 CNN (blog) For the first time, new planet candidates have been identified with the help of the public's analysis ofNASA data. Anyone can join this effort, called Planet Hunters, for free and start helping realastronomers weed through data that might signal a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Space junk to hit Earth, but where? Chicago Tribune Predicting the exact trajectory for a hunk of space junk that will crash into the planet is an inexact science, even for the experts at America's space agency, said Geza Gyuk, director of astronomy at Adler Planetarium. "There are a lot of different ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Questions remain about where the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs came from AccuWeather.com (blog) Please join the AccuWeather.com Astronomy fanpage by clicking here. You can leave your comments there, as well, and be part of a community where discussions on this or any otherastronomy subject take place. We are now approaching 1900 likes on ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Univ. of Arizona planet expert Michael Drake dies Houston Chronicle "Mike thought and spoke clearly so you always knew where he stood on an issue," said Professor Peter Strittmatter, who recently retired as director of the university's Steward Observatory and head of the astronomy department. A native of Bristol, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Moon Bible goes on sale in auction CNN (blog) "Of course people who may be people of faith that are interested in astronomy, in aerospace exploration, it would be of great interest," he said. Several of the Apollo astronauts were just such men, RR Auction's Livingston said. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Satellite re-entry poses no danger : Space and Astronomy news ... By Jonathan Nally The satellite making news at the moment—the former Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite, better characterised as a decommissioned or defunct satellite rather than space junk—falls into the second category. In 2005, NASA decommissioned UARS and intentionally placed it into an orbit a couple of hundred kilometres lower than its operational orbit. This was done to accelerate is eventual demise, and means it is re-entering the atmosphere 20 years earlier than it otherwise would ... Space and Astronomy news daily... |
| NASA's falling 5-ton satellite UARS caught on ... - BioScholar News By BioNews An amateur astronomer has recorded images of the six-tonne, 20-year-old NASA satellite that is falling to earth, and is expected to hit the planet on. ... News Section | Astronomy and Space ... BioScholar News |
| Astronomers confirm first planet orbiting two stars - One News Page ... NASA spots Star Wars-like planet orbiting two stars. The space agency's discovery of Kepler 16b marks the first planet astronomers have seen definitively with ... www.onenewspage.com/.../Astronomers-confirm-first-planet-o... |
| UARS Update: NASA Refines Crashing ... - Astronomy News Room Astronomy News Room. Introducing ... The 5900-kilogram satellite was deployed from SpaceShuttle Discovery during the STS-48 mission in September 1991. ... www.astronnewsroom.com/?p=1330 |
| NASA SPACE NEWS: Herschel Mission Finds Galactic Growth Slow ... The results appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. ... more information visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/herschel/news/herschel20110913.html ... spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com/.../herschel-mission-finds-ga... |
| UARS update: Falling NASA satellite caught by astronomical ... UARS update: Falling NASA satellite caught by astronomical telescope (Video). By Angel ... the video below. UARS-video-NASA-Thierry-Legault-space-satellite ... www.batangastoday.com/uars-update-falling...by.../17239/ |
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