• NASA Awards NEXTGEN-Related Contract

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    NASA Awards NEXTGEN-Related Contract

  • Video and Images: Reusable Falcon 9 Plans from SpaceX

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    Reusability is key to the dramatic cost savings that will enable advancements in human exploration of space. The Dragon spacecraft is fully reusable and SpaceX is working toward the goal of delivering the world's first fully reusable launch vehicle.

  • NASA, Aerospace Business Leaders Discuss Space Launch System At Industry Day Event

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    NASA leaders met Thursday to discuss acquisition plans for the agency's new heavy-lift rocket with hundreds of representatives of aerospace industry companies, small businesses and independent entrepreneurs.

  • NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought.

  • SES' QuetzSat-1 Satellite Roars into Space on Board ILS Proton

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    SES' QuetzSat-1 Satellite Roars into Space on Board ILS Proton

  • AIP Number 120: Recent Developments on James Webb Space Telescope

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    Yesterday a key House appropriator chided the Obama Administration for not specifying what budget reductions it was willing to make to other programs to offset the cost of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

  • NASA Supercomputer Enables Largest Cosmological Simulations

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    NASA Supercomputer Enables Largest Cosmological Simulations

  • Mercury not like other planets MESSENGER finds

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    Only six months into its Mercury orbit, the tiny MESSENGER spacecraft has shown scientists that Mercury doesn't conform to theory.

  • Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 29 September 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 29 September 2011<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spaceref/jext/~4/RwBWfgLgVYs" height="1" width="1"/

  • NASA Spacecraft Revealing More Details About Planet Mercury

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, the first to achieve orbit around Mercury, is providing scientists new information about the planet.

  • NASA Draft AO for Earth Venture Instruments released for community comment

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    NASA Draft AO for Earth Venture Instruments released for community comment

  • NASA Selects Science Investigations For Concept Studies

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    NASA has selected 11 science proposals for evaluation as potential future science missions. The proposals outline prospective missions to study the Earth's atmosphere, the sun, the Milky Way galaxy, and Earth-like planets around nearby stars.

  • 'Bolshoi' supercomputer simulation provides new benchmark for cosmological studies

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    'Bolshoi' supercomputer simulation provides new benchmark for cosmological studies

  • Astronomers Reveal Supernova Factory

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:39:30
    A team led by astronomers at Chalmers and Onsala Space Observatory has detected seven previously unknown supernovae in a galaxy 250 million light years away. Never before have so many supernovae been discovered at the same time in the same galaxy.

  • Ride on a Shooting Star: Space Fuel

    Updated: 2011-09-30 15:12:13
    After the decimation suffered during World War II, mankind took a look at all the new technologies he had created to fight the war and turned his gaze towards the stars. From the late 1940’s this onward and upward reach has helped to fuel the engines of our ingenuity, but what has fueled those stellar [...]

  • CSExtra – Friday, September 30, 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-30 12:33:24
    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. Friday’s CSExtra offers a collection of the latest reporting on space related activities from around the globe. China succeeds in launching Tiangong 1, the lynch pin [...]

  • Astrophoto: Aurora over the Cabin by Jason Ahrns

    Updated: 2011-09-30 07:17:27
    Jason Ahrns captured this incredible shot of the Aurora on April 9, 2011 in Alaska. “The light on the trees is just the light out the windows of my cabin. The auroral arc was pretty much directly overhead so I was looking up into it, where you can see more structure than when you’re looking [...]

  • SpaceX's Future Spaceship Forgets Parachute

    Updated: 2011-09-30 07:01:16
    Elon Musk has announced his vision of a space launch system that will be fully-reusable. No parachutes required.

  • Clair de Mercury

    Updated: 2011-09-30 01:30:23
    I know I just posted a MESSENGER photo of craters, but this one is different and spectacular enough that I figure, why not? I love a big, splashy, wide-angle shot of a rayed crater! So here’s the lovely, 80-km wide impact crater Debussy on the surface of Mercury: [Click to haphaestenate.] Craters make rays when [...]

  • SpaceX to Develop a Fully Reusable Launch System — and Elon Musk Wants to Send Humans to Mars

    Updated: 2011-09-29 23:14:02
    At a speech at the National Press Club on Thursday, SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk rolled out SpaceX’s latest leap into the future: Musk and his teams are developing a fully reusable space transportation system. The video above shows how both stages of the two-stage rocket return to Earth and make a [...]

