• Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 30 December 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:06:09
    Two M-class flares were observed from Region 1389 (S22E44), an M2/Sf at 29/2151Z and a M1/Sn at 30/0309Z. The region ended the period as an Ekc type group with beta magnetic characteristics.

  • Fastest Rotating Star Found in Neighboring Galaxy

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:06:09
    This artist's concept pictures the fastest rotating star found to date. The massive, bright young star, called VFTS 102, rotates at a million miles per hour, or 100 times faster than our sun does.

  • Fragile Oasis: Astronaut Dan Burbank: A Beacon For The Holidays

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:06:09
    Welcoming our new crewmates, Oleg Kononenko, Andre Kuipers and Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station on Friday was wonderful, made all the more so as it came just before Christmas.

  • Powerful Pixels: Mapping the Apollo Zone on the Moon

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:06:09
    Grayscale pixels - up close, they look like black, white or grey squares. But when you zoom out to see the bigger picture, they can create a digital photograph, like this one of our moon.

  • NASA Solicitation: Adaptation and Implementation of the My Community Our Earth Program for SERVIR

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:06:09
    Adaptation and Implementation of the My Community Our Earth Program for SERVIR

  • NASA Solicitation: Instrument Systems and Technology Engineering Services

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:06:09
    Instrument Systems and Technology Engineering Services

  • NASA Solicitation: Russian Language and Logistics Services

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:06:09
    Russian Language and Logistics Services

  • NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Friday, December 30, 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:06:09
    NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Friday, December 30, 2011

  • NASA OIG: NASA's Real Property Master Planning Efforts

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:06:09
    "We found deficiencies within the individual Center master plans the Agency is using to develop the integrated Agency plan that may limit the Plan's usefulness for making strategic real property decisions."

  • Robotics Student Program Kick-off January 7 at NASA Wallops Visitor Center

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:06:09
    Robotics Student Program Kick-off January 7 at NASA Wallops Visitor Center

  • Could Ancient Pottery Improve Spacecraft Tiles?

    Updated: 2011-12-30 22:18:46
    You might not think that a collaboration to study the chemical and physical properties of ancient Attic pottery would have anything to do with space missions, but, well, you'd be mistaken.

  • CUSTOMER DOESN’T CHEESE

    Updated: 2011-12-30 21:59:07
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Cool picture of Expedition 29 on its way home CUSTOMER DOESN’T CHEESE Share December 30th , 2011 2:59 PM Tags : CUSTOMER DOESN'T CHEESE by Phil Plait in Humor 31 comments RSS feed Trackback 31 Responses to CUSTOMER DOESN’T CHEESE” 1. Austin Says : December 30th , 2011 at 3:11 pm You’re right . This was way too good for just your Twitter . followers 2. Ryan Says : December 30th , 2011 at 3:15 pm Wow , they pay you not to cheese 3. Jim Says : December 30th , 2011 at 3:25 pm As Terry Pratchett says , cheese is rotted bovine lactation . I don’t cheese . either 4. Jim Atkins Says :

  • Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 29 December 2011 - Corected Copy

    Updated: 2011-12-30 15:06:12
    Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 29 December 2011 - Corected Copy

  • NASA Awards New Marshall Logistics Support Services Contract

    Updated: 2011-12-30 15:06:11
    NASA Awards New Marshall Logistics Support Services Contract

  • CSExtra – Friday, December 30, 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-30 15:05:51
    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 line. Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. In Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin takes control of [...]

  • Cool picture of Expedition 29 on its way home

    Updated: 2011-12-30 14:00:44
    When Expedition 29 astronauts Mike Fossum, Sergei Volkov, and Satoshi Furukawa returned to Earth from the ISS on November 21, Dan Burbank stayed aboard the station and got this dramatic picture of them coming home: [Click to deorbitenate.] See it? The returning Soyuz capsule itself is the bright dot in the center of the picture, [...]

  • 11 for ’12: Doug Natelson asks, “What is the nature of nature?”

    Updated: 2011-12-30 13:30:06
    On the cusp of 2012, I’ve invited 11 of the greater Houston area’s top minds to contemplate the world’s end. Lightheartedly I’ve asked them, before the Mayan apocalypse, for the one burning question that they’d like to see answered before the cataclysm. A new entry in the 11 for ’12 series will be published each [...]

  • Where Would Earth-like Planets Find Water?

