Aug 24, 2010 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Hubble Space Telescope, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, Why Space
A Grand and Bold Thing โ An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering in a New Era of Discovery by Ann Finkbeiner; Free Press; New York, New York; $27.00 (hard cover); 2010. Weโre all getting 3D this, 3D that. But now, turn your attention to the heavens. This...
Aug 24, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon
Space travelโฆcan you pass a test? Yes, even in outer space you have to make the grade. Thatโs the news from a team of Kansas State University researchers, funded by NASA to research what physical characteristics are necessary for an astronaut to perform tasks on the...
Aug 20, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Shuttle
Credit: NASAย Go For Launch! Is a stunning, one-of-a-kind, four-minute chronicle of Discoveryโs trip from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the pad, beginning with the โrolloverโ to the Vehicle Assembly Building on February 22 and ending with the STS-131 launch on...
Aug 18, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Space and Science, The Sun
Thereโs a new space-based system to monitor Earthโs space environment. Introducing the Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment (AMPERE) – the system provides real-time magnetic field measurements using commercial satellites as part...
Aug 16, 2010 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Space and Science
The Fallen Sky – An Intimate History of Shooting Stars by Christopher Cokinos; Tarcher/Penguin, New York, New York (soft cover) $16.95; August 2010. If you found yourself craning your neck toward the heavens of late looking for shooting stars โ hereโs a terrific...
Aug 14, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Raw and unprocessed image of Saturn’s Tethys taken by Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Instituteย The word is inโฆand so are the new photos! The Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) posted today the raw preview of imagery...
Aug 14, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research
ย A new report by the National Research Council identifies the highest-priority research activities for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade that will โset the nation firmly on the path to answering profound questions about the cosmos.โ Itโs called a decadal...
Aug 14, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Space and Science, Space Research
Einstein@Home has become one of the worldโs most popular volunteer computing projects. What makes it even more impressive is this weekโs report of an unusual pulsar discovered through the network computing effort. Einstein@home, launched in 2005, was one of the first...
Aug 12, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, Why Space
ย What does a Canadian mine more than a mile underground have to do with dark matter in the universe? This month, scientists are putting in place a bubble chamber in the Canadian mine โ part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) in Ontario, Canada. Scientists...
Aug 8, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
The icy face of Jupiter’s Europa. A site for life? Credit: NASAย What might be waiting for discovery at the frost-covered ground at the poles of Mars? What about on the icy bodies in our Solar System, such as Jupiterโs Europa? Those are cool questions. And to...