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24 Aug 2010
- 19:45 UTC Space Fellowship "Avatar" Director Helps Promote NASA's Earth Science Expl... James Cameron, director of "Avatar," the most successful film ever released, is featured in a series of new NASA public service announcements that describe the many contributions of the agency's ...
- 19:39 UTC Cosmic Log Must-see science on the Web Paste: The 23 greatest sci-fi songs of all time (via Space for All) Popular Science: Top 10 obvious science findings of 2010 The Daily Grail: UFOs invade "The Colbert Report" ...
- 19:16 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Dust Storm in Afghanistan and Pakistan Acquired August 24, 2010, this natural-color image shows a sandstorm over the borders of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
- 19:14 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Probing the Dark Side of the Universe The cosmos is expanding at an accelerated rate due to a mysterious force called dark energy. Are we getting close to understanding its true nature?
- 19:13 UTC Lunar Networks Too brief an expedition to a lobate scarp Lee Lincoln Scarp – the only lobate scarp toured on foot surveyed from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), February 1, 2010. Roughly sketched is the path of Cernan & Schmitt ...
- 18:45 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Jupiter Impact Jupiter has had another impact as you can see in the video, this one on August 20th. Hard to say what the impacting body was. There weren’t any black plumes ...
- 18:35 UTC The Launch Pad Moonbots Competition Enters Final Week Post written by Chanda Gonzales, Manager of Education for the Google Lunar X PRIZE MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge was launched this last April at the ...
- 18:28 UTC Astronomy Blog AVM with Javascript I've mentioned Astronomy Visualization Metadata before as well as my attempts to make a microformat and include the object categories in LookUP results. It is an attempt to add useful ...
- 18:20 UTC NASA Watch Avatar Director Featured in NASA PSAs 'Avatar' Director and NASA Focus on Earth Science Exploration in PSA Campaign "James Cameron, director of "Avatar," the most successful film ever released, is featured in a series of new ...
- 18:13 UTC In the Dark Facing the Music Just by way of a change I thought I’d put up these two videos featuring very different singers. One connection between them is that both of them are records that ...
- 18:09 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Commercial crew module options Rand Simberg describes four options for commercial crew modules (SpaceX Dragon, Boeing CST-100, Lockheed-Marting Orion Lite, and SNC SpaceDev DreamChaser) that NASA could use to send astronauts to low earth ...
- 18:05 UTC Astro Bob Fun with the full moon Partly cloudy skies made for an interesting moonlit walk last night. I noticed that when the moon disappeared into clouds and then returned, the effect was more dramatic than when ...
- 18:02 UTC Astronomy.com Blog Life as an astroimager Anthony Ayiomamitis was trying to image this stunning supernova remnant in Cygnus, CTB 80, which the Hubble Space Telescope captured in 1997. NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)During the ...
- 17:15 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Fires in South America Acquired August 22, 2010, this natural-color image shows fires burning in Brazil.
- 17:11 UTC Universe Today Preview of Phil Plait's 'Bad Universe;' Premiers August 2... We are SOOO looking forward to our friend Phil Plait's new endeavor, a TV show called "Phil Plait’s Bad Universe," and here's a sneak peak at what we can expect, ...
- 17:06 UTC The Sky Above AstroFact vs. AstroFiction: UP Astrosoc’s ACLE 2010 The University of the Philippines Astronomical Society (UP Astrosoc) invites everyone to attend its ACLE (Alternative Classroom Learning Experience): AstroFact vs. AstroFiction on Aug. 25, 2010 at 1:00-4:00pm, Palma Hall ...
- 16:44 UTC Universe Today James Cameron and 'Avatar' Help Promote NASA's Exploratio... Can't get enough of "Avatar?" Now, you can see James Cameron and scenes from the 3-D epic on NASA TV and elsewhere, promoting the many contributions of NASA's Earth science ...
- 16:36 UTC The Planetary Socie... The August 20, 2010 Jupiter fireball -- and the March 5, ... Following up on the story I first posted on August 22, the Jupiter impact fireball first noticed by Japanese amateur astronomer Masayuki Tachikawa has been independently confirmed by two other ...
- 16:26 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... More on Packing for Mars Brian Swiderski posts a review of Mary Roach's book Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in The Void from a space enthusiast's point of view: Exploring The Explorers: ...
- 16:25 UTC Bad Astronomy Bad Universe sneak peek! In case you haven’t heard — and c’mon, do you live in some underground cavern with Morlocks and C.H.U.D.S.? — my new TV show "Phil Plait’s Bad Universe" premieres this ...
- 16:17 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: HEAT 1-X picts; Better micro-g science; Big Gemin... Some misc. items: Trent Waddington points me to this big collection of photos from the Copenhagen Suborbitals project: We've made the world's largest amateur space rocket. - The Something Awful ...
- 16:03 UTC The Once and Future... The Moon: Creating Capability in Space and Getting Value ... Of all the possible destinations in space, the Moon offers the proximity, accessibility, and materials necessary to learn how to use what we find in space to create new capabilities. ...
- 16:03 UTC The Once and Future... The Moon: Creating Capability in Space and Getting Value ...
- 15:57 UTC Starry Critters Starry Ducky Resembling a starry ducky, a pair of faraway galaxies known as IRAS 21101+5810, merge together in a sky crowded with nearby stars from our own Milky Way. Credit: NASA, ESA, ...
- 15:54 UTC The Daily Planet Stripped-Down Spaceflight in Denmark However the Copenhagen Suborbitals project turns out, you have to give these people points for nerve. The eventual plan is to launch a human to an altitude of 100 kilometers ...
