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25 Jul 2014
- 23:00 UTC Astronomy.com News The most precise measurement of an alien world’s size Kepler-93b is now known to an uncertainty of just 74 miles (119 kilometers) on either side of the planetary body.
- 22:12 UTC Astrowright Jumping the Timestream: Post from 07/25/2012 Well, as a follow-up to a timestream post sent a little more than a year ago, I’m writing today to ask the future about the ultimate merits and/or penalties of ...
- 22:07 UTC SPACE.com Best Space Photos of the Week - July 26, 2014 From a look again at the first footprints on the moon to the ISS view of Gaza, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for July 26, 2014.
- 22:07 UTC Scientific American Martian Soil Salts May Make Water Ice All Wet Within a Mars-like laboratory environment, perchlorate salts known to exist on Mars were able to lower the freezing point enough to get ice to turn to liquid water. Clara Moskowitz...
- 22:06 UTC SPACE.com Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week – July 26, 2014 What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
- 22:04 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World Achieved NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have teamed up to precisely measure one exoplanet's vital statistics -- from 300 light-years away. Continue reading →
- 22:00 UTC Astro Watch UK Satellite Takes a Selfie in Space Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has released an image taken by an inspection camera on board TechDemoSat-1 to mark the completion of the Launch and Early Operations Phase (LEOP) for ...
- 22:00 UTC Beyond Earthly Skie... Signature of a Giant Planet’s Rocky Core Stars in binary systems generally have identical chemical compositions since they formed from the same natal cloud of material. Nevertheless, small differences in chemical composition can exist between a pair ...
- 20:45 UTC Space Calendar July 28 – August 3, 2014 / Vol 33, No 30 / Hawai`i Island... COSPAR Moscow 2014: Space is a Zone for Cooperation and Understanding The bi-annual Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) takes place at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, ...
- 20:44 UTC SPACE.com Public Invited to See Shuttle 'Lift Off' at Space Center ... The countdown has begun for the liftoff of a space shuttle from Houston — and you are invited to take a front row seat. On Aug. 14, Space Center Houston's ...
- 20:06 UTC STARtorialist msjessicabee: Next month: White hot stars for every body... msjessicabee: Next month: White hot stars for every body type and the 168 best black holes in the universe! (via Raise Your Hand If You Would Subscribe to Cosmos-politan) YES, ...
- 20:00 UTC Sydney Observatory Daily cosmobite: lunar flight anniversary Apollo 15 was launched towards the Moon on this date in 1971. Two astronauts, David Scott and James Irwin landed four days later next to the spectacular scenery of the ...
- 19:50 UTC Space Fellowship Robotics, Research and Resupply Round Out Week for Statio... The six-person Expedition 40 crew wrapped up a productive week of cargo vehicle traffic and science aboard the International Space Station with more medical studies, physics and robotics on Friday. ...
- 19:49 UTC SPACE.com NASA Marketing Movie 2014 | Agency Video This NASA-produced video combines a greatest hits retrospective of past spaceflight with suggestions of humans-to-asteroid and Mars missions, plus animation of a yet unbuilt heavy lift launch vehicle.
- 19:45 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Mars Missions Preparing for Thrilling Comet Close Shave Comet Siding Spring is about to make a historic near miss of the red planet -- and NASA is preparing its Martian robots for the potentially hazardous encounter. Continue reading ...
- 19:41 UTC Astrobetter Rumor Mill 2014-2015 Is Now Open! I have started the new rumor mill pages for 2014-2015 (YIKES, already?!?) and I have relegated the 2013-2014 pages to the archives. All links to “Rumor Mill” will still work ...
- 19:39 UTC Universe Today Having Fun with the Equation of Time If you’re like us, you might’ve looked at a globe of the Earth in elementary school long before the days of Google Earth and wondered just what that strange looking ...
