Inspired by the dream of space exploration, artist Katie Paterson imagined sending a piece of her meteorite artwork back to space in a celebration of science, art and human technology. Her vision may just become reality, with a little help from ESA’s can-do cargo vessel.
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Campo del Cielo, Field of the Sky, by Katie Paterson, is on display as part …
Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space.
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This artist’s concept shows NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer shell of the bubble of charged particles around our …
Planetary Defense
Planetary Resources just announced a collaboration with Zooniverse that will empower citizen scientists to aid in the search for potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and support planetary defense. If the ARKYD Kickstarter reaches US$1.7 million by Sunday, they will partner with Zooniverse to create Asteroid Zoo, a program to allow students, citizen scientists and space enthusiasts to find … Read the rest of this article
AAVSO Alert Notice 486Dr. Noel Richardson (Universite de Montreal) is helping coordinate a very large ProAm campaign (over 20 professional and amateur astronomers) this summer on three bright Wolf Rayet stars in Cygnus. Dr. Richardson, co-PIs Drs. Tony Moffat (Universite de Montreal), Nicole St.-Louis (Universite de … Read the rest of this article
In 1948, astronomer Fritz Zwicky, the esteemed co-discoverer of dark matter, speculated that “fusion jets” could be used by a future civilization to navigate our sun and solar system planets through the galaxy. He suggested that pellets of fuel could be fired into the sun to produce explosions that would push the sun along like firecrackers exploding in a … Read the rest of this article
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is spending six months on the International Space Station conducting experiments and keeping the orbital outpost running with five colleague astronauts.
In Luca’s spare time he photographs our world from 400 km high, looking out of the Station’s panoramic Cupola. Luca tweeted the picture above with the comment: “The sky is simply perfect.” Of course, for … Read the rest of this article
Flying low and slow above the pristine terrain of Alaska’s North Slope research scientist Charles Miller of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory surveys the white expanse of tundra and permafrost below. On the horizon, a long, dark line appears. His plane draws nearer, and the mysterious object reveals itself to be a massive herd of migrating caribou, stretching for miles.
Gaia, ESA’s billion-star surveyor, will be launched into space towards the end of this year. In the meantime, ESA Space Science has launched a new ‘minisite’ focused on the Gaia mission.
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The night sky is set to be illuminated this weekend by what will appear to be a much bigger and brighter Moon. The so-called “supermoon” occurs when the Moon reaches its closest point to earth, known as a perigee full moon. The effect makse the Moon seem 30% bigger and 14% brighter than when it is furthest from the planet.… Read the rest of this article
AAVSO Alert Notice 485Dr. Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), has requested AAVSO monitoring of the symbiotic variable AG Draconis from now through at least September 2013 for correlation with upcoming Chandra x-ray and HST ultraviolet observations.
Dr. Dupree writes that as a symbiotic variable, AG Dra “exhibits both … Read the rest of this article
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