Nov 28
Comet ISON is inching ever closer to the Sun, and it’ll get incredibly close later on today. In the meantime, though, you can watch its most recent progress in this video from NASA.
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Nov 27
An emergency clean-up crew was dispatched to a full-size replica of the Space Shuttle Independence i
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An emergency clean-up crew was dispatched to a full-size replica of the Space Shuttle Independence in Houston earlier this morning after some miscreants covered it in graffiti. "Houston We ARE the Problem" is almost a political statement, sure—but vandalizing a national treasure with racial slurs? That’s a serious problem. [KHOU]
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Nov 27
Most of you will use ovens to cook your turkeys tomorrow. But most of you aren’t NASA. We asked their engineers and science writers how they would cook a turkey to perfection using their high tech gear instead of traditional methods. Here are the results:
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Nov 27
We’ve talked plenty about the comet ISON around here as it makes its trip towards the sun. The comet has the potential to put on one of the best light shows in recent history, assuming it survives its brush with the sun. The sun has already been doing a number on ISON, shrinking it smaller […]
Nov 27
Moon Express completes successful free flight test with NASA Mighty Eagle lander
Posted in: Today's ChiliMoon Express is a company that is working with NASA on private space flights to the moon. Moon Express has a Reimbursable Space Act Agreement signed with NASA and part of that agreement means that NASA provides Moon Express with its robotic Mighty Eagle lander for testing purposes. Moon Express has announced the completion of […]
Nov 26
NASA has just published this true color photograph of the United States taken from space by the Suomi satellite. It’s going to be a rough Thanksgiving, folks:
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Nov 26
If you think that this spiral galaxy—NGC 4921 to its friends—looks a little sick, then you’re not far off the mark. Nicknamed the Anemic Spiral, it’s not quite as perky as most other galaxies in the Universe.
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Nov 25
This might look like the start of a scene from Gravity, but you’re actually looking at three nanosatellites—known as Cubesats—which have just been released in space.
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Nov 22
This colorful map might look fun, but it’s seriously useful too. The result of NASA research, it’s one of the most detailed simulations of the Earth’s winds yet.
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Nov 21
NASA and Planetary Resources pen partnership for crowdsourced asteroid hunting
Posted in: Today's ChiliThis past summer, NASA announced the beginning of its Grand Asteroid Challenge with something it calls Grand Challenges, a push by the Obama Administration to further innovations and increase new discoveries. Today the agency has announced its first partnership under this challenge, with NASA penning an agreement with Planetary Resources in Washington state to crowdsource […]
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