Space

Ultra-Primitive Particles Found In Earth's Cosmic Dust

Dust samples collected by high-flying aircraft have found relicts from the ancient cosmos, according to scientists from the Carnegie Institution. This stratospheric dust includes minute grains that likely formed inside stars that lived and died long before ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2009 - 1:13pm

Gravity Satellites Map Amazon (x3)

Scientists used a pair of gravity-measuring satellites, GRACE, to look at Amazon river basin water levels and, hopefully, better predict future water storage and runoff.  The twin GRACE satellites measure the mass distribution of the Earth between the two ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Nov 4 2009 - 11:38pm

First Find UNKNOWN Giant Galaxy Assembly Almost 7 Billion Light Years Distant

Hello. See the giant structure in 2D and also in 3D. The positions of the galaxies in the newly found structure are shown in red in the second and third images. Other galaxies in "blue" are located in front or behind "the Giant."  To r ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Nov 4 2009 - 11:04pm

Up, up and away in my beautiful space elevator

An elevator to space? No, this isn't a reprise of Charlie and Chocolate Factory. As I mentioned in a blog back in January, an elevator into space is the end goal- a 100,000 km long tether anchored to the Earth as a "lift into space" for chea ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 5 2009 - 1:28pm

Galileo and The Photogenic Total Eclipse of 2009

1571 was also interesting. Galileo Galilei was then seven years old. Johannes Kepler was born on December 27. There were two solar eclipses, a total on January 25 and an annular on July 21-22. Four, one partial and three penumbral,  lunar eclipses occurre ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Nov 11 2009 - 12:37am

The Hunt For Red Martians, 1924

While today we're pretty darned certain there is no intelligent life on Mars, in the early 20th century, it was still an open question.  So-- about four decades before the publically known Project Ozma search-- the Navy stepped up to find out.  Well b ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Nov 10 2009 - 11:11am

Jesus Ticked Off At NASA

The word on the street is that Jesus is pretty t'd off at NASA. 1 What mortal sin 2 did the space agency allegedly commit? The non-biological reproduction of an RNA component in a laboratory, of course. NASA scientists reproduced uracil in a lab under ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 12 2009 - 2:27pm

The Bloggy satellite at the Winter AAS

Our satellite hits the road-- even before it gets built!  I will be presenting a short talk on "Project Calliope: Science and Social Media" at the winter AAS meeting in Washington DC on January 7, 2010.  The session is 'Innovations in Teachi ...

Blog Post - Project Calliope - Nov 12 2009 - 2:36pm

RuBisCo, Stars, Drake And The "Riddle Of Life"

RuBisCo Stars, Frank Drake and the "Riddle of Life" December 4, 2009. ...

Article - Dave Deamer - Dec 4 2009 - 7:41pm

Citation-- Callin' Out Space.Com

I'm a reasonable man, but there's a laxness in cyberspace I just can't abide with. And I'm talking to you, space.com. I'll say it straight, you may know science but you ain't giving your readers any links to the real stuff. Yo ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Nov 17 2009 - 8:46am