NASA is inviting social media users to apply for credentials for the Oct. 7 launch of the first contracted cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract.
Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft as it lifts off from SpaceX’s launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted to … Read the rest of this article
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. The estimated mass of the halo is comparable to the mass of all the stars in the galaxy.
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This artist’s illustration shows an enormous halo of hot gas …
A spectacular fireball crossed the sky over Scotland, Wales and Ireland around 11pm local time on Friday, September 21st. A group of amateur astronomers were at Dunsink Observatory (outside Dublin) and the unexpected appearance of the object wowed those still present for the observing programme. Hundreds of people who saw the spectacle in areas including Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, Blackpool and … Read the rest of this article
Adam Steltzner doesn’t sound much like an ordinary engineer.
For instance, when we asked him if he would talk about Curiosity—and explain why the Mars rover matters to ordinary people – the former rock-n-roller responded “I’m totally down with that.”
He really is down with it. Steltzner is the NASA engineer who helped take the country’s cool new Curiosity rover … Read the rest of this article
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover’s arm to examine.
Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about halfway from the rover’s landing site, Bradbury Landing, to a location called Glenelg. In coming days, the team plans to touch the rock with a … Read the rest of this article
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed the giant asteroid Vesta has its own version of ring around the collar. Two new papers, based on observations from the low-altitude mapping orbit of the Dawn mission, show volatile, or easily evaporated, materials have colored Vesta’s surface in a broad swath around its equator.
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This perspective view of Marcia crater on the giant asteroid …
AAVSO Alert Notice 470:The symbiotic variable V4018 Sgr is undergoing an outburst, according to observations reported to the AAVSO and confirmed by spectroscopy by Ulisse Munari et al. Prompted by an observation and comment from John Bortle (Stormville, NY) (16 June 2012, visual magnitude 12.2) about a possible outburst, Steven … Read the rest of this article
Updated: September 20, 2012.
The article below was originally written in March 2011. Since then, in March 2012, NetFlix opened up for business in the UK and Ireland. However, it’s offerings were meagre, presumably due to different licencing deals being needed for content being shown in Europe. Given its less than thrilling selection of content, I searched out a way … Read the rest of this article
The 2012 edition of the “Cassini Scientist for a Day” competition is now open to entry from students. The competition is designed to give the participants a taste of life as a scientist. Students are invited to submit a 500-word essay explaining their choice of one of three targets to be imaged by the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn.… Read the rest of this article
NASA’s long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers.
Spherical objects concentrated at an outcrop Opportunity reached last week differ in several ways from iron-rich spherules nicknamed “blueberries” the rover found at its landing site in early 2004 and at many other locations to date.
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Small spherical objects fill the field in this …
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