    Updated: 2011-12-30 05:37:29
    We don't know how Earth got tanked-up with its water supply, so how could we guess what's happening on worlds thousands of light-years away?

  • Video: Phobos-Grunt Re-Entry Animation

    Updated: 2011-12-29 22:56:24
    When and where will Russia’s Phobos-Grunt satellite crash back to Earth? It’s too early to tell, but the engineers from Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) have put together an animation which recaps what has happened with the spacecraft so far, and what is expected to occur during the uncontrolled re-entry. (...)Read the rest of Video: Phobos-Grunt [...]

  • Probes May Find Remnants of Moon's Lost Sibling

    Updated: 2011-12-29 19:52:00
    NASA's GRAIL mission will determine what lies beneath the lunar crust by measuring the moon's gravitational field.

  • Happy New Year – Be Back Tue Jan 3

    Updated: 2011-12-29 19:46:42

  • Advance Ink for Grail, twin probes of the Moon’s gravity field

    Updated: 2011-12-29 19:39:51
    , Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment New Scientist : Hail the Returning Comet Happy New Year Be Back Tue Jan 3 Advance Ink for Grail , twin probes of the Moon’s gravity field For about nine years two tag-team satellites , collectively called the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment or GRACE , have zipped around Earth in formation . Their course deviations reveal precisely the varying concentration of mass in the Earth , allowing mapping of its interior by density . Its focus is on things that change over time . Grace , a joint NASA and German project , will get two little sisters with about the same job to do but  at the Moon even if not much changes there . The first gets there on New Year’s eve and the second January 1. Collectively the are GRAIL

  • China: Preliminary Planning for Human Lunar Landing

    Updated: 2011-12-29 19:12:53
    A sweeping look at China’s past and future space agenda has been issued by that country’s State Council Information Office. The white paper issued today is titled China’s Space Activities in 2011, but casts an eye forward as to where the spacefaring nation is headed. “China will conduct studies on the preliminary plan for a [...]

  • One more Lovejoy time lapse… maybe the last

    Updated: 2011-12-29 18:46:25
    Reports are starting to come in that Comet Lovejoy is fading rapidly, which isn’t too surprising. As it gets farther from the Sun it gets colder, and the ice on its surface doesn’t turn into gas quite so vigorously. It’s the cloud of expanding gas that reflects sunlight and makes a comet bright, so there [...]

  • Detecting Light Echoes from Ancient Star Eruption

    Updated: 2011-12-29 18:37:00
    Eta Carinae underwent an enormous eruption in the 1800's -- we are now seeing light from the event bounce off the star's nebula.

  • New Scientist: Hail the Returning Comet

    Updated: 2011-12-29 17:08:20
    : Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment UPDATES Annual list of lists top science stories of 2011 Advance Ink for Grail , twin probes of the Moon’s gravity field New Scientist : Hail the Returning Comet Here’s a well-framed shot of the night sky from high above the Atacama Desert in Chile as 2011 nears its end . I choose to take it as an omen of hope and optimism . New Scientist picked it up from the European Southern Observatory . Lensman Guillaume Blanchard caught the scene as little and thoroughly roasted Comet Lovejoy see earlier post preceded the dawn sun into the sky , the Milky Way high above looks like a Magellanic Cloud on the right and a unit of the Very Large Telescope hunkers in the foreground . I amped this small version with the auto-correct

  • CSExtra – Thursday, December 29, 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-29 13:54:44
    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 line. Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. In Kazakhstan, a commercially launched Soyuz rocket delivers six U. [...]

  • NASA’s Unprecedented Science Twins are GO to Orbit our Moon on New Year’s Eve

    Updated: 2011-12-29 03:23:32
    In less than three days, NASA will deliver a double barreled New Year’s package to our Moon when an unprecedented pair of science satellites fire up their critical braking thrusters for insertion into lunar orbit on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. NASA’s dynamic duo of GRAIL probes are “GO” for Lunar Orbit Insertion [...]

