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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Citizen science, Computer Science, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 08 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Citizen Scis Make Big Astronomical Discovery Using Computer Down Time

Citizen scientists Chris and Helen Colvin from Ames, Iowa, and Daniel Gebhardt from Mainz, Germany participate in Einstein@Home, a distributed computing program that involves a quarter of a million volunteers worldwide. They donated their idle computer time to analyze data gathered by the world’s...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 08 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Solar Tsunami Shoots Plasma at Earth

Solar eruptions send gases directly toward earth but scientists say they pose no direct threat to us. But for science, it was quite a spectacular cosmic display. On August 1, a large sunspot created a coronal mass ejection from the northern hemisphere of the sun. This discharge of gas and particles...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 07 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Russian Supply Capsule Misses International Space Station

An unmanned Russian space capsule carrying supplies to the International Space Station failed in a docking attempt. As a result, NASA says the Progress vehicle continued on its trajectory and glided safely past the space station. At the time of the communication loss, the vehicle was approximately...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Environment, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, Space, Video on 07 1st, 2010 | No Comments

2010: A Space Policy

President Obama unveiled his new plan(PDF) for NASA. After scrapping the manned space program Constellation last fall the President pushed back plans to return to the moon and send a manned mission to Mars. This announcement and policy reversal struck some stargazers and scientists as disappointing. The...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Space on 06 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Black Holes and Holographic Worlds — from World Science Festival

Black Holes and Holographic Worlds: (1:33:28) Dutch professor and physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf says the idea of black holes falls right in between the two largest theories in physics–general relativity and quantum mechanics. General relativity describes large structures in the universe while quantum...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 02 19th, 2010 | No Comments

NASAs WISE Eye in the Sky

NASA launched a new satellite, called WISE, which stands for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. It’s mission? Find asteroids or comets that could potentially hit Earth and map the whole sky by October. KMGH reporter Corey Christiansen has the story. NASA Medley of WISE Images #gallery-1...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Engineering, New Inventions, SciClips, Space on 02 1st, 2010 | 1 Comment

Astrotweets Signal Internet Move to Space

Astronauts can order books on Amazon or watch movies on Netflix, even while orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station. NASA just hooked up the Internet last week and already the astronauts have been tweeting up a storm. NASA also unveiled live streaming aboard the space station, starting...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Citizen science, SciClips, Space on 01 21st, 2010 | 1 Comment

Help NASA Image Mars

Here’s your chance to make scientific history. NASA is inviting the public to help choose sites on Mars to point a high-powered camera as part of a visual survey of the Red Planet. The HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has shot over 13,000 images already. Now NASA is opening...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 01 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Small Asteroid Buzzes Earth

The school bus sized chunk of space rock hurtled past Earth last week and a Utah astronomer caught the dot on video. It didn’t get dangerously close but did come within 80,000 miles.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Engineering, SciClips, Space on 01 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Russia Takes Aim at Big Asteroid

The head of the Russian space agency surprised scientists recently when he announced that his country needs to start figuring out how to deflect a big asteroid that will pass very close to Earth in about 20 years. When Apophis was discovered in 2004 NASA thought there was a slight chance that the big...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 12 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Hubble Snaps Baby Pics of the Early Universe

The Hubble Space Telescope snaps new images of the oldest galaxies ever seen. A senior scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explains to WSJ’s Robert Lee Hotz and Simon Constable how he did it-and what it means. The new infrared camera that was loaded onto the Hubble Telescope...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Podcast, RawAudio, SciClips, Space on 12 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Pluto’s Icy Underdog Status

Composite image of Pluto, courtesy Eliot Young (SwRI) et al., NASA For three years, Pluto–the ninth planet–has been given the cold shoulder by the astronomy community, which demoted it to dwarf planet in 2006. What is it about Pluto that tugs at our heartstrings? MSNBC.com Science Editor...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 16th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Moon Water Found–Now What?

Moon Water, courtesy of Babaloo. After a lackluster lunar blast that was barely visible, scientists worried there might not be water on the moon. But after analyzing the mountain of preliminary data, NASA confirmed there is water–in the form of ice–just below the surface of the lunar poles. This...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, SciClips on 11 10th, 2009 | No Comments

2012 Hoax Debunked

2012 is becoming the conspiratorial talk of the town. And a new Sony Pictures disaster movie by the same name only seems to be confusing matters. NASA even posted a Q & A page on its Web site. Here’s the gist of the kitchen sink hoax. It starts with the end of the Mayan calendar, adds a mystery...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Engineering, Solar, Space, Video on 11 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Contest Begins Elevator Race to Space

Engineers compete and test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators. The AP’s John Mone on why leaving the Earth, may not require rocket science.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 3rd, 2009 | 11 Comments

Exoplanet Name Game

Most people don’t realize that since the advent of high-powered telescopes and a new method in planetary detection called radial velocity, over 400 new planets have been spotted orbiting distant stars. And it all began in 1995. Now with new planet discoveries growing interest in finding Earth-like...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 10 30th, 2009 | No Comments

NASA Ares Test a Success

NASA is calling the test flight launch of its Ares 1-X rocket “the next step in human exploration.” The 327-foot rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida this week as the first in new rocket design since the 1970s. The Ares series of manned rockets is going to replace the space shuttle...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 10 21st, 2009 | No Comments

32 New Extrasolar Planet

The European Space Agency has found 32 new planets orbiting around distant stars. And they did it not with a high-powered space telescope but with a very sensitive ground-based instrument located in South America. Learn about how astronomers locate planets based on subtle wobbles in star movement. Just...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 10 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Moon Plume Kicks up Scientific Data

Cabeus Crater, impact zone for LCROSS mission When NASA smashed an expensive satellite and rocket into the moon, many people wondered why the space agency would do such a thing. Then on October 9, with hundreds of thousands of people watching, the big plume of dirt and ice that would indicate a successful...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, Space on 10 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud

Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 10 8th, 2009 | No Comments

NASA Shoots the Moon

NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite smashes into the south pole of the moon to kick up some dust and see if there is evidence of water on the moon. See the mission live as the centaur rocket and observation satellite hit the moon just after 4:10 a.m. PDT. Amateur astronomers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Engineering, Space, Video on 09 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Hubble Reveals New Cosmic Pics

After being upgraded and outfitted with a new, more powerful camera, the Hubble Space Telescope has begun sending higher resolution and more spectacular photos from deep within outer space. A fully rejuvenated Hubble telescope kicked off its new life on September 9, with a flurry of stunningly clear...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Computer Science, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 08 19th, 2009 | No Comments

40 Years Later, Google Puts Us All on the Moon

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Google Earth users can now search the moon.

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