24 August.

  • Jupiter-Bound Space Probe Captures Earth and Moon

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    On its way to the biggest planet in the solar system -- Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft took time to capture its home planet and its natural satellite -- the moon.

  • Dawn Image of Asteroid Vesta: South Polar Scarp

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on August 12, 2011. The image was taken through the framing camera's clear filter. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

  • NASA'S Chandra Finds Nearest Pair Of Supermassive Black Holes

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    Astronomers have discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. Approximately 160 million light years from Earth, the pair is the nearest known such phenomenon.

  • Orbital Receives FAA Commercial Space Transportation License For Taurus II COTS Demonstration Mission

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    Orbital Sciences Corporation today announced that it received a Commercial Space Transportation Launch License from the FAA to conduct the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program demonstration mission in early 2012.

  • Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: License Requirements for Operation of a Launch Site

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: License Requirements for Operation of a Launch Site

  • Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Commercial Space Transportation Reusable Launch Vehicle and Reentry Licensing

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Commercial Space Transportation Reusable Launch Vehicle and Reentry Licensing

  • Desert RATS 2011 from a geologist's point of view

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    Dr. Jacob Bleacher is a Planetary Geologist working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The 2011 field test is Jake's third time as a Desert RATS crewmember.

  • Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 30 August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 30 August 2011

  • NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Wednesday, August 31, 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Wednesday, August 31, 2011

  • X PRIZE Foundation and LEGO Group Announce Global Student Team Winners of MoonBots 2.0 Challenge

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:07
    The competition challenges teams of students ages 9 to 17 to design, program and build robots that simulate lunar missions mirroring the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE international competition.

  • Captured on film: A peek inside a stellar nursery

    Updated: 2011-08-31 21:30:32
    Scientists have understood the basic process of how stars form for a while, namely that they grow out of large clouds of gas and dust in space. Under the influence of gravity parts of these clouds will clump together and fall in on themselves. But how, exactly, does this process occur? Until now scientists have [...]

  • ISS Crew Provides Light-Hearted Look at Current Space Flight Plight

    Updated: 2011-08-31 21:11:13
    What does the International Space Station crew think about the situation they face since the Progress cargo ship mishap? Astronaut Ron Garan wanted to do something light-hearted to let everyone know that “we are all in this together,” so he and his crewmates created a video. Garan said “Despite the seriousness of the possibilities, and [...]

  • Hubble Movies “Star” Supersonic Jets

    Updated: 2011-08-31 21:02:48
    Don’t you know that you are a shooting star… Thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of scientists led by astronomer Patrick Hartigan of Rice University in Houston, USA, has done something pretty incredible. Using photos and information gathered from the last 14 years of observations, they’ve sewn together an unprecedented look [...]

  • Binary black holes and a potential Earth-like planet

    Updated: 2011-08-31 20:52:32
    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 No , a new study does not show cosmic-rays are connected to global warming Binary black holes and a potential Earth-like planet Two stories just came out that I would love to spend time writing up in full , but I’m trying to get a million things done before I leave for Dragon Con in the morning , so I’ll be : brief 1 Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered a binary black hole two ginormous beasts orbiting each other about 500 light years apart in the center of the gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 3393. Each has a mass of at least one million times that of the

  • Podcast: Christiaan Huygens

    Updated: 2011-08-31 19:56:42
    And now we finish our trilogy of Saturnian astronomers and missions with a look at the Dutch astronomer and mathematician, Christiaan Huygens. It was Huygens who discovered Titan, and figured out what Saturn’s rings really are, so it makes sense that a probe landing on the surface of Titan was named after him. Click here [...]

  • Podcast: The Cassini Mission

    Updated: 2011-08-31 19:53:21
    Last week we talked about the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini. This week we’ll talk about the mission that shares his name: NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft. This amazing mission is orbiting Saturn right now, sending back thousands of high resolution images of the ringed planet and its moons. Click here to download the episode. Or subscribe to: [...]

  • Stellar blasts caught on video

    Updated: 2011-08-31 14:00:20
    Astronomers are using movies created from Hubble Space Telescope imagery to track the assy burps elched out y young stars. They say the moving pictures have already unraveled some of the mysteries surrounding Herbig-Haro objects, hich are stars that send  hellip;

  • CSExtra – Wednesday, August 31, 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-31 12:27:25
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Now on orbit – the Coalition for Space Exploration’s latest Think Outside the Circle PSA. Benefits of space surround us. Learn more about how technologies we develop to [...]