  • Storms moving into southeast Texas

    Updated: 2011-09-29 22:10:30
    Yeah! Some of that instability we had hoped would move into the area toward the end of this week has come. And so there’s a good chance of rain through this evening for Harris and most surrounding counties. The National Weather Service has issued a thunderstorm warning for Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Liberty, Austin and [...]

  • 365 Days of Astronomy Now More Than 1,000 Days

    Updated: 2011-09-29 21:20:21
    September 27 2011 was the 1,000th day since the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast was instituted on 1 January 2009, the International Year of Astronomy – and due to a puzzling publishing hiccup the 1,000th episode played on September 28 2011. This unique citizen scientist project will hopefully stumble on through to the end of [...]

  • Fires in the Sky, Fires on the Ground

    Updated: 2011-09-29 21:16:25
      With all of the activity that’s been occurring on the Sun recently, the aurorae have been exceptionally bright and have created quite a show to viewers – both on Earth as well as above it! (...)Read the rest of Fires in the Sky, Fires on the Ground (420 words) © Jason Major for Universe [...]

  • MESSENGER Reveals More Details About Planet Mercury

    Updated: 2011-09-29 20:39:01
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  • All these worlds are yours…

    Updated: 2011-09-29 20:30:56
    I’ve known Dan Durda since college. We went to Michigan together, studying astronomy. He wound up getting into asteroids and exoplanets, and may yet be part of a team that will save the Earth from an impact. A few years back, he started dabbling in art, and discovered he was good at it. In fact, [...]

  • LiveScience, SFChronicle, SJMercury News: Fish figure out that smacking clams against rocks yields food

    Updated: 2011-09-29 20:08:30
    , , : Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Bulletin of Atomic Scientists , Climate Central : Socolow updates wedges . Media . yawn LiveScience , SFChronicle , SJMercury News : Fish figure out that smacking clams against rocks yields food One may have seen videos of birds dropping shelled prey onto rocks to break them open , technically a form of tool use . Now comes word of a similar maneuver by fish . A type of wrasse , the orange-dotted tuskfish that lives in the tropical Pacific , has learned to break open clams by smacking them against rocks . So reports researchers at the University of California , Santa Cruz . Thus tool using , while not quite up to mastery of the iPad or even of a pair of pliers , is known in a diversity of animals chimps pulling

  • Good news: Civilization less likely to end from an asteroid collision

    Updated: 2011-09-29 19:48:20
    There are lots of good reasons to worry about the sustainability of modern civilization, but you can drop a killer asteroid a bit down the list thanks to some new findings. New observations by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, find there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously believed. [...]

  • “Extreme” Solar Wind Blasts Mercury’s Poles

    Updated: 2011-09-29 19:47:31
    According to data from the The Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS) onboard NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, the solar wind is “sandblasting” the surface of Mercury at its polar regions. Based on findings from one of seven different papers from the MESSENGER mission to be published in the Sept. 30th edition of Science, sodium and oxygen particles [...]

  • SpaceX announces it will try for “fully and rapidly reusable rocket”

    Updated: 2011-09-29 19:15:01
    SpaceX CEO Elon Musk spoke at the National Press Club September 29 about SpaceX plans to develop a “fully and rapidly reusable rocket.” Musk stated that reusable rockets pose a very difficult engineering problem, but he believes it can be solved. Stating that SpaceX has a design that works on paper and in simulations, he [...]

  • DSLR Astrophotography progressing

    Updated: 2011-09-29 19:04:58
    , DSLR Astrophotography progressing Category : Astronomy Images Posted by : Tom How Slowly getting the hang of this DSLR astro imaging . lark Lesson from last night : Remember to charge the batteries for the camera I'm using 6 x AA rechargeable batteries to run the camera , but I think i forgot to charge them because they ran flat around 12:30 this morning . I didn't change them because I was asleep in bed at the time Anyhow , here is what you can do with a Canon 350d and an 8 inch Newtonian telescope in about 10 mins . A part of the M31 Galaxy . Comments No comments yet Add Comment Your comment Name E-mail HTTP Enter the string of characters appearing in the : picture Your browser does not have javascript enabled . Please type 178426 into the field . below Remember Me Sidebar Subscribe in

  • China Blasts First Space Lab Tiangong 1 to Orbit

    Updated: 2011-09-29 18:27:34
    China launched their first space station module into orbit today (Sept. 29), marking a major milestone in the rapidly expanding Chinese space program. The historic liftoff of the man rated Tiangong 1 (Heavenly Palace 1) space lab on a Long March 2F rocket took place at 9:16 p.m. local time (9:16 a.m. EDT) from the [...]

