Astronomers keeping an eye out for a supernova explosion in the nearby galaxy M83 instead witnessed a prodigious blast of another type: a new ultraluminous X-ray source, or ULX. In what scientists are calling an “extraordinary outburst,” the ULX in M83 increased in X-ray brightness by at least 3,000 times, one of the largest changes [...]
SpaceX is set for today's test firing of a Falcon 9 rocket's nine engines on its Cape Canaveral launch pad, one week before its precedent-setting launch to the International Space Station — and you should be able to watch the two-second blast online. The static fire test is hellip;
, . 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 Map and measure a million Moon craters Since the beginning of time , man has yearned to destroy the . sun The Sun is feisty . Rising and falling packets of ionized gas called plasma below its surface generate fierce magnetic fields , which store vast amounts of energy . This can give rise to such features as sunspots , explosions like flares and coronal mass ejections , and huge , towering plumes of plasma called . prominences While observing the Sun yesterday , April 29, my pal and friend of the BA Blog Alan Friedman captured an amazing sequence of shots of an eruptive
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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 Mesmerizing time lapse of Saturn and Jupiter from spacecraft Since the beginning of time , man has yearned to destroy the . sun Map and measure a million Moon craters I give talks about asteroid impacts quite often , and sometimes people ask me why we should worry about them . I reply , Go outside and look at the Moon . Then tell me we don’t need to worry about asteroid impacts The Moon is covered in craters , and it really brings home literally the fact that we need to understand impacts . better I’m not being facetious , either . Looking at the Moon is a great way to learn
On Monday, April 30, SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) is all set to conduct a critical static engine test fire of the Falcon 9 rocket at the firm’s launch pad on Cape Canaveral, Florida. If all goes well, SpaceX and NASA are targeting a May 7 liftoff of the rocket and Dragon spacecraft at 9:38 AM, [...]
Enterprise, NASA’s flight test orbiter, reached New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday, where it will remain for several weeks, awaiting a barge ride up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Before its ferry flight from Dulles International Airport in suburbanVirginia came to an end at [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to your Monday morning weather update, in which I’ll attempt to sum up the immediate past, present and future of weather on the bayou. PAST Late-spring-like weather returned to Houston this week, with warm days and very warm nights in the low 70s. And more critically, no rain. Houston’s hasn’t recorded measurable precipitation now [...]
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Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment How to make money mining asteroids–without mining asteroids A Forbes Science Writer Takes on the Anti-Vaccine Issue Source : microbiologyonline.org.uk Let me begin here by acknowledging that I am big fan of Matthew Herper s medical reporting at Forbes enough so that any day now I may charter a Madison , Wisconsin based fan club and start passing out leaflets and lapel . pins His work on the business of big pharma and how it works , his insights into the actual pharmaceutical products are clear , rational , and always leave me with the feeling that I am joining a civilized discussion of issues that matter . In fact , civility and rationality are hallmarks of the typical Herper . piece He’s also a reporter who has been
When was the first launch ever from Cape Canaveral in Florida? It was on July 24, 1950 with the launch of a Bumper rocket, specifically Bumper #8. It blasted off from Launchpad 3 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It’s amazing to see how close the photographers were allowed to stand to the scene of [...]
Icons of America are captured together in a fantastic photo by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls, taken on the morning of April 27, 2012 from Jersey City, NJ. The Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building… and Enterprise, the first space shuttle, seen as it was ferried toward its eventual new home at the Intrepid Sea, [...]
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On Thursday, May 3, Buzz Aldrin, Apollo XI Astronaut and Member of the NSS Board of Governors, will present a 2012 Space Pioneer Award for Mass Media to Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report on the Comedy Central cable network.
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A three man U. S. and Russian International Space Station crew returned safely to Earth early Friday, ending a 165 day mission to the orbiting science laboratory. The 28 Soyuz mission spacecraft with NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin dropped from a sunny sky and touched down north [...]
Can life survive on Mars? Yes! That’s the word from Planetary researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). DLR scientists have exposed various microorganisms for 34 days in simulated Martian conditions. In just issued findings, both alpine and polar lichens were found to endure the harsh environment found on the red planet. “During this period, [...]
In a rare news release, Blue Origin — the rocket venture backed by Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos — says it has successfully tested the esign for its orbital spaceship during a series of wind-tunnel tryouts.
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Mining asteroids for water and precious metals may sound like a sci-fi boondoggle, especially the way Jon Stewart described it Wednesday night on "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central. When Planetary Resources co-founder Eric Anderson says water would be worth $20,000 to $50,000 a p hellip;
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The National Space Society (NSS) is pleased to announce that Eric Anderson, the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of newly-announced Planetary Resources, will be the keynote speaker for the opening luncheon at this year’s International Space Development Conference (ISDC), being held at the Grand Hyatt Washington (DC) hotel May 25-28, 2012.
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Have you looked up into the sky in recent nights? Venus is that “star” in the evening sky that appears so blindingly brilliant. Ironically Venus is getting brighter in the nighttime sky, and will for a few more weeks, even as we’re seeing a smaller crescent of the planet every night. This is because the [...]
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In this weekend’s Houston Chronicle, two former Johnson Space Center officials, Chris Kraft and Tom Moser, wrote a scathing analysis of NASA’s Space Launch System. They did not mince words: SLS is killing JSC. SLS is killing Texas jobs. SLS is killing our national space agenda. The crux of the issue remains NASA’s poor record on [...]
The space economy is growing on a global scale, reaching $289.8 billion in 2011, representing a 12 percent rise in commercial revenuees and government budgets over the prior year, 41 percent over the previous five years. Most of the growth came from the commercial space sector. The figures come from the U. S. Space [...]
Legendary environmental scientist James Lovelock, who has long been firmly in the camp of the most alarmist climate change activists, has said he is wrong. In an interview with MSNBC, Lovelock said: “The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist [...]
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There’s troubling news in the world of astrophysics, in which astronomers can’t seem to find the dark matter. As you may know dark matter is a much-speculated upon, but unknown substance that cannot be seen but appears to exist as it exerts a gravitational force on material around it. Astronomers first posited the existence of [...]
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The National Space Society is pleased to announce NASA Administrator Charles Bolden as the Keynote speaker for the Opening Plenary Session at this year’s International Space Development Conference (ISDC), being held at the Grand Hyatt Washington (DC) Hotel May 25th. In addition, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver is confirmed as the Keynote speaker for NSS’s [...]
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The Tucson L5 Space Society provided an exhibit titled “Asteroids: Threat or Resource?” at the annual Earth Day celebration at the Northwest Campus of Pima Community College (PCC) in Tucson, Arizona. Earth Day is April 22 but this event was held during the school week on April 18, with 68 exhibitors and several [...]
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