• NASA’s WISE Finds a Menagerie of Black Holes and Extreme Galaxies

    Updated: 2012-08-31 21:21:09
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  • Chandra Sees a Surprisingly Bright Superbubble

    Updated: 2012-08-31 16:43:17
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Chandra Sees a Surprisingly Bright Superbubble By Keith Cowing Posted August 31, 2012 12:43 PM View Comments NASA Large Magellanic Cloud This composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud LMC a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located about 160,000 light years from . Earth Many new stars , some of them very massive , are forming in the star cluster NGC 1929, which is embedded in the nebula N44, so named because it is the 44th nebula in a catalog of such objects in the Magellanic Clouds

  • Dune Migration on Mars

    Updated: 2012-08-31 14:43:52
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Dune Migration on Mars By Keith Cowing Posted August 31, 2012 10:43 AM View Comments NASA UA HiRISE Large sand dunes in the North Polar sand sea on Mars This image shows large sand dunes in the North Polar sand sea on Mars . It is one of a series of repeat images of the same dunes , taken at different times , in order to determine the type and extent of changes in the dunes over . time Dunes tend to migrate slowly on Earth under continuous wind regimes on the order of several to tens of meters per year and we are

  • Season’s first real cool front may be 10 days away

    Updated: 2012-08-31 12:50:38
    Houston had its warmest day of August yesterday, when the temperature hit 99 degrees. It’s pretty amazing that we’re likely to go the entire month of August this year without a 100-degree day this year after 30 of them last August, but I’m not complaining. Although there are some slight rain chances during the next [...]

  • Time lapse: When the Moon ate Venus

    Updated: 2012-08-31 01:30:00
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS I’m going to Space Camp Time lapse : When the Moon ate Venus On the morning of August 13 14 depending on where you were in the world the Moon slipped directly in front of Venus in the sky , an event called an occultation . It was cloudy here in Boulder so I missed it , but halfway across the world in Korea , astrophotographer Kwon O Chul had a magnificent view , and made this lovely time lapse video of the . event Occultations like this are relatively rare . If all the planets and moons orbited the Sun in exactly the same plane that is , if you looked at the solar system from

  • Water Ice in Shackleton Crater's Walls

    Updated: 2012-08-31 01:06:03
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Water Ice in Shackleton Crater's Walls By Keith Cowing Posted August 30, 2012 9:06 PM View Comments NASA Radar Data LRO's Mini-RF Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO have estimated the maximum amount of ice likely to be found inside a permanently shadowed lunar crater located near the moon's South . Pole As much as five to ten percent of material , by weight , could be patchy ice , according to the team of researchers led by Bradley Thomson at Boston University's Center

  • CSExtra – Friday, August 31, 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-31 01:04:38
    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 the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. The U. S. flag will fly at half staff on [...]

  • Kepler Mission Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars

    Updated: 2012-08-30 20:29:56
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  • WISE Discovers Galactic Hot DOGs

    Updated: 2012-08-30 18:58:50
    NASA's infrared space telescope has discovered a brand new type of galaxy: hot, dust-obscured galaxies -- or, "hot DOGs"

  • I’m going to Space Camp!

    Updated: 2012-08-30 18:00:04
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Bill Nye : creationism is bad for children Time lapse : When the Moon ate Venus I’m going to Space Camp I am very excited to invite everyone to a fantastic event : RocketFest a field day at Space Camp in Huntsville , Alabama Rocketfest is a celebration of Space Camp and what it does to inspire kids to explore space . It’s open to families and kids of all ages , and it’ll be on Monday , September 3rd , 2012 from 10:00 a.m . to 4:00 p.m . at Space Camp itself . All proceeds raised go to the U.S . Space Rocket Center . Foundation I’ll be giving a short talk there about space

  • Price Drops on TV Series and Documentaries About the Moon

    Updated: 2012-08-30 17:28:24
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  • Stunning Video! Dawn – One Year at Asteroid Vesta

    Updated: 2012-08-30 17:17:51
    NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on its way to Ceres, the largest asteroid to be explored. This asteroid probe is leaving behind a legacy of exploration – by circling asteroid Vesta since July 2011. But now the spacecraft has been gradually leaving its orbit around that object and make a beeline to the dwarf planet Ceres. [...]