  • Off to Dragon*Con

    Updated: 2011-08-31 06:46:58
    I’m venturing from my Canadian stronghold to the hotlanta for the next week to participate in DragonCon. I’m taking the whole family this time, and unleashing them on an unsuspecting crowd of sci-fi fans. Here’s what I’m scheduled to be doing: Parsec Awards: Saturday, 4:00pm Regency V Astronomy Cast Live: Sunday, 4:00pm Hilton 204. Junior [...]

  • First Image Captured by NASAs Jupiter bound Juno; Earth – Moon Portrait

    Updated: 2011-08-31 05:31:29
    NASA’s solar powered Jupiter bound Juno orbiter has captured her first image – a beautiful portrait of the Earth & Moon – since the probe blasted off from the home planet. Juno lifted off 25 days ago at 12: 25 p.m. on August 5 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station [...]

  • NASA, Nine Other Space Agencies Look to Future Cooperation in the Exploration of Deep Space

    Updated: 2011-08-31 05:13:44
      Senior officials from NASA and the space agencies of nine other nations gathered in Kyoto, Japan on Tuesday to shape a coordinated multinational strategy for space exploration called the Global Exploration Roadmap. The planning, under way for a year, identifies the International Space Station as the starting point for an eventual human mission to [...]

  • Jupiter probe looks back at Earth

    Updated: 2011-08-31 02:09:32
    Earth and the moon look like mere specks amid the blackness of outer space in a picture sent back by NASA's Juno probe during its trip to Jupiter.

  • Home, from the start of a long, long journey

    Updated: 2011-08-31 01:13:13
    , , 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 Hurricane Irene from start to finish No , a new study does not show cosmic-rays are connected to global warming Home , from the start of a long , long journey Sometimes , my favorite pictures from space are among the ones that look least interesting until you understand what you’re . seeing For example , this doesn’t look like much , does it Ah , but that picture shows so , so much . It shows everything That’s us . You , me , everyone . That fuzzy blob on the left That’s Earth . The one on the right : the Moon . In this one simple picture , you can see everywhere humans

  • Space agencies set two courses

    Updated: 2011-08-31 01:09:42
    To the moon? Or to an asteroid? Both destinations have been in NASA's sights — the moon during the George W. Bush administration, and a near-Earth asteroid during the Obama administration.

  • NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno Spacecraft Snags Earth/Moon Photo!

    Updated: 2011-08-31 01:02:25
    Okay, I know, you’ve got to look hard. But you’re seeing a unique snapshot in space and time! NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft has captured its home planet launch pad and our natural satellite — the Moon. “This is a remarkable sight people get to see all too rarely,” said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from [...]

  • Hubble Roadshow Kickstarter Project

    Updated: 2011-08-30 23:15:24
    I love Kickstarter projects, and I love space. So here’s something that puts them both together: the Hubble Roadshow Kickstarter project. If they can raise $20,000, this group will tour the US in a custom RV showing the new documentary, Saving Hubble. They’ll organize telescopes, parties… even jugglers. So if this sounds like a project [...]

  • Hurricane Irene from start to finish

    Updated: 2011-08-30 21:46:42
    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 Creepy bubbles and magnets Home , from the start of a long , long journey Hurricane Irene from start to finish NASA just released an amazing video showing Hurricane Irene from August 21th through the 29th essentially the entire lifespan of the : storm Unfortunately the resolution isn’t great , but this really gives a sense of the incredible size and momentum of this incredible storm . The animation was created using images from the NASA NOAA satellite GOES-13, an Earth-observer in geostationary orbit 36,000 km 22,000 miles above the Atlantic Ocean . It takes images of clouds ,

  • NASA Practicing Asteroid Mission in Arizona Desert

    Updated: 2011-08-30 20:46:56
    A team of about 150 engineers, scientists, astronauts, researchers and students started work this week on the first of several deep-space mission scenarios.

