• Zoom Zoom! Progress Ship Goes from Launch to Docking in 6 Hours

    Updated: 2012-10-31 16:30:34
    The Progress 49 cargo craft ship went from zero to 28,000 km/h in about 8 minutes — as it usually does — but it then caught up and docked to the International Space Station in super-fast time, in less than six hours. This is the second Progress to use the abbreviated four-orbit rendezvous with the [...]

  • NASA Probe Readied for Moon Mystery Duty

    Updated: 2012-10-31 16:02:44
    There’s been a quip circulating for years. That is, the first restaurant on the Moon will have little atmosphere. But a future lunar probe is being readied to detail just that – how much atmosphere is present surrounding the Moon. NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is undergoing final instrument installation – [...]

  • Dwarfed by Saturn

    Updated: 2012-10-31 15:04:31
    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 Dwarfed by Saturn By Keith Cowing Posted October 31, 2012 11:04 AM View Comments NASA JPL SSI Mimas and Saturn Saturn's moon Mimas appears near Saturn , dwarfed by its parent planet in this image . Mimas 246 miles , or 396 kilometers across appears tiny compared to the storms clearly visible in far northern and southern hemispheres of . Saturn This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 18 degrees below the ringplane . North on Saturn is up and rotated 27 degrees to the . left The image

  • A Ghost in Cepheus

    Updated: 2012-10-31 15:01:34
    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 A Ghost in Cepheus By Keith Cowing Posted October 31, 2012 11:01 AM View Comments NASA Ced 201 Described as a dusty curtain or ghostly apparition , mysterious reflection nebula VdB 152 really is very faint . Far from your neighborhood on this Halloween Night , the cosmic phantom is nearly 1,400 light-years . away Also catalogued as Ced 201, it lies along the northern Milky Way in the royal constellation Cepheus . Near the edge of a large molecular cloud , pockets of interstellar dust in the region block light

  • Beautiful Star Cluster Looks Surprisingly Youthful

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:46:22
    This view of the globular cluster NGC 6362 was captured by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit Past observations of globular star clusters have revealed that they are some of the oldest objects in the Universe, [...]

  • CSExtra – Wednesday, October 31, 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-31 11:16:13
    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 news and commentary on space related activities from around the world. In Kazakhstan, a Russian Progress supply ship lifts off overnight [...]

  • New Theory on Earth and Moon Formation

    Updated: 2012-10-30 22:41:38
    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 New Theory on Earth and Moon Formation By Keith Cowing Posted October 30, 2012 6:41 PM View Comments NASA The Moon False Color New research , funded by the NASA Lunar Science Institute NLSI theorizes that our early Earth and moon were both created together in a giant collision of two planetary bodies that were each five times the size of . Mars This new theory about how Earth's moon formed is challenging the commonly believed giant impact hypothesis , which suggests that Earth's moon formed from a colossal impact

  • Fingerprinting Martian Minerals

    Updated: 2012-10-30 22:32:54
    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 Fingerprinting Martian Minerals By Keith Cowing Posted October 30, 2012 6:32 PM View Comments NASA MSL image of Mars NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in . Hawaii The minerals were identified in the first sample of Martian soil ingested recently by the rover . Curiosity used its Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument CheMin to obtain the results , which are filling gaps and adding confidence

  • Voyager 1 Detects Weirdness at Solar System Edge

    Updated: 2012-10-30 22:02:45
    As the Voyager 1 probe begins its interstellar sojourn, the mission has revealed a mysterious characteristic of the outermost boundary of the solar system.

