Recent Posts Tagged With 'space'

• Planning For Earth\'s Future

  Posted on Thursday December 31st, 2009 at 14:36 in space

  Russians are making tentative plans to 'deflect' an asteroid, 99942 Apophis (estimated to be 3 times larger than the famous 1908 Tunguska meteorite), headed toward earth on a 20-year timetable. I don't expect to still be around at that point, so not ...

• Butterflies In Space

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 09:47 in space, insects

  Somehow it's a lovely image; Monarch and Painted Lady butterflies are headed to the International Space Station aboard the shuttle Atlantis as part of a 'science outreach project': http://news.discovery.com/space/butterflies-atlantis-space-station.h...

• Long Ago and Far Away...

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 04:46 in space, physics

  The oldest explosion yet detected in the Universe (~13 billion years ago) reported on here: http://tinyurl.com/yj9vyrc Astrophysicist Bing Zhang (...gotta love that name :-)) writes in Nature about the finding. Next year the Hubble telescope will ...

• LCROSS Moon Mission

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 09:18 in space

  The LCROSS impact moon mission coming up Oct. 9, to study moon dust. Astronomy buffs get your telescopes out....

• Sunspot Mystery

  Posted on Sunday August 2nd, 2009 at 04:07 in space

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• Onward To the Red Planet

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 03:53 in space

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