  • Orlando Sentinel, nut much else: NASA’s shriveling work schedule

    Updated: 2011-08-30 20:23:13
    , : Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Unsurprised Ink : Great . No shuttle to space station . Now taxi service also down for safety check ScienceNews A deeper than usual look at the white nose syndrome killing so many N . American bats Orlando Sentinel , nut much else : NASA’s shriveling work schedule From NASA Watch The Orlando Sentinel today has a story by Mark K . Matthews that few general interest media are following closely  the ongoing implosion of NASA’s space science plans . In short , this story and other reports say , the soaring budget for the James Webb Space Telescope the Hubble’s repeatedly delayed successor , lingering costs of the shuttle , efforts to build a deep-space astronaut-carrier to asteroids or other places , and general

  • Creepy bubbles and magnets

    Updated: 2011-08-30 19:59:55
    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 NASA ponders de-crewing the space station in November Hurricane Irene from start to finish Creepy bubbles and magnets Science videos are pretty cool , so I was excited to see this cool one using soap bubbles to show how a fluid infused with a magnetic material would flow through the bubbles interstices until I watched to the very end and then decided this was actually some weird horror movie trailer . Still , way cool , and the editing was very good . But man , those last few seconds are creepy . Funny how we anthropomorphize things , or at least mentally give them a vitality

  • Unsurprised Ink: Great. No shuttle to space station. Now taxi service also down for safety check

    Updated: 2011-08-30 19:28:48
    : . . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment AP , Telegraph , Wash.Post etc : Outrage over US doctors’ 1940s tests on Guatemala human guinea pigs Orlando Sentinel , nut much else : NASA’s shriveling work schedule Unsurprised Ink : Great . No shuttle to space station . Now taxi service also down for safety check Those big space companies and smaller entrepreneurs with blueprints for people hauling services to the  space station may merit more attention now . After the Aug . 24  loss of an unmanned Russian rocket carrying a Progress resupply vehicle , news is that the Soyuz ferry service for astronauts is down for a safety review . There is not a great deal of science aboard the space station Sam Ting’s cosmic ray and dark matter detector aside but all

  • Cassini Visits Spongy-Looking Moon Hyperion

    Updated: 2011-08-30 19:17:10
    The Cassini Solstice mission passed by the small Saturnian moon Hyperion over the weekend, soaring as close as 24,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) from the tumbling moon's cratered face.

  • Human Mission to an Asteroid: Asteroid Field Testing

    Updated: 2011-08-30 19:05:04
    How will we work and set up a base camp on an asteroid? NASA is currently doing some field work to test technologies that could be used on future human missions to asteroids. The Desert Research And Technology Studies (D-R.A.T.S) crew is back in action, testing communication scenarios for near-Earth asteroids, and 2 new instruments [...]

  • AP, Telegraph, Wash.Post etc: Outrage over US doctors’ 1940s tests on Guatemala human guinea pigs

    Updated: 2011-08-30 18:14:23
    , , : Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Indignación en Guatemala por las 83 muertes en los experimentos del Dr John Cutler Unsurprised Ink : Great . No shuttle to space station . Now taxi service also down for safety check AP , Telegraph , Wash.Post etc : Outrage over US doctors’ 1940s tests on Guatemala human guinea pigs A federal panel investigating medical experimentation by US government physicians on prisoners and others in Guatemala generated headlines yesterday and today stories in which the word shocking’ is prominent . No wonder . As the AP s Mike Stobbe reports , it had already been recognized as among the darker episodes in the history of medical research Test subjects were often  unaware they were even in an experiment . Many died .

  • Deadly and Destructive Path of Hurricane Irene seen in NASA Videos and Images

    Updated: 2011-08-30 16:41:57
    NASA Video Caption: The Life of Hurricane Irene from the Caribbean to Canada from August 21 through August 29 seen by NASA/NOAA satellites. Credit: NASA/NOAA/GOES/MODIS The new NASA animation above shows the birth and subsequent destructive and deadly path followed by Hurricane Irene from August 21 through August 29, 2011 starting in the Caribbean, and [...]

  • U.S.-led Partnership Faces Possiblity of Mid-November Space Station De-Staffing

    Updated: 2011-08-30 15:18:26
      NASA has raised the prospect that the U. S.led, 15-nation International Space Station partnership may have to de-staff the orbiting science laboratory in mid-November, if Russia’s investigation and recovery from the Aug. 24 loss of the Progress 44 re-supply mission is long running. The unpiloted Progress capsule, filled with nearly three tons of supplies [...]

  • Two more days of heat, and then we watch the tropics

    Updated: 2011-08-30 12:57:37
    Houston had another 107-degree day Monday. Wow. Houston has just experienced three of the 11 warmest days on record in the city. Here’s a list of the 11 days, according to the National Weather Service, on which Houston has recorded temperatures of at least 107 degrees or above. 109 degrees (Sept. 4, 2000; August 27, [...]

  • CSExtra – Tuesday, August 30, 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-30 12:09:31
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Now on orbit – the Coalition for Space Exploration’s latest Think Outside the Circle PSA. Benefits of space surround us. Learn more about how technologies we develop to [...]