  • Dark Clouds, Young Stars, and a Dash of Hollywood

    Updated: 2012-10-30 17:41:27
    , , 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 Dark Clouds , Young Stars , and a Dash of Hollywood By Keith Cowing Posted October 30, 2012 1:41 PM View Comments MPIA Barnard 68 Stars are born in hiding , when dense regions within clouds of gas and dust collapse under their own gravity . But the clouds not only provide the raw material for star formation , they also absorb most of the light from their interior , hiding from view the crucial details of stellar birth one of the key astronomical processes if we want to understand our own origins Now , two

  • Ghostly Face Glows in X-Rays

    Updated: 2012-10-30 17:31:35
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  • Astrophoto: Spooky Fingers Reach Out into Space

    Updated: 2012-10-30 16:16:42
    Dark shadows and dust in VdB 4. Credit: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona It’s the Case of the Phantom Phalanges! Spooky fingers reach up from the dark realms of space in this new image from Adam Block of the Mount Lemmon Sky Center. The image shows a ghostly view of VdB 4, which is [...]

  • Attention Citizen Planet Hunters! Kepler Data Available

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:16:14
    Over the past three years the NASA Kepler spacecraft and the project’s science team have discovered 77 confirmed planets and 2,321 planet candidates. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. has announced all of Kepler’s upcoming observations will be no longer exclusive to the Kepler science team, its guest observers, and its asteroseismology consortium [...]

  • Looking up to Saturn

    Updated: 2012-10-30 13:00:04
    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 Time lapse : Close to the Heavens A wind is rising Looking up to Saturn Just in case you’ve forgotten how brain-destroyingly big Saturn : is Click to encronosenate . This shot of the ringed wonder was taken by the Cassini spacecraft when it was well over 2 million kilometers from the planet . The spacecraft was south of the rings , looking up toward the north . The Sun is shining down on the rings from this perspective , so they look darker than you might expect , and the use of a near-infrared filter accentuates storms in the southern hemisphere . cloudtops So why does this

  • Satellites Provide 3-D Views and More of Hurricane Sandy

    Updated: 2012-10-30 04:00:36
    Hurricane Sandy as viewed by the TRMM Precipitation Radar at 2:20 EDT on Oct. 28, 2012. Credit: NASA Satellite imagery and data has been invaluable in predicting the path and intensity of storms like Hurricane Sandy. Satellites like NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) can measure rainfall rates and cloud heights in tropical cyclones, and [...]

  • CSExtra – Tuesday, October 30, 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-30 00:30:12
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  • Time lapse: Close to the Heavens

    Updated: 2012-10-29 18:15:25
    : 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 Sandy’s Big Night Looking up to Saturn Time lapse : Close to the Heavens Personal note : With a hurricane bearing down on the US , I dithered over posting this now . but maybe some of you good folks could use more Moments of Calm . Astronomy PhD student Péter Pápics sent me a note about a time lapse video he made at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on La Palma in the Canary Islands . I’ve been to this observatory , attending a meeting there many years ago . It’s a place of incredible beauty , so I was eager to see his video , and when I watched it I was thrilled to

  • Video: Hurricane Sandy Seen by Space Station Astronauts

    Updated: 2012-10-29 17:52:19
    Here’s the view of Hurricane Sandy from an altitude of 254 statute miles from external cameras on the International Space Station. This video was shot as the ISS flew over the US’s eastern seaboard at 12:52 Eastern time October 29, 2012. Sandy has yet to officially make landfall, but the huge storm is already battering [...]

  • Astronomers Uncover a Crime of Galactic Proportions

    Updated: 2012-10-29 17:23:21
    As the Milky Way rises over the horizon at the European Southern Observatory, its companion galaxies also come into view. Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky A previously undetected heist of stars was uncovered by astronomers who were actually looking for why an unexpected amount of microlensing events were being seen around the outskirts of the Milky Way. [...]

