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30 Jul 2014
- 14:51 UTC The Daily Galaxy Mercury's Bizarre Magnetic Field --"Powered by Liquid Iro... Earth and Mercury are both rocky planets with iron cores, but Mercury's interior differs from Earth's in a way that explains why the planet has such a bizarre magnetic field, ...
- 14:36 UTC Rosetta Blog Chasing comets (across history) Tweet After Rosetta (clearly, especially if you're following this blog!) what's the first name that comes to our minds when talking about comets? I bet for many of us it's ...
- 14:32 UTC Astrobetter Preparing for Teaching Classes Instructors, are you starting to think about preparing for your fall classes? Looking for some good resources? If so, AstroBetter has you covered with our Wiki pages under the Teaching ...
- 14:13 UTC Science World Repor... Mercury's Bizarre Magnetic Field Reveals a Different Inte... Mercury and Earth may both be rocky planets with iron cores, but their magnetic fields are drastically differently. Now, researchers have found that Mercury's interior may differ in a way ...
- 14:02 UTC Universe Today Rocket Replay: Watch Europe’s Last Space Station Automate... The last of Europe’s five automated transfer vehicles made a flawless launch to orbit yesterday (July 30). So far, all is going well with ATV Georges Lemaître as it brings ...
- 13:49 UTC Space Fellowship Our galaxy is way smaller than previous estimates, study ... The Milky Way is smaller than astronomers previously thought, according to new research. For the first time, scientists have been able to precisely measure the mass of the galaxy that ...
- 13:44 UTC Space Fellowship Lifetime of gravity measurements heralds new beginning Although ESA’s GOCE satellite is no more, all of the measurements it gathered during its life skirting the fringes our atmosphere, including the very last as it drifted slowly back ...
- 13:42 UTC Discovery News - Sp... SpaceShipTwo Resumes Test Flights Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger, two-pilot suborbital vehicle, returned to the skies for tests after a six-month hiatus. Continue reading →
- 13:30 UTC Space Fellowship M31: The Andromeda Galaxy Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. Together these two galaxies dominate the Local Group of ...
- 13:30 UTC Universe Today NASA’s First Space-Tweeting Astronaut And ‘Big Bang Theor... The first astronaut who tweeted from space is leaving NASA, the agency announced yesterday. Mike Massimino (best known to his 1.29 million followers as @astro_mike) — and also one of ...
- 13:24 UTC Space Fellowship Europe’s Fifth and Final Resupply Ship Launches to Statio... The European Space Agency’s (ESA) fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5) launched Tuesday atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, at 7:47 p.m. EDT. The ATV-5 will ...
- 13:13 UTC NASA Astrobiology Enceladus in 101 Geysers This view looks across the geyser basin of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, along fractures spewing water vapor and ice particles into space. Cassini scientists have pinpointed the source locations of about ...
- 13:09 UTC Astrochuck's Astrop... M16 Eagle Nebula Experiment One of my favorite summer targets has been the Eagle Nebula or Messier 16 (M16). This was one of the first targets I can remember seeing images of from the ...
- 13:00 UTC Rosetta Blog CometWatch – 29 July Tweet Rosetta navigation camera (NAVCAM) image taken on 29 July 2014. View and download interpolated image here. Tweet Rosetta navigation camera (NAVCAM) image taken on 29 July 2014. Full-frame NAVCAM ...
- 12:42 UTC Ask an Astronomer What Happens to Matter that Falls into a Black Hole? Question: So a question from the uneducated. If all matter at the beginning was in one infinitely small point so incredibly charged with energy would that weight punch through space ...
- 12:31 UTC Astroblog Carnival of Space #364 is Here! Carnival of Space #364 is now up at Photos to Space. There are occultations, Rosetta's imminent arrival, Chandra's 15th anniversary and much more. There is also a contest for space ...