  • NASA Climate Scientist Arrested

    Updated: 2011-08-30 05:25:49
    NASA's James Hansen was arrested yesterday during a protest against a Canada to US tar sands oil pipeline.

  • First Mars Astronauts May Grow Their Own Food

    Updated: 2011-08-29 21:53:00
    A high-tech 'kitchen garden' may be the answer to the worry about what astronauts may eat on a long journey to Mars.

  • Steampunk station

    Updated: 2011-08-29 19:12:12
    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 Wyoming skies The increasingly antiscience Republican candidates Steampunk station I can’t help but think of Jules Verne when I see this spectacular picture of Europe at night , as seen by astronauts aboard the International Space Station on August 10, : 2011 Click to ennemonate . It’s not so much that the cities shown are Verne’s own though you can see London bottom left and Paris to the right of the dark swath of the English Channel It’s the color The brassy lights of the city , some fuzzed by clouds , are classic steampunk As you can see from the map the station was high

  • Mars Menu for Future Explorers – A Chow Down Challenge

    Updated: 2011-08-29 18:56:50
    Stuffing the food pantry for the first voyagers to strike out for Mars is no easy task. That’s the word from Maya Cooper, a senior research scientist at the NASA Johnson Space Center in the Space Food Systems Laboratory in Houston, Texas. Maya has reported that provisioning astronauts with food is one of the greatest [...]

  • New Forest Observatory: High Speed Dome Rotator Video and Imaging

    Updated: 2011-08-29 17:37:49
    , : Welcome to the Curdridge telescope observatory astrophotography blog . We explore many aspects of astronomy and astrophotography especially including projects such as telescope mounts . We have a Newtonian reflecting telescope in our budget observatory made from fence panels . Most of our imaging is done using Astrodon narrowband filters and cooled astronomy CCD . cameras New Forest Observatory : High Speed Dome Rotator Video and Imaging Category : Other Astronomers Posted by : Tom How Another busy couple of days at the New Forest Observatory over the bank holiday weekend working on the mini-WASP astrophotography . array First job was upgrading the automatic computer-controlled dome rotator on the Pulsar 2.2m telescope observatory . Our first prototype used two 0.5Nm torque stepper

  • Wyoming skies

    Updated: 2011-08-29 16:27:33
    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 Virgos have beautiful eyes Steampunk station Wyoming skies If you need a pick-me-up to start your week after a hurricane , a series of earthquakes , and just having to face another danged week at work then may I suggest this amazing time-lapse video by Eric Hines , called Wild Wyoming Make sure it's set to HD , and make it full screen . I personally think the music is very good , too it's from The Fountain so you might want to crank up the speakers as well . Isn’t that breath-taking At about a minute in I saw a couple of satellites heading across the Milky Way right-to-left ,

  • If no Russian rocket fix, space station could be de-crewed in November

    Updated: 2011-08-29 15:48:27
    International Space Station chief Mike Suffredini said Monday that Russian investigators are continuing to study the cause of a lost Progress supply vehicle. The biggest issue remains the safety of the Soyuz crew vehicle, which uses a similar launch system to the Progress spacecraft. Suffredini said if the issue isn’t resolved by Nov. 16, that [...]

  • CSExtra – Monday, August 29, 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-29 12:31:44
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Now on orbit – the Coalition for Space Exploration’s latest Think Outside the Circle PSA. Benefits of space surround us. Learn more about how technologies we develop to [...]

  • NASA: International Space Station May Have To Go Unmanned

    Updated: 2011-08-29 05:31:00
    After a Russian supply ship exploded last week, there are worries that there will be no way to get new astronauts to the station. By late November, the station may have to operate without a crew.

  • Space Station Crew Homecoming Delayed

    Updated: 2011-08-29 05:26:07
    The three-man crew was to return on Sept. 8, but due to a Russian cargo ship crash, they will now likely return in mid-September.

  • AAVSO Alert Notice 446: SUPERNOVA 2011fe in M101 (NGC 5457) = PSN J14030581+5416254

    Updated: 2011-08-28 21:01:37
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  • Satellite Views Show Powerful Hurricane Hitting U.S. East Coast

    Updated: 2011-08-28 14:19:01
    These satellite images shows hurricane Irene as it slammed into the U.S. East Coast. Taken by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES spacecraft, Irene’s destructive nature is causing structural damage as well as massive power outages. Estimates from major utilities serving the Atlantic seaboard from North Carolina to New England puts the number [...]

