Could be host to habitable planets
Star Astronomy News Photo courtesy of NASA
Binary star systems – Astronomers taking part in the human journey to the beginning of space and time have found star systems the human mind never imagined out among the stars. In fact, they have found that star systems with multiple stars are more common than star systems with a single star, like our own solar system. Star systems with multiple stars of varying sizes have also been viewed during the human journ... Continue reading ...
Spitzer Detects Message from Guardians of the Universe?
Posted by Warren Wong on Sunday, July 3, 2011,
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Green Lantern's emerald ring beams across space and time
Visitors from the stars have often been the main characters in myths, legends, comic book adventures and books and movies created by humans throughout the ages of mankind. Considering the diminutive knowledge humans have of space and time this choice provides the perfect context for adventure and the unknown. The Green Lantern is one of the most popular and beloved DC Comics heroes of all time and more recently a full length feature... Continue reading ...
Science is the Answer to Many of our Problems?
The results of NASA's 18th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race and American schools were once again beaten by racers from the University of Puerto Rico in Humacao and Teodoro Aguilar Mora Vocational High School Team II of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico for the second straight year. The closest American team was the team from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, who finished second in the college division competition, while a number of American teams placed third in the competitions.
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The Women of NASA: Things That Don't Kill You Make You Stronger
Women like Andrea Meyer are part of a new breed of women taking their place in the annals of space history and the human journey to the beginning of space and time. A breed of tough minded, can't-keep-me-down individuals use to people telling they have no chance of success, women like Andrea are big believers in the saying everything happens for a reason. This tough minded lady survived a plane crash years ago that sent her down the path to becoming the program analyst in the Office of the Ch... Continue reading ...
The Women of the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A career in the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration opens doors to a world of exploration and discovery more and more people from around the world are deciding to enter every year. Women and men around all corners of the globe come to NASA to join in the exploration of the universe and the world around us and try to delve deeper than their predecessors into the mysteries surrounding us.
This series of articles is on the women of NASA, their journey from an inspired young w... Continue reading ...
The Planets Dance Across September's Night Sky
September is one of the year's most entertaining and awe-inspiring months to lay on your back on a dark hill and view the delights of the celestial dance in the sky above you as your ancestors once did on a nightly basis. Four of Sol's dance partners will be in the spotlight in September, 2010, taking part in a nightly dance that includes their less observable brothers and sisters, while Mercury will once again dance privately in the eastern sky each morning during September.
- Mighty Ju...
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Green Cheese? Anyone!
Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 19, 2010,
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The Moon waxes-on and waxes-off in September
- The Moon's Mare is a land feature you don't want to miss during September. NASA Photo.
Focus your time machine to the stars on the features along the Moon's limb during the month of September. This is a rare chance to view a few limb sections of the Moon that star gazers have dreamed of taking a closer look at for generations, during a single month of the year. Astronauts didn't report any green cheese, so our ancestors can rest safely, a... Continue reading ...
Water On, Water Off
Posted by Warren Wong on Saturday, November 13, 2010,
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Mars
- Where did all the water go? What water? NASA photo.
More evidence for the case for the presence of water on the Red Planet
Planetary scientists taking a second look at a Mars outcropping first examined by NASA's Spirit Mars Rover back in 2005 think there could be additional evidence for water on large areas of Mars. In specific, planetary scientists have found high concentrations of carbonate, a mineral that scientists have previously shown to originate in wet conditions that diss... Continue reading ...
Deep Impact Shows Comet Scientists Something New
Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010,
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- The EPOXI mission is just the first step. NASA photos.
Deep Impact approaches comet Hartley 2 and will arrive at its nearest location on November 4
NASA's EPOXI mission is currently on a journey to comet Hartley 2 and Deep Impact as this mission is more commonly referred too will arrive at its nearest spot to this icy world on November 4. NASA was using imagers on Deep Impact during the days between September 9-17 to get a view of comet Hartley 2 before the spacecraft arrives on locatio... Continue reading ...
Explore the Celestial Zoo of Pulsars
Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010,
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- The Crab Nebula was one of the first pulsars viewed during the human journey to the beginning of the universe. Photos NASA.
Browsing through a popular and well-read book on astronomy from the 1980s, one might get the idea astronomers have pierced the veil of secrecy surrounding stellar bodies we refer to as neutron stars. Astronomers and star gazers have boarded their time-machine-to-the-stars to journey to exotic parts of space and time to view these strange celestial bodies for decad... Continue reading ...
One Decade Living Where no man has Lived Before
NASA photos Human beings have been living in space aboard the International Space Station for one decade on November 2, 2010, and the 10th anniversary of human beings living in permanently in space was celebrated this morning at 9:30 a.m. EDT with a new conference from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida featuring the six astronauts currently living on board the International Space Station. The subsequent news conference was open to accredited media representatives at participating NASA or ... Continue reading ...
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