Mar 28, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
Strange New Worlds – The Search for Alien Planets…and Life Beyond Our Solar Systemby Ray Jayawardhana ; Princeton University Press; Princeton, New Jersey; $24.95; (hard cover) March 2011. This delightful and engaging book tells the story of humankind’s quest to locate...
Feb 18, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built and operates the MESSENGER spacecraft and manages this Discovery-class mission for NASA. Credit: NASA/JHU-APL In about a month’s time, NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging –...
Feb 3, 2011 | Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, The Sun
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has made major new strides in the search for extrasolar planets, producing its first candidates for Earth-sized worlds and the first worlds orbiting within what’s considered the habitable zones of stars, astronomers...
Feb 2, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Book Reviews, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts; $27.95 (Hardcover); 2010. Readers of all backgrounds will love this book. The volume is beautifully produced,...
Jan 28, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Sun
When it comes to the Sun, one could recall that line sung by Elvis: “A churning urn of burning funk.” But now space weather forecasters have a new tool to issue a one-to-four day advance warning of high speed streams of solar plasma and Earth-directed coronal mass...
Jan 4, 2011 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Shuttle, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe by editors Carole Stott, Robert Dinwiddie, David Hughes and Giles Sparrow; Dorling Kindersley(DK) Publishing; New York, New York; $40.00 (hard cover); 2010. Space is big…but so is this large format book. This is a...
Jan 2, 2011 | Education, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space Research, The Sun
With the help of a prolific Polish astronomy student, the joint NASA and European Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission has detected its 2,000th comet, a pursuit the 15-year-old spacecraft accomplished with the help of dozens of citizen observers from around...
Dec 21, 2010 | Education, Exploration, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Moon, The Sun
The full lunar eclipse of Monday night and early Tuesday was spectacular, according to eye witness accounts gathered by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and others. “Was spectacular,” said one witness from the Dominican Republic who participated...
Dec 20, 2010 | Education, Exploration, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Moon, The Sun
North America is in for a celestial treat late Monday and early Tuesday, Dec. 20-21, as the moon enters a full eclipse. The overnight event starts at 12:29 a.m., EST, which is 5:29 UTC. That’s when the Earth’s shadow begins to fall across the lunar...
Dec 14, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, The Sun
See the Sun like never before – and no shades needed! A new software tool is available from the European Space Agency (ESA), allowing online lookers to view the entire library of imagery from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SOHO is a project of...