NASA will award Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford with the Ambassador of Exploration Award at a ceremony attended by the astronaut's surviving Apollo- Soyuz Test Project Russian and American crewmates.
The presentation will be hosted by the Stafford Air and Space Museum in Weatherford, Oklahoma, US...
Like a special effect from a classic Star Trek episode, this Chandra X-ray telescope image reveals that the rings of Saturn sparkle in X-rays (blue dots in this X-ray/optical composite). The likely source for this radiation is the fluorescence caused by solar X-rays striking oxygen atoms...
A novel calculator interface makes solving tricky sums easy, as users can simply write them onto a screen and then watch the answer appear.
The device could easily be incorporated into stylus-controlled handheld computer and its inventors say it reduces the number of errors that users make.
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High-precision Transit Photometry of OGLE-TR-10
Authors: Matthew J. Holman, Joshua N. Winn, K.Z. Stanek, Guillermo Torres, Dimitar D. Sasselov, R. Lynne Allen, Wesley Fraser
Researchers present B and I photometry of OGLE-TR-10 during transits of its gi...
Young, Jupiter-Mass Objects in Ophiuchus
Authors: K. N. Allers, D. T. Jaffe, N. S. van der Bliek, F. Allard, I. Baraffe
It appeared in the proceedings of "The Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Cosmos" (9-12 November 2004)
By using 3.5 to 8 micron data from the [b...
An Indian rock sample sent by two city lads to Arizona State University in NASA's "rock around the world" programme, has found similarity with the rocks found on Mars planet.
The rock sample sent by the two Mumbai boys, Mayuresh Marathe and Anmol Nathani, has similarity with the rocks that are fo...
A plot of over one million of the brightest "extended sources" detected by the Two Micron All Sky Survey[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0309/g...
Here is another useful toy.
Gravit is a gravity simulator which runs under Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It's released under the GNU General Public License which makes it free.
It uses simple Newtonian physics using the Barnes-Hut N-body algorithm. Although the main goal of Gravit is to be as accu...
Voice-operated computer system developed under UC contract with NASA scheduled for space station demonstration
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will soon be testing a sophisticated voice-operated computer system designed to guide them through complex procedures. This...
A Russian Molnia-M rocket carrying a military communications satellite crashed today shortly after takeoff.
The rocket, launched at 0049 GMT from the northern Plessetsk space centre, suffered engine failure and fell onto a forest in the Tyumen region of Siberia.
The rocket's lif...
A Refractor Designed for Deep-Sky Exploration!
Orion AstroView™ 120ST EQ Rich-Field RefractorA Refractor Designed for Deep-Sky Exploration!
The AstroView 120ST is a compact, rich-field refractor designed for observation of nebular clouds, star clu...
Viewing and Organizing RAW Images in Windows XP.docOverview
Often likened to a ‘digital negative,’ a RAW image is the native image format for a growing number of quality digital cameras. RAW images typically contain the original camera sensor data recorded at the time of ca...
The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed Sea Launch Home Port for Sea Launch`s third mission of the year.
The Sea Launch team is preparing to launch the Intelsat Americas-8 (IA-8) tri-band communications satellite, on June 23, at the openin...
Astronaut Alvin Drew has touched down at a Lothian school to give pupils a taste of life in space.
The visit was the highlight of West Calder High's Blast Off to Science event, part of the Scottish Space School Programme.
P7 pupils from the school's feeder primaries received an hour-long...
This week’s full moon occurs on June 22nd, one day after the summer solstice on June 21st.
The full moon will hang lower in the sky than any full moon since June 1987.
The Moon's Nutation Cycle, or the time it takes the moon's nodes to complete one (retrograde) revolution, of 18.61 years along the...