- 19:32 UTC SPACE.com Russian Officials Unable to Contact Animal-Carrying Space... A Russian space capsule carrying a package of biological and materials research specimens, including geckos and plant seeds, has stopped responding to commands from Earth, the Russian space agency announced ...
- 19:10 UTC StarStruck Watch What Could Be This Summer’s Best Meteor Shower A July meteor shower promises a chance to catch a shooting star. The late July Delta Aquarids may outperform the more famous August Perseids this year thanks to a moonless ...
- 19:00 UTC One Universe at a T... Cosmic Rainbow Recently I wrote about the average color of the universe, as determined by a survey of more than 230,000 galaxies. While knowing the overall color of these galaxies is a ...
- 19:00 UTC Parabolic Arc GAO: NASA Needs Executable Business Case for SLS Space Launch System: Resources Need to be Matched to Requirements to Decrease Risk and Support Long Term Affordability Government Accountability Office Published: Jul 23, 2014 What GAO Found The Space ...
- 18:56 UTC SPACE.com Taking Sid Meier's 'Civilization' Beyond Earth (Op-Ed) When we were asked to design a new science-fiction entry in the "Sid Meier’s Civilization" series, it was one of those amazing moments when we realized we were going to ...
- 18:52 UTC Sciencefiction qual... Jul 25, Battlestar Galactica the tv- series Battlestar Galactica
- 18:11 UTC American Meteor Soc... Meteor Activity Outlook for July 26-August 1, 2014 During this period the moon reaches its new phase on Saturday July 26th. At this time the moon will located near the sun and will be invisible at night. Later ...
- 18:04 UTC SPACE.com Colonize Space with ‘Civilization: Beyond Earth’ | Game T... The latest installment in Sid Meier's Civilization series takes mankind in search of a new home after the collapse of modern society on Earth. Pre-order the game here.
- 18:01 UTC Parabolic Arc CubeCab Wins $20K in NewSpace Conference Pitch Competitio... A Mountain View, Calif., company called CubeCab that is focused on launching CubeSat into space inexpensively won the $20,000 grand prize in the “Lightning Pitch” competition at the NewSpace Conference ...
- 17:54 UTC Astro Watch Pharao Space Clock Arrives in Germany ESA has welcomed the arrival of Pharao, an important part of ESA’s atomic clock experiment that will be attached to the International Space Station in 2016. It has arrived at ...
- 17:35 UTC Astronomy.com Blog NASA's a hit at Comic-Con [caption image="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-51-Comic_2D00_Con/4645.02.png" position="right" targeturl="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-51-Comic_2D00_Con/4645.02.png"]Jim Green is NASA’s Division Director for Planetary Science. He talked at length about current and future Mars missions. // All photos: Michael E. Bakich[/caption]Who knew that ...
- 17:29 UTC SPACE.com Hubble Space Telescope Could Become LEGO Model with Fan V... The Hubble Space Telescope is an amazing example of space engineering that for nearly a quarter century has been a vital research tool and public relations boon for astronomy. As ...
- 17:29 UTC Universe Today Watch Live: ‘Mars’ Crew Emerges From Simulation After 120... If you spent 120 days cooped up in a small habitat with six people, what’s the first thing you’d want to do upon emerging? Celebration would likely be one of ...
- 17:21 UTC Astro Watch New Mass Map of a Distant Galaxy Cluster is the Most Prec... Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the mass within a galaxy cluster more precisely than ever before. Created using observations from Hubble's Frontier Fields observing programme, the ...
- 17:05 UTC Universe Today Astronaut Spots Violence Over Gaza, Asks What Extraterres... From his perch aboard the International Space Station, Alexander Gerst took this photo this week and said he could spot explosions and rockets in the blackness below. The location made ...
- 17:03 UTC NewSpace Journal Nanosat launch company wins “Lightning Pitch” business pl... Members of the CubeCab team, including CEO Adrian Tymes (center), and prize sponsors pose with the $20,000 first-prize check at the Lightning Pitch awards ceremony Thursday evening. (credit: J. Foust) ...