  • What Has the Kuiper Belt Taught Us About The Solar System?

    Updated: 2012-08-30 17:07:37
    Over 4 billion miles (6.7 billion km) from the Sun, the Kuiper Belt is a vast zone of frozen worlds we still know very little about. Image: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI) Today marks the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first Kuiper Belt Object, 1992QB1. KBOs are distant and [...]

  • Future Explorer: Robot or Human: Gotta-See Video

    Updated: 2012-08-30 16:23:02
    As private companies take over space exploration, will it be robots or humans who lead us to the stars?

  • TS Leslie pushes this year in the Atlantic briefly ahead of 2005

    Updated: 2012-08-30 16:20:42
    1 PM UPDATE: Tropical Storm Leslie has formed in the open Atlantic. As discussed below, it doesn’t appear to be a major threat. ORIGINAL ENTRY: The tropics remain very active today, but not in a terribly bad way. Tropical Storm Isaac is well inland, and its rains have moved away from the Louisiana and Mississippi coastal [...]

  • Radar Finds Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice

    Updated: 2012-08-30 15:51:34
    The walls of the Moon’s Shackleton crater are likely the site of small patches of ice. Thanks to the Mini-RF radar on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), data collected show that small patches of ice could make up at most 5 to 10 percent of material in walls of the crater. “These terrific results from [...]

  • NASA Launches Twin Probes to Study Earth’s Radiation Belts

    Updated: 2012-08-30 14:47:24
    After nearly a week of weather and technical delays, NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) launched in the early morning skies from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 4:05a.m. EDT (08:05 GMT) on Thursday, August 30, 2012. This will be the first twin-spacecraft mission designed to explore our planet’s radiation belts. “Scientists [...]

  • Space Quarterly Magazine September 2012 Table of Contents

    Updated: 2012-08-30 14:32:24
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Space Quarterly Magazine September 2012 Table of Contents By Marc Boucher Posted August 30, 2012 10:32 AM View Comments SpaceRef Space Quarterly Magazine The September 2012 edition of Space Quarterly Magazine is scheduled to be published on Tuesday , September 4. Here are the table of contents for the U.S . and Canadian . editions Space Quarterly September 2012 U.S Edition Table of Contents Leaders Interview : Jim Armor , Major General retired ATK Space Systems , Satellite Servicing and Small Satellites Coming of

  • CSExtra – Thursday, August 30, 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-30 12:52:57
    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 the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. In Florida, NASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probe spacecraft mission launches [...]

  • Linkpost | 8.30.12

    Updated: 2012-08-30 12:30:28
    Survey finds 51% believe stormy weather interferes with cloud computing: Ninety-five percent of those claiming they never use the cloud actually do so via online banking and shopping, social networking, and storing photos and music. (Citrix) Caloric restriction diet fails to extend primate lifetimes: The findings, published this week in Nature, suggest that genetics and dietary composition [...]

  • Mars Rover Hits the Road

    Updated: 2012-08-30 11:58:03
    Curiosity is rolling about a quarter mile from its landing site to its first science target. The drive is planned to take several weeks (it takes pit stops).

  • Mars Trek begins for Curiosity

    Updated: 2012-08-30 06:43:27
    Image Caption: Martian Soil caked on Curiosity’s right middle and rear wheels after Sol 22 Drive. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars Trek has begun for NASA’s Curiosity rover. The mega rover has departed from her touchdown vicinity at “Bradbury Landing” and set off on a multi-week eastwards traverse to her first science target which the team has [...]

  • Probes Launched Into Earth's Radiation Zone

    Updated: 2012-08-30 05:00:13
    A pair of science satellites, that will make the first detailed studies of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts, blasted off from Florida on Thursday.

  • NASA’s Mohawk Guy to Host Third Rock Radio Show on Thursday Afternoon

    Updated: 2012-08-30 03:40:25
      Bobak Ferdowsi, the NASA flight controller who earned an enthusiastic youthful following during the Aug. 6 landing of NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, will host the NASA-sponsored Third Rock  radio broadcast on Thursday at 4 p.m., EDT. “I never thought I’d be hosting a radio show,” Ferdowsi said. “Landing a rover on Mars rocks, and [...]

