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20 Apr 2014
- 19:46 UTC Astro Watch Dragon Spacecraft Makes Easter Delivery for Space Station The Expedition 39 crew welcomed nearly two and a half tons of supplies and scientific payloads to the International Space Station with the arrival of the third SpaceX Dragon commercial ...
- 19:29 UTC Astronomy Nerd black eye galaxy m64 by arjuna_zbycho on Flickr.Taken by ... black eye galaxy m64 by arjuna_zbycho on Flickr.Taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
- 19:12 UTC Starts With A Bang! Weekend Diversion: Build your own Iron-rich star! (Synops... “Iron helps us play!” -The Simpsons If you were to peel back the layers of a supermassive star, before it went supernova, what you’d find were a slew of layers ...
- 19:11 UTC Starts With a Bang! Weekend Diversion: Build your own Iron-rich star! “Iron helps us play!” -The Simpsons It was so much fun this week to talk about how the Sun really shines, where we shared the details of…
- 19:05 UTC Galileo's Pendulum Still a work in progress I’m still a work in progress — That’s irkingly obvious A gift and a curse, I currently work but I’m jobless Feel like a hot mess, but I could have ...
- 19:00 UTC One Universe at a T... Fiat Lux In 1671, Isaac Newton submitted a letter to the the Royal Society outlining a new theory of light and color. While Newton is probably most famous for his theory of ...
- 19:00 UTC Sydney Observatory Daily cosmobite: sailing in the sky The constellation of Vela the Sails is high in the south in the early evening to the right or west of the Southern Cross. Its brightest star Gamma Velorum is ...
- 17:21 UTC Astronomy Nerd Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates and those who... Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates and those who don’t, have a great day :)
- 17:16 UTC The Original Rocket... Happy Easter rocket news catch-up and some hidden 'eggs' While I was prepping, launching, and documenting my meager flights, I spotted several noteworthy rocket items on the interwebs.As y'all probably know, on Friday SpaceX successfully launched the ISS-bound Falcon9/Dragon, ...
- 17:09 UTC Starts With A Bang! Comments of the Week #7: On Education, the Skies and the ... “All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.” -Robert Louis Stevenson It’s been another wonderful week in the Universe, and there’s ...
- 16:59 UTC Astro Watch Spectacular Fireball from Space Explodes Over Murmansk, R... A suspected meteorite explosion has been recorded by citizens of the northern Russian city of Murmansk. Multiple drivers with dashcams out on the streets of the 300,000-people city at 2.10am ...
- 16:37 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... New Horizons New Horizons: On the Space Frontier Glad to hear anything about New Horizons as I patiently wait out the long journey. Source New Horizons: On the Space Frontier Glad to ...
- 16:25 UTC Astro Bob Lyrid meteor shower graces the planet on Earth Day We celebrate Earth Day this upcoming Tuesday, a time to reflect on how each of us can better our environment. It also happens to be the peak of the annual ...
- 15:56 UTC Parabolic Arc Whitesides: First Spaceflight on Schedule for This Year Aabar Investments, the Abu Dhabi government company which owns 37.8 percent of Virgin Galactic, release the following Q&A today with Galactic CEO and President George Whitesides. What brings you to ...
- 15:42 UTC Parabolic Arc Dragon Berthed at International Space Station NASA PR — ISS Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, with the assistance of NASA’s Rick Mastracchio, successfully berthed the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at the space station ...
- 15:41 UTC NASA Watch Another Dragon Visits ISS Dragon Berthed at the International Space Station "ISS Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, with the assistance of NASA's Rick Mastracchio, successfully berthed the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft ...
- 15:39 UTC NASA Watch John Houbolt NASA moon landing engineer John C. Houbolt dies at 95, AP "John C. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA's successful moon landing ...
- 14:51 UTC Space Fellowship Dragon Delivers Science, Station Supplies The Expedition 39 crew welcomed nearly two and a half tons of supplies and scientific payloads to the International Space Station with the arrival of the third SpaceX Dragon commercial ...
