Final frontier ... future boom Aug 17, 2008
These are some of the possibilities Cosmos magazine editor-in-chief Wilson da Silva predicts will be born out of advancements in space travel, and it will happen sooner than many might think. Speaking to the Sunday Canberra Times in the lead-up to a talk at the Australian National University on Friday as part of National Science Week, da Silva said we were on the cusp of a new era in travel with the next 20 years likely to see a boom in the development of high frontier space. (The Canberra Times)
The Old Scout: Bathing beauty: An idea for cleansing America Aug 15, 2008
We re motes of dust on a tiny insignificant planet spinning around in a solar system so vast our minds can t comprehend it, and one day the planet will implode and all will be lost Beethoven, Plato, Monet, the Minnesota Twins and it won t make any difference to the cosmos whatsoever, so why should we care who wins the election in November. There was a moment of silence and then somebody said that Barack has a commanding lead in Wisconsin and that McCain is in deep mud in Ohio. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Astronauts ready for risky Hubble mission Aug 14, 2008
"It has answered just so many of those fundamental questions that people have been asking about the cosmos since people were able to ask questions.". Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Technology)
How to cleanse America Aug 13, 2008
So when we got onto politics halfway through my tuna sandwich, I said a deliberate unself-righteous thing: "I don't think any of us believe what we say we believe. It's just our neurons responding to a phrase or something, a learned response that makes us feel warm for some reason that goes back to childhood. And in the end it doesn't matter. We're motes of dust on a tiny insignificant planet spinning around in a solar system so vast our minds can't comprehend it, and one day the planet will... (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Hubble hits 100,000-orbit milestone Aug 12, 2008
The has been faithfully circling Earth since its April 1990 launch, offering us Earthlings glimpses of the cosmos as we've never had before. Now, after travelling around Earth at nearly five miles per second for 100,000 orbits, Hubble's odometer reads about 2. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Cern lab set for beam milestone Aug 10, 2008
Scientists hope to see new particles in the debris of these collisions, revealing fundamental new insights into the nature of the cosmos and how it came into being. Precision timing. (BBC News)
Keeping the planets aligned Aug 9, 2008
The cosmos will remain intact, at least for the first day of school. This morning, Ms. Kimbrell's girls occupied the seats closest to the door, while the boys congregated near the window at the back of the room. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
A Space Odyssey Aug 8, 2008
For almost two decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has enriched our understanding of the cosmos - and sent us beautiful pictures of our universe. The Voyager missions, launched in the 1970s to study the distant planets, are still scientifically productive. (India Times, India)
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For the most part, scientists have come to terms with the existence of an unknown antigravity force permeating the cosmos. This "dark energy" a conveniently ambiguous term for something no one understands sticks its nose into cosmology on a regular basis and, increasingly, won't be denied. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Big Bang Ripples Formed Universe's First Stars Aug 1, 2008
Understanding such processes is vital to figuring out how subsequent developed and seeded the cosmos with the elements that eventually gave rise to life. (Related: [December 6, 2007. (National Geographic)
Caltech astronomers describe the bar scene at the beginning of the universe Jul 30, 2008
The study is part of the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), Hubble's largest survey ever, in which Sheth and his team of 15 scientists is examining how galaxies form and evolve. COSMOS covers an area of sky nine times larger than the full moon, surveying 10 times more spiral galaxies than previous studies, which Sheth says typically yielded ambiguous clues to barred galaxy evolution ... Indeed, bars may even contribute to the growth of black holes, says Nicholas Scoville, Caltech's Moseley... (EurekAlert!)