  • Saturn and Titan

    Updated: 2012-08-30 02:22:11
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Saturn and Titan By Keith Cowing Posted August 29, 2012 10:22 PM View Comments NASA JPL SSI Saturn and Titan as seen by Cassini Posing for portraits for NASA's Cassini spacecraft , Saturn and its largest moon , Titan , show spectacular colors in a quartet of images being released today . One image captures the changing hues of Saturn's northern and southern hemispheres as they pass from one season to the . next The images can be found at http : www.nasa.gov cassini http : saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http :

  • Curiosity Begins Eastbound Trek

    Updated: 2012-08-30 02:19:57
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Curiosity Begins Eastbound Trek By Keith Cowing Posted August 29, 2012 10:19 PM View Comments NASA JPL Curiosity on the move NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter-mile 400 meters away , where it may begin using its . drill The rover drove eastward about 52 feet 16 meters on Tuesday , its 22nd Martian day after landing . This third drive was longer than Curiosity's first two drives combined . The previous drives tested the mobility

  • A single gene may be key to breeding the fastest trotters

    Updated: 2012-08-30 01:09:52
    Genetics is often complicated — there isn’t a single gene for, say, height. But in horses, it seems, the genetics of how equines run are quite simple. In a new Nature paper, (see in full), researchers found a single gene (DMRT3) mutation changes the way horses manage their gait, be it trotting, galloping or ambling. [...]

  • Astronaut Neil Young and Other Forgotten Astronauts

    Updated: 2012-08-30 01:03:44
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  • Hot Dog! WISE Finds a Bounty of Black Holes

    Updated: 2012-08-29 21:01:13
    From a NASA press release: NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies. Images from the telescope have revealed millions of dusty black hole candidates across the universe and about 1,000 even dustier objects thought to be [...]

  • Hurricane Isaac menaces the Gulf coast

    Updated: 2012-08-29 20:03:26
    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 Kepler finds a planet in a binary star’s habitable zone Bill Nye : creationism is bad for children Hurricane Isaac menaces the Gulf coast Hurricane Isaac is hitting the Gulf coast of the US right now , battering the area with 120 kph winds . Just after local midnight on August 28, the Suomi NPP Earth-observing satellite took this eerie and beautiful picture of Isaac when it was still a growing tropical : storm Click to encoriolisenate bigger versions are available on Flickr This picture is a combination of several images taken in different filters , including is in the visible

  • Book Review: Becoming Spacefarers: Rescuing America’s Space Program

    Updated: 2012-08-29 19:13:31
    Becoming Spacefarers: Rescuing America’s Space Program by James A. Vedda; Xlibris Publishing; Bloomington, Indiana; Casebound Hardcover: $29.99; 2012. Just in time for an election year! The author has provided a no-nonsense review of what arguably seems to be the nonsensical and on-going twisted trajectory of U.S. space program. This is a well-reasoned and expertly researched [...]

  • WISE Survey Uncovers Millions Of Black Holes

    Updated: 2012-08-29 17:26:04
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets WISE Survey Uncovers Millions Of Black Holes By Keith Cowing Posted August 29, 2012 1:26 PM View Comments NASA NASA NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer WISE mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs , or dust-obscured . galaxies Images from the telescope have revealed millions of dusty black hole candidates across the universe and about 1,000 even dustier objects thought to be among the brightest galaxies ever found . These powerful galaxies that

  • BAFact Math: The Sun is mind-crushingly brighter than the faintest object ever seen. Seriously.

    Updated: 2012-08-29 17:10:24
    : . . 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 Saturn’s shadow slices the rings Kepler finds a planet in a binary star’s habitable zone BAFact Math : The Sun is mind-crushingly brighter than the faintest object ever seen . . Seriously BAFacts are short , tweetable astronomy space facts that I post every day . On some occasions , they wind up needing a bit of a mathematical explanation . The math is pretty easy , and it adds a lot of coolness , which I'm passing on to you You're welcome . Today’s BAFact How much brighter is the Sun than the faintest object ever seen About Avogadro’s number times . brighter Yesterday

  • Video: Small, Smart, Robotic Lander Flown for Moon, Asteroid Missions

    Updated: 2012-08-29 16:07:14
    “The Eagle has landed.” That declaration by Neil Armstrong was heard from Tranquility Base in 1969. But the phrase was used again on August 28th as engineers watched the touchdown of the “Mighty Eagle” – a NASA robotic prototype lander. The craft sailed to an altitude of 100 feet during a successful free flight at [...]