  • Heat watch: Houston ties all-time record high

    Updated: 2011-08-27 21:11:25
    Houston’s official temperature at Bush Intercontinental Airport reached 109 degrees briefly between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. this afternoon. With another hour or two before the day’s peak heat it’s possible today’s blistering temperature could break the all-time record of 109 degrees, which occurred on Sept. 4, 2000. The record watch is on. And the [...]

  • Martian Balls and Internationally Imaginative Pizza With Mars500

    Updated: 2011-08-26 23:15:09
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  • Irene sidles up to the east coast

    Updated: 2011-08-26 22:00:30
    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 Marian Call’s heading to the bay My Moon hoax Irene sidles up to the east coast The first hurricane of the 2011 season hits the U.S . east coast , as seen by a NASA Earth-observing : satellite Click to encoriolenate , or grab the nearly one-to-one sized 6000x7000 pixel version This image was taken on August 26, 2011 at 16:30 UTC . For more images and video of Irene , keep an eye on the NASA GSFC Flickr page and follow them on Twitter Image credit : NASA GSFC Jeff Schmaltz MODIS Land Rapid Response Team Related : posts Putting the eye in Irene Come on , Irene Attack of the

  • Marian Call’s heading to the bay

    Updated: 2011-08-26 21:04:20
    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 Cassini visits a foamy moon Irene sidles up to the east coast Marian Call’s heading to the bay My close personal friend Marian Call nerdy indy singer songwriter extraordinaire will be doing a whirlwind tour of the San Francisco bay area from September 1 7. If you live in that area , you should check her concerts out . She sings about being a geek , and Firefly , and Battlestar , and zombies . . Seriously She’s also chipped in a song with a bunch of other nerdlings like Molly Lewis and MC Frontalot to do a cover of the They Might Be Giants album Mink Car The original was

  • A Breakthrough on Sunpots

    Updated: 2011-08-26 19:36:32
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  • Cassini visits a foamy moon

    Updated: 2011-08-26 18:40:45
    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 Sea level rise has slowed temporarily Marian Call’s heading to the bay Cassini visits a foamy moon I’ve said it before : Saturn’s moon Hyperion is seriously freaky . New images from the Cassini spacecraft flyby of the tiny moon don’t change my mind one : bit Click to enchronosenate . What a weird place Hyperion is a lumpy chunk of ice only about 270 km 170 miles across on average , but yesterday August 25, 2011 Cassini passed about 25,000 km away from it , so it got a lot of high-resolution shots . As you can see , it’s saturated with craters . But they look funny The

  • NASA’s GRAIL Moon Mission in Final Preparations for September Launch

    Updated: 2011-08-26 15:54:33
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  • NASA Twins Readied for Moon Flight

    Updated: 2011-08-26 14:55:13
    Twin robotic probes to orbit Earth’s Moon are ready for their launch to chart our next-door neighbor’s gravity field in unprecedented detail. The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission by NASA will make use of two spacecraft that fly in tandem orbits around the Moon. The lunar satellites should beam scientists detailed measurements of [...]

  • CSExtra – Friday, August 26, 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-26 12:56:19
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  • NASA’S Swift Satellite Spots Black Hole Devouring a Star

    Updated: 2011-08-26 11:37:07
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  • Bad Universe to air on Discovery Latin America Friday!

    Updated: 2011-08-26 00:42:36
    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 AstroAlert : Type Ia supernova in M101 M101 supernova update Bad Universe to air on Discovery Latin America Friday Starting Friday , my TV show Bad Universe will air on Discovery Channel Latinoamérica which I think covers Central and South America . Check your local listings . The name has been translated to Mitos Del Universo which of course means universal mites a clear reference to the second episode Alien Attack which itself was translated to Ataque extraterrestre But then , my Spanish isn’t very . good I hope they got Antonio Banderas to dub my voice , though . That would

  • Moon over Afghanistan

    Updated: 2011-08-25 18:13:48
    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 Putting the eye in Irene AstroAlert : Type Ia supernova in M101 Moon over Afghanistan Posted without comment : the waning third quarter Moon over Afghanistan , as seen by astronaut Ron Garan on board the International Space : Station Click to embiggen . You can follow Ron on Twitter and see these amazing pictures as he posts . them Image credit : NASA . Technically , I saw this on Nancy_A’s Twitter stream before I saw it on Ron’s , so tip o’ the spacesuit visor to . her Related : posts Squishy moonrise seen from space What a falling star looks like from space Crescent Moonset

  • NASA’s Wise Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars

    Updated: 2011-08-25 12:57:07
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  • Researchers Detail How A Distant Black Hole Devoured A Star | NASA

    Updated: 2011-08-24 19:27:00
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  • NGC 4438 and NGC 4435

    Updated: 2011-08-24 16:17:00
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  • NSS to Attend China Energy Summit

    Updated: 2011-08-24 05:13:51
    NSS members including Mark Hopkins (NSS CEO), David Dunlop (Region 6 Director), and Dr. Feng Hsu (formerly of NASA and now Senior Vice President of Space Energy Group) will attend the China Energy and Environment Summit in Beijing on August 28th and 29th. Mark Hopkins and Feng Hsu have been given the opportunity for a keynote [...]