  • Feeling the Ripples of Black Hole Collisions

    Updated: 2011-12-28 20:28:51
    Within a decade we should have actual observations of black holes going "bump in the night."<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DiscoveryNews-Top-Stories/~4/GFUJ1pZgxeM" height="1" width="1"/

  • (UPDATES*) Annual list of lists – top science stories of 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-28 20:07:15
    Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment UPDATE NYTimes DotEarth : The rest of that Siberian continental shelf methane story New Scientist : Hail the Returning Comet UPDATES Annual list of lists top science stories of 2011 It’s the end of the year , an opportune time to make lists of its notable events on the ksjtracker’s beat list . Opportune because , for the second thing just behind the date itself , there’s not much else going on . Included below and as applicable is each list’s number one , and maybe a few other entries  that seem notable . Some outlets particularly eager to fill dead air have compiled several . lists So far , we : have Telegraph UK Michael Hanlon Science quiz : what on Earth was happening Should you wish to take this quiz honestly on

  • Nothing to do

    Updated: 2011-12-28 18:30:00
    Sometimes, over the holidays, it’s easy to think there’s nothing to do. If you feel that way, Sci-ence! wants to have a word with you. [Click to exnihiloenate.] And why, yes, that comic does describe me as a child. … and maybe as an adult, too. Related posts: - In which I disagree with cartoon [...]

  • CSExtra – Wednesday, December 28, 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-28 13:08:57
    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 line. Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. China initiates a limited independent satellite navigation system.  As an [...]

  • Christmas Solar Eruption to Hit Earth and Mars

    Updated: 2011-12-28 05:41:28
    It's coming right at us! But don't worry, it shouldn't hurt too much when the coronal mass ejection (CME) hits.

  • Venus and the Moon, looking pretty

    Updated: 2011-12-28 01:24:09
    The Moon and Venus make a pretty pair, don’t they? I took this shot myself an hour ago as I write this, about 17:00 local time here in Boulder. I used my cell phone camera, then in Photoshop cropped it to 610 pixels wide (the biggest my blog width will allow) and blurred it a [...]

  • UPDATES * Post-holiday doldrums: Genetically modified corn a bust. Better luck w/ chicken-o-saurus.

    Updated: 2011-12-27 20:54:31
    : . . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment España se queda sin Ministerio de Ciencia . Los investigadores primero se alarman y luego se . calman UPDTED Post-holiday doldrums : Genetically modified corn a bust . Better luck w . chicken-o-saurus Honestly , and while fighting off the blahs of too many rich foods and leftovers , your tracker looked around for something newsy this morning , beyond a rather good NYTimes . ScienceTimes Hope grew on seeing that , a week ago , Monsanto got permission from the US Dept . of Agriculture’s  Animal and Planet Health Inspection Service to plant corn modified for better drought tolerance . Here’s a small Reuters item by Charles Abbott That’s interesting , one thought , a transgenic crop with a trait other than built-in

  • 2020 Vision: An Overview of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics

    Updated: 2011-12-27 16:08:51
    Now available for free is the online publication: 2020 Vision: An Overview of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics. This colorful booklet summarizes the most recent National Research Council decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics. It provides an overview of the sixth National Research Council decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, New Worlds, [...]

  • Celebrating the Year at the National Space Society

    Updated: 2011-12-27 16:04:57
    The National Space Society wishes you and your loved ones a safe and happy holiday season.  As we look forward to another successful year, we reflect on the accomplishments made possible by your generous support.  With your continued support, we hope to make next year’s accomplishments even greater. Here are just a few highlights from [...]

  • CSExtra – Tuesday, December 27, 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-27 13:33:37
    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 line. Tuesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting on space related activities from around the world. Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin names a news space czar in response [...]

  • 11 for ’12: Ned Thomas asks, “How to tame the wily phonon?”

    Updated: 2011-12-27 13:30:23
    On the cusp of 2012, I’ve invited 11 of the greater Houston area’s top minds to contemplate the world’s end. Lightheartedly I’ve asked them, before the Mayan apocalypse, for the one burning question that they’d like to see answered before the cataclysm. A new entry in the 11 for ’12 series will be published each [...]

  • Sky Watcher Heaven! Apps for Mobile Devices – A First Catalog

    Updated: 2011-12-26 14:52:52
    The explosion in mobile apps in the last few years has meant that many new astronomy applications have become available. Thanks to Andrew Fraknoi of Foothill College in California, a first catalog has been assembled that lists a variety of apps for displaying and explaining the sky above you (some using the GPS function in [...]

  • CSExtra – Monday, December 26, 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-26 13:22:31
    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 line. Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world, plus a roundup of reporting from the Christmas weekend. The [...]

