Articles in the Category: Astronomy
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
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, SciClips, Space, citizen science on 01 21st, 2010 | No Comments
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...
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?
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 16th, 2009 | 2 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 | 7 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...
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.
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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.
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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.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 08 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Space Probe finds Ocean on a Saturn Moon
Watch the video Enceladus – Saturns moon.
The Cassini spacecraft has detected new evidence that one of Saturn’s moons has an ocean beneath its surface.
Enceladus is the sixth largest moon orbiting around the ringed planet Saturn. And, it is one that astronomers believe could harbor some...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Featured Articles, SciClips, Space, Video on 07 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Spotting Jupiter’s New Spot
On July 19, a big chunk of something smacked into Jupiter, causing a black mark on the gas giant’s surface and raising a lot of questions. Fortunately, the newly upgraded Hubble Telescope was in the neighborhood and pointed its powerful lens at the impact site, giving scientists all sorts of exciting...
Sun Block of the Century
Watch the video Solar Eclipse 2009 Tell us what you know bout this INCREDIBLE PHENOMENA, ending of the earth!!??.
The longest solar eclipse of the century is slated to cross India and China. A total eclipse will be visible across parts of Asia, including India and China. Expected to last over six and...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Biology, Featured Articles, Genetics, Politics and Science, SciClips, SciFoo, SciLebs, Video on 07 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Building Something SciFoo Style
Every year the brightest science minds head south in July–somewhat like the swallows to Capistrano. This is more like the string theorists to the world Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
There, they meet in an unconference, trade brilliant notions and form collaborations to address...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Biology, Diseases, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 07 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Bridging the Science and Society Gap
There appears to be a huge disconnect between the public and scientists, as evidenced through a Pew Research Center report that came out last week.
Science writer Chris Mooney, the author of Republican War on Science and Stormworld has a new book, titled, Unscientific America, showing just how un-science-focused...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Biology, Computer Science, Dinosaurs, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 06 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Georgia Girls Shine as Stars of Science
Summer is no time for idle minds. About 70 Georgia girls are getting a crash course in crime scene investigation, astronomy, dinosaurs and chemistry, neuroscience, computer science and mathematics.
The goal of the Women in the Sciences summer camp is to interest young women in pursuing careers in science.
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