  • Wise Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars | NASA

    Updated: 2011-08-23 22:11:00
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  • Giant Camera Will Hunt For Signs Of Dark Energy

    Updated: 2011-08-22 22:58:00
    A powerful new 570-megapixel digital camera is headed to Chile, where it will help scientists explore the mysteries of dark energy — which seems to be making the expansion of our universe speed up. The camera will peer out at faint galaxies at the distant reaches of space.

  • New Forest Observatory: Mini-WASP launch party!

    Updated: 2011-08-22 19:43:38
    , : Welcome to the Curdridge telescope observatory astrophotography blog . We explore many aspects of astronomy and astrophotography especially including projects such as telescope mounts . We have a Newtonian reflecting telescope in our budget observatory made from fence panels . Most of our imaging is done using Astrodon narrowband filters and cooled astronomy CCD . cameras New Forest Observatory : Mini-WASP launch party Category : Other Astronomers Posted by : Tom How I've had an epic weekend of work and partying to celebrate the launch of the New Forest Observatory mini-WASP telescope facility : Probably the most advanced amateur wide-angle astrophotography facility in the . country The mini-WASP system is named after its big brother , the Super-WASP system . Mini-WASP consists of two

  • NGC 2146

    Updated: 2011-08-22 18:09:00
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  • Earth Ejecta Could Have Seeded Life on Europa | Technology Review

    Updated: 2011-08-22 17:26:00
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  • AAVSO Alert Notice 445: Request for Monitoring of SS Cygni in Support of European VLBI Radio Observations

    Updated: 2011-08-20 16:26:24
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  • NASA’s STEREO Spacecraft Sees Solar Storm Engulf Earth

    Updated: 2011-08-20 00:05:47
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  • Space shuttle Atlantis' engines removed in Florida

    Updated: 2011-08-18 19:43:40
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  • Martian Skylight

    Updated: 2011-08-17 22:55:00
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  • NASA Plans to Visit a Near-Earth Asteroid

    Updated: 2011-08-17 16:57:37
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  • SpaceX readies for first private space station docking in December

    Updated: 2011-08-16 18:07:59
    NASA has agreed in principle to allow the SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule to dock with the International Space Station. Launch of the Dragon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled for November 30 with the docking to occur 9 days later. This will be the 3rd launch of Falcon 9. Original plans called for an additional [...]

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Railing Against NASA Cutbacks

    Updated: 2011-08-15 18:08:39
    Home About Contact Privacy Policy Astronomy News Astronomy Podcasts Astronomy Vodcasts Astronomy Needs You Auctions Blog Sky This Month Moon This Month Astronomy Software Astronomy Links Telescope Auctions Telescope Accessories Meteorites You are here : Astronomy News My Personal Astronomy Blog Neil deGrasse Tyson Railing Against NASA Cutbacks Neil deGrasse Tyson Railing Against NASA Cutbacks Monday , August 15th , 2011 at 5:08 pm Astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson was on Bill Maher's show a little over a week ago , and he had something to say about plans to slash NASA's budget , including doing away with the James Webb Space telescope He seems to have struck a chord with the audience given their reaction . Here's some of what he had to : say First of all , let's clarify what the NASA budget

  • VV 340 North and South

    Updated: 2011-08-11 23:48:00
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  • The astronomy sky limits at Curdridge

    Updated: 2011-08-11 21:05:35
    , Welcome to the Curdridge telescope observatory astrophotography blog . We explore many aspects of astronomy and astrophotography especially including projects such as telescope mounts . We have a Newtonian reflecting telescope in our budget observatory made from fence panels . Most of our imaging is done using Astrodon narrowband filters and cooled astronomy CCD . cameras The astronomy sky limits at Curdridge Category : Astrophotography method Posted by : Tom How In an ideal world , we'd all have our telescope observatories at the top of mountains with totally uninterrupted views in any directions . For those of us who do not have a handy mountain in the back garden , we have to contend with trees and houses getting in the way . This creates a hard limit on the objects we can use for

  • Alien World is Blacker than Coal | CfA

    Updated: 2011-08-11 19:25:00
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  • NASA Selects Seven Firms to Provide Suborbital Flight Services

    Updated: 2011-08-11 01:30:27
    NASA has selected seven companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near the boundary of space and back. This arrangement marks the first time that NASA has contracted with commercial partners to provide flights into space on a suborbital spacecraft, and represents another important endorsement of [...]