Star Explodes Unnoticed Jul 23, 2008
The source was not listed in any previous X-ray catalog, yet the mysterious object was lighting up XMM-Newton's view of the cosmos. The XMM-Newton team looked up three possible celestial candidates as at this location, including a normally faint star known only by its catalog number USNO-A2. (Fox News)
A star explodes in the sky, but nobody sees it ... Jul 23, 2008
The source was not listed in any previous X-ray catalog, yet the mysterious object was lighting up XMM-Newtons view of the cosmos. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Author, author Jul 22, 2008
What we do have is domestic analogies, and poems that reference outer space tend to tell us more about inner space - ourselves - than anything about the cosmos ... Similarly Seamus Heaney, in "Bye-child", writes of the "remote mime" of a boy who has spent his life imprisoned in the dark of a henhouse as being "gaping wordless proof / of lunar distances / Travelled beyond love." The cosmos is appropriated to imagine things outside our ken; our own desert places, our own lunar distances. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Cern lab goes 'colder than space' Jul 19, 2008
Scientists hope to see new particles in the debris of these collisions, revealing fundamental new insights into the nature of the cosmos and how it came into being. The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the LHC will re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang. (BBC News)
Orbiting Gamma-ray Observatory Begins Search For Odd Space Objects Jul 15, 2008
21, 2007) Integral's latest survey of the gamma-ray universe continues to change the way astronomers think of the high-energy cosmos. With over seventy percent of the sky now observed by Integral, astronomers. (Science Daily)
Globe Trotting Jul 14, 2008
Also, for those with a philosophical bent of mind, the globe puts to scale our own infinitesimal place in the wider cosmos. For years such globes have had a place in the minds and hearts of elevated minds. (India Times)
Earth's Cries Recorded in Space Jul 1, 2008
But new data from the European Space Agency's Cluster mission, a group of four high-flying satellites, reveals the bursts of radio waves head off to the cosmos in beam-like fashion, instead. This means they're more detectable to anyone who. (Yahoo News)
Pitting human will against the whims of the cosmos Jun 30, 2008
Business Day - News Worth Knowing. Monday, 30 June 2008. (Business Day)
A Movie Full Of Heart And Warmth, Disney's 'WALL-E' Is Perfect Jun 29, 2008
The film is set in the year 2700, when mankind has left Earth to live in orbiting spaceships that circle the cosmos. The planet has become far too polluted and trash-ridden to continue human life. (KUTV)
Planetary discoveries fuel hopes of astronomers and alien-life seekers Jun 26, 2008
For those of us who still mourn the demise of the "Star Trek" franchise and its vision of the cosmos as a thrillingly multicultural if occasionally lethal nightclub, the announcement last week that many sun-size stars in our galaxy are girdled with Earth-size planets was, frankly, transporting. The newly detected worlds are far too close to their stellar parents to have much chance of harboring even microbial life, let alone anybody capable of looking boss in spandex. (International Herald Tribune)
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion Jun 24, 2008
Kepler & New Vision of the Cosmos with Planet's Elliptical Orbits ... Kepler used Tycho's data to study the orbits of the planets and deduce three laws of planetary motion that drastically altered our understanding of the cosmos. (Suite101.com)
Radio Telescopes Reveal Unseen Galactic Cannibalism Jun 24, 2008
5, 2002) One of the more spectacular phenomena in the cosmos might just be the collision of supermassive black holes that accompanies the merger of galaxies. But the astronomical community has not had. (Science Daily)
Copernicus First Edition Sells for $2+M Jun 20, 2008
NEW YORK--A first edition of the book in which Nicolaus Copernicus presented his earthshaking theory of the cosmos has fetched more than $2. 2 million at a New York auction, nearly doubling the expected price. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Meteorites Brought DNA "Ancestors" to Earth, Study Says Jun 19, 2008
Some of life's crucial building blocks, they said, were forged in the hearts of roving comets and asteroids, which seeded them throughout the cosmos. (Related: [October 2, 2003. (National Geographic)
More Planets Like Earth? Jun 18, 2008
There are more than 70 sextillion or 70 thousand million million million stars in the cosmos, and that doesn't include uncountable moons and asteroids and comets and more. With all that, you wouldn't think you could generate much buzz by announcing that astronomers had spotted a few dozen more bodies whirling about out there. (Time.com)
A Bounty of Midsize Planets Is Reported Jun 17, 2008
There is a lot of new territory out there in the cosmos, but nothing you would want to pitch camp on yet. About a third of all the -like stars in our galaxy harbor modestly sized planets, according to a study announced Monday by a team of European astronomers. (New York Times)
The Stuff Between The Stars Jun 17, 2008
The cosmos is laced with tiny specks of dust that decide the fate of young stars and planets. Now, NASA scientists can study the properties of far-flung space dust in the lab. (FirstScience.com)
Vertical Farming Jun 16, 2008
And, perhaps, if and when they succeed with their plans, wheat and chicken coops will become just as commonplace in Manhattan as cosmos and designer shoes. The copyright of the article Vertical Farming in Environmentalism is owned by. (Suite101.com)
Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars Jun 14, 2008
"Because meteorites represent left over materials from the formation of the solar system, the key components for life -- including nucleobases -- could be widespread in the cosmos. As more and more of life's raw materials are discovered in objects from space, the possibility of life springing forth wherever the right chemistry is present becomes more likely.". . (EurekAlert!)
