The feat has never been accomplished before and next week’s departure for the Dawn spacecraft from Vesta will be monumental. Dawn is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant solar system destinations. The spacecraft is scheduled to leave the giant asteroid Vesta on Sept. 4 PDT (Sept. 5 EDT) [...]
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
The True Colors of Saturn and its Moons
Is there anything more lovely in the solar system than the planet Saturn? Sure, there’s Mars and the great images we’re seeing from the Curiosity rover. And, of course, Earth sports some gorgeous places. But, for sheer jaw-dropping beauty, you can’t beat a great image of Saturn and [...]
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: : skip to main skip to sidebar Wednesday , August 29, 2012 Obama to Redditors : Space Exploration a Big Priority This afternoon , President Barack Obama surprised the internet with an appearance on a reddit IamA Reddit , a social news site billed as the front page of the internet , regularly hosts IamA threads that allow reddit users to ask the submitter , often a celebrity , anything they want . The submitter then answers a selection of questions live over the internet . As evidence that Obama is truly answering the submitted questions , his campaign sent out a tweet and image of him in front of his . computer So far , Obama has answered a few questions . Most notably for physics fans out there , here's what Obama said in response to a question from the user ormirian about potential
Uwingu Funds its First Project
Remember a few entries ago I told you about a cool crowd-sourcing project called Uwingu? It’s made up of a group of people who wanted to see good research being funded that hasn’t been getting funded in the current political climate. Well, the appeal is going well and they have enough money [...]
End of Summer Drawing for Cool Images
I’m a sucker for cool Hubble stuff. It’s probably because I wrote a lot about HST a few years ago (published a couple of books about it, did a couple of fulldome shows about it, you know, like that). In Hubble Vision, both the book and the fulldome show, I [...]
Curiosity Pans Around and Finds Rock Layers
Today planetary scientists presented their latest views of the surface of Mars taken by the Curiosity rover. The minute I saw this image I thought of hiking through Utah or Arizona, where you can find similar-looking rock layers. But, the cool thing here is that THIS image shows us [...]
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And ironically, it’s XKCD What-if that is wrong. Well, not wrong by commission, but wrong by omission. First off, I’m a huge fan of both XKCD (well the 98% of their comic strips that are SFJ) and XKCD-What If. If I was 1/20th as funny as Randall Munroe, I’d probably be writing witty webcomics instead [...]
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