  • Hurricane Sandy Tracking and Views from the Space Station

    Updated: 2012-10-29 16:31:58
    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 Hurricane Sandy Tracking and Views from the Space Station By Marc Boucher Posted October 29, 2012 12:31 PM View Comments NASA Hurricane Sandy Tracking As Hurricane Sandy nears landfall NASA and NOAA satellites are tracking the storm to provide continuous updates . This is the latest track . As well NASA is using the International Space Station to take pictures of Sandy . These latest images were take at 11:16 a.m . . ET According to NASA , at the time of the flyover , Sandy was located 260 miles south-southeast

  • Sandy’s Big Night

    Updated: 2012-10-29 15:47:31
    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 Unfurled aurora Time lapse : Close to the Heavens Sandy’s Big Night Last night On October 28, at 02:42 Eastern US time , NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite took this incredible picture of Hurricane Sandy , poised to strike the : coast Click to coriolisenate , or download the typhoonesized 3500 x3500 pixel version Suomi-NPP has fantastic imaging capabilities , including a camera which can see across the spectrum from green light out into the infrared . City lights in the southeast are easy to spot from their own glow , while Sandy’s dangerous clouds are illuminated by the nearly full

  • Galactic Thief Almost Got Away with It

    Updated: 2012-10-29 15:36:48
    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 Galactic Thief Almost Got Away with It By Keith Cowing Posted October 29, 2012 11:36 AM View Comments HSCFA M Way One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way almost got away with theft . However , new simulations convicted the Large Magellanic Cloud LMC of stealing stars from its neighbor , the Small Magellanic Cloud SMC And the crucial evidence came from surveys looking for something entirely different dark objects on the outskirts of the Milky . Way Astronomers have been monitoring the LMC to hunt for evidence

  • Super-Massive Black Hole Inflates Giant Bubble

    Updated: 2012-10-29 14:28:00
    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 Super-Massive Black Hole Inflates Giant Bubble By Keith Cowing Posted October 29, 2012 10:28 AM View Comments ASTRON Black Hole Flare Using a brand-new radio telescope , astronomers have produced one of the best images ever made at the lowest frequencies of giant bubbles produced by a super-massive black hole . The observations were performed at frequencies ranging from 20 to 160 MHz which are normally used for communications by airplane pilots . The picture shows what looks like a giant balloon filled with radio

  • Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble

    Updated: 2012-10-29 13:22:50
    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 Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble By Keith Cowing Posted October 29, 2012 9:22 AM View Comments ESA Wolf-Rayet star HD 50896 The cosmic cauldron has brewed up a Halloween trick in the form of a ghostly face that glows in X-rays , as seen by ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope . The eerie entity is a bubble bursting with the fiery stellar wind of a live fast , die young' . star The bubble lies 5000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Canis Major , the greater dog' , and can be imagined to take on a dog- or

  • Unfurled aurora

    Updated: 2012-10-29 13:00:30
    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 Splashdown Sandy’s Big Night Unfurled aurora Every time I think I’ve posted just the most sensational aurora picture I’ve seen , another one comes along that has me scraping my jaw off the floor . Check out this shot by photographer David Cartier Seriously click to enbirkelandate . I know right That spiral shape is fascinating . Aurorae are formed when charged particles from the Sun slam into the Earth’s magnetic field and interact with it . They’re channeled down into our atmosphere , guided by the Earth’s field , and the shape of the aurora reflects the underlying magnetic

  • Splashdown!

    Updated: 2012-10-29 03:56:44
    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 The Dragon returns to the nest Unfurled aurora Splashdown Because why not : raw that is , shaky footage of the splashdown of the SpaceX Dragon capsule from Sunday morning taken by the SpaceX dive : team SpaceFlightNow is reporting the capsule was recovered and will soon be on its way first to NASA , and then the SpaceX facilities in . Texas Related : Posts The Dragon returns to the nest Frankenstorm and the Dragon SpaceX Falcon 9 lost an engine on the way up Dragon on its way to ISS History is made as Dragon splashes down safely in the Pacific Share October 28th , 2012 9:56 PM

  • CSExtra – Monday, October 29, 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:15:11
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  • The Return of the Dragon

    Updated: 2012-10-28 23:44:49
    NASA press release about the successful completion of the first commercial resupply mission the the International Space Station: RELEASE: 12-381 SPACEX DRAGON RETURNS FROM SPACE STATION WITH NASA CARGO HOUSTON — A Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:22 p.m. CDT Sunday a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico. [...]