- 14:22 UTC AmericaSpace Easter Sunday ISS Berthing Caps Success-Filled CRS-3 Miss... SpaceX’s “Easter Dragon” comes knocking at the International Space Station’s door with a perfect, on-time berthing on Easter Sunday. Photo Credit: NASA TV Following a 13-month hiatus in International Space ...
- 14:02 UTC AmericaSpace NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Passes Critical Design Review, ... An artist’s concept of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approaching the asteroid Bennu in 2018. The mission has recently completed its Critical Design Review, moving towards construction and assemply. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/University ...
- 13:40 UTC Astro Watch Sun Emits a Mid-level Solar Flare and a Coronal Mass Ejec... The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 9:03 a.m. EDT on April 18, 2014, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event. This flare is classified ...
- 13:34 UTC Dark Sky Diary International Dark Sky Week 20-26 April Today marks the start of International Dark Sky Week, a global initiative to get people out of towns and cities and seeing a night sky as it’s meant to be ...
- 13:20 UTC Discovery News - Sp... DNews: Can We Grow Plants on Mars? Last year, NASA announced that they had found water on Mars. This posed a question to scientists: Could we grow plants in the soil of Mars? Trace explains what is ...
- 13:14 UTC SatTrackCam Leiden ... The SpaceX Dragon CRS-3, the ISS and a piece of Dragon la... Last Friday at 19:25 UT, SpaceX launched the Dragon CRS-3 commercial supply ship to the International Space Station ISS. It passed over Europe 20 minutes later but unfortunately I was ...
- 13:13 UTC Astro Watch Russia to Keep Working With Astronauts From US, Europe, J... Russian cosmonauts will continue to work with their colleagues from the US, Europe and Japan, despite a number of recent NASA statements about curtailing space cooperation, the head of the ...
- 12:43 UTC SPACE.com Red Tape Hinders Study of Asteroid Impacts on Earth At issue is the ability to combine space data with outputs from a global network of seismic, infrasound and hydroacoustic sensors that have been deployed worldwide to provide treaty verification ...
- 12:28 UTC Universe Today Easter Sunday Space Station Rendezvous and Berthing for S... The SpaceX 3 Dragon cargo freighter successfully arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Easter Sunday morning, April 20, as planned and was deftly captured by Expedition 39 Commander ...
- 12:28 UTC SPACE.com SpaceX Dragon Makes Easter Delivery at International Spac... A commercial Dragon cargo ship built by SpaceX made an Easter delivery to the International Space Station Sunday (April 20) to deliver tons of gear, supplies and even some treats ...
- 12:00 UTC Space Exploration N... Meteorites help scientists probe Mars' early atmosphere Scientists have analysed 40 meteorites from Mars that were found on Earth to discover more about the early history of the Red Planet's atmosphere. Light scatters in the martian atmosphere ...
- 11:46 UTC Astro Photos by Bob... A Sunflower in the night Last night’s target was M63, aka the Sunflower Galaxy. 24 x 5min exposures, Atik 460 and 190MN, processed in PixInsight. There would have been another 6 or so exposures to ...
- 11:41 UTC Andrew's Astronomy ... Back to the Whale A clear evening, the moon approaching third quarter and a long weekend courtesy of the Easter bank holiday; what to do… No debate really; add some data to my Whale ...
- 11:39 UTC Astroblog The 2014 Australian Lyrid Meteor Shower, Morning 23 April The morning sky looking north as seen from Brisbane at 5:00 am AEST on April 23. The Lyrid radiant is marked with a yellow cross. Similar views will be seen ...
- 11:30 UTC Bad Astronomy Happy Easter SUN day! Today is Easter Sunday, a Christian holiday. It actually has a tie-in with astronomy, since it’s celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full Moon after the March equinox. ...
