Europe’s Ariane 5 to launch two broadcast satellites Friday
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 24, 2012
Europe’s heavy-lift rocket heads to its launch pad. (Arianespace)A mighty European rocket will carry aloft two high definition broadcast satellites on Friday, providing direct to home television for Europe and Japan.The European ASTRA 1N and Japan’s BSAT 3C/JCSAT 110R satellites will be carried into earth orbit by the mighty Ariane 5.The 165-foot white rocket was [...]
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Key Step in Evolution Replicated by Scientists – With Yeast
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 23, 2012
Budding Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells. Credit: Wikimedia Commons One of the great puzzles in science has been the evolution of single-celled organisms into the incredibly wide variety of flora and fauna that we see today. How did Earth make the transition from an initially lifeless ball of rock to one populated only by single-celled organisms [...]
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Poet’s Corner
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 22, 2012
Submitted by David Kaplan CANIS MAJOR The great Overdog, That heavenly beast With a star in one eye, Gives a leap in the east. He dances upright All the way to the west, And never once drops On his forefeet to rest. I’m a poor underdog, But tonight I will bark With the great Overdog [...]
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Clear Satellite View of Earth’s Newest Island
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 17, 2012
Satellite view from the Advanced Land Imager on the Earth Observer 1, showing a brand new volcanic island in the Red Sea. Credit: NASA Want to get away from it all? Here’s the newest deserted island on Earth. In late December, we reported on a volcanic eruption in the Red Sea that appeared to have [...]
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Scientists Still Searching for the Beagle 2 Crash Site on Mars
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 13, 2012
An image from the HiRISE camera of the Isidis basin region where the Beagle 2 lander was supposed to touch down. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Since its disappearance in December 2003, scientists and citizen scientists alike have continued the search for Europe’s Beagle 2 lander which likely crashed on Mars. Its disappearance is a mystery [...]
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From the Program Chair
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 10, 2012
Submitted by Michael Wright for Ken Levy, Program Chair Michael Shara. Source: American Museum of Natural History Last month Dr. Gaspar Bakos of Princeton’s Astrophysical Sciences Department gave a fascinating and entertaining talk on his discovery of transiting extrasolar planets with the globe-spanning Hungarian Automated Telescope Network. AAAP’s first meeting of 2012 will be on [...]
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From the Director
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 8, 2012
by Ludovico D’Angelo, Director AAA Moon looking up at Venus in San Diego, California. Captured by Ludy D'Angelo Greetings from sunny California. Hope every one is having, or had a great holiday season. We started our vacation by arriving in San Diego and I am writing this currently in Oakhurst. This week I have been [...]
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Unlocking Cosmology With Type 1a Supernovae
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 5, 2012
New research shows that some old stars known as white dwarfs might be held up by their rapid spins, and when they slow down, they explode as Type Ia supernovae. Thousands of these "time bombs" could be scattered throughout our Galaxy. In this artist's conception, a supernova explosion is about to obliterate an orbiting Saturn-like [...]
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Exclusive shuttle calendar goes on sale
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 4, 2012
A 2012 wall calendar featuring some of the best shuttle photography over the past 30 years has gone on sale. It features the work of our favorite space program photographer, Red Huber. You can order it online for .95. If you you are near downtown Orlando and want to save the shipping and handling charges, [...]
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Free shuttle wallpaper download for November
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While you are waiting for delivery of your 2012 space shuttle calendar, you can upgrade your computer desktop with this free wallpaper download, showing one of the rare times when two shuttles were on the launch pads at the same time. The wallpaper also has a handy November calendar imprinted on it and as always, [...]
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