  • NOAA's GOES-13 Satellite Image: Hurricane Sandy Expands

    Updated: 2012-10-28 22:24:11
    NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the massive Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28 at 1302 UTC (9:02 a.m. EDT). The line of clouds from the Gulf of Mexico north are associated with the cold front that Sandy is merging with. Sandy's western cloud edge is already over the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S. Credit: NASA GOES Project. Larger image

  • SpaceX Achieves Successful Space Station Cargo Delivery and Return Mission With Sunday Splashdown

    Updated: 2012-10-28 20:14:02
      SpaceX’s Dragon capsule splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean off the southern California coast Sunday afternoon, successfully restoring a U. S. cargo delivery and return capability to the International Space Station once shouldered by NASA’s long running space shuttle program. The Dragon freighter, filled with nearly a ton of frozen biomedical specimens and [...]

  • The Dragon returns to the nest

    Updated: 2012-10-28 19:38:09
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Hurricane Sandy intensifies as it grows Splashdown The Dragon returns to the nest As I write this , moments ago , the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a two week mission to the International Space Station . Splashdown occurred at 19:22 UTC . Yay UPDATE 20:30 UTC SpaceX has a picture of the Dragon floating in the Pacific : Click to ensmaugenate . This ends the first operational mission of the Dragon . It’s the first of twelve contracted by NASA to bring supplies up to and back from the ISS . There was no live coverage of the splashdown ,

  • Reflect on This! Advanced Mirror for Giant Telescope Completed

    Updated: 2012-10-28 14:53:39
    The most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made has been completed. The mirror – one of seven — will be part of the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope that will explore planets around other stars and the formation of stars, galaxies and black holes in the early universe. The mirrors form the heart of the 25-meter [...]

  • Namibian quiver trees and the glow of a galaxy

    Updated: 2012-10-28 13:00:51
    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 The return of Sauron’s planet Hurricane Sandy intensifies as it grows Namibian quiver trees and the glow of a galaxy Florian Breuer is a mathematician who teaches in South Africa . He’s also a photographer , and created this spectacular panorama of the Quiver Tree Forest near Keetmanshoop , Namibia . Click to embiggen and see the whole shot I had to crop it a bit to fit here . Isn’t that gorgeous The arch of the Milky Way behind the trees is beautiful , and when I look at this picture I can’t help but think of an array of radio telescope dishes turned toward the heavens By eye

  • Satellites Monitor Hurricane Sandy

    Updated: 2012-10-27 15:42:03
    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 Satellites Monitor Hurricane Sandy By Keith Cowing Posted October 27, 2012 11:42 AM View Comments NOAA NASA GOES Satellite Imagery of Sandy Sandy weakened to a Tropical Storm and strengthened back into a hurricane early on Saturday Oct . 26, and its pressure was dropping , meaning that the storm is intensifying as it becomes an extra-tropical . storm This image was created combining NOAA's GOES-13 and GOES-15 satellite imagery on Oct . 27 and shows the cloud cover from Hurricane Sandy interacting with the long

  • New Tool for You! Turn Space Data into Infographics

    Updated: 2012-10-27 15:23:26
    There’s a new website in space town! JPL Infographics is available to you, a way to transform NASA data into scientific works of art. The site provides extensive collections of NASA science and mission data, graphics and space images that users can download to create their own infographic. Your creative illustration can then be uploaded, [...]