- 11:30 UTC Scientific American White Dwarf Acts as Cosmic Magnifying Glass A planet-hunting telescope has observed long-predicted gravitational lensing of a star in a binary system by its companion -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 11:00 UTC One Universe at a T... State of Decay One aspect of quantum particles is that they can decay into lighter particles, releasing energy. For example, a free neutron will tend to decay into a proton, electron, and anti-neutrino. ...
- 10:49 UTC Space Fellowship Station Crew Captures Dragon The International Space Station’s Expedition 39 crew successfully captured the SpaceX Dragon resupply vehicle with the station’s robotic arm at 7:14 a.m. EDT Sunday. Controlling the 57-foot Canadarm2 from a ...
- 10:00 UTC AmericaSpace Endeavour’s Radar Love: 20 Years Since STS-59 (Part 2) Endeavour rockets into the dawn on 9 April 1994. Photo Credit: NASA Twenty years ago this week, the crew of Endeavour on STS-59 demonstrated that the shuttle program was imbued ...
- 07:10 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2014-04-19 SA: Paul SO: Veronica Others: Lisa, Luke ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - struggled with cloud at the beginning of the night, could not observe for a while. it cleared and turned ...
- 06:50 UTC Space Fellowship Ash and Lightning above an Icelandic Volcano Why did a picturesque 2010 volcanic eruption in Iceland create so much ash? Although the large ash plume was not unparalleled in its abundance, its location was particularly noticeable because ...
- 04:56 UTC astropixie silent storms Happy Easter Sunday: the first Sunday after the Full Moon that occurs on or after the vernal equinox. they really take the hot cross buns tradition seriously here in australia. ...
- 04:00 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Dragon Arrives at ISS Delivering 150 Science Experiments,... SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft was successfully grappled by Japanese astronaut and International Space Station (ISS) commander Koichi Wakata using Canada's robotic arm, Canadarm2. Capture was exactly on time at 7:14 am ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Ship Wave Clouds Behind the Crozet Islands Cloud shapes reveal the fluid-like nature of the atmosphere.
- 02:48 UTC The Daily Galaxy "Darwin's DNA?" Eight % of Human Genome Comes from RNA Vi... "The next great war will start inside us. In the next stage of evolution, mankind is history," said Greg Bear, author of Darwin's Radio. Michael Crichton would have loved this ...
- 02:30 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com CRS-3 Dragon set for Easter Sunday ISS arrival SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is closing in on the International Space Station (ISS) for an Easter Sunday arrival. Following a slight hiccup with her quad thrusters, the spacecraft has enjoyed a ...
- 02:30 UTC Space Exploration N... SpaceX Dragon reaches space station A Dragon cargo capsule owned by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) positioned itself alongside the International Space Station Sunday for an orbital pickup, ending a 36-hour journey. The station's robot arm ...
- 01:28 UTC The Original Rocket... Launch Report 2014-4 Location: NARHAMS, Mt. AiryWeather: max temp. in high 50's, a few high clouds, gusty winds to 15mphTotal flights: Today - 13; YTD - 28Total motors: Today - 14; YTD - ...
- 00:42 UTC Tychogirl Metis Turned fly then swallowed by her husband she no doubt mulled annulment from inside his belly. She could have wallowed encrusted with his innards but smart mother smirked and spent ...
- 00:00 UTC Sky Caramba Who’s Virgo? Virgo is up all night in late April. She's not the only female in the zodiac, but she's the only one who is an entire constellation. Who is Virgo? It ...
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com Largest Collection Of Ancient "Cup-Marked" Rocks Ever Fou... There are many beautiful cup-marks in Scotland. These very ancient carvings are the key to ancient art of our ancestors. These strange marks have puzzled both researchers and layman alike ...
19 Apr 2014
- 23:52 UTC Systemic - Characte... photographic Kepler 168f has been the subject of substantial media coverage over the past week. This newly confirmed planet orbits a red dwarf with roughly half the mass and radius of ...