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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Stickney Crater
November 7, 2009
Stickney Crater Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons in 1877. Over...
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Universe Today (Top 5 items)
- One Strange Mars Rock (Sat Nov 7 10:37 am)
Opportunity has come upon another big rock on Mars. But what is it? Another meteorite? A big clump of ejecta from an old impact? There's lots of other debris scattered around this area as well. The rock has been named "Marquette Island,"... - Early Galaxy Pinpoints Reionization Era (Fri Nov 6 1:17 pm)
Astronomers looking to pinpoint when the reionozation of the Universe took place have found some of the earliest galaxies about 800 million years after the Big Bang. 22 early galaxies were found using a method that looks for far-away redshifting... - Space Junk May Force Crew from ISS (Fri Nov 6 10:54 am)
Update #2, 5:30 pm: NASA has now said that after further analysis, the space debris they have been tracking no longer poses any concern or threat to the ISS. Everyone can rest easy tonight! The piece of debris was only 5 cm long, and will... - Podcast: Planet X (Fri Nov 6 10:20 am)
Astronomers have been searching for the mysterious Planet X for hundreds of years. It was the search for a theoretical planet beyond Uranus that turned up Neptune, and then again for Pluto. And even now there are some astronomers who think... - Podcast: Pulsars (Fri Nov 6 10:17 am)
Imagine an object with the mass of the Sun, crushed down to the size of Manhattan. Now set that object spinning hundreds of times a second, blasting out powerful beams of radiation like a lighthouse. That's a pulsar, one of the most exotic...
EurekaAlert Space News (Top 5 items)
- 'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies (Thu Nov 5 11:00 pm)
(Carnegie Institution) Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its characteristic hydrogen signature at 787... - AGU journal highlights -- Nov. 5, 2009 (Wed Nov 4 11:00 pm)
(American Geophysical Union) Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "Antarctica warming a regional, not local, trend"; "New model factors storms into shoreline loss"; "Study agrees reservoir contributed to Wenchuan... - DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory names 6 scientists as 2009 Fellows (Wed Nov 4 11:00 pm)
(DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory) Antoinette "Toni" Taylor, Stephen Becker, Joachim Birn, Lowell Brown, Patrick Colestock and Samuel "Tom" Picraux have been designated 2009 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows in recognition of sustained,... - Tackling new Arctic challenges from space (Wed Nov 4 11:00 pm)
(European Space Agency) International scientists, researchers and decision makers met at the Space and the Arctic workshop to identify the needs and challenges of working and living in the rapidly changing Arctic and to explore how space-based... - German high-school students involved in an astronomical research project (Wed Nov 4 11:00 pm)
(Astronomy & Astrophysics) Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes the results of an unusual research project, by a team involving German high-school students. They present an accurate, long-term ephemeris of the cataclysmic variable EK Ursae Majoris,...
Bad Astronomy Blog (Top 5 items)
- Carl Sagan Day live stream! (Sat Nov 7 8:07 am)
My friend, the magician Andrew Mayne, is here at Carl Sagan Day, and told me that he will be live streaming the entire event on UStream! I’ve embedded the video viewer below (hopefully it won’t start playing automatically). If you... - Reminder: Carl Sagan Day (Fri Nov 6 3:00 pm)
A quick reminder: the Carl Sagan Day celebration will be at Broward College in southern Florida on Saturday! Speakers include James Randi, Jeffrey Bennett, David Morrison, and me. There will be lots of stuff for kids and astronomy enthusiasts... - Pray this doesn/\?t/ get passed (Fri Nov 6 1:00 pm)
I was going to write about how Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and John Kerry (D-MA) were trying to somewhat slimily slip a provision into the health care bill about paying for prayer-based health services, but then wouldn’tyouknowit, Steve... - Careidolia (Fri Nov 6 11:30 am)
OK, I know that some people see the face of their religious icons in random things. I’ve written about this a zillion times. And I know that sometimes it’s just pareidolia, our tendency to see faces in random objects. And I know... - The Universe Has Us in Its Crosshairs (Fri Nov 6 9:00 am)
Looking for something to do this weekend, and for the next month? Are you anywhere near New York City? Then I am very pleased to let you know that a group of artists there have created an exhibit based on my book, Death from the Skies! The...
Space.com News (Top 5 items)
- Moon's Friends Say 'No' to Future Lunar Crashes (Fri Nov 6 9:06 pm)
When a NASA spacecraft rammed into the moon in October, it tossed up a hard-to-see plume of lunar material and stirred up a cloud of public anxiety. - New Type of Supernova Discovered (Fri Nov 6 9:06 pm)
New type of supernova featuring helium explosion on a white dwarf is discovered. - Stars May be Cosmic Road Signs to Intelligent Aliens (Fri Nov 6 9:06 pm)
The most probable place to find intelligent life in the galaxy is around stars very similar to our sun, a new study has found. - Space Junk Buzzes Station as Astronauts Sleep (Fri Nov 6 9:06 pm)
A small chunk of space trash headed for an uncomfortably close pass by the International Space Station late Friday, but not close enough to force the astronauts aboard to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats. - Seattle Team Wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Contest (Fri Nov 6 9:06 pm)
A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky.
Science@NASA (Top 5 items)
- A Tale of Planetary Woe (Fri Nov 6 12:00 am)
Long ago, something calamitous happened to Mars, transforming a hospitable world into the apparently lifeless desert we see today. Many scientists believe the Red Planet lost most of its atmosphere, but how? A new NASA mission named MAVEN... - Hidden Territory on Mercury Revealed (Tue Nov 3 12:00 am)
The MESSENGER spacecraft's third flyby of the planet Mercury has given scientists an almost complete view of the planet's surface and revealed some dramatic changes in Mercury's comet-like tail. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley!... - A Mars Rover Named "Curiosity" (Fri Oct 30 1:00 am)
NASA's next Mars rover, a super-capable robot named "Curiosity," will push Mars exploration to a new level. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. - The Sun's Sneaky Variability (Tue Oct 27 1:00 am)
It might not be obvious to the naked eye, but the sun is a variable star. A sensor slated for launch onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory will probe the sun's "sneaky variability" with better time and spectral resolution than... - NASA Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere (Fri Oct 23 1:00 am)
NASA is planning a mission to study the Moon's fragile atmosphere--before it's too late. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story.