  • Frankenstorm and the Dragon

    Updated: 2012-10-26 22:01:34
    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 Awkwardly Embraceable interview The return of Sauron’s planet Frankenstorm and the Dragon Holy wow , check this out : I grabbed a screenshot from footage on October 26 of Hurricane Sandy from the International Space : Station Yegads . Look at the storm center you can see it towering above the cloud deck and feeder bands of the storm . As if that’s not cool enough , that bit of hardware on the left is actually the SpaceX Dragon capsule , berthed to the ISS since October 10. It is expected to undock and return to Earth on Sunday , splashing down in the Pacific ocean at 12:20 PDT

  • Awkwardly Embraceable interview

    Updated: 2012-10-26 19:57:54
    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 Hurricane Sandy looms over the US Frankenstorm and the Dragon Awkwardly Embraceable interview My friend , the geekeriffic Jessica Mills , interviewed me for her blog on Tech Republic the second part is here It was a lot of fun talking with her we wandered over topics like Hubble , Star Trek , science , Doctor Who , black holes , Neil Tyson and Bill Nye , and what I would do if I encountered advanced aliens in a wormhole answer : self-promotion Jessica is amazing . She is a writer , producer , and actress , and was the driving force behind the very funny web series Awkward

  • New Study Brings a Doubted Exoplanet 'Back from the Dead'

    Updated: 2012-10-26 19:14:57
    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 New Study Brings a Doubted Exoplanet Back from the Dead' By Keith Cowing Posted October 26, 2012 3:14 PM View Comments NASA Fomalhaut and Fomalhaut b A second look at data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reanimating the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet . The study suggests that the planet , named Fomalhaut b , is a rare and possibly unique object that is completely shrouded by . dust This visible-light image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the vicinity of the star

  • Bride of Frankenstorm

    Updated: 2012-10-26 18:52:06
    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 Bride of Frankenstorm By Keith Cowing Posted October 26, 2012 2:52 PM View Comments NASA TRMM View of Hurricane Sandy NASA's TRMM satellite revealed Hurricane Sandy's heavy rainfall and the storm is expected to couple with a powerful cold front and Arctic air to bring that heavy rainfall to the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern . U.S Some forecasters are calling this combination of weather factors Frankenstorm because of the close proximity to Halloween . However , because Sandy is a woman's name , the storm could be

  • Deflecting Asteroids: Smear Tactic!

    Updated: 2012-10-26 17:11:13
    An incoming asteroid with Earth’s name on it…what to do is a constant concern of Near Earth Object experts. How about a volley or two of space-launched paintballs? Sung Wook Paek, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, says if timed just right, pellets full of paint powder, launched in two rounds [...]

  • Hurricane Sandy Makes Landfall Over Cuba

    Updated: 2012-10-26 16:54:12
    Early in the morning on Oct. 25, 2012, the Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Sandy after it made landfall over Cuba and Jamaica, capturing this highly detailed infrared imagery, showing areas of deep convection around the central eye. Besides the highly detailed infrared imagery, the satellite shows visible-like imagery of the cloud tops, along with the city lights of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Image Credit: NOAA/NASA. Larger image

  • Oh. Well. I feel pretty awful about this.

    Updated: 2012-10-26 16:43:58
    . . . 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 storm cranks the heat WAY up Hurricane Sandy looms over the US Oh . Well . I feel pretty awful about . this They had to get their ideas from somewhere Via FlickFilosopher Related : posts FELIXTERMINATE PRECIPITATE PRECIPITATE CONFLAGRATE CONFLAGRATE EXTIRPATE Extermiknit Part II Trick or geek Share October 26th , 2012 9:43 AM Tags : Daleks Doctor Who by Phil Plait in Uncategorized 21 comments RSS feed Trackback 21 Responses to Oh . Well . I feel pretty awful about this . 8221 1. Larry Says : October 26th , 2012 at 10:07 am Destroy Destroy Destroy Is that a little

  • Knight Seminar Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT

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  • Data Reveal Record-Setting Disturbances in Saturn’s Upper Atmosphere

    Updated: 2012-10-26 12:58:51
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  • CSExtra – Friday, October 26, 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-26 11:43:22
    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.  A Russian Soyuz capsule delivers three U. S. and Russian [...]

