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24 Apr 2014
- 14:24 UTC Science World Repor... Intended for Future Mars Missions, NASA LDSD Spacecraft t... Although Congress is hoping for an immediate trip to Mars, they probably won’t get it. But NASA is doing all they can to prepare for the upcoming deep-space trips by ...
- 14:09 UTC Coalition for Space... CSExtra – Top Space News for Thursday, April 24, 2014 To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject ...
- 13:33 UTC Centauri Dreams 55 Cancri A: Stable Orbital Solutions We’re developing a model for the fascinating planetary system around the binary star 55 Cancri, a challenging task given the complexity of the inner system in particular. What we have ...
- 13:31 UTC Rosetta Blog A tweeter’s guide to Rosetta’s instruments Tweet Rosetta has 11 experiments onboard, many of which have names almost as long as a 140-character twitter message! But @ESA_Rosetta has come up with a handy tweet-per-instrument guide to ...
- 13:29 UTC NASA Hack Space Video: ISEE-3 Reboot Trajectory Around The Moon Our plan is simple: we intend to contact the ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer) spacecraft, command it to fire its engines and enter an orbit near Earth, and then resume its ...
- 13:27 UTC The Daily Galaxy Thanks for Your Patience! We're Back Online... Typepad, our longtime publishing platform, suffered a Denial of Service attack for six straight days. All's back to normal now. Our thanks for your understanding and loyalty! The Daily Galaxy ...
- 13:24 UTC AMSAT-UK 7-Day Arctic Tour for B-46 Party Balloon A long duration foil balloon transmitting Contestia 8/250 on 434.500 MHz USB was launched on Friday, April 18 from Silverstone by radio amateur Leo Bodnar M0XER. Its seven day journey ...
- 13:07 UTC In the Dark Astronomy (and Particle Physics) Look-alikes, No. 92 Although it’s not strictly an astronomical observation, I am struck by the resemblance between the distinguished particle physicist and blogger Professor Alfred E. Neuman, of University College London, and the ...
- 12:58 UTC Gaia Blog Commissioning update The Gaia project team provides an update on the ongoing commissioning activities of ESA’s billion star surveyor… The work done to bring online all components of the Gaia service module, ...
- 12:49 UTC What's Up? The Spac... Sky Guy VIEWING ALERT!! Pre-dawn 4-25-14 Moon & Venus Hey Space Placers!The waning crescent Moon will join Venus in the predawn south-eastern sky for a pretty match up 4-25-14.The Moon will have Earthshine - the dark of the Moon ...
- 12:45 UTC In the Dark Why Graduate Teaching Assistantships Should Be Scrapped There’s an interesting piece in today’s Times Higher about the variability in pay and working conditions for Graduate Teaching Assistants across the UK Higher Education sector. For those of you ...
- 12:31 UTC NASA Watch SpaceX Ready for Raptor Engine Components Testing at Sten... SpaceX Set to Test Raptor Engine Components at NASA Stennis, SpaceRef Business "SpaceX has been working on the Raptor methane-fueled rocket engine since 2009. The new engine, a reusable engine ...
- 12:25 UTC SPACE.com Gathered Observations | Space Wallpaper This stunning space wallpaper shows a patch of sky from the COSMOS survey, as viewed by XMM-Newton. COSMOS is a project studying how galaxies form and evolve, gathering observations using ...
- 12:25 UTC Space Fellowship NASA Tests Orion’s Parachute Performance over Arizona whi... The team designing the parachute system for NASA’s Orion spacecraft has demonstrated almost every parachute failure they could imagine. But on April 23, they tested how the system would perform ...
- 12:23 UTC Sky and Telescope Rainbow The post Rainbow appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
- 12:23 UTC Sky and Telescope M15, Globular Cluster in Pegasus The post M15, Globular Cluster in Pegasus appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
- 12:23 UTC Sky and Telescope The Cocoon Galaxy (NGC 4490) The post The Cocoon Galaxy (NGC 4490) appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
- 12:22 UTC Sky and Telescope M51 – Whirlpool Galaxy 4/20/2014 The post M51 – Whirlpool Galaxy 4/20/2014 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
- 12:19 UTC Parabolic Arc Experts: Reusable Launch Vehicles Will Make Space Solar P... About 20 years ago, NASA conducted a study of space solar power. A friend of mine who was involved said they determined that about six miracles were necessary to make ...
- 12:11 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Spacewalk Success NASA Astronauts Steve Swanson and Rick Mastracchio completed a spacewalk today to replace a failed Multiplexer/Demultiplexer (MDM) back up computer, think of it as kind of a relay computer used ...
- 12:00 UTC Space Exploration N... Pirouetting pair of supermassive black holes discovered The European Space Agency's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton has spotted an unusual pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one another. This is the first time such a pair have ...
- 11:47 UTC In the Dark Elsevier journals — some facts Originally posted on Gowers's Weblog:A little over two years ago, the Cost of Knowledge boycott of Elsevier journals began. Initially, it seemed to be highly successful, with the number of ...
- 11:30 UTC Bad Astronomy For Hubble’s 24th Birthday: A Stellar Nursery Being Destr... Today marks the Hubble Space Telescope’s 24th birthday; on this day in 1990 the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into space with Hubble in the payload bay, and the next day ...
- 11:23 UTC SPACE.com US Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Passes 500 Da... The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane launched on its third and latest mission on Dec. 11, 2012. As of today (April 24), the vehicle has been aloft for 500 ...