  • Astronomers downsize their estimate for risky asteroids

    Updated: 2011-09-29 18:20:13
    Scientists laid out he results of an all-sky asteroid survey conducted by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Sorry, no Planet X has been discovered yet ... which is good news, come to think of it.

  • Astrophoto: Galactic Center by Drew Medlin

    Updated: 2011-09-29 18:08:30
    Drew Medlin captured this photo of the Galactic Center on September 18, 2009. “That photo was (taken) in the Atacama desert near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile on 2009.09.18. I used a Canon 5D Mark II at ISO1600 and a Sigma 50mm lens at f/4. A Takahashi EM-200 mount I rented time on from SPACE [...]

  • You’ve come a long way

    Updated: 2011-09-29 18:07:20
    This week, women in Saudi Arabia were given the right to vote and to run for municipal office. First off, this is fantastic news. Saudi Arabia is one of the more repressive countries for women, so to see them taking this major step is, well, wonderful! King Abdullah has been making small steps towards reform [...]

  • Human Mission to an Asteroid: Getting There With the New Space Launch System

    Updated: 2011-09-29 17:56:43
    With NASA’s announcement of its new, mammoth Space Launch System (SLS), preparations can begin in earnest for the first human mission to an asteroid. The SLS will take the Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) on the first human forays into deep space, out of the Earth/Moon system. “We are definitely excited about it,” Laurence Price, [...]

  • China Launches Space Module Rocket Tiangong 1

    Updated: 2011-09-29 17:41:53
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  • Prepping for SLS: NASA Tests J-2 Engine

    Updated: 2011-09-29 17:36:07
    On September 28, 2011, NASA conducted a 40-second test of the J-2X rocket engine. This is the most recent in a series of tests of the next-generation engine selected as part of the Space Launch System (SLS) architecture that ultimately carry humans into deep space. The engine was tested at the 99 percent power level [...]

  • ESA Spacecraft Reveal Unprecedented Details Around a Black Hole

    Updated: 2011-09-29 17:24:53
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  • Saving America from the Space Gap

    Updated: 2011-09-29 17:20:18
    by Howard Bloom and Jon LaBore When a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three tons of equipment crashed over Siberia on August 24th, Americans got a brief glimpse of a silent scandal: the space gap. That gap—planned in the days of the Bush Administration—means that for five years or more, America has no way to get humans [...]

  • CSExtra – Thursday, September 29, 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-29 12:23:46
    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. Thursday’s CSExtra offers a collection of the latest reporting on space related activities from around the world. China prepares for a launch Thursday of Tiangong-1, the precursor [...]

  • Stunning Finnish aurora time lapse

    Updated: 2011-09-28 23:27:56
    Via Universe Today (and Fraser Cain’s Google+ stream) I saw this astonishing video of the aurora borealis as seen from Finnish Lapland. [Make sure you set it to HD and make it full screen.] Wow! That’s amazing. Did you catch the Andromeda Galaxy making an appearance at 1:25 in, at the middle left of the [...]

  • Large sunspot to soon face Earth

    Updated: 2011-09-28 21:22:01
    No, Katy needn’t evacuate, but some astronomers are closely watching the skies for possible solar storms. Rice University astrophysicist David Alexander notes that a large sunspot that is slowly rotating toward Earth and could produce potentially dangerous solar flares. The sunspot, known as NOAA Active Region 1302, or AR1302, has already produced three large solar [...]

  • Students for the Exploration and Development of Space Competitions

    Updated: 2011-09-28 18:04:40
    Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) has announced two competitions. The first, the 2011 High-Powered Rocketry Competition is under way. The goal is to design, construct, and launch a high-powered rocket carrying a 4 kilogram payload to a height of 10,000 feet, as measured by a standard altimeter. The competition end date is [...]

