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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, Science Ditty Friday, Scientainment, Space, Video on 01 27th, 2012 | No Comments

SDF: Science Rap Battle of History — Einstein v. Hawking

Editor’s Note: In 2012 REALscience rolled out a new feature — Science Ditty Friday. Each and every Friday we’ll compile a song (preferably with accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. And there will be a more detailed explanation of the science in the lyrics...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Discoveries, Space, Video on 12 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Kepler Finds First Earth-Sized Planets

Just a couple of weeks after announcing the discovery of a planet within a distant solar system that is orbiting in what astronomers called the habitable zone for life, another exciting announcement adds two more confirmed planets to the list. Since its launch in 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 12 19th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Icy Comet Escapes Sun’s Fiery Grip

Comet Lovejoy has Close Encounter with the SunIt may only be ten percent of what it once was but Comet Lovejoy managed to graze the sun and survive, mostly intact. It lost its long trailing tail and a lot of its ice exterior when it made a close encounter with the sun last week. The comet was discovered...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Discoveries, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Space on 12 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Earth-like Planet Fuels Excitement for Space Exploration

The question is the subject of movies, science fiction novels and our own curious minds. Are we alone in the universe? Prevailing scientific wisdom says yes but more and more the answer appears to be no. With the advent of more sensitive cosmological equipment to scan the night sky, astronomers are...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Space, Video on 11 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Curious Mars Rover to Search for Life

On Saturday, a $2 billion science project will begin what NASA is calling a flagship mission to Mars to see if the red planet is capable of sustaining microbial life. Equipped with 17 cameras, an on-board science lab, the six-wheeled rover named Curiosity will do what its predecessors Spirit and Opportunity...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Citizen science, Space, Video on 10 31st, 2011 | No Comments

Asteroid to Make Near Earth Pass

An aircraft carrier-sized asteroid is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood. 2005 YU55 is going to be zipping by on November 8 in what scientists are calling a close encounter. The asteroid is not going to hit Earth but it will be about 15 percent closer to Earth than the moon, making it quite an...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Engineering, Inventions, Space on 10 12th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Largest Telescope Built to See Cosmic Dawn

It’s already the largest telescope in the world but by the end of 2013 the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Telescope will be able to see dust that was formed 13 billion years ago. Comprised of 20 high-powered antennas the project will add another 46 over the next two years. Sitting...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 10 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Three Capture Nobel Prize in Physics for Expanding Universe

For scientists it doesn’t get any bigger than the Nobel Prize. This year’s winners in the Physics category receive the honor for work they did on the biggest subject available to them or anyone — the universe. Three U.S. scientists are sharing the prize for their theory of a rapidly...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Geology, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 09 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Astronomers Find Diamond Planet

Far far away, toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy sits a true diamond in the rough. Astronomers haven’t been able to see a newly discovered exoplanet but it may prove to be a real gem. Using deductive reasoning based on crucial pieces of evidence, an international astrophysics team led by...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Solar, Space, Video on 08 16th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NASA Mission to Jupiter to Unlock Secrets of Planet Formation

A space probe carrying some Lego astronauts is on a five-year trip to Jupiter. The Juno mission launched without a hitch on August 5 and began its journey to the largest planet in the solar system. With the end of the 30-year space shuttle program, the new face of NASA is space probes not astronauts....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Biology, Math, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 08 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Charles and Ray Eames Power of Creativity

In 1978, Charles and Ray Eames, the husband and wife duo who are known for their mid 20th Century furniture, movie making and other design projects, decided to map the visible world. Their film, Powers of Ten showed the perspective of moving one order of magnitude every ten seconds. Beginning with a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Space, Video on 07 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Pluto Shows a Fourth Moon

Pluto may no longer be a planet but it still has moons. Between 1978 and 2005 the little icy world formerly known as the ninth planet in our solar system has revealed moon after moon. Most people may not realize that Pluto has any moons or probably thought it just had one, like Earth. First there was...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 07 18th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Dawn Reaches Vesta

Get used to hearing the name Vesta. It’s one of the largest asteroids in our solar system’s asteroid belt, a wide area of spinning rocks located between Mars and Jupiter. After four years of slow and steady travel, NASA’s Dawn space probe finally reached the orbit of the big spinning...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Citizen science, Space, Video on 07 7th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Wants You to Help Spot Icy Blobs

All of the space data that the Hubble Telescope is broadcasting is far too much for a handful of scientists to sift through in a timely manner. So using the power of technology and the time and interest of citizen scientists several space-based science projects are underway through a project called...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 06 21st, 2011 | No Comments

What’s the Matter, Neutrinos?

New evidence of muon neutrinos turning into electron neutrinos could pave the way for spotting differences between matter and antimatter. That may not mean much to most people but scientists think it might be a big clue in the search for why matter is everywhere and antimatter is not. Physicists believe...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 06 16th, 2011 | No Comments

Baby Black Holes Present near Birth of the Universe

How black holes form is one of the biggest questions facing astronomers. For years super-massive black holes have provided a laboratory for physicists to study the light-strangling phenomenon. Now a six-week study has revealed the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Atmospheric science, Space, Video on 06 10th, 2011 | No Comments

Solar Flare Could Disrupt Cell Phones and Satellites

Scientists say particles from a solar flare will rain down on Earth and possibly cause problems. NASA caught incredible images of the sun as it released a medium-sized solar flare and a spectacular coronal mass ejection. It appeared to cover at least half of the sun with its plasma cloud. Now it is...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Discoveries, Space, Video on 05 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Rogue Planets without Orbits More Numerous than Stars

Albert Einstein predicted that large enough objects had the capability to bend light. He was right and astronomers used this technique called microlensing to make an out-of-this-world discovery. It seems that not all planets orbit neighboring stars. A international team of scientists has found ten planets...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 05 18th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Probe to Explore Jupiter

When the Juno spacecraft blasts off this August, it will embark on a mission to understand the origin and evolution of our largest planetary neighbor, Jupiter. Scientists believe that Jupiter and the sun may be formed by the same heavy elements. So NASA is sending a solar-powered probe to determine...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Citizen science, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 05 12th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Shooting Stars

Seattle marketing director Nick Risinger quit his job to travel the world in search of the perfect picture of the night sky. The 29-year-old amateur astronomer took a year and traveled from the southwestern U.S. to South Africa, taking thousands of digital color photos of all billions of stars in both...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Podcast, Space, Video on 04 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Curiosity Joins Opportunity and Spirit on Mars

NASA engineers in California are working around the clock to put the finishing touches on the new Mars mega-rover before shipping it off to Florida for launch later this year. Wearing his clean suit, AP’s John Mone got an inside look at the vehicle named Curiosity. After launch to the red planet...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Space, Video on 03 31st, 2011 | No Comments

Mercury Comes into View

After a six-and-a-half-year and 93-million-mile journey the Messenger spacecraft has reached its target — Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. After a tricky maneuver to use gravitational force to enter into the fast-spinning orbit of Mercury the probe began sending back the clearest and closest...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Space, Video on 02 15th, 2011 | No Comments

NASAs Valentine’s Day Fling with a Comet

Scientists say they have seen evidence of a manmade crater in images of comet Tempel 1 taken during a Valentine’s Day flyby. The crater was created by another NASA craft that visited Tempel 1 in 2005. Scientists found signs of scarring left by the Deep Impact mission. This is the second time NASA...

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