Interstellar Space Travel - Science or Fiction?
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We all know that astronomy is just plain awesome – and pretty much everything that's interesting in the world links back to astronomy and space science in one way or another. Here I'm thinking gravity, wireless internet and of course ear thermometers. But wouldn't it be great if we could ascribe the whole origin of [...]
Amateur astronomer Ralf Vandebergh from the Netherlands is becoming well-known for his ability to capture images of the space shuttle, space station and other satellites in low Earth orbit. Recently, he tried his hand at something a little more distant: The Keyhole 11-4 satellite, which orbits at about 600 km (360 miles) above [...]
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Schmidt over at Backseat Driving.
Click here to read the Carnival of Space #155.
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 [...]
Even since amateur astronomers picked up on the orbit of the Air Force's secret X37-B space plane, others have been trying to capture images of the mini-space shuttle look-alike. So far, images have been just streaks or dots, but Universe Today reader Brent (a.k.a. HelloBozos) was actually able to image the plane in some [...]
Mars or Earth? That is the question. Find the answer back at the original post for this week's Where In The Universe challenge. And check back next week for another test of your visual knowledge of the cosmos.© nancy for Universe Today, 2010. |
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Another end-of-an-era event heralding the conclusion of the space shuttle program: the final set of space shuttle solid rocket booster segments arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, May 27, 2010. The segments were carried on railway cars from the ATK factory in Utah where the boosters are built. The [...]
Flying SOFIA has opened her eyes! The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a joint program by NASA and the German Aerospace Center made its first observations on May 26. The new observatory uses a modified 747 airplane to carry a German-built 2.5 meter (100 inch) reflecting telescope. "With this flight, SOFIA begins [...]
The first in a series of next-generation GPS satellites launched late Thursday from Cape Canaveral launch Complex 37 on board a Delta IV rocket. The Air Force’s Global Positioning System GPS IIF SV-1 satellite blasted off at 11 p.m. EDT on May 27, 2010, after overcoming three different launch aborts over the last [...]
These ARE the droids we've been looking for. The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has plans to build a base on the Moon by 2020. Not for humans, but for robots, and built by robots, too. A panel authorized by Japan's prime minister has drawn up preliminary plans of how humanoid and rover [...]
Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down at 8:48.11 Eastern time at Kennedy Space Center. This makes Atlantis our first Space Shuttle to retire. (I think that also makes it the second reusable space vehicle to retire, after SpaceShipOne decommissioned in 2004.)
This is a sad day in space exploration…but it is long overdue. In what other modern [...]
Here's this week's Where In The Universe Challenge. You know what to do: take a look at this image and see if you can determine where in the universe this image is from; give yourself extra points if you can name the instrument responsible for the image. We’ll provide the image today, but won’t reveal [...]
Wow. Just wow. Each of the colored dots in this new image from the Herschel telescope is a galaxy containing billions of stars. These are distant luminous infrared galaxies, and appear as they did 10–12 billion years ago, packed together like grains of sand on a beach, forming large clusters of galaxies [...]
My dotAstronomy pal Edward Gomez from the Las Cumbres Observatory is reporting that a man-made object has been spotted orbiting the sun. First noticed in the Catalina Sky Survey on May 16, it was thought to be an asteroid, but then, because of its very circular and low-inclined orbit, Richard Miles, using the [...]
At a post-landing news conference, STS-132 commander Ken Ham described the incredible visual effects the crew of Atlantis witnessed as they returned to Earth today. As the shuttle was engulfed in plasma during the hottest part of their re-entry through Earth's atmosphere, they were in orbital darkness, which highlighted the orange, fiery glow around [...]
Our Milky Way churns out about seven new stars per year on average. More massive stars are formed in what's called H II regions, so-named because the gas present in these stellar nurseries is ionized by the radiation of the young, massive stars forming there. Recently-discovered regions in the Milky Way that are nurseries for [...]
Only about 1% of supermassive black holes emit large amounts of energy, and astronomers have wondered for decades why so few exhibit this behavior. Data from Swift satellite, which normally studies gamma ray bursts, has allowed scientists to confirm that black holes "light up" when galaxies collide, and the data may offer insight into [...]
The shape of the two-mile-tall Texas-sized ice cap at the north pole of Mars has puzzled scientists for forty years, but new results to be published in a pair of papers in the journal Nature on May 27 have put the controversy to rest.
The polar caps of Mars have been known since the first telescopic [...]
NSS CEO Mark Hopkins writes on The Long Run Geopolitics of Space Settlements in the latest issue of Ad Astra magazine. Below is a précis.