  • Apollo 11 descends to the Google Moon

    Updated: 2011-09-28 17:16:36
    This is pretty neat: an Apollo enthusiast who goes by the handle GoneToPlaid has created a video comparing the Apollo 11 footage of its descent to the Moon with images from Google Moon: That’s very cool. You can see the same features in the Apollo 11 film footage and in the newer view from Google [...]

  • Atlantis Crew Demonstrated Promising Water Recovery Technique

    Updated: 2011-09-28 16:28:03
    During NASA’s final shuttle mission in July, astronauts demonstrated techniques borrowed from nature that may help future fliers on spacewalks, or even explorers on long missions to distant planetary bodies, recycle impure water for drinking. The process is called forward osmosis. It’s already used by backpackers and on a grander scale by desalinization plants on [...]

  • CSExtra – Wednesday, September 28, 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-28 11:57:27
    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. Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting on space related activities from around the globe. Do the U. S. and China have a common future in space? [...]

  • No Mystery: Dead Satellite Crashed Into Pacific

    Updated: 2011-09-28 05:23:51
    NASA has confirmed that its defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) re-entered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean early Saturday.

  • Mercury’s hot and cold south pole

    Updated: 2011-09-28 01:30:17
    The MESSENGER spacecraft, orbiting Mercury for nearly a year now, took this pretty nifty shot of the tiniest planet’s south polar region, showing deep, dark craters in the Goethe basin: This region is about 300 km (180 miles) from the true south pole of the planet. On Earth that might be a cold spot, but [...]

  • NYTimes – SciTimes: Money talks – but so does poverty. Int’l health workers slash costs to meet and treat demand

    Updated: 2011-09-27 19:56:50
    : . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Small media flare : Big sunspot patch hurles a few hunks of chromosphere and other plasma our way NYTimes SciTimes : Money talks but so does poverty . Int’l health workers slash costs to meet and treat demand Wow . If ScienceTimes’s editors told me they had a special issue coming up on medical care in nation’s saddle by poverty and lack of infrastructure , I’d think how worthy and how very . dull Worthy yes , dull no . The section is led and promoted by ace health writer Donald G . McNeil Jr whose primary contribution on a dirt cheap test for precancerous lesions in cervical cancer is on the front page of the front section with a large insert-plug for the whole section It is a refreshing reminder how clever

  • Small media flare: Big sunspot patch hurles a few hunks of chromosphere and other plasma our way

    Updated: 2011-09-27 18:55:34
    : Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Anchorage Daily News : While looking for one thing , archaeologists find another Plus , Alaska’s biggish rocket place busy NYTimes SciTimes : Money talks but so does poverty . Int’l health workers slash costs to meet and treat demand Small media flare : Big sunspot patch hurles a few hunks of chromosphere and other plasma our way One can only suppose that our recently laggard sun might still pull a Maunder Minimum or something similarly disconcertingly feeble on us , but right now it has a thoroughly muscular cluster of sunspots , Region 1302,  and they’re aiming their eruptions into Earth’s sector . Supposedly , last night might have brought spectacular aurorae to the high latitudes . The Nat’l Weather Service’s

  • Anchorage Daily News: While looking for one thing, archaeologists find another/ Plus, Alaska’s biggish rocket place busy

    Updated: 2011-09-27 16:55:11
    : , , Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Reuters : Name that Worm . Name’s gotta be in Latin , of a . sort Small media flare : Big sunspot patch hurles a few hunks of chromosphere and other plasma our way Anchorage Daily News : While looking for one thing , archaeologists find another Plus , Alaska’s biggish rocket place busy And while searching for one thing any story in the Anchorage Daily News reporting unusual northern lights due the solar storm Monday with chances of more from a giant sunspot complex none The Tracker came across a diverting tale of surprise on Alaska’s Kodiak . Island The Anchorage paper picked up from the smaller Kodiak Daily Mirror a story by reporter Wes Hanna It says here that  the curator at the local Alutiq Museum and his

  • CSExtra – Tuesday, September 27, 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-27 12:06:55
    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. Tuesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world.  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden pledges a traditional role for NASA’s [...]