  • Building Blocks of Life Found Around Young Sun-like Star

    Updated: 2012-08-29 13:24:54
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Building Blocks of Life Found Around Young Sun-like Star By Keith Cowing Posted August 29, 2012 9:24 AM View Comments ESO IRAS 16293-2422 A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array ALMA has spotted sugar molecules in the gas surrounding a young Sun-like . star This is the first time sugar been found in space around such a star , and the discovery shows that the building blocks of life are in the right place , at the right time , to be included in planets forming around the . star

  • Isaac moves inland, bringing rain and high tides to SE Louisiana

    Updated: 2012-08-29 12:40:25
    Hurricane Isaac made its second and presumably final landfall at 3 a.m. this morning near Port Fourchon. The hurricane had sustained winds of 80 mph. The storm should now begin weakening as it moves slowly northwest, at about 6 mph. The eye can be seen on the following radar image. As one would expect with [...]

  • CSExtra – Wednesday, August 29, 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-29 12:15:57
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  • The 4th Dimension Made Easy

    Updated: 2012-08-29 11:29:48
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  • Saturn’s shadow slices the rings

    Updated: 2012-08-29 01:30:54
    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 Dragon Con 2012 BAFact Math : The Sun is mind-crushingly brighter than the faintest object ever seen . . Seriously Saturn’s shadow slices the rings There is a whole lot of awesome in a picture of Saturn and its rings just released from the Cassini spacecraft Check this : out Mmmmm , . ringalicious Cassini was about 2 million kilometers 1.2 million miles from Saturn when it took this picture , so we’re seeing a decently wide-angle view . At the time , the spacecraft was below the plane of the rings , looking north up , if you like The Sun is off mostly to the left and up a . bit

  • Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars

    Updated: 2012-08-29 00:32:49
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars By Keith Cowing Posted August 28, 2012 8:32 PM View Comments NASA JPL-Caltech T . Pyle Kepler-47 NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time . The system , known as a circumbinary planetary system , is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation . Cygnus Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet , Kepler-16b , this discovery proves that more than one planet can form and

  • Dragon*Con 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-28 21:22:46
    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 OK , one more Curiosity descent video Saturn’s shadow slices the rings Dragon Con 2012 Now that I’ve properly recovered from Comic Con in July , it’s time for Dragon Con Woohoo D C is another huge fan convention , held in Atlanta , and this year it’s Friday August 31 to Monday , September 3. As usual , I’ll be running around doing a million things and wondering if a human can survive on Tootsie Rolls and 4 hours of sleep every night answer : yes If you’re attending , here’s my official schedule for this year : Title : Quiz-o-Tron 2000 Time : Fri 10:00 pm Location :

  • OK, *one* more Curiosity descent video

    Updated: 2012-08-28 18:25:00
    , 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 BAFact Math : The Sun is 12 trillion times brighter than the faintest star you can see Dragon Con 2012 OK , one more Curiosity descent video I know , I’ve posted a few of these , but a new video came out showing the descent of Curiosity to the surface of Mars that’s worth a look . YouTube user hahahaspam did a clever thing . The Mars Descent Imager MARDI is a camera that points straight down , past the rover , so engineers on Earth could later see the exact path Curiosity took on its way down to the Martian surface and also get an overview of the area . It took a series of

  • Robonaut 2: NASA’s Other Robot Personality

    Updated: 2012-08-28 18:19:35
      Before there was Curiosity, there was Robonaut 2. This week, R2, the humaniod collaboration between NASA and General Motors achieved an important milestone in its 18 months aboard the International Space Station. On Tuesday, R-2 wiped a handrail with a hand cloth. “I successfully cleaned the handrail!,” proclaimed R2 by Twitter. Like Curiosity, the [...]

