Satellite Educators Association Conference XXIII
Updated: 2010-06-30 22:59:20
Satellite Educators Association Conference XXIII
A stunning “cosmic watercolor” features the interplay of light from hot young stars reflecting off clouds of gas and dust, 420 light-years from Earth.
The European Space Agency's GOCE satellite has delivered a beautiful map of Earth's gravity field that will also serve important scientific purposes for years to come.
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This Is Wiltshire: The Marden Henge mystery (via Daily Grail)
Spaceflight Now: Falcon 9 spacecraft meets fiery end
The New Yorker: The plastic panic
Do astronauts carry on, um, "personal relationships" in outer space? "We don't have them and we won't," STS-131 shuttle commander Alan Poindexter is quoted as saying in today's Telegraph.
Here's an oldie but goodie: This picture from three years ago shows skydiving Staff Sgt. Eric Thompson high in the sky while a Delta 2 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying the COSMO-SkyMed satellite into Earth orbit.
'Nova' on PBS: 'The Spy Factory'
The Daily Grail: Singularity backlash
New Scientist: 40 questions of science
National Geographic: The evolutionary road
NASA Watch's Keith Cowing picks up on a Russian statement suggesting that China has been asked to join the International Space Station partnership ... to help fill the spaceflight gap created by the space shuttle fleet's retirement.
Cracked: 7 classic Disney movies based on R-rated tales
BoingBoing: All your favorite dinosaurs suck (@$!%# alert)
ABC Australia: Women's bodies 'choosy' about sperm
BBC: Building a do-it-yourself nuclear fusion reactor
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter began orbiting the moon one year ago today, and in honor of the anniversary, the space agency is offering a gallery of "10 cool things" observed by the space probe.
Discovery News: Did sickle cell anemia kill King Tut?
The New Yorker: ESPN enters the third dimension
Telegraph: Listen to the music of the sun
Next Big Future: Carnival of Space 159
Kepler Discovers Hundreds of New Planets (from Planetary News)
On the Planetary Society web site: Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First Ever Solar Sail
On the Planetary Society web site: Bill Nye Signs on as Planetary Society's New Executive Director