  • For your viewing pleasure: Active Region 1302

    Updated: 2011-09-27 01:14:34
    Yesterday, I linked to a picture taken a few days ago by Alan Friedman that showed the sunspots that are currently blowing their lids with flares. He just sent me a new shot, taken yesterday, and… well. It’s stunning. Presenting the sunspot cluster Active Region 1302: Wow. [Click to ensolarnate.] It’s hard to imagine just [...]

  • Bolden: New rocket differs from Constellation because “It’s going to be disciplined.”

    Updated: 2011-09-26 22:50:07
    I’ve been in College Station today on business, so I missed NASA adminstrator Charles Bolden’s visit to Houston. However, in my stead Chronicle reporter Bobby Stanton attended a news conference with Bolden and asked him the following question. Q. You have said that ending the Constellation Program was “purely budgetary.” But the SLS and MPCV [...]

  • Aurora alert for tonight

    Updated: 2011-09-26 22:11:29
    I just got word from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center that Saturday’s solar activity blew a wave of subatomic particles from the Sun that is reaching the Earth now. They rated this as a strong G3 event, which means it’s not dangerous per se but should spark aurorae at high latitudes. If you live [...]

  • CSExtra – Monday, September 26, 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-26 12:22:52
    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. Monday’s CSExtra offers a collection of the latest reporting and commentary on space-related activities from around the globe, plus a roundup of weekend activities. China is [...]

  • What’s Next? In Space Exploration…

    Updated: 2011-09-26 01:45:59
    Here’s your chance, America. What do you think the U.S. ought to be doing in space? What do you think should be next in space exploration?  We want to shape the future of space exploration. And we want to hear from you. Will we go back to the moon? Will we send humans to Mars? [...]

  • Awesome X2-class solar flare caught by SDO

    Updated: 2011-09-26 01:00:19
    On Saturday, September 24, 2011, at 09:40 UT, most of the folks working for NASA were probably asleep. But NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory never sleeps: it’s only job is to stare at the Sun, 24 hours a day, every day. Good thing it does, too, because it caught a pretty decent-sized solar flare erupting from [...]

  • Could Human Missions to Mars be Possible in 25 years? A Collection of the World’s Most Capable Space Agencies Believes So

    Updated: 2011-09-25 02:49:13
    A collaboration among 12 national  space agencies, including NASA — and working under the wing of the International Space Exploration Coordination Group believes so.   They established a blue print, The Global Exploration Roadmap, which was made public earlier this week that suggests how it could be accomplished, through two pathways. One leads first to [...]

  • Book Review: Psychology of Space Exploration

    Updated: 2011-09-25 00:58:06
    Psychology of Space Exploration, Edited by Douglas Vakoch, NASA History Series SP-2011- 4411, Government Printing Office (GPO); (Hardcover) $27.00; (Paperback) $23.00; Washington, D.C.; 2011. You’re going to find a rich, motherload of information here regarding a topic that is given little spotlight. As the book notes, early missions into space were short jaunts, and crews [...]

  • National Space Society’s Call to Action for American Leadership in Civil Space

    Updated: 2011-09-24 20:08:20
    The National Space Society calls for the United States to make civil space a high national priority in order to ensure American leadership in scientific discovery, technology development, and the creation of new industries and new applications that will benefit all humanity. Five actions are necessary to achieve this objective: Formulate a Strategy to Achieve the [...]

  • Asteroid Family Believed Responsible for Dinosaur Extinction May Not Be Responsible After All

    Updated: 2011-09-24 19:53:25
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  • NASA: Satellite Falls To Earth

    Updated: 2011-09-24 09:03:00
    Details were still sketchy, but the U.S. Air Force's Joint Space Operations Center and NASA say that the bus-sized satellite first penetrated Earth's atmosphere somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. That doesn't necessarily mean it all fell into the sea.

  • UARS update 5: new predicted re-entry tonight at 05:10 UTC +/- 2 hrs

    Updated: 2011-09-24 03:35:24
    The Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies has updated their predicted re-entry time for NASA’s UARS satellite. It is now 9/24 (tonight!) at 05:10 UTC (01:10 Eastern US time), which puts it over the southern Indian ocean: See Related posts below for information and background. Note the uncertainty is once again smaller, at +/- [...]

  • 24 hour SGU podcastathon tonight!