- 11:22 UTC All About Space Heroes of Space: Tycho Brahe Read on to learn more about the peculiar life of the last great naked eye astronomer Part of Brahe’s nose was made of Brass after he lost a chunk of ...
- 11:00 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... Hubble Space Telescope instruments star in new Smithsonia... Nearly a quarter century after its launch, two of the Hubble Space Telescope's most well-known instruments have landed in an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in ...
- 11:00 UTC One Universe at a T... Battle of the Planets The 55 Cancri system is in some ways very similar to our own. The star is about the same mass and size as our Sun, and it has a Jupiter-sized ...
- 11:00 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... 'Repairing Hubble' Two of the instruments that played critical roles in discoveries made by the Hubble Space Telescope are now on display in a new exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Air and ...
- 10:55 UTC SPACE.com 'Graveyard' on the Moon's Far Side Welcomes NASA Spacecra... NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) slammed into the moon's surface, as planned, in the early hours of April 18, bringing to six the number of spacecraft whose ...
- 10:37 UTC Space Politics Arizona passes spaceflight liability bill The governor of Arizona has signed into law a bill that provides commercial spaceflight companies in the state with liability protections similar to those in several other states. Gov. Jan ...
- 10:14 UTC AMSAT-UK $50SAT celebrates five months in space Michael Kirkhart KD8QBA provides an update on the $50SAT (MO-76) PocketQube. The tiny satellite which is just 5x5x7.5 cm and 210 grams has completed five months in space. As of ...
- 10:00 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 04/24/2014 – Ephemeris – Venus and the Moon in the mornin... Ephemeris for Thursday, April 24th. The sun rises at 6:43. It’ll be up for 13 hours and 55 minutes, setting at 8:38. The moon, 2 days past last quarter, will ...
- 10:00 UTC Beyond Earthly Skie... Occurrence Rates of Circumbinary Planets Figure 1: Artist’s impression of circumbinary planets. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle.Circumbinary planets are a subset of planets that orbit two stars instead of one. In recent years, precise photometric data ...
- 07:13 UTC Space Fellowship Lyrids in Southern Skies Earth's annual Lyrid meteor shower peaked before dawn on April 22nd, as our fair planet plowed through dust from the tail of long-period comet Thatcher. Even in the dry and ...
- 07:10 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2014-04-23 SA: Alexei SO: Veronica Others: Lisa, Luke ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - did not open tonight due to high humidity and heavy clouds
- 06:00 UTC John's Space / Astr... Hubble Measures Distances in the Cosmos How Far Away is that Star... or Galaxy... or Cluster of Galaxies? One of Hubble Space Telescope's most fascinating discoveries isn't necessarily a pretty picture. It's something quite profound: refining ...
- 05:39 UTC Sydney Observatory 2014-05-02 Phil Diamond: discovering gravity, stars, pla... Phil Diamond: discovering gravity, stars, planets and life in the Universe Friday 2 May, 2014: 6pm to 8pm Enjoy a fabulous evening with special guest speaker, Phil Diamond the Director-General ...
- 04:53 UTC Astro Bob Lyrid meteor shower update / Potential meteor storm comin... I confess that I didn’t go out to look at this year’s Lyrid meteor shower because of other commitments. Seeing Yuri Beletsky’s photo makes me I wish I had. Beletsky ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Persistent Ice on Lake Superior Ice cover on the worldâ€™s largest freshwater lake remains significantly above average for mid-April.
- 03:26 UTC Space Safety Magazi... Living In Space 3: Asteroids, Friend or Foe? Warning sirens blare throughout the station – red lights flash and alert the inhabitants of the incoming danger. Solemn glances are exchanged in the control room, and the view screen ...
- 03:17 UTC The New York Times Researchers See New Importance in Y Chromosome Two surveys have reconstructed the full history of the shrunken male chromosome, which provides regulatory genes that play a role throughout the body.
- 03:02 UTC Stellar Neophyte Bottle of Wine and Wine Glass with Night Sky and Stars in... What a relaxing night over the weekend! I took these photos of a bottle of wine with a wine glass and the night sky full of stars (and the planet ...
- 02:51 UTC open.NASA Share Your Thoughts: Open Gov 3.0 Plan Four years ago, NASA released the first gen version of our Open Government Plan. We’re working on our third revision: Open Gov 3.0, which updates our progress from the last ...
- 01:45 UTC Starts With A Bang! Striking Cosmic Gold (Synopsis) “Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.” -Bob Marley Going back to ancient times, it’s hard to think of a more commonly ...
- 01:26 UTC Starts With a Bang! Striking Cosmic Gold “Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.”
- 01:14 UTC Parabolic Arc Commercial Crew Program Status Report Commercial Crew Return on Investment Report April 2014 Milestones achieved by the Commercial Crew Program’s (CCP’s) partners continue to push commercial spacecraft and transportation systems from design to reality.Over the ...
- 01:07 UTC Tychogirl I am not an idle dreamer Sometimes we wake to find that we are Atlas or a passive turtle holding everything in place as we’ve been told slow, steady guardians. Eons pass, and if we wake ...
- 01:00 UTC Astronomy.com News How black holes shape galaxies A group of astronomers has found a relatively simple relationship between the color of a galaxy and the size of its bulge — the more massive the bulge, the redder ...
- 00:07 UTC NASA Watch They're Still Drinking The Koolaid in Texas Houston's Space Problem: Johnson Space Center Has Lost Its Identity and Purpose, Houston Press "However, former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar, now also a UH professor, argued that SpaceX and commercial flight ...
- 00:00 UTC Secure World Founda... Brian Weeden Quoted by Space.com on the X-37B's 500 Days ...