  • Trail of crumbs discovered from potentially hazardous comet | Astrobiology Magazine

    Updated: 2011-08-10 22:21:00
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  • NGC 3521

    Updated: 2011-08-10 16:52:00
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  • IC 755

    Updated: 2011-08-10 11:00:00
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  • Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare

    Updated: 2011-08-09 22:52:00
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  • Tethys and Titan

    Updated: 2011-08-08 23:33:00
    : TF Exo Cassini Chandra Curiosity Earth Hubble Kepler La Silla Mars Express Mauna Kea MRO MESSENGER Paranal Solar System Spitzer Universe Webb WISE FoS TelescopeFeed Researchers Detail How A Distant Black Hole Devoured A Star NASA 1 week ago in Exo NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 1 week ago in Paranal Observatory Feed NGC 2146 1 week ago in Hubble Space Telescope Feed Martian Skylight 1 week ago in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feed VV 340 North and South 2 weeks ago in Chandra X-ray Observatory Feed Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare 3 weeks ago in Solar System Telescope Feed Tethys and Titan 3 weeks ago in Cassini Orbiter Feed Curiosity's Destination : Gale Crater 5 weeks ago in Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Feed Atlantis Going Home 5 weeks ago in Earth Observatory Feed Clearest View Yet Of The Milky

  • Hickson Compact Group 7

    Updated: 2011-08-08 23:23:00
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  • NASA Mars Rover Approaches Long-Term Goal - JPL

    Updated: 2011-08-08 23:14:00
    : TF Exo Cassini Chandra Curiosity Earth Hubble Kepler La Silla Mars Express Mauna Kea MRO MESSENGER Paranal Solar System Spitzer Universe Webb WISE FoS TelescopeFeed Researchers Detail How A Distant Black Hole Devoured A Star NASA 1 week ago in Exo NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 1 week ago in Paranal Observatory Feed NGC 2146 1 week ago in Hubble Space Telescope Feed Martian Skylight 1 week ago in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feed VV 340 North and South 2 weeks ago in Chandra X-ray Observatory Feed Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare 3 weeks ago in Solar System Telescope Feed Tethys and Titan 3 weeks ago in Cassini Orbiter Feed Curiosity's Destination : Gale Crater 5 weeks ago in Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Feed Atlantis Going Home 5 weeks ago in Earth Observatory Feed Clearest View Yet Of The Milky

  • Is the Moon a Business Opportunity?

    Updated: 2011-08-08 19:40:52
    Is the Moon a business opportunity?  According to Dr. Barney Pell, “it’s one of the biggest business opportunities in history.” According to Pell, an angel investor and computer scientist and Vice Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Moon Express, Inc., platinum metals strewn across the lunar surface from asteroid impacts could be worth many billions more [...]

  • NGC 7380 The Wizard Nebula (Sh2-142) in Hydrogen Alpha

    Updated: 2011-08-07 13:14:46
    , Welcome to the Curdridge telescope observatory astrophotography blog . We explore many aspects of astronomy and astrophotography especially including projects such as telescope mounts . We have a Newtonian reflecting telescope in our budget observatory made from fence panels . Most of our imaging is done using Astrodon narrowband filters and cooled astronomy CCD . cameras NGC 7380 The Wizard Nebula Sh2-142 in Hydrogen Alpha Category : Astronomy Images Posted by : Tom How Finally the skies cleared last night to allow a bit of astrophotography . Still learning the foibles of my own homemade GEM mount , but hopefully we are starting to get somewhere . This is 9 x 1200s exposures combined and stretched a bit . Art 285 camera with Astrodon 6nm Ha filter on a F5 8 inch newtonian . The full

