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21 Jun 2018
- 08:36 UTC Astronomy.FM AFM’s Space Pirate Radio 2018/06/21 Summer Pirates, and S... Happy Solstice, y’allHere are the links from tonight’s program: Surprise! New activity in Sunspot Land:http://www.spaceweather.com/images2018/20jun18/hmi1898.gif?PHPSESSID=aectfa040b3ic4g4spoto3uu47https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/synoptic/sunspots_earth/mdi_sunspots_1024.jpg Looking what is up in the night sky:Wed, Jun 20, 11h FIRST QUARTERThu, Jun 21, ...
- 08:25 UTC Urban Astronomer Podcast #30: Stellar Evolution and Nuclear Fusion Welcome to episode 30 of the Urban Astronomer Podcast. This week's episode features the 2nd part of our look at how stellar evolution can lead to a supernova explosion, inspired ...
- 08:00 UTC CQG+ Celebrating quantum gravity: the moon’s craters and conce...
- 08:00 UTC Aviation Week Satellite Industry Continues Upward Climb
- 07:55 UTC Parabolic Arc The Future Just Ain’t What It Used To Be: Space Tourism E... White Knight taxis with SpaceShipOne on June 21, 2004. (Credit: John Criswick)On this date in 2004, Mike Melvill lit the candle on SpaceShipOne as soared into history as the first ...
- 07:27 UTC Space Fellowship Northern Lights and Noctilucent Clouds
- 06:08 UTC Kevin Jardine's Blo... Making a galaxy map, Part 4: Enclosure
- 05:50 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... The Long and Short of it The Sun has reached the most northerly extent of the annual cycle of the seasons and will now begin the journey to the corresponding southernmost point.In the north the daylight ...
- 05:02 UTC ABC 'A warfighting domain': Is the global race for space supr...
- 04:27 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... How About That! The shot all night-time probably anyone who has spent any time taking pictures of the night sky hope for but seldom, if ever get. Planned shots are difficult enough to ...
- 04:01 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 06/21/2018 – Ephemeris – Yay, summer is here! Ephemeris for Thursday, June 21st. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 34 minutes, setting at 9:32, and it will rise tomorrow at 5:57. The Moon, 1 ...
- 04:00 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... A bacterium in an acidic, hot volcanic lake may hold clue... A group of microbes found in a highly acidic, hot, mineral-rich volcanic lake in Central America may give us clues about life on ancient Mars.
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Black Belt Prairie The crescent-shaped area of fertile, cultivated land stretches through parts of Mississippi and Alabama.
- 03:47 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Today’s Tidbits: June 20, 2018 Here are SpacePolicyOnline.com’s tidbits for June 20, 2018: White House releases NEO preparedness action plan; Pentagon moving forward on Space Force; Mars dust storm goes global. Be sure to check ...
- 02:17 UTC Cosmic Log Scientists get precious protein data from single cells Ying Zhu, a chemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, places a chip containing samples for analysis into the automated NanoPOTS system. (PNNL Photo / Andrea Starr)Scientists have developed a technique ...
- 02:03 UTC NASA Watch Defending Our Planet Against Impact Events National Near Earth Object Preparedness Plan Released "A new multiagency report outlines how the U.S. could become better prepared for near-Earth objects -- asteroids and comets whose orbits come within ...
20 Jun 2018
- 23:32 UTC Cosmic Log White House updates plan to counter killer asteroids NASA is planning missions to study how to divert a threatening asteroid, including an experiment known as DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test. (NASA Illustration)The White House has issued an ...
- 23:09 UTC Astronomy Weather B... Happy summer!
- 22:52 UTC NASA Watch Dialing Back The Space Force Thing Mattis: Legislation needed to create 'space force', The Hill "Defense Secretary James Mattis on Wednesday said President's Trump's recent direction to establish a "space force" will require work with Congress ...
- 22:04 UTC Astro Watch NASA Administrator Expresses Support for Space Policy Dir... With the threat of space debris destroying satellites, crewed spacecraft and even the International Space Station increasing, processes have been initiated to help alleviate and prevent this threat. NASA’s new ...
- 21:59 UTC The New York Times The Summer Solstice and the Search for Life in the Cosmos As you mark the longest day of the year, consider the debate among astronomers over whether Earth’s tilt toward the sun helps make life on our world and others possible. ...
- 21:57 UTC Space Fellowship New Satellite, Space Research and Cargo Missions Fill Sta...
- 21:57 UTC Space Fellowship Martian Dust Storm Grows Global; Curiosity Captures Photo...
- 21:35 UTC NASA Tech Briefs New Process for Chemical Recycling of PLA Under Mild Cond...
- 21:20 UTC Astro Watch Researcher Captures Best Ever Evidence of Rare Black Hole Scientists have been able to prove the existence of small black holes and those that are super-massive but the existence of an elusive type of black hole, known as intermediate-mass ...
