• Cool Shockwaves from SDO Launch

    Updated: 2010-02-28 18:55:04
    Visual Astronomy: I have a feeling most of you have seen this already, but it's too cool to not post here! Its a view of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launch. You can see that the rocket leaves a rare visible shockwave in the clouds as it passes through them. Very cool stuff! Some feed readers may have to click through to view the video. Clear skies!

  • [News] Climate Change and Coral Reefs: Coral Species Has Developed the 'Skills' to Cope With

    Updated: 2010-02-28 16:37:26
    Climate Change and Coral Reefs: Coral Species Has Developed the 'Skills' to Cope With Rising...

  • [News] Others May Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves, Study Finds

    Updated: 2010-02-28 16:32:50
    Others May Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves, Study Finds ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2010) —...

  • [News] Quantum Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation

    Updated: 2010-02-28 16:29:10
    Quantum Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation ScienceDaily...

  • Invader star clusters and ETI behavior

    Updated: 2010-02-28 16:00:03
    FEATURED : IMAGE 26 Feb 2010, 10:00 UTC From Earth to the Universe Wins Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Educatio . 28 February 2010, 7:22:34 UTC RSS About Contact Site Map Home News Podcasts Blogs Participate Links Press Releases Featured Most Recent Advanced Search For Journalists Press Releases Embargoed Releases Recent Releases 48 hr Register Login Accreditation Policy For Press Officers Past Releases Submit Press Release Feed Press Release RSS How-To Register Login Accreditation Policy Feedback Report Abuse Submit Press Release Feed Episodes Featured Episodes Most Recent Advanced Search Shows Featured Shows Recently Added Recently Updated Feedback Submit Podcast Review Policy Report Abuse Posts Featured Posts Most Recent Advanced Search Blogs Directory Featured Feeds Recently Added Recently Updated Feedback Submit Blog Review Policy Report Abuse Submit Podcast Submit Blog Submit Image Feed Submit Press Release Feed Advertise The PTTU Team Home Blogs Invader star clusters and ETI behavior Alien Life Invader star clusters and ETI behavior 28 Feb 2010, 16:00 UTC 200 words excerpt , click title or image to see full post Welcome Alien Life tracks the latest discoveries and

  • Astronomy Without A Telescope – Gravity, Schmavity

    Updated: 2010-02-28 14:41:45
    Universe Today: The axiom that what goes up, must come down doesn’t apply to most places in the universe, which are largely empty space. For most places in the universe, what goes up, just goes up. On Earth, the tendency of upwardly-mobile objects to reverse course in mid-flight and return to the surface is, to say the least, remarkable.(...)Read the rest of Astronomy Without A Telescope – Gravity, Schmavity (540 words) © Steve Nerlich for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Physics, Space Flight Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

  • New Star Forming Galaxies at approximatelly redshift z=7

    Updated: 2010-02-28 13:57:59
    EAAE News: Source: arXiv The addition of Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has led to a dramatic increase in our ability to study the z > 6 Universe. The increase in the near-infrared (NIR) sensitivity of WFC3 over previous instruments has enabled us to reach apparent magnitudes approaching 29 (AB). This allows [...]

  • How do small asteroids form and evolve?

    Updated: 2010-02-28 13:34:14
    EAAE News: Source: Universe Today Itokawa, a dusty asteroid. Credit: JAXA. Images sent back from space missions suggest that smaller asteroids are not pristine chunks of rock, but are instead covered in rubble that ranges in size from meter-sized boulders to flour-like dust. Indeed some asteroids appear to be up to 50% empty space, suggesting that they could [...]

  • Free Ride on a Commercial Space Ship

    Updated: 2010-02-28 12:02:00
    Rollout of SpaceShipTwo stirred many to buy tickets for a first ride — even though price is as high as final destination, i.e. space. Say someone lost nerve and gave you their ticket. Would you blast off with the other five passengers?The preceding article is a "sneak peek" from Aerospace TelinkMethod: The Best Science Blog PostsAll The Best Science Blog Posts From Arond The Web.<div class="feedflare"

  • Planetary Death March

    Updated: 2010-02-28 10:09:42
    Astrobiology Magazine: A team of astrophysicists has determined that a massive planet outside our solar system is being distorted and destroyed by its host star. The finding provides further information about how planets ca

  • Searching at Milky Way's Core for Origins of Life (Weekend Feature)

    Updated: 2010-02-28 08:30:00
    Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some 25,000 light-years from Earth for new, complex molecules in interstellar space that... ---- linkMethod: The Best Science Blog Posts

  • Image of the Day: The "Eyes of Creation"

    Updated: 2010-02-28 08:00:00
    This colour-composite image was obtained by the ESO telescope headquarters at La Silla, Chile. This photogenic group of nebulae can be found in Chamaeleon, a constellation visible predominantly in skies south of the Earth's equator. Towards Chamaeleon, dark molecular clouds... ---- linkMethod: The Best Science Blog PostsAll The Best Science Blog Posts From Arond The Web.

  • You Create the Caption (Weekend Feature)

    Updated: 2010-02-28 07:30:00
    Image credit: With thanks to our friends at gizmodo.com ---- link<img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=c074d2ba240e4deb890d3217652ce704&u=1267345800" border="0"/Method: The Best Science Blog Posts

  • Carolyn Porco on science and religion

    Updated: 2010-02-28 07:08:57
    In this excerpt from her 2009 AAI lecture, noted astronomer Carolyn Porco discusses the conflict between science and religion.read more ---- linkMethod: The Best Science Blog Posts<div class="feedflare"

  • March issue of Practical Astronomy magazine is available to download for free

    Updated: 2010-02-28 00:48:47
    IYA2009 Updates: Practical Astronomy is a new magazine, distributed for free by means of digital download from the internet. The magazine is published by Structure Ltd (a UK registered company) in PDF format, making it readable and printable by most computers in the World. The contents of the latest issue are as ...