  • Humans in Space: A Look Back at 2011, A Look Ahead at 2012

    Updated: 2011-12-25 20:01:36
      A year of milestones in human spaceflight, some tinged with nostalgia, is drawing to a close. The New Year opens with the U. S.and its global partners settled in Earth orbit, and a NASA strategy for the future human exploration of deep space starting to gel. In the U. S., the commercial sector’s role [...]

  • Video Captures Robotic Refueling Mission of Santa!

    Updated: 2011-12-25 14:49:57
    Just in time for Christmas, there’s a new example of services that the Robotic Refueling Mission on the International Space Station provided Santa Claus. Thanks to the NASA’s Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office, Santa was able to complete all his rounds on Christmas Eve. Check out this insightful outer space video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyhxY6mPXSY The Robotic Refueling Mission [...]

  • Repost: Happy pareidolidays!

    Updated: 2011-12-25 14:45:26
    [I don't repost very often, but this one from last year still works. -- The BA] I know some people have Christmas on their mind today, but this is a bit too literal: a brain scan taken at Newcastle University turned up a familiar face nose: I always pictured him as somewhat bigger. The part [...]

  • The Moon sleighs me

    Updated: 2011-12-25 00:16:49
    One of my favorite astrophotographers, Alan Friedman, spied something odd on the Moon. Flying reindeer I’ll buy. But an inertialess propulsion system? C’mon. Happy holidays everyone! Credit: Alan Friedman

  • INSANELY cool picture of Comet Lovejoy

    Updated: 2011-12-24 14:00:09
    The pictures of Comet Lovejoy keep coming, each cooler than the one before. It’s hard to imagine topping the ones from the Space Station, but then you don’t have to imagine it when you can just look at this crazy amazing shot: Holy Haleakala! [Click to stimulatedemissionate.] Well, actually, "Holy Paranal!" This picture, by Gabriel [...]

  • A Sky Show on the Night After Christmas

    Updated: 2011-12-24 13:24:13
    Home Blog Advertise The Sky This Month The Moon This Month Astronomy News Astrobiology Magazine News Astronomy Picture of the Day BBC Science News CNN Space News Earth Observatory News Eurekalert Astronomy Space News European Southern Observatory News European Space Agency News Gemini Observatory News Hubble Space Telescope News JPL News Kepler Telescope News Lunar and Planetary Institute News MSNBC Space News NASA Breaking News NASA PlanetQuest News NASA TV National Geographic News PBS Nova News Science at NASA News Scientific American News Space Shuttle News Space Today News STEREO Solar Mission News The Astronomer’s Telegram News The Space Show Wired Science News Astronomy Podcasts 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast Astronomy Cast Podcast Astronomy Magazine Podcast Earth Sky Podcast

  • Cassini Mission Delivers Holiday Treats From Saturn

    Updated: 2011-12-23 22:56:33
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  • National Space Society Announces the 2012 Legislative Blitz

    Updated: 2011-12-23 21:59:13
    From Sunday, February 26 through Tuesday, February 28, 2012, the National Space Society and the Space Exploration Alliance will be holding the annual grassroots visit to Congress, known as the “Legislative Blitz.” With unprecedented budgetary pressures facing the legislative and executive branches of government, the debate continues about the future direction and funding of our nation’s [...]

  • ISS Commander Dan Burbank Captures Unprecedented View of Comet Lovejoy

    Updated: 2011-12-23 16:36:32
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  • Telescope – Astronomy Camera – Astrovid Stellacam II W/ LCD Monitor – $499.00

    Updated: 2011-12-23 08:23:30
    Current Price: $499.00Buy It Now Price: $549.00Bids: 0 Astrovid Stellacam II w/ LCD Monitor Includes:Stellacam II camera with 1.25" nosepiece and hand control Power adapterThinLine coax cable with adapterCarrying case with plush foam 10.4" Super Circuits LCD Monitor (used only once) *I bought this used and I used it only a couple times a few years ago. Excellent [...]

  • T-mount Camera Adapter For Nikon – $7.00

    Updated: 2011-12-23 08:23:28
    Current Price: $7.00Buy It Now Price: $9.00Bids: 0 this is a    nikon camera    lens ring adapter   for using a telescope as a telephoto lens  never bought the nikon    so this is still new   ask if you have questions will combine shipping,  just ask for invoice ship to the contiguous united states paypal only no [...]