- 15:50 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Spacevidcast SpacePod: Dragon test & Heat1X launch Spacevidcast posts one of its short SpacePod reports: Dragon Drop Tests and Heat1X-TychoBrae Set to Launch – SpacePod 2010.08.24
- 15:10 UTC Discovery News - Sp... New Solar System Discovered The star is similar to our sun and its planetary lineup has an intriguing parallel with own solar system.
- 15:00 UTC Alien Life How microbes did away with ocean deserts and ETI eavesdro... Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Stars - Want to make a planet that can ...
- 14:55 UTC Space Fellowship Picture of the Day - Nebula in Serpens This image shows a close-up view of detector 1 of HAWK-I. Despite a total exposure time of only 1 minute in each of three infrared filters, the image shows great ...
- 14:46 UTC Universe Today Another Solar System Like our Own? There is another Sun-like star out there with an intriguing family of planets orbiting about and it could be the closest parallel to our own solar system that astronomers have ...
- 14:24 UTC Cosmic Diary Discovery of 7 exoplanets around a Sun-like star Today, a team of astronomers from Europe led by group of the Observatoire de Geneve announced the discovery of SEVEN exoplanets around a southern hemisphere star called HD10180. Even if ...
- 14:17 UTC IYA2009 Updates She is an Astronomer Lunch @ JENAM2010, Lisbon, Portugal JENAM 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal Tuesday, 7th September 12:30 - 14:30 Introduction: The She is an Astronomer Lunch session is an opportunity for women to get together to meet each ...
- 14:16 UTC Aviation Week: On S... 8/24 Proximity Ops + Image of the Day: Bright Lights+ Dragon Capsule Drop Test Video+ NASA Asks Public for Final Shuttle Missions' Wakeup Songs+ 2010 European CanSat competition+ Orion Starts Testing Phase (via)
- 14:16 UTC Aviation Week: On S... 8/24 Proximity Ops + Image of the Day: Bright Lights+ Dragon Capsule Drop Test Video+ NASA Asks Public for Final Shuttle Missions' Wakeup Songs+ 2010 European CanSat competition+ Orion Starts Testing Phase (via)
- 14:01 UTC IYA2009 Updates Observe the Moon Night: Photo Contest Perhaps you are an aspiring lunar photographer. Or perhaps you have been photographing the Moon for years. Either way, we’ve got a contest for you! Be a part of the ...
- 13:32 UTC Physics World Blog Pakistan flood disaster imaged by NASA satellite Waters continues to spread into the southern part of the country Credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL,MISR Team By James Dacey The flooding in Pakistan triggered by heavy monsoon rains at the end of ...
- 13:15 UTC Centauri Dreams Twin Suns May Spell Disaster The image of double suns rising over the planet Tatooine from the first Star Wars movie never quite goes away. I remember watching the film in a theater about a ...
- 13:09 UTC "Speaking of Hubble... Hot Summer, Hot Science (Part I) Here in Baltimore, we have been experiencing record-high temperatures and humidity. The weather is being matched in its intensity by the exciting science going on at the Space Telescope Science ...
- 13:09 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Tropical Storm Danielle Acquired August 22, 2010, this image shows color-coded rainfall amounts superimposed on a photo-like image of Tropical Storm Danielle.
- 12:51 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... A New Way to Weigh Planets Researchers have come up with a new way to weigh the planets in our Solar System using radio signals from pulsars. A better understanding of the conditions present in our ...
- 12:32 UTC Universe Today Dragon Drop Tests and Heat1X-Tycho Brahe Set to Launch – ... Home made rockets launched from home made submarines next to dragon wings floating in the ocean on your SpacePod for August 24th, 2010Before we begin I just wanted to give ...
- 12:30 UTC Bad Astronomy When worlds really do collide! When I was a kid, one of my favorite movies was "When Worlds Collide", about a rogue planet that collides with Earth, killing everyone (except for a few who escape ...
- 12:10 UTC 13.7 Einstein, Bohr, And Ultimate Reality Einstein and Niels Bohr, two giants of 20th century physics, locked horns on the nature of ultimate reality. How much can we know of the natural world? by Marcelo Gleiser ...
- 11:23 UTC Skymania News New solar system ‘has seven planets’ Astronomers have discovered a new solar system that appears to have the closest number of planets to our own. They found up to seven planets orbiting a star that is ...
- 10:18 UTC Weirdwarp Actual and Artist Images of Exoplanets Extrasolar planets or for short exoplanets have been found in orbit around many different star systems other than ours. Exoplanets are being found all the time but take a look ...
- 09:48 UTC astropixie laser cooling did you know you could cool a gas with lasers? this sixty symbols video explains the process...(i didnt know there was such an intricate laser system here at the university ...
- 07:48 UTC Astroblog Update on Potential Jupiter Impact Just updating news about the Potential Jupiter Impact of August 20. Over at Sky&Telescope there are reports and links to videos, of two independent observations of the flash. The planetary ...
- 07:09 UTC Space Fellowship Station Crew Focuses on Science Science ramped up Monday aboard the International Space Station with a variety of experiments as the Expedition 24 crew caught up on investigation time that was lost during the weeks ...
- 07:05 UTC Space Fellowship Boeing Awarded Follow-on Contract for US Air Force Wideba... EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced today that the U.S. Air Force has authorized $182 million for Boeing to begin work on the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) ...
- 07:05 UTC The Discovery Enter... Travelling Through Time Time travel has been the staple of science fiction novels, television programs and major motion ever since H.G. Wells first penned his classic prototypical scientific romance "The Time Machine" in ...