- 12:26 UTC AMSAT-UK AMSAT-UK Space Colloquium Videos Now Available Thanks to the hard work of volunteers from the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) videos of the presentations given to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium held in Guildford on July ...
- 11:39 UTC 13.7 No End In Sight? No Problem! Our quest for knowledge will never end because we just can't know everything, no matter how hard we try, says commentator Marcelo Gleiser. But that's a good thing. Here's why. ...
- 11:30 UTC Bad Astronomy Geysers on Enceladus Run Deep and Are Powered by Saturn I... In the outer solar system, a moon of Saturn is erupting. Enceladus, a ball of ice 500 kilometers across, has more than 100 geysers erupting near its south pole, and ...
- 11:27 UTC SPACE.com Vintage NASA Spacecraft to Tackle Interplanetary Science A private team is priming a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft to perform new science as it travels through interplanetary space after attempts to move the probe into a position closer to ...
- 11:19 UTC SPACE.com NASA Urged to Accelerate 3D Printing on Space Station While praising NASA's efforts and focus on in-space manufacturing, the U.S. National Research Council report stressed that the agency should organize its various centers to identify priority projects for use ...
- 11:14 UTC Science World Repor... The Milky Way Galaxy Weighs In: Andromeda May be Twice as... Scientists have taken a closer look at our galaxy and our neighbor, Andromeda, and have found that the Milky Way may actually be less massive than expected.
- 10:00 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 07/30/2014 – Ephemeris – Wednesday is classic planet day ... Ephemeris for Wednesday, July 30th. The sun rises at 6:26. It’ll be up for 14 hours and 43 minutes, setting at 9:10. The moon, half way from new to first ...
- 10:00 UTC AmericaSpace ‘Miles and Miles and Miles’: Opportunity Sets New Off-Wor... Simulated image of Opportunity at work in Endurance crater. The “little Mars rover that could” recently surpassed a 41-year-old “off-world” distance record. Image Credit: NASA/JPL Astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad famously ...
- 09:50 UTC Astronotes Stargazing in August In August the Summer Triangle continues to dominate the seasonal sky. This classic asterism is defined by three bright stars of the constellations Cygnus, Aquila and Lyra, these are the ...
- 09:33 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... SDO Sees a Lunar Transit Very nice! Little wonder this was on NASA’s Image of the Day below is the caption from that page if you’re in a hurry: On July 26, 2014, from 10:57 ...
- 08:14 UTC e! Science News NASA-funded X-ray instrument settles interstellar debate New findings from a NASA-funded instrument have resolved a decades-old puzzle about a fog of low-energy X-rays observed over the entire sky. Thanks to refurbished detectors first flown on a ...
- 08:14 UTC e! Science News Mysterious molecules in space Over the vast, empty reaches of interstellar space, countless small molecules tumble quietly though the cold vacuum. Forged in the fusion furnaces of ancient stars and ejected into space when ...
- 07:34 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Enceladus in 101 Geysers Scientists have identified 101 geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus and revealed important details about how they are formed.
- 07:10 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2014-07-29 SA: Paul SO: Fred Others: Encarni, Solene ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - a very long night of hit and miss. had to reject a number of observations due to various reasons. ...
- 06:32 UTC Australian Indigeno... "Cultural Astronomy Channel" - YouTube The Cultural Astronomy Channel is a YouTube channel moderated by Prof Jarita Holbrook from the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa.The channel features a number of ...
- 04:45 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Revolutionary microshutter technology hurdles significant... NASA technologists have hurdled a number of significant technological challenges in their quest to improve an already revolutionary observing technology originally created for the James Webb Space Telescope.
- 04:38 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Less to the Milky Way than previously thought The Milky Way is less massive than astronomers previously thought, according to new research. For the first time, scientists have been able to precisely measure the mass of the galaxy ...