  • Time lapse video: ISS cometrise

    Updated: 2011-12-22 21:24:58
    Earlier, I posted an incredible picture of Comet Lovejoy taken by space station astronaut Dan Burbank. NASA just posted an amazing time lapse video made from those pictures! Holy wow! What an astonishing sight that must be. And did you see the object moving right-to-left a few seconds in, just above the green airglow layer? [...]

  • Miami Herald, Great Fall Trib, Houston Chron, etc: It’s the end of December – time to spot birds.

    Updated: 2011-12-22 19:29:24
    , , , : . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Inside Science News Service : Slinky under the tree Show the kids its levitation . trick Happy Holidays , Merry Christmas , Hannukah , Kwanzaa , Hajj trek , and more see y’all Tuesday Miami Herald , Great Fall Trib , Houston Chron , etc : It’s the end of December time to spot . birds While a few outlets surely will tell kiddies over the weekend that air traffic controllers are clearing the way for Santa Claus and his reindeer , another set of flying objects will be getting a good deal more , serious attention : Warblers , wrens , finches , sparrows , hawks , owls , partridges in pear trees or not , leggy avocets , birds of all kinds , with volunteers sending their sighting data to the National Audubon

  • Inside Science News Service: Slinky under the tree? Show the kids its levitation trick.

    Updated: 2011-12-22 19:28:19
    : . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Science Magazine retracts claimed link of chronic fatigue to mouse virus who , again , wrote the paper Miami Herald , Great Fall Trib , Houston Chron , etc : It’s the end of December time to spot . birds Inside Science News Service : Slinky under the tree Show the kids its levitation . trick At the American Inst . of Physics’s Inside Science News Service managing editor Ben P . Stein updates an oldie but goody for the holidays : The levitating slinky Late science writer Martin Gardner , former math puzzle editor at Scientific American and a leader of science skepticism of astrologers , spoon benders , and other huckster first wrote about the phenomenon , Stein notes , ten years ago or . so One can see the trick

  • Science Magazine retracts claimed link of chronic fatigue to mouse virus (who, again, wrote the paper?)

    Updated: 2011-12-22 18:44:29
    , , Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Venezuela : prensa exagera primero con la vacuna contra cáncer de Jacinto Convit , y matiza después tras respuesta descontrolada de población Inside Science News Service : Slinky under the tree Show the kids its levitation . trick Science Magazine retracts claimed link of chronic fatigue to mouse virus who , again , wrote the paper Sometimes serious news comes along with a nagging distraction that puts a hitch in effort to take it soberly at face value . So here it is : Science’s editors today revealed they have withdrawn a 2009 paper on detection of a retrovirus in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome . One of the authors : Vince Lombardi . Actually one does not know his nickname , but the name is Vincent C .

  • Pocket Telescope With Faux Pas Leather Handle Come With A Wooden Box – $15.00

    Updated: 2011-12-22 15:33:32
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  • Star factory at the edge of the Universe

    Updated: 2011-12-22 13:59:19
    There are quite a few mysteries in astronomy; things we don’t understand. The vast majority of them are smallish in scope, things that can probably be solved with a little more work, more observations. These are more like questions than outright mysteries; things we just don’t have the answers to quite yet. But then there [...]

  • A year of outer-space farewells

    Updated: 2011-12-22 05:55:01
    During 2011, NASA said goodbye o the Spirit Mars rover and the space shuttle program — but there's hope that during 2012, new players will trut their stuff n the space effort's huge stage, stretching from Cape Canaveral to the Red Planet. This is my 15th  hellip;

  • Moon Mines: Visionary or Senseless?

    Updated: 2011-12-22 03:39:20
    Editorial by Al Globus, December 2011 Do lunar mines make sense? The answer depends on what you want to do in space. If what you want is something close to what we have now: a booming commercial communication satellite business and government programs for science and exploration, then no. Lunar mines built entirely with tax [...]

  • Here comes the rain again

    Updated: 2011-12-21 19:58:46
    Mother Nature must be in the giving mood this season, because she’s about to serve up another round of showers to the greater Houston area. The latest computer model forecasts suggest much of southeast Texas is in line to get one to two inches of rain tonight and tomorrow. The following map shows estimated rainfall [...]

