Archives: astronomy and outer space

Image of the Day: Gemini Constellation, As Seen in the Heavens, Iran,1630

New York Public Library | Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library. "Gemini, as seen in the heavens. Mirror image of f. 91?" Tarjumah-i suwar al-kawâkib (Translation of "Images of the Planets").…

US Government Scientists Go ‘Rogue’ in Defiance of Trump

TeleSur | - - Twitter accounts are being used as a tool of resistance to fight censorship and bring reliable scientific information to the public. Employees from more than a dozen U.S.…

How SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Could Boost Commercial Space Travel

ABC News | (Video News Report) | - - "SpaceX founder Elon Musk says that the ability to reuse rockets, like its Falcon 9, will dramatically reduce future launch costs." ABC: "How…

Multiple views of Meteor Explosion over Bangkok

Attila Nagy | (Video compilation) | - - "Several dashcams captured meteor entering Earth's atmosphere and exploding over Bangkok, on the 7th of September, 2015." Meteor over Bangkok, Thailand, 7 September 2015

Science Reveals Pluto — (Why Can’t we Trust it on Climate Change)?

NASA | (Video Press Conference and Images) | - - "NASA officials and team members of the New Horizons mission to Pluto participate in a news conference featuring release of close-up images…

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has an Ocean, Geysers and maybe Life

By Andrew Coates | (The Conversation) The Cassini mission that has investigated Saturn since 2004 has revealed much about the giant planet and its many moons. Perhaps most tantalising is the discovery…

Nature’s Fireworks: The Northern Lights in Troms, Norway

Euronews | -- No Comment TV: "Magnetic midnight in Norway - no comment"

How human-emitted Carbon Dioxide Circulates in Earth’s Atmosphere (NASA)

NASA Goddard | --- "An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Plumes of carbon dioxide in…

NASA Photo of Sahara: Richat Structure, Mauritania

NASA Richat Structure, Mauritania, Western Sahara Desert "Richat Structure, Mauritania This prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of Mauritania has attracted attention since the earliest space missions because it forms a…

Global warming and the vulnerability of Greenland’s ice sheet

Global warming and the vulnerability of Greenland's ice sheet (via Skeptical Science) Posted on 30 May 2014 by John Abraham News continues to emerge in the scientific literature on the future direction…

NASA’s Launch Pads menaced by Sea Level Rise it is Charged to Monitor

Sea level rise forces US space agency to retreat (via AFP) Sea level rise is threatening the majority of NASA's launch pads and multi-billion dollar complexes famous for training astronauts and launching…

Creationists to Neil deGrasse Tyson: Evolution isn’t scientific, but the Book of Genesis is

Creationists to Neil deGrasse Tyson: Evolution isn’t scientific, but the Book of Genesis is (via Raw Story ) Creationist Ray Comfort complained that Neil deGrasse Tyson had misrepresented the Bible. The astrophysicist…

Journalists should stop ‘balancing’ stories with Science Denialists: Cosmos’s Neil DeGrasse Tyson

(By David Edwards) Neil deGrasse Tyson tells CNN: Stop giving ‘equal time to the flat Earthers’ (via Raw Story ) Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of Fox’s documentary series Cosmos, said on Sunday…

Real-Life “Gravity:” Space Repair Walk and NASA’s Breakthroughs 2013

CBS reports on today's space walk by astronauts to repair the cooling system at the International Space Station: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration reports on its achievements and breakthroughs in space…