- 04:30 UTC Science 2.0 Wait, So How Much Does The The Milky Way Weigh? Does this galaxy make me look fat? Has Andromeda been taking skinny selfies? It turns out the way some astrophysicists have been studying our galaxy made it appear that the ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Seeing through Sakhaâ€™s Smoke With dozens of wildfires burning in a part of Russia best known for its frigid winters, the CALIPSO satellite offered this view through the clouds and smoke.
- 02:45 UTC The Daily Galaxy "Andromeda Galaxy Harbors Twice as Much Dark Matter as th... The Milky Way is smaller than astronomers previously thought, according to new research. For the first time, scientists have been able to precisely measure the mass of the galaxy that ...
- 02:22 UTC The Daily Galaxy Mystery Molecules of the Interstellar Medium --"Many of t... Astronomers have long known that interstellar molecules containing carbon atoms exist and that by their nature they will absorb light shining on them from stars and other luminous bodies. Because ...
- 01:46 UTC The Planetary Socie... NASA's Budget Stalls Out Congress has all but given up its goal of passing a budget before the end of this fiscal year in September. Instead, we will likely see a temporary extension through ...
- 01:28 UTC Starts With A Bang! The Opportunity of a Lifetime… on Mars! (Synopsis) “In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.” -John Archibald Wheeler It’s been over a decade, nearly a hundred thousand turns of its wheels and an unprecedented ...
- 01:28 UTC Starts With a Bang! The Opportunity of a Lifetime… on Mars! The incredible story of the record-breaking red planet’s rover.Continue reading on Medium »
- 01:25 UTC Universe Today Scientists Discover 101 Geysers Erupting at Saturn’s Intr... Scientists analyzing the reams of data from NASA’s Cassini orbiter at Saturn have discovered 101 geysers erupting from the intriguing icy moon Enceladus and that the spewing material of liquid ...
- 01:06 UTC Science 2.0 DXL Instrument Settles Interstellar Helium Debate New findings have resolved a decades-old puzzle about a fog of low-energy X-rays observed over the entire sky. Thanks to refurbished detectors first flown on a NASA sounding rocket in ...
- 01:00 UTC One-Minute Astronom... Miss Leavitt’s Stars and the Size of the Universe Nature does not give up her secrets easily. But sometimes, with great skill and effort, someone makes a truly important discovery and reveals knowledge even the wisest philosophers once believed ...
- 00:54 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 30JUL2014 Delta Aquarid meteor shower live stream from Alabama on July 29-30, 2014The WatchersA favorable new moon will help darken the skies for 2014 Delta Aquarid meteor shower (the Southern Delta ...
- 00:30 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... Europe's fifth and final ATV freighter flying to space st... Europe's line of space freighters is going out with a (big) bang. Named "Georges Lemaître" after the Belgian priest and astronomer who proposed what became the Big Bang theory, the ...
- 00:30 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... Going out with a (big) bang... The fifth and final of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV), named the Georges Lemaître after the "father of the Big Bang theory," lifted off atop an ...
- 00:30 UTC io9 Space A Charming Alphabet Series Explores the ABCs of Rocket Sc... NASA is producing an alphabet book of rocket science to unravel the acronym soup surrounding the Orion multipurpose crew vehicle project. The result is a fantastic bit of retro-futuristic art ...
- 00:27 UTC SPACE.com Huge European Cargo Ship Launches Its Last Delivery Fligh... The European Space Agency's fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5) blasted off from French Guiana Tuesday evening (July 29), kicking off the final mission for this line of unmanned spacecraft, which ...
- 00:19 UTC SPACE.com How Europe's ATV Space Cargo Ship Works (Infographic) The European Space Agency's ATV cargo vehicle delivers 8.3 tons of solid and liquid cargo to the International Space Station. See how the unmanned spacecraft work in this Space.com infographic.
- 00:13 UTC SPACE.com Final ATV Cargo Spacecraft Launched To Space Station | Vi... The fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5), named "Georges Lemaître", was launched from Kourou, French Guiana on July 29th, 2014 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. It is the heaviest spacecraft ever ...