Milky Way Hosts Stunning Gamma Ray Features
Astronomers using the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope have discovered a pair of globe-like features at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Though their origin is unknown, the two near identical globes that extend 25,000 light years north and south of the galactic center...Pluto-Bound and Beyond: A Toast to New Horizons
NASA’s New Horizons is more than half-way to an encounter with distant Pluto. Launched in January 2006, the spacecraft today enters its next wakeup period from hibernation. According to New Horizon’s principal investigator, Alan Stern, the main purpose of the 10-day...Europe Looks to International Space Station Plant Experiment
School children seem a natural mix, when it comes to growing plants in space. The European Space Agency plans to make a little hay of its own with the pairing when Italian Paulo Naspoli heads for the International Space Station in mid-December. Students from 12 to...Opportunity Mars Rover – Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
NASA’s Opportunity rover continues on its red planet travels, completing early this month a week of driving. The robot is making its way toward Endeavour crater. Camera shots from the rover show this feature in ever-greater detail as it drives closer and closer. En...Shhhh! Earth in Look and Listen-Mode for ET
Researchers based in 6 continents, 13 countries and 19 research institutes are coordinating a series of observations of several nearby stars – on the listen and lookout mode for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. The quest is dubbed Project Dorothy, named after...Book Review: Surveyor: Lunar Exploration Program – The NASA Mission Reports
Surveyor: Lunar Exploration Program – The NASA Mission Reports Edited and compiled by Robert Godwin; Apogee Books; Burlington, Ontario Canada; $17.95 (soft cover); 2010. All too often, in our forward plunge into deep space, we forget the legacy projects of achievement...Wow! First Imagery From Comet Flyby
NASA’s EPOXI mission has flown by comet Hartley 2 today, producing staggering images of the object. “This is a day that scientists live for,” said JPL scientist, Don Yeomans, an asteroid and comet expert. More than one jet was caught shooting out from the comet, he...We must prepare children for careers of innovation-Opinion Editorial by CSE Board Member Dr. Bernard Harris
Source: Houston Chron We must prepare children for careers of innovation Math, science studies are essential to success After nearly seven days aboard space shuttle Discovery, orbiting the Earth at 18,000 miles per hour and circling the globe every 90 minutes, I was...Calculator Estimates Calamity from Comet/Asteroid Impact of Earth
If you’re concerned about incoming asteroids smacking into the Earth, now you can calculate ahead of time the calamity a comet or space rock would cause if it hit our home planet. Researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana have unveiled Impact:...Space Talk
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