  • Death of an Explanet

    Updated: 2012-10-26 01:14:06
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  • Quasar May Be Embedded in Unusually Dusty Galaxy

    Updated: 2012-10-25 19:29:32
    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 Quasar May Be Embedded in Unusually Dusty Galaxy By Keith Cowing Posted October 25, 2012 3:29 PM View Comments NASA Quasar Hubble astronomers have looked at one of the most distant and brightest quasars in the universe and are surprised by what they did not see : the underlying host galaxy of stars feeding the . quasar The best explanation is that the galaxy is shrouded in so much dust that the stars are completely hidden everywhere . Astronomers believe that the James Webb Space Telescope will reveal the .

  • All These Worlds… 2013

    Updated: 2012-10-25 19:24:47
    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 OSU marching band boldly goes Saturn storm cranks the heat WAY up All These Worlds 2013 My old friend Dan Durda is a phenomenal space artist . His digital pieces are incredible Last year , he put a dozen of them together to create a 2012 space calendar he called All these Worlds If you’re looking for an early holiday gift , you’re in luck : he’s done it again this year , making a new All These Worlds 2013 Here’s the : cover I know , right More of his artwork is linked in the Related Posts below , and you can go see his prints for sale too . So go buy one already Related : Posts

  • The Persistent After-Effects of Saturn’s Great Springtime Storm

    Updated: 2012-10-25 17:22:30
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  • OSU marching band boldly goes

    Updated: 2012-10-25 16:30:24
    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 A persistent Orionid All These Worlds 2013 OSU marching band boldly goes A little while ago , the interwebz went all twitterpated over the Ohio State University marching band doing a halftime show tribute to gaming Don’t get me wrong : it was really cool , especially the part starting at 6 minutes in . I was in a marching band for many years shocker and I’m amazed at what OSU . did But somehow that particular show overshadowed the one OSU did on September 15 that was way cooler . And by cooler , I mean . geekier : Behold I don’t want to spoil it , but if you want a cheat sheet

  • A persistent Orionid

    Updated: 2012-10-25 14:00:53
    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 To Dorkly Go OSU marching band boldly goes A persistent Orionid Last weekend the Orionid meteor shower peaked . To be honest , it’s a rather weak shower , with a max of maybe 25 meteors per hour . I mentioned it on Twitter and other social media , but it’s usually a so-so shower at best so it didn’t seem worth it to plug it much . Even big showers like the Perseids , Leonids , and Geminids can be fairly variable in what you see , so I usually only plug the bigger . ones Still , the Orionids can be nice if you have dark skies . Mike Lewinski went out to Embudo , NM along the Rio

  • Stray Intergalactic Stars Responsible for Skywide Infrared Glow

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  • Meet the Hall of Fame's robot rookies

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    The results are in, and the latest laureates in the Robot Hall of Fame range from the absolutely lovable WALL-E cartoon character to the positively scary BigDog robo-runner. This year's class, announced during a Tuesday night ceremony at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, hellip;

  • From Darwin to DNA Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT

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  • To Dorkly Go

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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 Space art competition for kids A persistent Orionid To Dorkly Go How much do I love Dusty Abell’s artwork A whole quadrant’s worth , that’s how much . And here’s : why Oh , my Click to massively balokenate . This is only one small part of a much larger piece , and it's amazing And why , yes , I do recognize Every . Single . Thing . in this drawing . Because my geekery is beyond even the capacity for Norman to . coordinate Dusty also did this piece of awesomeness too . And He has the coolest name ever . He should’ve been an astronomer Tip o’ the Tranya to io9 Share October 24th

  • Space art competition for kids

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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 Pew Pew Take that Mars To Dorkly Go Space art competition for kids More art and science are colliding The Lunar and Planetary Institute is hosting the Humans in Space Youth Art Competition Kids from anywhere in the world ages 10 18 are encouraged to express their feelings about human spaceflight using visual , literary , musical and video artwork I’m a big supporter of scientific art , and I think this is a great idea . If you’re that age , or know someone who is , let them know The deadline for submitting the work is midnight U.S . Central Standard Time , November 15, 2012.

  • Milky Way’s Black Hole Seen Flaring Up by NASA’s NuSTAR

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  • Pew! Pew! Take *that*, Mars!