Telescope to look deep into cosmos Jun 13, 2008
By studying photons and other subatomic particles of the cosmos, the telescope may also unlock the mysteries of dark matter, which comprises about 25% of mass in the universe but is invisible to the naked eye, compared with the 5% of visible matter ... Scientists hope to gain vital information about the birth and evolution of the cosmos and study how black holes can spew jets of gas at stupendous speeds, according to Nasa. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
The Milky Way Remapped Jun 12, 2008
NASA/JPL/Caltech Our picture of where we're at in the cosmos is always getting refined as new information comes to light. The latest part of the picture to be revised is our map of the Milky Way galaxy. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Gamma rays: The incredible, hulking reality Jun 12, 2008
The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (), which launched Wednesday, will be the first gamma-ray observatory to survey the entire sky every day with unprecedented sensitivity, and the hope is that it will open a dramatic new window onto the cosmos. (GLAST will receive a new name once in orbit, chosen from some 12,000 suggestions given by the general public around the world, and the name "Hulk" did come up. (MSNBC -- Environment)
New telescope launched to canvass the cosmos Jun 12, 2008
By studying photons and other subatomic particles of the cosmos, the telescope may also unlock the mysteries of dark matter, which comprises about 25 percent of mass in the universe but is invisible to the naked eye, compared with the five percent of visible matter ... Scientists hope to gain vital information about the birth and evolution of the cosmos and study how black holes can spew jets of gas at stupendous speeds, according to NASA.. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
NASA launches GLAST telescope to scout out gamma rays Jun 12, 2008
Glast will convert incoming gamma rays into pairs of electrons and positrons in other words, matter and antimatter and figure out where they came from in the cosmos. Researchers then will be able to pinpoint the source. (USA Today -- Tech)
US space telescope set for launch Jun 11, 2008
These rays are the highest-energy form of light, which makes them ideal for exploring some of the most extreme environments in the cosmos. These are places where nature harnesses energies far beyond anything possible on Earth. (BBC News -- Science)
Awesome powerNasa telescope sets its sights on the high energy Universe Jun 11, 2008
Nasa's eye on the 'violent cosmos. By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News. (BBC News -- Science)
Gamma-Ray Telescope to Open New Window on Cosmic Explosions Jun 5, 2008
EGRET completed the first gamma-ray survey of the cosmos, but was ultimately unable to resolve much of what it saw over half of the 271 gamma-ray sources it observed still remain unidentified. It was also blind to the highest energy gamma rays. (Scientific American)
New telescope may uncover space mysteries Jun 4, 2008
GLAST is the first gamma-ray observatory to survey the entire sky every day with unprecedented sensitivity, and the hope is that it will open a dramatic new window onto the cosmos. This multi-agency, multi-national effort is working toward a launch on June 7. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Schneider's photos add a dose of science Jun 2, 2008
His self-portrait is at its best when the imagery of the body connects in some way with imagery in nature and the cosmos, as we know it. In Genetic Self-Portrait: Retinas (1998), the imagery doesn't evoke the eye so much as a kind of moonlit sky, with twisting vines of branches silhouetted against the sky. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Aliens get a new switchboard: a SETI radio telescope in Northern California Jun 1, 2008