  • [News] New 'Alien Invader' Star Clusters Found in Milky Way

    Updated: 2010-02-27 16:32:21
    New 'Alien Invader' Star Clusters Found in Milky Way ScienceDaily (Feb. 26, 2010) — As many as...

  • SkyGuy will answer your astronomy questions

    Updated: 2010-02-26 19:47:44
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  • Weekend field trips on the Web

    Updated: 2010-02-26 18:52:00
    'Nova' on PBS: 'The Pluto Files' New Scientist: Earth's nine lives New York Times: A boat from bottles Science Friday: Perfecting the critter-cam The New Yorker: Can psychiatry be a science? The Register: LHC beam on hold due to magnet hiccup  US LHC: Let's draw Feynman diagrams! (via GeekPress)...(read more)

  • Wonder and whimsy on the Web

    Updated: 2010-02-24 23:40:00
    NASA focuses on climate science in 'A Warming World' Cracked: Six bad-ass robots invented before electricity Improbable.com: The latest on old dinosaur beliefs Discover Magazine: The man who builds brains ...(read more)

  • White House Space Plans Under Fire

    Updated: 2010-02-24 22:25:30
    White House Space Plans Under Fire by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee on February 24, 2010 5:25 PM Permanent Link Email Print More Previous Article Next Article A Congressional panel led by Bill Nelson , the influential Democratic senator from Florida , flayed NASA Administrator Charles Bolden this afternoon over the Administration's proposal to cancel NASA's 3 billion Constellation program . Nelson and other members on the space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee—blamed NASA for what they described as the lack of a clear goal for exploration , signaling that the new space policy laid out in the Administration's 2011 budget will face tough political opposition in Congress in the months ahead . NASA's plan , unveiled earlier this month , is to jettison an earlier program to land Americans on the moon by 2020 on board launchers and spacecraft that the space agency would develop for the purpose . Although agency officials say NASA is still interested in human spaceflight , the agency now intends to turn over the development of launch vehicles to the commercial sector , and invest strategically in developing key technologies toward long-range plans for sending astronauts beyond the

  • Researcher Accused of Fraud Found Dead

    Updated: 2010-02-24 20:34:07
    A researcher accused of fraud last week for allegedly hiring actors to give false testimony at his own scientific misconduct hearing, William Fals-Stewart, a clinical psychologist formerly at the University of Buffalo, New York, was found dead in his home this morning, the Buffalo News reports. An autopsy will be done today to determine the cause of death.

  • Press Release: Stephen Hawking to Accept Cosmos Award in Cambridge, England

    Updated: 2010-02-24 05:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Stephen Hawking to Accept Cosmos Award in Cambridge, England

  • Daily dose of science on the Web

    Updated: 2010-02-23 20:57:00
    Solar Stormwatch: Help scientists spot the sun's blasts Gizmag: Gold nanoparticles turn light into current Swinburne: Alien invaders pack the Milky Way Astroblog: Carnival of Space 142 ...(read more)

  • U.S. Science Told to Stay on Its Toes

    Updated: 2010-02-23 19:33:50
    . U.S . Science Told to Stay on Its Toes by Jeffrey Mervis on February 23, 2010 2:33 PM Permanent Link Email Print More Previous Article Next Article A new essay by the oversight body of the National Science Foundation explains what federal research officials must do if the United States hopes to remain the world's leading scientific power . NSF should sharpen its criteria for choosing research projects to make sure they are transformative , it says , other federal research agencies should measure their portfolios against what's going on elsewhere , and the White House should make innovation a higher priority by creating a presidential council to track the issue . The prescription comes from the National Science Board and accompanies NSF's Science and Engineering Indicators 2010 a biennial compendium of statistics on the global research enterprise . The volume makes the case that the rest of the world is catching up , and the commentary is intended to hold the current administration's feet to the fire , says board chair Steven Beering . Beering believes that the Obama Administration is actually doing a pretty good job so far . I think that President Obama has taken a sincere and

  • Wellcome Unveils a Road Map

    Updated: 2010-02-22 21:47:27
    The Wellcome Trust, the United Kingdom's massive biomedical research charity, has a released a strategic plan for its next decade.

  • International Space Station video tour

    Updated: 2010-02-20 21:46:49
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  • Obama cuts manned moon budget

    Updated: 2010-02-09 11:43:06
    Obama cuts manned moon budget Space blog Obama cuts manned moon budget Sir Martin Sweeting So President Obama has scrapped the US plans for a manned return to the Moon . As the world claws it way out of recession , many might see this decision as being financially prudent . However , the exploration of the lunar surface is still very much on the agenda . But it won’t be man making one small step next time , it will be a robot Several nations are planning robotic lunar missions including India , China , Korea and interestingly , the USA . And when you think about it , this makes perfect sense because robotic lunar missions are much more cost effective than manned missions , although not so emotive . Of course , robotic exploration is nothing new with NASA and ESA both utilising this technology , but it’s still very expensive . The price tag for the European ExoMars programme is around 1Bn which is a lot of money in any currency . But does robotic exploration have to be this expensive MoonLITE Orbiter Penetrator , designed by SSTL for the design phase of the UK government's MoonLITE mission for a low-cost orbiter carrying scientific lunar surface penetrators and a communications

  • News: Hubble Photos Reveal "Dramatic" Surface Changes on Pluto

    Updated: 2010-02-04 05:00:00
    Hubble Photos Reveal "Dramatic" Surface Changes on Pluto (from Planetary News)

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