The vast majority of the resources of the solar system are in space rather than on the Earth. As I have argued in an earlier column, there are enough [...]
The first Orion crew capsule is rapidly taking shape as assembly work to construct the skeletal framework of the first pathfinder Orion capsule – the Ground Test Article – or GTA, is nearing completion.
The Lockheed Martin team building Orion is just one weld away from completing the framework of an Orion cabin at [...]
Several months ago, I put up a post about my first grandchild being born. Karl is nearly 7 months old now and his mother just emailed me a picture of him dressed up in the NASA outfit I purchased for him from the NASA gift shop at the Dryden Flight Research Center.
Future space elevator architect, [...]
In a few days astronomy enthusiasts will gather again in the largest gathering of observers from Europe, the Reencounters Astronomical Spring.They are already about 500 have made an appointment of 13 to 16 May in Capone sure Arson, a small town in Haute-Loire, which will host the twelfth edition of ...
There are countless geological curiosities observed by the probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Lately, these are dunes star Harries camera has photographed.
The orbit traveled by the spacecraft Mars MRO is the balcony ideal for studying the diversity of landforms of Planet red. With telescope 50-centimeter team camera Hirize (For High Resolution ...
Through their regular observations Saturn, Amateur astronomers were the first to discover a new storm, allowing scientists to shine over the instruments of the Casino spacecraft.
Anthony Wesley is an Australian amateur astronomer happy. There is a little less than a year, July 20, 2009, he was first observed with telescope ...
On May 14, 2009, the Adriane rocket launched Herschel and Planck space. Intended for observation Mother Satellite Planck just completed its first full coverage of the sky. Online on the website of HFI Planck France we can see the daily status of the mission.
Finally! A first image of complete coverage ...
The Hubble and Very Large Telescope foes (The European Space Agency) come to study a star 90 times more massive than the Sun moving at 190,000 km / h, the victim of a cosmic game of pinball.
The scene takes place in 170,000 years-light of Earth in nebula The Tarantula in ...
Passing near the Earth last month, the asteroid YU55 2005 has been an intensive campaign of observations. Purpose: Ensure that it will not venture too close to our beautiful planet soon.
Asteroids seem decidedly passionate astronomers. A few days ago they announced the discovery of ice of water on one of ...
While the experts of the American aerospace agency NASA are trying to decipher suddenly changed data from an interplanetary probe Voyager 2, located on the border of the solar system, the German scientist seriously suggested that the most incredible, but the most obvious explanation for UFO enthusiasts: probe captured by ...
At the launch site at Cape Canaveral in Florida, began filling the shuttle Atlantis. This website reported NASA. Technicians began filling the shuttle external tank with liquid oxygen and hydrogen. Start the Atlantis is scheduled for May 14, 22:30 Moscow time. As of 14 am Moscow time the weather was ...
Astronomers have proposed an explanation of the phenomenon of "inflation" of the planets circulating in small orbits around their stars.
Specialists interested in "hot Jupiter’s", are on a very short distance from its star - much closer than Mercury to the Sun. So far, astronomers have found about 150 such planets. ...
Published April 10, 2010
Stephanie Foulard
Source: THE WORLD
Size of article: 475 words
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Attached to their petition, they identify errors and Vincent Courtliest Claude Alleger. More than 600 climate scientists have officially submitted their guardianship, Wednesday, April 7, a letter of protest against the public denigration of which they consider to be the ...
First: Go Atlantis!!!
Now, on to the purported topic of this post: The SpaceX Falcon 9 is slated to launch in less than a week!
Ever since the FY11 NASA budget came out, I’ve been anxious to see the success of the Falcon 9, SpaceX’s heavy-lift vehicle, and the Dragon capsule. A good Falcon launch and successful [...]
A few days ago, NPR radio broadcast a segment on ‘Garage Inventors’. Three of them were discussed and one was our very own Brian Turner - Captain and Fearless Leader of the Kansas City Space Pirates Climber / Power-Beaming team.
The segment is about 9 minutes long as is well worth listening to. Check it out!
The [...]
We’ve discussed President Obama’s plans for NASA in my research group. Things look good for us: as a team working on spacecraft technology research, looking for things that will make construction, maneuvering, and other activities in space easier, cheaper, and better, we are very happy to see the technology research arm of NASA finally getting [...]
A couple of months ago, Benjamin Jarrell joined ISEC as our new Legal Pillar Lead. He is an attorney practicing in Huntsville, Alabama. In his ‘day job’, he handles a wide variety of matters in his law practice, but his primary interest is in helping government contractors negotiate the federal acquisitions process. He received his [...]