- 21:15 UTC The Planetary Socie... New report explores threat from near-Earth asteroids
- 21:02 UTC Astro Watch Hunting Molecules to Find New Planets Each exoplanet revolves around a star, like the Earth around the Sun. This is why it is generally impossible to obtain images of an exoplanet, so dazzling is the light ...
- 20:33 UTC Parabolic Arc Robotic Refueling Mission 3 Completes Crucial Series of T... Matt Ashmore, an engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, performs a fit check of RRM3’s three external tools. After RRM3 is installed to the outside of ...
- 20:09 UTC NASA Space Station ... New Satellite, Space Research and Cargo Missions Fill Cre... Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor collects breath samples to analyze and measure red blood cell function for the Marrow investigation.The International Space Station deployed a satellite this morning to demonstrate the potential ...
- 20:03 UTC Parabolic Arc RemoveDEBRIS Satellite Deployed From International Space ... RemoveDEBRIS payload panel: the Harpoon target is visible bottom left, and the net is housed in the white container mid-centre. (Credit SSTL/Max Alexander)Houston — June 20 2018 (NanoRacks PR) – ...
- 19:57 UTC New Scientist NASA outlines its plans to deal with a large asteroid imp... NASA is designing and testing missions to deflect a potential asteroid from hitting Earth, and working with emergency responders to plan for a day when one does
- 19:52 UTC Space News Space Force: Pentagon navigates the way ahead and awaits ... WASHINGTON — As the initial shock of the president’s order to create a Space Force wears off, the question of “what comes next” looms large for the Pentagon.With the U.S. ...
- 19:36 UTC Parabolic Arc Federal Government Releases National Near-Earth Object Pr... A depiction of asteroid 2012 TC4 as it safely passes under Earth on Oct. 12, 2017. While scientists cannot yet predict exactly how close it will approach, they are certain ...
- 19:00 UTC Women in Astronomy Cross-post: Where Women Must Defy the Odds to Become Scie... In a new documentary, National Geographic Explorers Clare Fieseler and Gabby Salazar focus on stories of women with careers in science who face intense cultural and social barriers. The film, ...
- 18:25 UTC KIPAC Tea Talks No KIPAC Tea Talk
- 18:24 UTC KIPAC Tea Talks No KIPAC Tea Talk
- 18:18 UTC The Virtual Telesco... Iridium 10 flashes above Rome – 9 June 2018
- 17:37 UTC Astro Bob Japan’s Hayabusa Probe Arrives At Asteroid Ryugu — Wow! The Japanese asteroid sample return mission Hayabusa 2, which launched in December 2014, is pulling up to its target this week, the asteroid Ryugu. The asteroid, about a half-mile (900 ...
- 16:38 UTC SpaceFlight Insider RemoveDEBRIS launched from ISS to test ways to combat spa... The RemoveDEBRIS satellite was deployed from the International Space Station on June 20, 2018. Photo Credit: NASAOn Wednesday, June 20, 2018 the RemoveDEBRIS satellite was launched from the International Space ...
- 16:00 UTC AAS Nova Exploring Jets from a Supermassive Black Hole What are the feeding — and burping — habits of the supermassive black holes peppering the universe? In a new study, observations of one such monster reveal more about the ...
- 16:00 UTC AAS Nova A Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star in the Small Magellanic ... Kathryn F. Neugent et al 2018 AJ 155 207The first runaway yellow supergiant has been discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Its large radial velocity suggests it originated in a ...
- 15:57 UTC Space News China appears to be preparing to deorbit its Tiangong-2 s... HELSINKI, Finland — China has lowered the orbit of its Tiangong-2 space lab, likely in preparation for deorbiting the orbital facility and thus averting a similar scenario to the uncontrolled ...
- 15:41 UTC Astrobetter Early Career Focus Session for the 2020 Decadal Survey We all have ideas about how astronomy can (and should) be changed for the better, but have you ever wondered how to actually go about making that change happen? Or ...
- 15:40 UTC SPACE.com Apollo Moon Rock Rediscovered in Cambodia Debuts on Displ...
- 15:31 UTC SPACE.com Soyuz Spacecraft: Backbone of Russian Space Program
- 15:05 UTC astrobites Dating the Evaporation of Globular Clusters Title: Dating the Tidal Disruption of Globular Clusters with Gaia Data on Their Stellar StreamsAuthors: Sownak Bose, Idan Ginsburg, and Abraham LoebFirst Author’s Institution: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsStatus: Published in ...
- 15:03 UTC SPACE.com Sally Ride's Space Stamp Collection: Inside the Astronaut...
- 15:01 UTC SPACE.com NGIS: Cargo Ships to the ISS
- 14:56 UTC Centauri Dreams On Potentially Habitable Moons Once we have a firm exomoon detection, we can begin to characterize the possibilities. As we await improvements in our technology, deepening our knowledge of potential exomoon host planets is ...
- 14:49 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Hunting molecules to find new planets An international team of astronomers led by UNIGE makes planets visible by detecting molecules on their surface.

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