Space

The Continuing Search Of A Dark Site

Amateur astronomers fond of visual observation of faint galaxies and other fuzzy treasures of the night sky are always in search of the best observative site, where to drag their large Dobsonian telescopes. Unfortunately, their road is always uphill- also ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 9 2009 - 1:40pm

The Daytime Astronomer Shares a Cool Space/TV Map

It's sharing time.  Here's a cool space mashup map, titled "If extraterrestrial civilizations are monitoring our TV broadcasts, then this is what they are currently watching." It's a plot of nearby stars, with lines indicating whic ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 11 2009 - 9:08am

Black Holes Born Hungry

There are many hypotheses about the early days of black holes.  Researchers writing in  The Astrophysical Journal Letters have undertaken simulations using data taken from observations of the cosmic background radiation—the earliest view of the structure o ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2009 - 2:42pm

Watch The Perseids Tonight!

Tonight you have a chance to contribute to science-namely, the knowledge of our solar system- and have a lot of fun at the same time. Do you want to know how? Then please read on. Comet Swift-Tuttle (left, courtesy NASA) may be far away by now, but the deb ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 14 2009 - 7:52am

Nanoflares Boost Heat Of The Sun's Corona

Small bursts of heat and energy called nanoflares cause temperatures in the sun's atmosphere to reach millions of degrees, according to NASA researchers.. The sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is made up of loops of hot gas that arch high above ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:56pm

GRACE Study For Groundwater Loss In Northern India

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) is a twin-satellite system to study in detail the Earth's gravity field. The GRACE data consist of  accelerometer, GPS, and attitude measurements from each satellite plus the inter-satellite range c ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Aug 14 2009 - 5:51pm

What Are Super Planetary Nebulae?

Planetary nebulae are gas and dust shells ejected by stars near the end of their lives- typically seen around stars comparable or smaller in size than the Sun. The existing population of planetary nebulae is found around small stars comparable in size to o ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2009 - 9:37am

Video Clip of a Wow Fireball

If you have never seen a fireball lighting up the night sky I bet you will appreciate the video below, which was taken by Ivaldo Cervini over Italian skies a few days ago. It is a Perseid meteor, which lit up at a visual magnitude of approximately-10 (for ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 16 2009 - 6:46pm

US Air Force Improves GPS

Our society is saturated with GPS, or Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), applications. GPS is the first GNSS and it is operated by US Air Force. Most people are not aware of the fact that GPS was developed and is run by the military. A reduced qual ...

Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Aug 18 2009 - 4:28am

Why Solar Nanoflares Matter

The mystery of the solar corona may be resolved.  ScientificBlogging has covered this, as did space.com, Space Fellowship, and other sites.  Two of them couldn't resist the same money quote, too: "Why is the sun's corona so darned hot?" ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 18 2009 - 7:36pm