  • Isaac Churns in the Gulf

    Updated: 2012-08-28 17:39:41
    This visible image of Tropical Storm Isaac taken from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite shows the huge extent of the storm, where the eastern-most clouds lie over the Carolinas and the western-most clouds are brushing east Texas. The image was captured on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 at 10:25 a.m. EDT. Image Credit: NASA GOES Project. Larger image

  • Curiosity Sends Back Voice Recording and Telephoto Views From Mars

    Updated: 2012-08-28 16:24:56
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  • AAVSO Alert Notice 469: Observations of TT Ari Requested in Support of MOST Observations

    Updated: 2012-08-28 15:01:27
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  • Telephoto Views From Martian Surface

    Updated: 2012-08-28 13:30:49
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Telephoto Views From Martian Surface By Keith Cowing Posted August 28, 2012 9:30 AM View Comments NASA Mount Sharp NASA's Mars Curiosity has debuted the first recorded human voice that traveled from Earth to another planet and . back n spoken words radioed to the rover on Mars and back to NASA's Deep Space Network DSN on Earth , NASA Administrator Charles Bolden noted the difficulty of landing a rover on Mars , congratulated NASA employees and the agency's commercial and government partners on the successful

  • CSExtra – Tuesday, August 28, 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-28 12:54:18
    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 presents the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. Memorial plans for Neil Armstrong, who died Saturday, begin to [...]

  • Curiosity looks Sharp

    Updated: 2012-08-28 01:30:37
    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 Update : New NASA map of sea ice minimum BAFact Math : The Sun is 12 trillion times brighter than the faintest star you can see Curiosity looks Sharp The Curiosity rover is still going through its shake down phase , using new equipment and making sure all is well . A few days ago , engineers fired up its 100 mm camera a telephoto that has a bit more zoom to it than the cameras from which we’ve been seeing pictures . They pointed it to the base of Mount Sharp , the big mountain in the center of its new home of Gale Crater . And what it saw is , simply , : breath-taking Holy

  • Track models coming into better alignment for Isaac

    Updated: 2012-08-27 20:13:21
    Good afternoon. The track models have finally come into better agreement for where Tropical Storm Isaac will make landfall, and the likely destination is southeastern Louisiana. Here’s a look at some of those forecast models: It’s worth noting that both the latest GFS and European models are on board with such a scenario, so confidence [...]

  • Arctic Sea Ice At Record Low

    Updated: 2012-08-27 19:30:49
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Arctic Sea Ice At Record Low By Keith Cowing Posted August 27, 2012 3:30 PM View Comments Sea Ice Extent for 2012 NASA NSIDC The extent of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has shrunk . According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center NSIDC in Boulder , Colo . the amount is the smallest size ever observed in the three decades since consistent satellite observations of the polar cap . began NASA and NSIDC scientists will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m . EDT ,

  • 41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View

    Updated: 2012-08-27 16:14:15
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets 41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View By Keith Cowing Posted August 27, 2012 12:14 PM View Comments Fermilab Kepler's Transiting Planets Two newly submitted studies verify 41 new transiting planets in 20 star systems . These results may increase the number of Kepler's confirmed planets by more than 50 percent : to 116 planets hosted in 67 systems , over half of which contain more than one planet . The papers are currently under scientific peer-review . The diagram shows the newly submitted transiting

  • Astronauts Searching for Life - Underground

    Updated: 2012-08-27 14:12:16
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astronauts Searching for Life Underground By Keith Cowing Posted August 27, 2012 10:12 AM View Comments ESA Astronauts Exploring a Cave Astronauts dream of finding new life and for a select crew that dream might be within reach this week albeit deep underground instead of in outer . space An international crew of six astronauts will start training for a caving adventure designed to prepare them for . spaceflight CAVES , an abbreviation of Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and

  • First Man on Moon, Neil Armstrong, Dies

    Updated: 2012-08-26 17:10:12
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  • The First Human to Walk on the Moon has Died - Neil Armstrong Dead at 82

    Updated: 2012-08-25 19:45:04
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets The First Human to Walk on the Moon has Died Neil Armstrong Dead at 82 By Marc Boucher Posted August 25, 2012 3:45 PM View Comments NASA Neil Armstrong Mulitple sources in and around NASA and the space community confirm to SpaceRef that Neil Armstrong , the first human to walk on another world , has died at the age of 82. This is a hinge in . history Statement from the Family of Neil A . Armstrong We are heartbroken to share the news that Neil Armstrong has passed away following complications resulting from

  • Jump!