  • CELESTRON OCULAR 6MM #93302 FOR (1.25″) -NEW – $15.00

    Updated: 2011-12-21 18:23:47
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  • VINTAGE ACHROMATIC KMART FOCAL TELESCOPE NICE – $16.99

    Updated: 2011-12-21 18:23:29
    Current Price: $16.99Buy It Now Price: $29.99Bids: 0 Up for auction is a vintage 15-45 X 40 mm Kmart Focal Zoom Telescope with achromatic coated lens, scratches free on lens but this telescope shows some scratches on the body; however it works well, with metal tripod. Telescope 16”inch long, Metal tripod 9”inches. 20-20-64(D) Made in [...]

  • Dawn dips down to Vesta

    Updated: 2011-12-21 17:43:02
    Last July, the spacecraft Dawn slipped into orbit around Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the solar system — the first time a probe had ever orbited a main-belt asteroid. From its height of 16,000 km (almost 10,000 miles), it started mapping the 500 km (300 mile) wide rock, returning the first close-up pictures [...]

  • Meade T Adapter #62 For SCT Telescopes LX200GPS LX200ACF Adaptor – $19.00

    Updated: 2011-12-21 04:43:52
    Current Price: $19.00Buy It Now Price: $24.99Bids: 0 Meade model 62 T Adapter for SCT telescopes new in box.  PLEASE NOTE: I will combine shipping on multiple wins. NO LOCAL PICKUP- all packages will be mailed. Paypal only. The Meade #62 T- Adapter is for prime-focus photography using SCT, Maksutov, or ED/APO refractors (with the [...]

  • Kepler Mission Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System

    Updated: 2011-12-20 20:04:37
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  • Laying down the pulsar beat

    Updated: 2011-12-20 14:00:28
    A few years back, when I was working on using NASA satellite data to create educational materials for kids, we had this idea of using the steady beats from pulsars in a song. Pulsars are the rapidly-spinning über-dense fantastically-magnetic collapsed cores of exploded stars. As they spin, they emit beams of matter and energy that [...]

  • Lockheed Martin Reusable Booster System

    Updated: 2011-12-19 16:26:05
    Lockheed Martin has been selected by the U.S. Air Force for a contract award to support the Reusable Booster System (RBS) Flight and Ground Experiments program. The value of the first task order is $2 million, with a contract ordering value of up to $250 million over the five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract [...]

  • NSS Space Settlement Journal

    Updated: 2011-12-17 15:35:46
    The NSS Space Settlement Journal has commenced publication this month, beginning with two new papers: A Contemporary Analysis of the O’Neill – Glaser Model for Space-based Solar Power and Habitat Construction by Peter A. Curreri, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and Michael K. Detweiler, Amadeus Consulting Abstract: Solar Power Satellites, SPS, is a technology that promises unlimited [...]

  • NSS Hails Stratolaunch Initiative – A Pioneering Investment in Space

    Updated: 2011-12-14 14:50:18
    The National Space Society (NSS) hails the announcement of Stratolaunch Systems, a Paul G. Allen Project, as a pioneering investment in space transportation. The company has been formed to build a mobile air-launch-to-orbit system that will include three primary components: • A carrier aircraft, developed by Scaled Composites, the aircraft manufacturer [...]

  • Stratolaunch Systems: New Space Launch System Announced by Paul Allen

    Updated: 2011-12-13 19:48:44
    SEATTLE, WA, Dec 13, 2011 – Entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul G. Allen announced today that he and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan have reunited to develop the next generation of space travel. Allen and Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne was the first privately-funded, manned rocket ship to fly beyond earth’s atmosphere, are developing a revolutionary [...]

  • Don’t Forget the Total Lunar Eclipse Today!

    Updated: 2011-12-10 13:58:48
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  • Is Vesta the Smallest Planet in the Solar System?

    Updated: 2011-12-10 13:45:31
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  • World’s Largest Radio Telescope Begins Observations

    Updated: 2011-12-10 04:48:38
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  • Opportunity Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water

    Updated: 2011-12-09 23:43:46
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  • ESA Gaia Star Mapper Spreads Its Wings

    Updated: 2011-12-09 20:13:19
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  • Reliving the 1882 Transit of Venus Which Gave Us the Astronomical Unit

    Updated: 2011-12-09 05:48:05
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  • Scientists Find Monster Black Holes, Biggest Yet

    Updated: 2011-12-06 02:39:00
    A team led by astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered the two gigantic black holes in clusters of elliptical galaxies more than 300 million light years away. The previous black hole record-holder is as large as 6 billion suns.

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