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Stories tagged with: space
Today in History: Shepherd Golfs on the Moon
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http://news.discovery.com/space/today-in-history-shepherd-go...
Tiger Woods may rule the golf course here on Earth, but when it comes to extraterrestrial golfing, Alan Shepard reigns supreme. On Feb. 6, 1971, he became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon, just before reboarding the Apollo 14 spacecraft to return home.
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Volunteers wanted for planet hunt
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16512017
Members of the public are being asked to join the hunt for nearby planets that could support life.Volunteers can go to the Planethunters website to see time-lapsed images of
150,000 stars, taken by the Kepler space telescope.
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Amateur sky-watcher captures rare 'lunar halo' from £10,000 back yard observatory
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2082285/Amate...
Stargazer Professor Greg Parker captured a rare 'lunar halo' - an optical effect caused by light refracting off millions of ice crystals in the clouds of the night sky. Professor Parker, 57, says he has been stargazing since he was young, and has only seen a halo once before and it was nothing like this.
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Staking Out A Vampire Star
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http://www.universetoday.com/91644/staking-out-a-vampire-sta...
How do you peer into the dark heart of a vampire star? Try combining four telescopes! At ESO’s Paranal Observatory they created a virtual telescope 130 metres across with vision 50 times sharper than the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and observed a very unusual event… the transfer of mass from one star to another. While you might assume this to be a
violent action, it turns out that it’s a gradual drain. Apparently SS Leporis stands for “super slow”.
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The 10 Coolest College Observatories
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http://www.onlinecollegecourses.com/2011/06/19/the-10-cooles...
Even if you don’t spend your nights staring at the stars for your coursework, having one on campus, or affiliated with your school, can be a great asset for any student who has an interest in learning more about the cosmos.
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Submitted by sunnyspeaks
8 months, 8 hours agoTags: Observatory, colleges, Night Sky, space, Astrophysics 
3 traveling to space station safely in orbit
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2011-06-07-space-...
"We congratulate you all on a successful launch," a
Russian mission controller radioed right after the
spacecraft took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Submitted by jackwillstone
8 months, 1 week, 5 days, 10 hours agoTags: space, launch, spacecraft, orbit 
7 Companies That Launch Satellites and Why
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http://www.satellitedish.org/blog/2011/7-companies-that-laun...
Satellites are used heavily for communication. They transmit signals for television, radio, internet and phones. They are also used for global research, using imaging technology.
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Submitted by AngelAlina
9 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 23 hours agoTags: satellite, companies, launch, imaging, technology, space 
10 Cools Sites That Monitor Space
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http://www.myispfinder.org/ispblog/2011/10-cools-sites-that-...
You no longer need to travel to observatories to see what is being seen through those huge telescopes. Through the internet, we have access to glimpses of the stars that we could never see with the naked eye.
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Submitted by rossy21
9 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 1 hour agoTags: space, internet, telescope, sites, stars
UN warns of "a deadly collision between climate change and urbanization"
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http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/03/news-flash-clim...
If we do not learn to build, expand and design our cities with a respect for nature, we will have no nature left anywhere.”
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Meet NASA's Shuttle Rocket Retrieval Ships
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http://news.discovery.com/space/nasas-rocket-retrieval-ships...
On Friday, NASA released a fascinating video from one of the lesser-known components of the soon-to-retire shuttle program.Shot by high-definition cameras from the decks of NASA's two solid rocket booster (SRB) retrieval ships, the Liberty Star and Freedom Star, the video shows exactly what it takes to pluck the spent rockets from the Atlantic after launch. The footage depicts the retrieval of shuttle Discovery's boosters just after the launch of STS-133 last month.
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Submitted by GoldenHeart
11 months, 1 day, 7 hours agoTags: nasa, Shuttle Rocket, Retrieval Ships, space, technology
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