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If Twitter is an information-based economy, inside scoop is its currency. How I came to know the real identity of @FakeAPStylebook is one of those only-on-Twitter stories, a choice accident of happenstance.In a little over a week, @FakeAPStylebook attracted 35,000 followers, and has been included on over 2,000 lists, thanks (Read More)
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Space Fellowship: (NASA) – Until Oct. 24, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year. In these amnesia events, Spirit fails to record data from the day’s activities onto the type of computer memory — non (Read More)
Hubble News:
The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal, the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla o... (Read More)
GruppoLocale.it:
L’immagine qui presentata è davvero particolare, poichè è in realtà una elaborazione di dati ottenuta per uno tra gli ammassi di galassie più distanti mai rilevati. Nel dettaglio, la foto è ottenuta componendo dati in banda X provenienti dall’osservatorio spaziale Chandra, dati in ottico dal Very Large Telescope (VLT), ed (Read More)
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nasa1fan/MSFC posted a photo:NASA astronaut John "Danny" Olivas, STS-128 mission specialist, participates in the mission's second session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 39-minute spacewalk, Olivas and European Space Agency as (Read More)
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Dr. Rodger Doxsey, head of the Space Telescope Science Institute's (STScI) Hubble
Mission Office, passed away on October 13 after a prolonged illness. The New York
native was 62 years old. (Read More)
Hubble News:
A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures what appears to be one very bright and bizarre galaxy, but is actually the result of a pair of spiral galaxies that resemble our own Milky Way s... (Read More)
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According to a janitor's assistant at the Maximegalon University, who often loiters outside lecture halls, the universe is over sixteen billion years old. The supposed truth is scoffed at by a clutch of Betelgeusean beat poets who claim to have moleskin pads older than that (rat a tat-tat). Seventeen billion, they say, at (Read More)
GruppoLocale.it:
Come saprete, verso le 13.30 della giornata di ieri, la sonda LCROSS, seguendo il suo piano programmato, ha rilasciato un vettore destinato ad impattare sulla superficie lunare, nel cratere Cabeus, nei pressi del Polo Sud del nostro satellite (qui il video distribuito dalla NASA). L’inusuale procedura serviva sostanzialment (Read More)
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made a series of observations immediately
preceding and following the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)
Centaur rocket stage and shepherding spacecraft impacts at the lunar south pole, on
October 9 at 7:31 and 7:35 a.m. EDT. (Read More)
GruppoLocale.it:
L’immagine che presentiamo si riferisce al sistema NGC 6240, ed è stata ottenuta combinando nuovi dati della sonda Chandra con immagini in banda ottica acquisite dal Telescopio Spaziale Hubble nello scorso anno. Già nel 2002, venne annunciata la scoperta in questo sistema di due buchi neri in fase di fusione, proprio basand (Read More)
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*Catching up with Rudy Rucker’s blog.http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/(…)“Over the years, I’ve noticed that certain kinds of computations are inexhaustibly greedy, and that by dialing up certain of their parameters to values that seem not all that big, you can get a computation whose demands would overwhelm the physical world (Read More)
EarthFirst.com | Snarking Up Green Since 1883:
It sounds rather hellish: a planet where clouds of pebbles rain down into lakes of molten lava. That’s what scientists think the atmosphere is like on a newly discovered exoplanet called COROT-7b, and it definitely makes even our worst storms here on Earth seem like a piece of cake.COROT-7b was spotted last February by the (Read More)
Hubble News:
A newly released set of images, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope before the recent Servicing Mission, highlight the ongoing drama in two galaxies in the Virgo Cluster affected by a process... (Read More)
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The Royal Observatory Greenwich has posted an absolutely lovely video about “astrotags“, writing:“Astrotags are a new way to label your astronomy photos with their celestial subject and its location. This short film, made by Jim Le Fevre and Mike Paterson for the Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibi (Read More)