  • Automatic computerized telescope dome rotator at the NFO

    Updated: 2011-08-06 20:21:22
    , Welcome to the Curdridge telescope observatory astrophotography blog . We explore many aspects of astronomy and astrophotography especially including projects such as telescope mounts . We have a Newtonian reflecting telescope in our budget observatory made from fence panels . Most of our imaging is done using Astrodon narrowband filters and cooled astronomy CCD . cameras Automatic computerized telescope dome rotator at the NFO Category : Astronomy Equipment Posted by : Tom How Yet another visit to the New Forest Observatory today . That is my third trip out to the New Forest this week to setup the automatic telescope dome rotator . Telescopes , metalwork , computers and electronics : My favourite type of project . This has been an extremely satisfying way to spend a few summery days off

  • NASA Manned Spaceflight Schedule and Cost

    Updated: 2011-08-06 17:58:35
    Although the details of the design of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) have yet to be released, significant information about the schedule and cost is leaking out, in particular in the following two recent articles: Orlando Sentinel, August 5, 2011: New NASA moon rocket could cost $38 billion NASA Spaceflight.com, July 27, 2011: Preliminary NASA plan shows Evolved SLS [...]

  • NASA Selects Companies to Study Storing Cryogenic Propellants in Space

    Updated: 2011-08-06 16:44:09
    NASA has selected four companies to develop concepts for storing and transferring cryogenic propellants in space. These capabilities are important for the agency’s future deep space human exploration missions. The selected companies, pending successful contract negotiations, are: - Analytical Mechanics Associates Inc. Hampton, Va. - Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colo. - The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, Calif. - [...]

  • NASA's Juno Spacecraft Launches to Jupiter | JPL

    Updated: 2011-08-05 18:23:00
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  • Three New NASA Missions Will Tour The Solar System

    Updated: 2011-08-05 10:00:00
    NASA's space shuttle may be down for the count, but robotic planetary missions are gearing up. First up: the Juno spacecraft, which blasted off Friday for Jupiter. Before the end of the year, probes will head off toward Mars and the moon as well.

  • NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars - JPL

    Updated: 2011-08-04 21:35:00
    : TF Exo Cassini Chandra Curiosity Earth Hubble Kepler La Silla Mars Express Mauna Kea MRO MESSENGER Paranal Solar System Spitzer Universe Webb WISE FoS TelescopeFeed Researchers Detail How A Distant Black Hole Devoured A Star NASA 1 week ago in Exo NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 1 week ago in Paranal Observatory Feed NGC 2146 1 week ago in Hubble Space Telescope Feed Martian Skylight 1 week ago in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feed VV 340 North and South 2 weeks ago in Chandra X-ray Observatory Feed Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare 3 weeks ago in Solar System Telescope Feed Tethys and Titan 3 weeks ago in Cassini Orbiter Feed Curiosity's Destination : Gale Crater 5 weeks ago in Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Feed Atlantis Going Home 5 weeks ago in Earth Observatory Feed Clearest View Yet Of The Milky

  • SpaceX Plans for Mars

    Updated: 2011-08-04 18:35:44
    SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made numerous public statements about SpaceX plans to send humans to Mars in the next 10 to 20 years (e.g. see Discovery News and PC Magazine). The most recent statement was at an August 1 meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) meeting in San Diego. A [...]

  • A couple of DIY astronomy projects

    Updated: 2011-08-04 16:18:48
    , Welcome to the Curdridge telescope observatory astrophotography blog . We explore many aspects of astronomy and astrophotography especially including projects such as telescope mounts . We have a Newtonian reflecting telescope in our budget observatory made from fence panels . Most of our imaging is done using Astrodon narrowband filters and cooled astronomy CCD . cameras A couple of DIY astronomy projects Category : Astronomy Equipment Posted by : Tom How Filled up many pages of the astronomy notebook today . First up was the dome rotation project for the New Forest Observatory A couple of broken things to fix in the stepper motor controller and everything is up and running again in my workshop . I need to get back down to the NFO again this weekend and see if Greg and I can get it to

  • Quick astro photo of M16 Eagle Nebula

    Updated: 2011-08-04 14:33:42
    , Welcome to the Curdridge telescope observatory astrophotography blog . We explore many aspects of astronomy and astrophotography especially including projects such as telescope mounts . We have a Newtonian reflecting telescope in our budget observatory made from fence panels . Most of our imaging is done using Astrodon narrowband filters and cooled astronomy CCD . cameras Quick astro photo of M16 Eagle Nebula Category : Astronomy Images Posted by : Tom How I have managed a very short exposure of M16 Eagle Nebula between the clouds . Clear skies are in short supply this week . We have no moon which is known for creating clouds . I'm on holiday this week . More clouds created . And Greg in the New Forest has got his new equipment almost up and running . Many many clouds created A couple of

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