NASA scientists will reveal new information and images about our sun and its influence on Earth and the solar system for Sun-Earth Day, recognized each year in conjunction with the spring equinox. The highlight of this year’s celebration is a webcast for students and teachers around the world beginning at 1 p.m. EDT, … Read the rest of this article
NASA Celebrates Sun_Earth Day, 2009
March 19, 2009
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NASA Celebrates Sun-Earth Day With Illuminating Webcast
Lunar Explorer Review
February 22, 2009
Commercial space entrepreneurs are developing rockets that will take tourists to the moon in the not-too-distant future. But a software maker has taken a head start on the adventure by simulating a lunar ride for the PC user.
Virtue Arts, based in Los Angeles, has developed software that renders the exact physics and topology of the moon in a 3D … Read the rest of this article
Kepler Mission Launches
February 21, 2009
NASA’s Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Friday, March 6, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft launch aboard a Delta II rocket has two windows of opportunity Friday, from 10:49 to 10:52 p.m. and 11:13 to 11:16 p.m. EST.
Kepler is designed to find the first … Read the rest of this article
Saturn Moon Transits
February 19, 2009
Something is about to happen on Saturn that’s so pretty, even Hubble will pause to take a look.
“On Feb. 24th, there’s going to be a quadruple transit of Saturn’s moons,” says Keith Noll of the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute. “Titan, Mimas, Dione and Enceladus will pass directly in front of Saturn and we’ll see their silhouettes crossing Saturn’s … Read the rest of this article
Solar Dynamics Observatory Is Launched
February 16, 2009
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun’s inner workings in unprecedented detail. The launch aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:23 a.m. EST.
The most technologically advanced of NASA’s heliophysics spacecraft, SDO will … Read the rest of this article
Flaring Gamma Ray Star
February 11, 2009
Astronomers using NASA’s Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from a rare type of neutron star known as a soft-gamma-ray repeater. Such objects unpredictably send out a series of X-ray and gamma-ray flares.
“At times, this remarkable object has erupted with more than a … Read the rest of this article
A Green Comet Approaches Earth
February 11, 2009
In 1996, a 7-year-old boy in China bent over the eyepiece of a small telescope and saw something that would change his life – a comet of flamboyant beauty, bright and puffy with an active tail. At first he thought he himself had discovered it, but no, he learned, two men named “Hale” and “Bopp” had beat him to it. … Read the rest of this article
NASA Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy
February 11, 2009
Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609, marking the dawn of modern astronomy. To commemorate 400 years of exploring the universe, 2009 has been designated the International Year of Astronomy.
In conjunction with Galileo’s birthday on Feb. 15, NASA is releasing images from its Great Observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray … Read the rest of this article
AAVSO Alert Notice 394: Nova in the Large Magellanic Cloud
February 9, 2009
AAVSO Alert Notice 394:Nova in The Large Magellanic Cloud
February 9, 2009
Event: Nova in The Large Magellanic Cloud
Discovered By: W. Liller (Vina del Mar, Chile)
Discovery Date: 2009 February 05.067 UT (JD 2454867.567)
Discovery Magnitude: m=10.6 (Tech Pan photograph, unfiltered)
Position: RA = 05h 40m 44.20s , Dec = -66d 40m 11.6s (J2000; H. Bond et al.)… Read the rest of this article
Comet Lulin
February 2, 2009
In 1996, a 7-year-old boy in China bent over the eyepiece of a small telescope and saw something that would change his life – a comet of flamboyant beauty, bright and puffy with an active tail. At first he thought he himself had discovered it, but no, he learned, two men named “Hale” and “Bopp” had beat him to it. … Read the rest of this article
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