This video is an inspirational call-to-arms for anyone who’s ever looked to the stars and dreamed of a day when the sky was, in fact, not the limit. It’s for all those who were inspired by the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions of the 1960s and early 70s; all those for whom the future of space travel was bright and … Read the rest of this article
A team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered another moon orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto.
They say the new moon, Pluto’s 5th, is likely irregular in shape and 6 to 15 miles across. Provisionally designated S/2012 (134340) 1, it was detected in nine separate sets of images taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 on June 26, … Read the rest of this article
Here’s a video showing various star trails and time lapses of the night key that I came across on Vimeo. The details for the video are below.
T-RECS – Night Skies from T-RECS (Timelapse Recordings) on Vimeo.
these are some astro nighttime shots we captured on our usa vacation trip after NAB 2012.
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Here’s the latest update from Planetary Resources on what’s happening with their asteroid mining plans:
Yesterday Eric Anderson was at the Farnborough Air Show with Richard Branson (more news on Branson in the future) announcing that Planetary had put down a deposit and signed up as one of the Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne early launch customers. LauncherOne uses the WhiteKnightTwo carrier … Read the rest of this article
NASA partner Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed an important design review of the crewed version of its Dragon spacecraft. The concept baseline review presented NASA with the primary and secondary design elements of its Dragon capsule designed to carry astronauts into low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
SpaceX is one of several companies working to develop crew … Read the rest of this article
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A NASA-created application that brings some of the agency’s robotic spacecraft to life in 3-D now is available for free on the iPhone and iPad.
Called Spacecraft 3D, the app uses animation to show how spacecraft can maneuver and manipulate their outside components. Presently, the new app features two NASA missions, … Read the rest of this article
Amazon have emailed me to let me know that the top selling binoculars in their Binoculars, Telescopes & Optics department are. If you’ve been thinking about buying a pair of astronomy binoculars, these are ones to consider:
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ESA’s Mars Express has imaged an area to the south of the famed Valles Marineris canyon on the Red Planet, showing a wide range of tectonic and impact features.
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High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) nadir and colour channel data taken during revolution 10532 on 17 April 2012 by ESA’s Mars Express have been combined to form a natural-colour view of the …
The violent behaviour of a young Sun-like star spinning at high speed and spewing out super-hot plasma has been revealed thanks to the combined X-ray vision of three space telescopes, including ESA’s XMM-Newton.
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An artist’s impression of what might be happening behind the thick dust disc surrounding the young Sun-like star V1647 Ori. X-ray observations by ESA’s XMM-Newton, NASA’s Chandra …
AAVSO Alert Notice 464Scotty Degenhardt (Santa Fe, NM), a pioneer in the use of video for timing eclipses of solar system and stellar objects and aresearch member of the International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA), has informed the AAVSO of a research project he and colleagues are working on: modeling … Read the rest of this article
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