Book Review: Space Chronicles – Facing the Ultimate Frontier
Space Chronicles – Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Edited by Avis Lang); W.W. Norton & Co., New York; $26.95 (hardcover); 2012. This delightful read comes courtesy of a thoughtful, charismatic astrophysicist and renowned popular speaker – an...CSExtra – Tuesday, May 15, 2012
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Tuesday’s CSExtra offers a collection of the latest reporting and commentary on...U. S., Russian Crew Launches to the International Space Station
A three-man U. S.and Russian crew successfully lifted off for the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan late Monday. The Soyuz capsule with Joseph Acaba, of NASA, and cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin...Amateurs to “Crowdsource” Asteroids
Any attempt to survey and catalog hazardous asteroids faces a number of difficulties. Coming to aid the effort are amateur astronomers, ready to boost the European Space Agency’s (ESA) asteroid hunt as part of ESA’s Space Situational Awareness program. A new...CSExtra – Monday, May 14, 2012
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related...It’s Crowded Out There! Life-Bearing Earth-size Planets – New Study
Since 1995, when the first extrasolar planet was reported, the number of detections has increased to roughly 750 newly found worlds. All of these planets orbit stars. But a very few, if any, have been deemed potential candidates for life. New work by an international...CSExtra – Friday, May 11, 2012
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To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. From the Coalition for Space Exploration: T-10 Days and counting! The deadline for...James Webb Space Telescope – New Milestone
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project has reached yet another milestone. The first instrument to be completed for JWST has been transferred from the European Space Agency to NASA – the Mid InfraRed Instrument, or MIRI for short. This month’s handover comes at...Space Talk
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.@NASAWebb is providing new scientific insight into how stars and their protoplanetary disks form planets. The #JWST recently observed a system that just finished forming its planets.
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