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2012 silliness, info-graphically shredded
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The site “InformationIsBeautiful.net” has created a lovely info-graphic listing and shredding various silly ideas associated with 2012, the Mayan calendar, galactic arrangements and whatnot. You can see it here, and certainly should . It lists lots of ridiculous ideas that I didn’t know existed, even beyond the ...1 day ago -
Worlds largest radio telescope network goes live
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Space.com : The worlds largest collection of radio telescopes is being tied together for 24 hours starting today to observe more than two hundred energetic galaxies known as quasars. During those 24 hours, 35 telescopes on all seven continents will observe 243 distant quasars in an effort to improve the precision of ...6 days ago -
Is space travel bad for our environment?
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Granite Geek readers, I think it’s fair to say, are interested in space travel and in quantifying stuff, such as the environmental impacts of various practices … so we should be interested in this Green Lantern post on Slate , which ponders whether space travel (shuttle, rocket launches, etc.) is worse for the ...6 days ago -
Star likely to become a Type 1a supernova
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Physics Today : A white dwarf star called V445 in the constellation of Puppis, that is digesting its closest neighbor, is a prime candidate to explode as a Type Ia Supernova, ejecting a large quantity of matter into space. V445 Puppis has been under a two-year observation by the European Southern Observatorys ...1 week ago -
The Boston Globe’s incredible gallery of Martian...
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The Boston Globe ’s incredible gallery of Martian landscapes , as photographed by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.1 week ago -
Lithium key for exoplanet search
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BBC News : Astronomers may have found a way to identify those Sun-like stars most likely to harbour orbiting planets. A survey of stars known to possess planets shows the vast majority to be severely depleted in lithium. To date, scientists have detected just over 420 worlds circling other stars using a range of ...1 week ago -
Astronomy from the Edge of Space
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A team of rocket scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Astronomy Laboratory talk about innovative developments such as the Star Tracker 5000, which offers important applications for the national space program. The device accurately orients spacecraft by tracking star fields with a high level of ...1 week ago -
Space debris getting uncontrollable, says official
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Space.com : The amount of junk floating in space is getting out of hand and the US must step up its effort to control orbital trash, say experts. The chief of US Strategic Command said Wednesday that America needs better tools to monitor the orbital debris thats up there and plan to avoid collisions with valuable ...1 week ago -
Is there a future for JDEM?
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Nature News : The rise and fall this year of the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM)—a satellite meant to pin down the repulsive force that is accelerating the Universes expansion—is partly due to strife between two US agencies, NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE), and a third potential partner, the European ...2 weeks ago -
Space Rock explodes in atmosphere
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SPACE.com : A space rock explosion earlier this month over an island region of Indonesia is now being viewed as perhaps the biggest object to tangle with the Earth in more than a decade.On 8 October, reports from Indonesia told of a loud air blast around 11 a.m. local time. One report indicated a bright fireball, ...3 weeks ago -
Dark matter may have hit the Milky Way
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Usatoday.com : The most likely explanation to what force could have permanently bent a ring in our Milky Way Galaxy within the last 60 million years appears to be a giant clump of dark matter. The Dark matter is suspected to consist of enigmatic physics particles born in the fiery aftermath of the Big Bang and ...3 weeks ago -
ESA satellite to track water cycle
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Physics Today : A Russian Rokot launcher , has successfully taken off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with Europes Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite on board. SMOS is a small 658-kg satellite will provide the first global maps of the amount of moisture held in soils and of the quantity of salts dissolved ...3 weeks ago -
Swift sees ancient cosmic blast
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NPR : The NASA swift satellite has discovered the most distant γ-ray burst seen and the earliest astronomical object ever observed in cosmic history. Two teams of scientists made the discovery, which they report in Nature . Related Links Astronomers detect most distant object ever seen Related Nature ...3 weeks ago -
Gordon Brown cheaply shrugs off Campaign For Dark Skies
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Today I was getting ready to leave my flat for my afternoon shift when, hurrying to finish my lunch, I managed to catch the very end of Prime Minister’s Question Time (PMQs) on the TV. The twelfth and final question was asked by the Conservative member for Wells, David Heathcoat-Amory, and this is what he had to ...3 weeks ago -
Which big telescope should the US build?
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Science : For the past 5 years, Jerry Nelson and his colleagues at University of California have been working on plans for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)—whose primary mirror will be a glinting mosaic of 492 hexagonal segments . An artists concept showing the segmented primary mirror, which has 492 ...3 weeks ago
