NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed -- a finding that, if confirmed, may solve an astronomical mystery about how these cosmic misfits are formed. Brown dwarfs are misfits because they fall somewhere between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass. They are cooler and more lightweight than stars and more massive...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed -- a finding that, if confirmed, may solve an astronomical mystery about how these cosmic misfits are formed.
Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew beginning an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station. Here to the HD version. @ haha.nu Related posts:NASA Mirror ImagesSTS-125 Atlantis solar transitSpace Shuttle LaunchDiscovery: Hi, ISSThe Sky, From Above Related posts: NASA Mirror Images STS-125 Atlantis solar transit Space Shuttle Launch Discovery: Hi, ISS The Sky, From Above
It may not have taken a rocket scientist (or aficionado) to have guessed that the Space Shuttle Atlantis launch and NASA tweetup would cause a spike in Twitter traffic. What is surprising is that it wasn't the most-tweeted NASA story of the past week--that honor goes to the announcement of the discovery of water on the Moon.
Enjoy this beautiful image of the space shuttle Atlantis, ready for today's 2:26pm EST launch, because you are not going to see it many more times: Sadly, it is Atlantis' second to last launch. Update: Successful launch! Godspeed Atlantis! If you are having problems, you can tune to NASA TV Click on the small playback button—and sit through the 30 second ad—to watch it in the page. This...
Enjoy this beautiful image of the space shuttle Atlantis, ready for today's 2:26pm EST launch, because you are not going to see it many more times: Sadly, it is Atlantis' second to last launch. Update: Successful launch! Godspeed Atlantis! If you are having problems, you can tune to NASA TV Click on the small playback button—and sit through the 30 second ad—to watch it in the page. This...
The mission that plunged a rocket into the moon's surface last month detected about 25 gallons of water in the form of vapor and ice -- enough to inspire hope for a lunar colony. Scientists have found "significant" amounts of water in a crater at the moon's south pole, a major discovery that will dramatically revise the characterization of the moon as a dead world and likely make it a more...
Enjoy this beautiful image of the space shuttle Atlantis, ready for today's 2:26pm EST launch, because you are not going to see it many more times: Sadly, it is Atlantis' second to last launch. You can watch it live here: Click on the small playback button—and sit through the 30 second ad—to watch it in the page. This will be the last shuttle launch in 2009. Then we will only have five...
Memory flash -- maybe 1964 or '65 -- East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Mouse Trap. Does anyone else remember this? "It's Mouse Trap!" I was working today on an odd job that required getting up before dawn, and this came to mind. Proust meets Freud and another memory surfaces. Do you remember any favorite childhood games or whatnot? I just remembered a model of the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space...
Exciting lunar news: NASA moon crash struck lots of water . The lunar dud for space enthusiasts has become a watershed event for NASA. Spacecraft that crashed into the moon last month kicked up a relatively small plume. But scientists have confirmed the debris contained water - 25 gallons of it - making lunar exploration exciting again. Experts have long suspected there was water on the moon. So the...
+ "A Wet Moon Is Hot Again" NASA Watch reports a rumor that NASA could have a lander on the moon in 1,000 days, start to finish. Also, the stakes are raised for the Google Lunar X Prize . + The Planetary Society's LightSail tests receive some attention. Of all the speculative technologies for space travel, solar sails are by far the most beautiful idea. And if we develop the right nanotechnology,...
A "significant amount" of frozen water has been found on the moon, Nasa, the US space agency, has said. The findings boosted hopes of manning a permanent lunar base on the moon which had previously been thought to be uninhabitable, for further exploration to Mars. "Yes indeed we found water and we did not find only a little bit but a significant amount," Anthony Colaprete, project...
It's official, there is water on the moon . National Geographic has this : The crash, plus the subsequent impact of LCROSS itself, yielded enough water fill about a dozen 2-gallon (7.6-liter) buckets, NASA announced on November 13, 2009. The significance of this discovery is hard to overstate. For a manned lunar base to stand any long-term chance of viability it will require a source of water, and...
The recent climax of NASA's LCROSS (Luner Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission resulted in giant impacts on the Moon. Although they had caused public outrage due to the media's use of the word "bomb" to describe the impacts, the mission's results are now showing the presence of water on the Moon. This finding confirms and presents a new face to the one made earlier from the data...
Ipsius enim sumus factura, creati in Christo Iesu in operibus bonis, quae praeparavit Deus, ut in illis ambulemus. (Ephesians 2:10) NASA has found a "significant amount" of frozen water on the Moon, according to Yahoo! News . NASA said preliminary data "indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater". NASA added: "The discovery opens...
NASA's Kepler space telescope has already made a discovery, and its science operations aren't even officially under way yet. NASA scientists who put the telescope through a 10-day test after its March 6 launch said this week that Kepler is working well.
Pharmaceutical companies are facing ultimate challenge to increase efficiency of drug discovery pipeline to keep up with market demands. Failure of clinical candidates as well as withdrawal of approved and marketed drugs due the undesired effects , or so-called adverse drug reactions (ADRs)- are forcing companies to look on where they can fill the gap. A recent paper in Journal of Chemical Information
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