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What’s happening on the space station?
(CNN) High above us, beyond the skies, is the International Space Station, which weighs nearly 1 million pounds and has a wingspan the length of a football field. It has nine rooms, two bathrooms, two kitchens and two mini-gyms, and it is the largest spacecraft orbiting the Earth. NASA announced this week that an instrument called ISS-RapidScat will be launched to the station in 2014 to improve weather forecasts, by doing things like monitoring hurricanes. Continue reading
NASA to launch new Landsat earth observation satellite
NASA is preparing to launch the eighth observation satellite in the Landsat remote sensing program that has chronicled changes in the Earths land cover for four decades. Landsat 8, set for a Feb. Continue reading
Massive sun eruption could tower over 20 Earths NASA States – Video
Massive sun eruption could tower over 20 Earths NASA States A massive eruption on the surface of the sun this week blasted out a wave of super-hot plasma so high that it could tower over 20 Earths, NASA officials say By: Johnny D Continue reading
The Call of Earth Homecoming Volume 2 (Unabridged) Audio Book – Video
The Call of Earth Homecoming Volume 2 (Unabridged) Audio Book www.qbba.com For millennia, the planet Harmony has been protected by the Oversoul, an artificial intelligence programmed to prevent thoughts of war and conquest from threatening Earths peoples….From:QbbaBooksViews:0 0ratingsTime:05:03More inEntertainment Continue reading
Time lapse: Helvetia’s Dream | Bad Astronomy
Oh my, another lovely night sky (and landscape!) time lapse video; this time from Alessandro Della Bella, and called Helvetias Dream: [Make sure you set it to hi-def and make it full screen.] I love the opening shot! Unless it was just digitally zoomed, it must have taken some planning; you have to know just where the Moon is going to rise to catch it that accurately. A couple of other things to watch for, too: At about 45 seconds in, a bright meteor leaves a long persistent train, a glowing trail that gets blown away by the thin but rapid winds 100 kilometers above the Earths surface. I actually gasped when I saw that! At 1:30 you see the stars of Orion setting behind the Matterhorn, zoomed in Continue reading
Space Station Solstice | Bad Astronomy
This is pretty neat: on June 6, a couple of weeks before the summer solstice, astronauts on the International Space Station pointed a camera to the north and took pictures as they orbited the Earth. Taken over the course of about an hour 2/3 of a full orbit this was made into a video where you can see the Sun setting and rising again Continue reading
State’s astronomy educational workshops help launch students’ interest in science and beyond
Since were in the middle of a heat wave, it seems like an appropriate time to ask this question. Why is it hot in the summer and cold in the winter Continue reading
Followup: More pink aurorae | Bad Astronomy
Ive been seeing more shots of the pink aurora from a couple of days ago, and they are all really pretty! I love pink; its why I got a phone cover that color. Photographer Mark Ellis captured the magnificent magenta magnetic maelstrom from northern Minnesota, and made a lovely time lapse video of it: Heres a photo he took that is actually part of the time lapse: [Click to embiggen.] Aurorae are formed when subatomic particles from the Sun slam into our atmosphere. Note the streamers; those are caused by the varying strength and direction of the Earths magnetic field as it channels the particles down Continue reading
Fire, water, and ice | Bad Astronomy
Because you simply cannot have enough incredibly beautiful photographs of aurorae in your life, heres one taken near Tromso, Norway, on March 28, 2012 by photographer Helge Mortensen: [Click to coronalmassejectenate, and you should.] What a shot! Dead center in the picture is the Pleiades, the small cluster of bright stars. Continue reading