    Updated: 2012-08-25 14:00:07
    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 Hubble’s Hidden Treasures : winners Neil Armstrong : 1930 2012 Jump I have a very odd coincidence to report . I like getting fun questions from folks , the kind that take a little bit of math and physics to explain , but wind up taking you to fun places . A common question like that is , What would happen if everyone in China jumped all at once Would it throw the Earth out of orbit Would it cause an earthquake Would it do anything The answer is , essentially , no . I tackled this a few years back there was this announcement by a group that wanted to get 600 million people to

  • What Exactly Is the Higgs Boson?

    Updated: 2012-08-25 01:17:14
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  • Hubble’s Hidden Treasures: winners!

    Updated: 2012-08-24 17:25:34
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Akin breakin’ science Jump Hubble’s Hidden Treasures : winners Earlier this year , the folks at the European Space Agency’s Hubble HQ announced a contest called Hubble’s Hidden Treasures they wanted people to go through the massive archives of Hubble’s data and look for gorgeous objects that may have been previously overlooked . This is a cool idea , and they got over 3000 submissions They just announced the winners and it’s a collection of jaw-dropping beauty . Here’s the first place winner in the Image Processing category , a stunner of NGC 1763, part of a massive

  • So, Just How Big Is Infinity?

    Updated: 2012-08-24 16:47:19
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  • What is supersymmetry?

    Updated: 2012-08-24 09:10:41
    Helen Heath explains why SUSY is so beautiful

  • Discover Hubble's hidden treasures

    Updated: 2012-08-24 01:29:28
    The team behind the Hubble Space Telescope has transformed our view of the universe through iconic images such as the Pillars of Creation and the Cat's Eye, but even the professionals can miss some gems mdash; as demonstrated by today's winners of the "Hubble's Hidden Treas hellip;

  • Two amazing Curiosity descent videos

    Updated: 2012-08-23 16:52:27
    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 When will we find life in space Akin breakin’ science Two amazing Curiosity descent videos In case you’re not getting enough Curiosity in your life , here are two videos , both showing the descent from the rover’s eye view . However , these are new and pretty different The first video shows the descent using the high-resolution images from the MARDI Mars Descent Imager which have been further cleaned up and sharpened . It’s truly magnificent Make sure you set the video to hi-res and make it full : screen The second video is really clever : it keeps the heat shield centered in

  • Watch the rover fall to Mars ... in HD!

    Updated: 2012-08-23 00:19:15
    You've seen it before, but not like this: Visual-effects specialist Daniel Luke Fitch has assembled the high-resolution imagery showing the Curiosity rover's descent to Mars this month into a YouTube video that's as slick as his highlights reel. The video takes advantage of pictu hellip;

  • Curiosity rolls!

    Updated: 2012-08-22 18:27:33
    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 BAFact Math : Jupiter is big enough to swallow all the rest of the planets whole When will we find life in space Curiosity rolls Just a few minutes ago , engineers at JPL here on Earth commanded the Mars Curiosity rovers to make its first test drive The rover rolled a few meters , stopped and took a picture of its : progress Click to enaresenate . Wow This image was taken by the left NAVCAM NAVigation CAMera on Curiosity at 15:00:53 UTC there’s a matching one by the right NAVCAM too , and there’s already an anaglyph that’s been made You can easily see where the wheels have

  • BAFact Math: Jupiter is big enough to swallow all the rest of the planets whole

    Updated: 2012-08-22 16:46:53
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Multi-billion dollar traffic jam Curiosity rolls BAFact Math : Jupiter is big enough to swallow all the rest of the planets whole BAFacts are short , tweetable astronomy space facts that I post every day . On some occasions , they wind up needing a bit of a mathematical explanation . The math is pretty easy , and it adds a lot of coolness , which I'm passing on to you You're welcome . Today’s BAFact Jupiter is so big you could fit every other planet in the solar system inside it with room to . spare Volume is a tricky thing . Our brains are pretty good at judging relative

  • Multi-billion dollar traffic jam

    Updated: 2012-08-22 01:30:51
    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 Curiosity spins its wheels BAFact Math : Jupiter is big enough to swallow all the rest of the planets whole Multi-billion dollar traffic jam I’ve been stuck in some epic traffic jams , but I think this one : wins Those are the Space Shuttle orbiters Endeavour and Atlantis click to embiggen at Kennedy Space Center in Florida . Endeavour has just finished being processed for travel , and will soon be on its way to California to eventually go to the California Science Center in LA . Atlantis is staying at Kennedy Space Center itself at the Visitor’s . Center Funny a year ago I

  • Curiosity spins its wheels!