    Updated: 2011-09-23 20:27:48
    The goofballs at Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe decided it would be a good idea to have a marathon 24-hour video/audio podcast, live, with special guests surrounded by dynamic conversations and covered with a creamy coating of skeptical goodness. Crazy, right? And guess who they roped into it for the hour starting at 11:00 Eastern [...]

  • UARS update 3: new predicted re-entry tonight at 03:16 UTC +/- 5 hrs

    Updated: 2011-09-23 18:07:46
    [UPDATE to the update (22:00 UTC): a new prediction just came out: tonight, September 23/24, at 04:04 UTC (midnight Eastern US time). The uncertainty is down to +/- 3 hours, and the location is the middle of the Pacific. Clicking the links below to CORDS or the image itself will take you to the most [...]

  • Time Lapse Movie Shows What It Feels Like to Fly Over Planet Earth

    Updated: 2011-09-23 00:50:53
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  • What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?

    Updated: 2011-09-22 18:07:00
    A time-lapse created by science educator James Drake, who compiled 600 publicly available images taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include [...]

  • Astronomers Plead for Space Telescope’s Life

    Updated: 2011-09-21 23:29:19
    NASA officials and leading astronomers say the James Webb Space Telescope, successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, should still fly despite mounting criticism, cost increases, and disagreements within the astronomy community.

  • Star Cluster NGC 2100

    Updated: 2011-09-21 22:36:00
    : 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 Star Cluster NGC 2100 1 week ago in La Silla Observatory Feed Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393 1 week ago in Chandra X-ray Observatory Feed NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars NASA 2 weeks ago in Exo NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 5 weeks ago in Paranal Observatory Feed NGC 2146 5 weeks ago in Hubble Space Telescope Feed Martian Skylight 1 month ago in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feed Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare 1 month ago in Solar System Telescope Feed Tethys and Titan 1 month ago in Cassini Orbiter Feed Curiosity's Destination : Gale Crater 2 months ago in Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Feed Atlantis Going Home 2

  • Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393

    Updated: 2011-09-21 22:26:00
    : 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 Star Cluster NGC 2100 1 week ago in La Silla Observatory Feed Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393 1 week ago in Chandra X-ray Observatory Feed NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars NASA 2 weeks ago in Exo NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 5 weeks ago in Paranal Observatory Feed NGC 2146 5 weeks ago in Hubble Space Telescope Feed Martian Skylight 1 month ago in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feed Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare 1 month ago in Solar System Telescope Feed Tethys and Titan 1 month ago in Cassini Orbiter Feed Curiosity's Destination : Gale Crater 2 months ago in Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Feed Atlantis Going Home 2

  • Skynet Needs Your Help Crunching Astronomical Data

    Updated: 2011-09-20 14:27:51
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  • Dawn Spacecraft Images Vesta’s Striking Features

    Updated: 2011-09-20 04:11:51
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  • Planet With Two Suns Discovered by Kepler

    Updated: 2011-09-20 00:23:52
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  • “What’s Next in Space?” Video Contest

    Updated: 2011-09-18 21:42:23
    The Coalition for Space Exploration wants to hear from the American public about what they envision for the future of space exploration. The Coalition is launching a contest based on a simple question, “What’s Next?” Participants are encouraged to share their ideas for the future direction of America’s space program in a video. The creator [...]

  • Joint Study Group Recommends U.S.-India Develop Space-Based Solar Power

    Updated: 2011-09-18 17:02:56
    A Joint Study Group Report between the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Institute India recommends that “relevant U.S. and Indian government agencies should conduct a joint feasibility study on a cooperative program to develop space-based solar power with a goal of fielding a commercially viable capability within two decades.” The Report also states: [...]

  • NASA’s “Ride the Light” Program

    Updated: 2011-09-17 16:59:29
    NASA has selected two game-changing space technology projects for development. The larger of the two awards has gone to NASA’s “Ride the Light” concept which seeks to provide external power on demand for aerospace vehicles and other applications. The concept uses beamed power and propulsion produced by commercially available power sources such as lasers and [...]

  • NASA Milestone: James Webb Telescope Mirror Coating Is Completed

    Updated: 2011-09-16 21:12:02
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  • Striking NASA Motion Images of Asteroid Vesta

    Updated: 2011-09-16 19:13:44
    High definition versions of this video are available on the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory website.

  • NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars | NASA

    Updated: 2011-09-15 19:54:00
    : 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 Star Cluster NGC 2100 1 week ago in La Silla Observatory Feed Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393 1 week ago in Chandra X-ray Observatory Feed NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars NASA 2 weeks ago in Exo NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 5 weeks ago in Paranal Observatory Feed NGC 2146 5 weeks ago in Hubble Space Telescope Feed Martian Skylight 1 month ago in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feed Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare 1 month ago in Solar System Telescope Feed Tethys and Titan 1 month ago in Cassini Orbiter Feed Curiosity's Destination : Gale Crater 2 months ago in Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Feed Atlantis Going Home 2

  • Rutherford's legacy to Manchester

    Updated: 2011-09-15 12:00:00
    Special exhibition to celebrate 100 years since the nucleus was discovered

  • AAVSO Alert Notice 448: Request for Observations of V455 and in Support of HST Observations

    Updated: 2011-09-14 23:34:21
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  • NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System | NASA

    Updated: 2011-09-14 21:52:00
    : 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 Star Cluster NGC 2100 1 week ago in La Silla Observatory Feed Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393 1 week ago in Chandra X-ray Observatory Feed NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars NASA 2 weeks ago in Exo NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 5 weeks ago in Paranal Observatory Feed NGC 2146 5 weeks ago in Hubble Space Telescope Feed Martian Skylight 1 month ago in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feed Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare 1 month ago in Solar System Telescope Feed Tethys and Titan 1 month ago in Cassini Orbiter Feed Curiosity's Destination : Gale Crater 2 months ago in Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Feed Atlantis Going Home 2

  • NASA Unveils Next Generation 'Monster' Space Rocket

    Updated: 2011-09-14 19:02:00
    The $18 billion Space Launch System could take its first manned test flight in 2017. And NASA says it could be the spacecraft that takes man to Mars.

  • Fifty New Exoplanets Discovered by HARPS | ESO

    Updated: 2011-09-12 17:41:00
    : 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 Star Cluster NGC 2100 1 week ago in La Silla Observatory Feed Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393 1 week ago in Chandra X-ray Observatory Feed NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars NASA 2 weeks ago in Exo NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 5 weeks ago in Paranal Observatory Feed NGC 2146 5 weeks ago in Hubble Space Telescope Feed Martian Skylight 1 month ago in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feed Magnitude X6.9 Solar Flare 1 month ago in Solar System Telescope Feed Tethys and Titan 1 month ago in Cassini Orbiter Feed Curiosity's Destination : Gale Crater 2 months ago in Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Feed Atlantis Going Home 2

  • A quick Bubble Nebula: NGC 7635

    Updated: 2011-09-03 08:22:00
    , : A quick Bubble Nebula : NGC 7635 Category : Astronomy Images Posted by : Tom How After spending a lot of time and energy getting the mini-WASP telescope array up and running at the New Forest Observatory , it was a pleasant change to do some imaging back at the Curdridge . Observatory Last night a brief clear spell gave me time to dust off the homemade GEM telescope mount . Happily everything seemed to be behaving after few weeks of neglect . I was a bit worried the telescope was had got the hump with me running over to play at the NFO . With the clouds starting to come in , I only had time to take 4 x 900s exposures of the very bright Bubble Nebula region with the Hydrogen Alpha filter in . place For a change I decided to let Maxim handle the guiding the DIY mount instead of PHD

  • New Forest Observatory: Second light image: IC1805 Heart Nebula

    Updated: 2011-09-02 20:01:20
    , : : New Forest Observatory : Second light image : IC1805 Heart Nebula Category : New Forest Observatory Posted by : Tom How Recently Greg remarked that setting up a new astrophotography imaging system puts you right back at the beginning of the learning curve : How right he is One problem after another needs solving , and you need a lot of discipline to focus on the problems and not fret about wasting good imaging conditions . Last Sunday we certainly did more than our fair share of problem solving in the twin domes of the New Forest Observatory Multiple telescopes breed multiple problems However , I did my fair share of fretting about the wasted imaging time . This was the first time I'd actually been at the New Forest Observatory during a decent dark , clear moonless night . I was

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