According to astronomer Lyman Spitzer’s 1946 paper “Astronomical advantages of an extraterrestrial observatory”, there were two main advantages that a space-based observatory would have over ground-based telescopes. The first advantage was that “the angular resolution (smallest separation at which objects can be clearly distinguished) would be limited only by diffraction, rather than by the turbulence [...]
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Endeavor’s orbiting $100,000 toolbag on YouTube
Want to watch $100,000 of US taxpayer money in orbit? This YouTube video allegedly shows the tool bag that slipped out of Astronaut Heidi Stefanyshyn-Piper’s mitts. There’s even an (un)official name for this orbiting bag – ISS Toobag. According to a post on Space.com, Edward Light spotted the orbitting tool bag using 10 x 50 [...]
Free telescope time on GRAS remote telescope (as powerful as Hubble)
If big telescopes and outer space are your thing, you may be interested in this trial offer from Global-Rent-A-Scope (GRAS). You can take control of a ground-based, Hubble-like remote imaging telescope that is located in Australia and create your own images. Designed for ease of operation, even a child with little or no previous experience [...]
Space Shuttle spots shiny 1.5 foot long object floating away from orbiter- could it be Buzz Lightyear ?
CNN is reporting that NASA engineers are trying to identify an object spotted floating away from the Space Shuttle STS 124 earlier today. According to the news reports, astronauts spotted a rectangular object about 1 to 1.5 feet long floating away from the tail of the shuttle. Here’s hoping that everything is all right with [...]
NASA Solar Probe Plus tests “hotter than hell” theory – will fly to and probe the sun
NASA is hard at work building a heat-resistant, solar powered spacecraft that will plunge into the sun’s atmosphere. The mission will sample solar wind and magnetism with a launch date that could happen as early as 2015. This 7 year mission will bring the Solar Probe+ spacecraft no closer than 7 million km from the [...]
Celestron SkyScout 93970 – $199 AR (After Rebate)
Amazon has the Celestron SkyScout for $199 (after $100 mail in rebate which requires purchase by June 15, 2008). Use the Celestron SkyScout to locate over 6,000 stars. The cool part of this device is the built in GPS. Simply point the SkyScout at any star and click the target button. The SkyScout tells you [...]
Buzz Lightyear Flies The Space Shuttle: Launches Mother Of All Disney Product Tie Ins
In what certainly must be the “mother of all marketing tie ins”, a joint Disney / NASA press release this morning announces that Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear will be flying into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-124 when it lifts off from Kennedy Space Center at 5:02 pm on May 31, [...]
Watch NASA’s Phoenix Touchdown Live on NASA TV – 5/25/08 – 6 pm EST
You can follow NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander tonight as it attempts to touch down on Mars. Catch the action live on NASA TV via the Internet. The coverage starts at 6 pm EST with 7:53 pm EST being the first possible time for confirmation that the Phoenix has landed. I’m quite curious to see this [...]
Incredible Data Recovery from Space Shuttle Columbia
Image courtesy of Scientific American I saw this article on Scientific American’s website regarding the hard drive above. It was recovered from the space shuttle Columbia, and the data itself on the drive was also recovered; this data helped to solve a physics experiment. The drive was 99 percent recovered by OnTrack Data Recovery. Now [...]
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