    Updated: 2012-08-21 21:48:27
    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 Talk Nerdy To Me : Solar Storms Multi-billion dollar traffic jam Curiosity spins its wheels As a prelude to actually hitting the road , engineers at JPL commanded the Mars Curiosity rover to move its wheels , testing to make sure everything worked . Everything worked Here’s a fun little animated GIF showing the rear right wheel : wiggling Sweeeeet . Countdown to someone adding a dubstep audio track in 3 2 1 Note the sundial at the top right you can see the shadow of the rover moving as time elapses . If you watch the ground you can see the perspective of the camera changing a

  • Amazing space travel photography

    Updated: 2012-08-13 15:10:36
    Amazing Data Frontpage Return home About About Contact Contact Subscribe RSS feed Amazing animals Funny monkeys Amazing art Amazing car Amazing design Amazing food Amazing cakes Amazing girl Girl drunk Amazing hotel Amazing house Amazing optical illusions Amazing people Amazing photos Amazing pictures Amazing products Amazing technology Amazing things Amazing world Amazing nature Most amazing video A Blog on amazing stuff : Amazing pictures , amazing world , amazing people , funny and cool stuff , . etc Aug 13, 2012 Amazing space travel photography : Category Amazing photos Nowadays few photographers may have the opportunity to take pictures of space travel . NASA astronaut Don Pettit in the International Space Station had captured amazing images with slow shutter space photography that

  • Suborbital Reusable Vehicles: A 10-Year Forecast of Market Demand

    Updated: 2012-08-10 19:02:48
    A new 102-page study “Suborbital Reusable Vehicles: A 10-Year Forecast of Market Demand” is now available in the NSS website Space Transportation section as a 10 MB PDF file. Suborbital reusable vehicles (SRVs) are creating a new spaceflight industry. SRVs are commercially developed reusable space vehicles that may carry humans or cargo. The companies developing these [...]

  • Earth Illuminated: ISS Time-lapse Photography

    Updated: 2012-08-10 15:14:42
    We recommend switching to HD full screen for this video if your bandwidth allows. From high above the Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) provides a unique vantage point to view our home planet. Stunning time-lapse photography of cities, aurora, lightning and other sights are seen from orbit. Famed astronomer Galileo imagined these views from space [...]

  • Seeking Your Input on NASA’s Plans, Programs and Priorities

    Updated: 2012-08-09 04:26:21
    Here’s your opportunity to contribute to the future direction of NASA’s plans, programs and priorities, in a study directed by Congress and led by the National Academies. This is your space program and your future. What do you have to say about it? The input form can be found here. Deadline for [...]

  • Successful Landing of Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity) Rover - Historic Next Step in Mars Exploration

    Updated: 2012-08-06 15:57:19
    The successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, Curiosity, early Monday morning marks a significant and historic achievement on the way to the eventual human exploration of Mars. “Curiosity’s successful landing demonstrates the feasibility of delivering ever-heavier payloads to the martian surface, and paves the way for future missions to land, gather samples and [...]

  • NSS Congratulates Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) Participants

    Updated: 2012-08-06 14:37:09
    The National Space Society (NSS) congratulates Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), The Boeing Company (Boeing), and Sierra Nevada Corporation (Sierra Nevada) on their selection by NASA as Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) participants. Through its CCiCap initiative, NASA seeks to facilitate American industry’s development of an integrated crew transportation system that includes spacecraft, launch vehicle, ground, [...]

  • NASA Announces Next Steps in Effort to Launch Americans from U.S. Soil

    Updated: 2012-08-04 14:46:36
    NASA Friday announced new agreements with three American commercial companies to design and develop the next generation of U.S. human spaceflight capabilities, enabling a launch of astronauts from U.S. soil in the next five years. Advances made by these companies under newly signed Space Act Agreements through the agency’s Commercial [...]

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