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May 21, 2013

2:42 PM | Moon versus asteroids on the path to Mars

The space subcommittee of the House Science Committee is holding a hearing at 2 pm EDT today on “Next Steps in Human Exploration to Mars and Beyond”. The focus of the hearing, based on the hearing charter, will be whether NASA’s plans to redirect a near Earth asteroid into lunar orbit, to be then visited [...]

12:12 PM | May 21st: Orion and the Pretty Cool Universe

Podcaster: Dr Pamela Gay Title: Orion and the Pretty Cool Universe Organization: Cosmoquest & UNAWE Link : http://cosmoquest.org ; http://unawe.org Description: This is the 1st audio from Space Scoop, a product of “Universe Awareness”. Our goal is to inspire every child with our wonderful cosmos. Bio: Dr. Pamela Gay is a professor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Today’s sponsor: This episode of “365 Days of Astronomy” is sponsored by — no one. We […]

11:45 AM | The Violent Oklahoma Weather, From Far Above

The storms that swept through Oklahoma yesterday left astonishing devastation in their wake. The live video and photos taken from the ground are horrifying, grim, and heart-breaking. Whenever there is some sort of terrible weather event, one of the first things I do is check the satellite imagery to see what the system looks like, and how wide-spread it is. And every time, I forget how different things look from space. The contrast is shocking, even when you expect it. That’s a Geostationary […]

11:13 AM | gustavo posted an update: Fleet Tracking Systems - This GoTrack EZ is for Vehicles […]

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10:22 AM | Ruturaj Desai posted an update: Decorating Your Home With 3D Architectural Rendering The […]

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10:17 AM | Ruturaj Desai posted an update: 3D Modeling Wall Stickers - Why Should I Choose Them Over […]

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10:13 AM | Ruturaj Desai posted an update: 3D Character Animation Adding More to Life […]

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10:10 AM | Ruturaj Desai posted an update: Artistic Architectural Visualization Tiles Add Beauty and […]

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10:08 AM | Ruturaj Desai posted an update: Environmentally Friendly Indoor 3D Modeling Lighting Ideas […]

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7:12 AM | Planetary Science Echoes Through the Halls of Congress

The Planetary Society just returned from a big trip to Washington, D.C. to advocate for continued planetary exploration. Here's what happened.

5:38 AM | Curiosity Drills into Second Mars Rock

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has drilled into another rock and plans are afoot to analyze the pulverized material. Continue reading →

4:29 AM | Months after death, Sally Ride wins honors from White House and NASA

The White House and NASA say they will honor America's first woman in space, Sally Ride, by giving her a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom and putting her name on the camera she helped get installed on the International Space Station. Word of the memorials came as NASA cel …

12:20 AM | Curse or coincidence? Scientists study Tornado Alley's past and future

Do tornadoes follow well-worn tracks? Where do the deadliest twisters hit? Will climate change make such storms worse? Monday's devastating tornado in Oklahoma raises some questions for which scientists have ready answers, and others that could puzzle them for years to come …

May 20, 2013

10:39 PM | Dolphins persuade Navy trainers to dredge up 130-year-old torpedo

The U.S. Navy doesn't yet exactly know how a 130-year-old brass torpedo got to the bottom of the Pacific off the coast of San Diego, but they have a couple of dolphins to thank for rediscovering the rare weapon. The find was so unexpected that the humans didn't believe the dolphi …

10:00 PM | Microsoft supports End Anonymous Patents Act

In a strange twist, Microsoft has thrown its support for a recently introduced bill titled “End Anonymous Patents Act,” introduced by House of Representatives member Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) The act, if passed, would supposedly solve a problem regarding the recordation of patents in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Currently, recording the owner of a … Continue reading »

9:49 PM | Dan Satterfield wrote a new post, Catastrophic Tornado In Oklahoma City Metro, on the site Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal

Dan Satterfield wrote a new post, Catastrophic Tornado In Oklahoma City Metro, on the site Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal Devastation in Moore (Suburb of OKC). This tornado was 14 years to the month after the May 3, 1999 EF 5. It passed very nearly over the same area. Below is from NWS Norman: Below is the radar image […] Comments: 0

8:23 PM | How Kepler Could Die and Keep Giving

NASA hasn’t given up on resurrecting its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, but it can’t be saved, scientists expect it already has accomplished its goal of finding a habitable, Earth-like planet.

7:31 PM | Telling Stellar Stories

What are digital stories and how do you tell them? At a recent exhibit at Brown University, that topic was examined in a few different ways. One of the stories shown was a large screen version of images and text selected out of the "From Earth to the Universe" (FETTU) collection. FETTU is a Chandra-led project of astronomical image exhibits that began in the International Year of Astronomy in 2009 but has remained as a legacy project of public science. The location types of the FETTU […]

7:24 PM | Messier Monday: A Hyper-Smooth Globular Cluster, M5

“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.” -Galileo Galilei Welcome back to another Messier Monday here on Starts With a Bang! With 110 deep-sky objects making it up, the Messier Catalogue is the first comprehensive, accurate catalogue of faint (but not too faint) fixtures in the night sky. Each object…

7:00 PM | The Fast and the Furious

High-energy observations have strongly changed our view of isolated neutron stars, showing that these objects appear in a large variety of different classes and can exhibit substantial variability on time […]

6:47 PM | UK to Send First Astronaut to Space Station

A former army helicopter pilot was on Monday named as the first 'home-grown' British astronaut to head to the International Space Station.

6:01 PM | Evelyn Mervine wrote a new post, Monday Geology Picture: Mogolokwena Platinum Mine, South Africa , on the site Georneys

Evelyn Mervine wrote a new post, Monday Geology Picture: Mogolokwena Platinum Mine, South Africa , on the site Georneys Today's Monday Geology Picture and description are courtesy of my husband Jackie Gauntlett, who is sharing another picture from his recent field trip as part of his masters degree in Exploration Geology at […] Comments: 0

5:45 PM | Kickstarting Our Interstellar Future

The Starship Congress will see some of the most forward-thinking scientists and engineers descend on Dallas, Texas -- now you can get involved with an interstellar Kickstarter campaign. Continue reading →

5:00 PM | RICAP13 on Astro-Particle Physics

RICAP-13 will be the fourth edition of the RICAP Conference. The acronym stands for Roma International Conference on Astro-Particle physics, the Conference is entirely dedicated to the study of high […]

4:27 PM | Opportunity and Curiosity updates: Rolling and drilling and a little wear on the wheels

For most of April, while Mars scuttled behind the Sun as seen from Earth, both Mars rovers were pretty inactive. Now that conjunction has ended, both are doing what rovers should be doing: roving and exploring. As of sol 3312 Opportunity had moved more than 300 meters southward toward Solander Point, while on her sol 279 Curiosity drilled at a second site, Cumberland.

4:20 PM | Moon Gets Slammed by Cosmic Bullet

On March 17, scientists monitoring the moon for meteorite impacts spotted the biggest impact event to date: a space rock the size of a basketball slammed into the lunar surface at a speed of 56,000 miles per hour (90,000 km/hr), … Continue reading →

4:19 PM | Callan commented on the post, An itty bitty brachiopod, on the site Mountain Beltway

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4:00 PM | What can you learn from a grain of sand?

Two grains actually. Scientists studying grains of sand carried to earth in meteorites found in Antarctica have been able to determine information about how our solar system was formed. This method of studying stars can provide information that can’t be found with traditional astronomical means using telescopes or other observations. Two tiny grains of silica … Continue reading »

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