Mars500 Mission “Returns” to Earth – Hatch Opens
The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500’s six brave volunteers stepped out of their ‘spacecraft’ today to be…
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Telecopes Currently for Sale at a Discount
Here are a few telescopes that are currently for sale at a discount: 1. [easyazon_link identifier=”B000MLL6R8″ locale=”US” tag=”dublinnightskyob”]Celestron AstroMaster 114 EQ Reflector Telescope[/easyazon_link] 2. [easyazon_link identifier=”B01G9CU9VC”…
Read the articleAstronomy and Space News for August 2011
August 28: A Supernova (2011fe) has been discovered in M101 (NGC 5457). The AAVSO would like any reports about this supernova from amateur astronomers. August 26:…
Read the articleSDO Spots Largest Sunspot in Years
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has spotted one of the largest new sunspots to appear on the surface of the sun in years. It is nearly 25,000…
Read the articleFermi Lab Finds Youngest Millisecond Pulsar
An international team of scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects…
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For more than four hundred years, astronomers have used telescopes to study the great variety of stars in our galaxy. Millions of distant suns have been…
Read the articleMars500 Crew Prepare to Open the Hatch
The 520 days of isolation for the Mars500 crew will end on 4 November, when the hatch of their ‘spacecraft’ is opened for the first time…
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NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency’s Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past…
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Videos from the Setting Time Aright conference are gradually filtering online, courtesy of the Foundational Questions Institute. Perhaps the very first question that should be asked,…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 450: Request for Observations of SDSS J080434.20+510349.2 in Support of HST Observations
AAVSO Alert Notice 450 Request for observations of SDSS J080434.20+510349.2 in support of HST observations October 25, 2011 Dr. Paula Szkody (University of Washington) has requested…
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