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06 July 2010
Symphony of Science Goes to the Moon
The Symphony of Science just released their latest video; this time its the Apollo 11 Moon landing. No auto-tuning, (unlike the "singing" Carl Sagan in "A Glorious Dawn") but just a great video recap of the historic mission. Make sure you check out the SoS website, and if you think this is a worthy effort, [...]
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08 June 2010
Viewing Alert: New Series "Through the Wormhole"
For those lucky enough to get the Science Channel on cable or satellite, there's an exciting new series called "Through the Wormhole" hosted and produced by Academy Award-winning actor and space enthusiast Morgan Freeman. The new series explores some of the greatest mysteries of the universe and Freeman starts off with a bang: [...]
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08 June 2010
Attention Teachers and Students: Fly An Experiment on Final Shuttle Mission
We just received an exciting note from Dr. Jeff Goldstein, the Director for the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education. There is a unique and historic opportunity for students in grades 5-12 to fly an experiment on the final scheduled space shuttle mission, STS-134, through the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). There [...]
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08 June 2010
Man-Made Aurora Will Help to Better Predict Space Weather
New experiments that create a man-made aurora are helping researchers better understand how nitrogen in our atmosphere reacts when it is bombarded by the solar wind. Scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory fired electrons of differing energies through a cloud of nitrogen gas to measure the ultraviolet light emitted by this collision, and the findings [...]
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03 June 2010
Astronaut Demonstrates Gravity on Different Planetary Bodies (Video)
One of our favorite astronauts, Chris Hadfield from Canada, was recently part of the NEEMO-14 crew — NASA's Extreme Environment Mission Operations — who spent two weeks in an underwater habitat simulating a long-duration space mission. The crew put together this great video showing what it would be like to walk and jump [...]
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02 June 2010
Mentos X-1 Blasts Off
For the rocket nerd in all of us…© nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.usPost tags:Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh
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17 May 2010
Is Ball Lightning Just a Shared Hallucination?
For hundreds of years, people have reported seeing ball lightning, a weird phenomenon that resembles glowing, hovering spheres of electricity sometimes witnessed during lightning storms. But scientists have never been able to explain what causes it or even what it really is. Even though some surveys say that 1 in 150 people have [...]
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26 April 2010
Final Shuttle Flight Will Be Delayed at Least Until Novemeber for AMS Switchout
A switch-out of the magnet for a much anticipated particle physics experiment on the International Space Station will force NASA to delay the final flight of the space shuttle until at least November, and change which orbiter and crew will fly the final space shuttle mission. The $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was scheduled [...]
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18 April 2010
Incredible Images of Iceland Volcano from Just a Few Kilometers Away
Astronomer Snaevarr Gudmundsson from Iceland was able to travel to within just a few kilometers from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, and shared his incredible close-up images with Universe Today. "I stayed near the volcano from about 16:00 hours to 22:00 hours on Saturday and watched its impressive eruption," Gudmundsson said in an email [...]
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08 April 2010
Solar-Powered Airplane Makes Maiden Voyage
A solar powered airplane that one day will attempt an around the world non-stop flight took its maiden voyage yesterday in Switzerland. Solar Impulse flew for 87 minutes and climbed to 1,200 meters. “This first flight was for me a very intense moment!” exclaimed test pilot Markus Scherdel immediately after the flight. [...]
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03 April 2010
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Is An Anomalous Anomaly A Normality?
The lack of any flyby anomaly effect when the Rosetta spacecraft passed Earth in November 2009 is what, an anomaly? No. Anomalies arise when there is a mismatch between a predicted and an observed value. When it happens our first thought shouldn't be that OMG there's something wrong with physics! We should probably start by [...]
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02 April 2010
Skydiver Hopes to Break the Speed of Sound in Freefall
The speed of sound — historically called the 'sound barrier' – has been broken by rockets, various jet-powered aircraft and rocket-boosted land vehicles. Felix Baumgartner wants break the sound barrier with his body, in freefall from the edge of space. He will travel inside a capsule with a stratospheric balloon to 36,500 [...]
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30 March 2010
LHC Sets Record for Particle Collisions, Marks "New Territory" in Physics
Physicists at the CERN research center collided sub-atomic particles in the Large Hadron Collider on Tuesday at the highest speeds ever achieved. “It’s a great day to be a particle physicist,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. “A lot of people have waited a long time for this moment, but their patience and dedication [...]
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26 March 2010
Watch History Live from the Large Hadron Collider
CERN announced that on March 30 they will attempt to circulate beams in the Large Hadron Collider at 3.5 TeV, the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator. A live webcast will be shown of the event, and will include live footage from the control rooms for the LHC accelerator and all four [...]
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22 March 2010
New Cloaking Device Hides Objects in Three Dimensions
Hiding an object with a cloaking device has been the stuff of science fiction, but over the past few years scientists have successfully brought cloaking technology into reality. There have been limits, however. So far, cloaked objects have been quite small, and researchers have only been able to hide an object in 2 [...]
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