- 16:59 UTC Space Fellowship NASA Mars Spacecraft Prepare for Close Comet Flyby NASA is taking steps to protect its Mars orbiters, while preserving opportunities to gather valuable scientific data, as Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring heads toward a close flyby of Mars ...
- 16:57 UTC Space Fellowship Hubble Serves a Slice of Stars
- 16:45 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Chandra's X-Ray Supernova Remnant Stunners: Photos To celebrate 15 years in orbit, NASA has release new, mind-blowing views of the Chandra X-ray observatory's most famous supernova remnants.
- 16:35 UTC SPACE.com Astronaut's View on Israel-Gaza Conflict: No Borders Visi... German astronaut Alexander Gerst reflected on the grief he felt as he saw signs of the deadly Israel-Gaza conflict from the International Space Station.
- 16:34 UTC Nature World News The Interstellar Argument: Has Voyager Really Made It? Earlier this month, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) confirmed that the unmanned spacecraft Voyager1 has slipped into interstellar space - a first for a manmade observational tool. However, researchers are ...
- 16:30 UTC Centauri Dreams A Needle in the Cosmic Haystack: Formal and Empirical App... Are we alone in the universe? Nick Nielsen muses on the nature of the question, for the answer seems to depend on what we mean by being ‘alone.’ Does a ...
- 16:24 UTC Physics World Blog Life after a nuclear bomb, farewell to MetroCosm and the ... Excerpts from the Red Folder
- 16:15 UTC Universe Today Video: Warp Into A Star Nursery 3,000 Light Years Away Zoom! This video brings you up close to a region where a bunch of stars are being born. This new video from the European Southern Observatory shows a so-called an ...
- 16:11 UTC What's Up? The Spac... Rosetta Mission's Comet Is SOMETHING To See Hey Space Placers!WIth the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft closing in on its target comet, 67P (for short), the view is getting better and better.http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/24jul_rosetta/ The latest imagesESAand http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-243 ...
- 16:08 UTC Astro Bob Tomorrow’s new moon foretells October’s solar eclipse New moons aren’t much to look at. You can’t even see them most months of the year. That’s true for tomorrow’s new moon which will invisibly accompany the sun in ...
- 16:00 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... The Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World’s Size The size of the exoplanet Kepler-93b is now known to an uncertainty of just 74 miles (119 kilometers) on either side of the planetary body.
- 15:59 UTC Astro Watch Former U.S Air Force Colonel Becomes Virgin Galactic's Sp... Virgin Galactic, the privately-funded space company owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s aabar Investments PJS, announced Thursday that Todd ‘Leif’ Ericson, former Operations and Maintenance Group ...
- 15:45 UTC In the Dark The Expert Brilliant sketch about the difficulty of fitting into the corporate world when you actually know things about stuff: Follow @telescoper
- 15:28 UTC SPACE.com Rough Road Ahead: Rocky Mars Terrain Challenges Curiosity... Curiosity has just crossed out of its landing ellipse, the 12- by 4-mile(19 by 7 kilometers) zone targeted for its August 2012 touchdown and is now moving toward an increasingly ...
- 15:22 UTC The Virtual Telesco... Comet C/2014 E2 Jacques: a new image (25 July 2014) After the first observations via the Virtual Telescope, comet C/2014 E2 Jacques improved its visibility from our location and we managed to visit it again. The image above comes from ...
- 15:17 UTC Nature World News Those Russian Space Geckos are Out of Control! Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has still not regained control of the unmanned Foton-M4, a biosatellite that is refusing to communicate with mission control. Experts do report that the five ...
- 15:09 UTC NewSpace Journal Masten shows off its XS-1 design (with wings) An illustration by Masten Space Systems of its Xephyr design that was funded by DARPA for Phase 1 of the XS-1 program. (credit: Masten Space Systems) Masten Space Systems, one ...