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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 NuSTAR catches a black hole’s hot belch Space art competition for kids Pew Pew Take that Mars Hey , remember that one ton nuclear rover we sent to Mars Yeah , that . On October 20, it aimed its megaWatt laser at the sand on Mars and blasted it 30 times in rapid succession , carving out a hole about 3 mm across . NASA kindly has provided a before-and-after animation of the damage inflicted on the Red : Planet Cool , eh Click to coherentlightenate . Curiosity’s laser is designed not as a weapon against a hapless Marvin , but instead to do actual science . It very rapidly heats

  • A Surprising Trend in Galaxy Evolution Uncovered by Keck and Hubble Telescopes

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  • X-ray probe catches a bright blast from Milky Way's colossal black hole

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    For years, astronomers have known about the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, but these pictures from NASA's NuSTAR telescope show a rare view of the usually sleeping giant gobbling down a cosmic snack. "We got lucky to have captured an outburst from hellip;

  • NuSTAR catches a black hole’s hot belch

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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 Oh , snap Another X-class flare from the Sun Pew Pew Take that Mars NuSTAR catches a black hole’s hot belch Our Milky Way galaxy is a sprawling collection of gas , dust , and hundreds of billions of stars , arrayed in a more-or-less flat disk . In the very center of the galaxy just as in countless other large galaxies like ours lies a hidden monster : a black hole . And not just any black hole , but one with four million times the Sun’s . mass It’s called a supermassive black hole for a . reason Usually , it’s not doing a whole lot except sitting there being black and holey .

  • Oh, snap! Another X-class flare from the Sun

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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 Flatly wrong global warming denial NuSTAR catches a black hole’s hot belch Oh , snap Another X-class flare from the Sun Yesterday , an active region on the sun basically , a collection of magnetically active sunspots popped off a series of flares that were actually fairly energetic . NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the action in this video Neat These shots were in the ultraviolet , where flares are easier to spot . Sunspots are where the Sun’s complex magnetic field pokes through the surface . The field lines store ridiculous amounts of energy did you see my BAFact

  • Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spaceship company aces pad-escape test

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    Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket venture notched a blazing success last week when it tested a NASA-backed launch pad escape system for its crew capsule. The Oct. 19 demonstration flight at Blue Origin's West Texas spaceport marked the final milestone for NASA hellip;

  • The Grandest Canyon in the Solar System

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  • AAVSO Alert Notice 472: Monitoring of HD 5980 Requested for Multiwavelength Campaign

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  • Earth-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Alpha Centauri B

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  • Astronauts have an ice cream party

    Updated: 2012-10-11 21:39:20
    The three astronauts on the International Space Station are having ice cream for dessert tonight — and we're not talking about that spongy "astronaut ice cream" stuff. This is the vanilla chocolate-swirl ice cream that was delivered in a research freezer aboard the SpaceX D hellip;

  • NSS Congratulates SpaceX Team — Commercial Space Is Open for Business

    Updated: 2012-10-10 17:05:30
    The National Space Society (NSS) congratulates Elon Musk and the entire SpaceX team on another successful and historic mission to the International Space Station (ISS). This mission, known as Commercial Resupply Services-1 (CRS-1), is the second successful berthing of Dragon at the ISS, but the first time it has done so as part of a [...]

  • Dragon - “The Ice Cream Truck Has Arrived”

    Updated: 2012-10-10 12:34:28
    At 3:56 AM Pacific Daylight time, Wednesday 10 October, the SpaceX Dragon space craft was successfully grappled by the Canadarm on the International Space Station (ISS). Referring to the fact that Dragon is capable of carrying powered equipment to and from the space station, the space station crew reported that they had captured [...]

  • SpaceX Launches First Official Cargo Resupply Mission to Space Station

    Updated: 2012-10-08 05:14:54
    SpaceX Press Release: Cape Canaveral, FL — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on the first official cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The launch went off on schedule at 8:35 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday October 7. The SpaceX [...]

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