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Nina Nadine Ridder

Moon Dreams | North America > United States from AllBusiness.com - 0 views

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NASA space_tourism launches

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  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 24 Feb 10
     
    NASA aims to "create a healthy private-sector competition for transport to the space station". Through this the development of space tourism is enforced and an increase in the number of rocket launches should be expected. 
jmlloren

Vote for the Most Inspiring Astronomical Photo of the Year - 2 views

www.stuartclark.com/...astronomical-photo-of-the-year

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  • jmlloren on 17 Dec 10
     
    My vote goes to the weird dunescape on Mars
Luís F. Simões

Stepping Away From the Trees For a Look at the Forest | Science/AAAS - 1 views

www.sciencemag.org/...1612.full

science technology cosmology astronomy exoplanets mars metamaterials climate_change BIO dna microbes cell

shared by Luís F. Simões on 22 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • An ingenious new tool triggers a cascade of new insights. In this special section, Science's news reporters and editors mark the end of the current decade by stepping back from weekly reporting to take a broader look at 10 insights that have changed science since the dawn of the new millennium.
  • Luís F. Simões on 22 Dec 10
     
    For a direct link to the 10 articles, showing their abstracts, go here.
Joris _

Cosmic Log - Volunteers find another prize pulsar - 2 views

cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/...eers-find-another-prize-pulsar

phy pulsar @home

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  • LeopoldS on 05 Mar 11
     
    like the profiles ... "The clearest evidence for the pulsar's existence was provided by computers operated by two volunteers: Vitaly Shiryaev, a Russian researcher who has a Ph.D. in radio physics; and Stacey Eastham, who does vehicle testing for the British government in Darwen. In his profile, Eastham says he's studying astronomy and physics on the side. He got involved in the Einstein @ Home project because he's interested in "anything space-like, and being able to be part of something like this is right up my street."
Luís F. Simões

Lonely Rogue Worlds Surprisingly Outnumber Alien Planets with Suns | Alien Planets & So... - 1 views

www.space.com/lien-planets-milky-common.html

astronomy exoplanets gravitational_lensing planet_formation

shared by Luís F. Simões on 19 May 11 - No Cached
  • Astronomers have discovered a whole new class of alien planet: a vast population of Jupiter-mass worlds that float through space without any discernible host star, a new study finds.
  • Sumi and his team looked at two years' worth of data from a telescope in New Zealand, which was monitoring 50 million Milky Way stars for microlensing events. They identified 474 such events, including 10 that lasted less than two days. The short duration of these 10 events indicated that the foreground object in each case was not a star but a planet roughly the mass of Jupiter. And the signals from their parent stars were nowhere to be found.
  • Luís F. Simões on 19 May 11
     
    here's something we didn't consider yesterday in the meeting on extra-solar planets!
  • LeopoldS on 20 May 11
     
    this is because you did not read the nature paper I have posted (see post a few lines below ...)
LeopoldS

The Senate has "saved" JWST? Hang on a sec, folks… | Bad Astronomy | Discover... - 2 views

blogs.discovermagazine.com/...saved-jwst-hang-on-a-sec-folks

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  • LeopoldS on 16 Sep 11
     
    JWST apparently saved but what has been cancelled (Mars mission in 2018???? :-(      )
pacome delva

Galaxy Zoo 2 : The Story So Far - 3 views

www.galaxyzoo.org/story

astronomy web_community

shared by pacome delva on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
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  • The original Galaxy Zoo was launched in July 2007, with a data set made up of a million galaxies imaged with the robotic telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With so many galaxies, the team thought that it might take at least two years for visitors to the site to work through them all. Within 24 hours of launch, the site was receiving 70,000 classifications an hour, and more than 50 million classifications were received by the project during its first year, from almost 150,000 people.
  • LeopoldS on 27 Oct 09
     
    this is what I call a nice example of crowdsourcing or citizen scientists .... (remember my idea in the ideastorm ?? :-)
nikolas smyrlakis

Saturn at equinox - The Big Picture - Boston.com - 3 views

www.boston.com/...saturn_at_equinox.html

saturn photography space astronomy nasa boston.com cassini

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 28 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 28 Oct 09
     
    BEAUTIFUL! Cassini images are always amazing...
Francesco Biscani

Hubble Snaps Sharpest Image Yet of Jupiter Impact | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...st-image-yet-of-jupiter-impact

celestial mechanics astronomy asteroid

shared by Francesco Biscani on 26 Jul 09 - Cached
  • If whatever hit Jupiter — and astronomers might never know what it was — had instead struck Earth, it would have caused catastrophic damage to human civilization.
  • Francesco Biscani on 26 Jul 09
     
    Thanks for taking the hit for us, big J!
Francesco Biscani

Why is the Earth moving away from the sun? - space - 01 June 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...-moving-away-from-the-sun.html

celestial mechanics astronomy

shared by Francesco Biscani on 02 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 02 Jun 09
     
    More fascinating Celestial Mechanics stuff...
Francesco Biscani

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Space rock yields carbon bounty - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8068049.stm

bio astronomy

shared by Francesco Biscani on 26 May 09 - Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 26 May 09
     
    All we are is stardust.
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