An array at Hat Creek near Mt. Shasta points an ear to the cosmos. If E.T. tries to phone on any of 10 billion channels, Earth will be ready to listen. (Q13.com, WA)
Odessa philanthropist, businessman and artist Dick Gillham May 29, 2008
COSMOS' is the second piece of artwork that Gillham has donated to OC. The generous donations of Gillham's works are a valuable asset to the OC campus and the art program's instructional environment,' said Barry Phillips, the elder, OC art instructor ... Gillham also was instrumental in helping to establish the OC-UTPB combined Metal Sculpture classes at OC. From left: Gillham, OC art instructor Barry Phillips, the elder, and OC president Greg Williams pose with Gillham's welded metal sculpture... (Odessa American, TX)
Best of the blogs May 27, 2008
This collection contains essays that (as described by novelist Janet Burroway) "take you deep underwater, slogging through the swamp, brachiating through the jungle, luffing past the lava flow, yawning in the classroom, yo-yoing on the open sea; and now and again just for good measure surfing the psychic cosmos." I highly recommend this fine book. posted by user Operdoc. (Florida Times-Union)
Scientists witness violent end of star's life May 23, 2008
The death of this star went through stages, with the core getting heavier in successive nuclear reactions and atomic particles being shed out toward the cosmos, Filippenko said. It started out in its normal life with hydrogen being converted to helium, which is what is happening in our sun. (Sify.com, India)
Hot Springs and Life? on Mars May 23, 2008
Test your knowledge of the cosmos with the Lab's first astronomy quiz. Survey. (New York Times)
US probe to make perilous landing on Martian arctic May 23, 2008
After traveling 679 million kilometers (422 million miles) through the cosmos, Phoenix will enter the top of the Martian atmosphere at around 2331 GMT, zipping in at 21,000 kilometers per hour (13,000 miles per hour) to begin a perilous descent that will end with a soft landing seven minutes later. But the US space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, which controls the mission, will have to wait an agonizing 15 minutes for the radio signal confirming the safe... (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Aust lags in space race: Andy Thomas May 23, 2008
Agreed, Msieur Ford - seeing we Homo's are the only member of Kingdom Animal that s * *t in our own nests ( metaphorically speaking ), yes, Space may be the next Frontier - however, there may be ET's out there who won't take kindly to us exporting our filthy habits and our greed, and vaporize each and every expedition to the Far Reaches of The Cosmos - and good on them. (0). (ABC Online)
Dark Forces at Work May 22, 2008
SAUL PERLMUTTER THE NEW COSMOS: His Supernova Cosmology Project revealed that the universes expansion is accelerating, a result that is still upending theories ... Perlmutter philosophizes about the strangeness of the cosmos from his office at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, high in the western hills of the San Francisco Bay Area ... The cosmos, the researchers found, is not just expanding; for unknown reasons, it is speeding up in its expansion. (Scientific American)
Bulk of Missing "Normal" Matter Found in Cosmic Web May 22, 2008
Much of the missing "normal" matter in the cosmos has been found clustered around wispy ropes of invisible matter spanning the space between. The filaments form part of the vast weblike superstructure of the universe, within which galaxies are embedded like sparkling sequins. (National Geographic)
Cosmic Quest May 21, 2008
There have been three great revolutions which have shaped our view of the heavens and our place in the Cosmos and we are currently living through the turmoil of the third period of astronomical breakthrough. I m sure I speak for many others, in feeling incredibly privileged to be alive during through the current revolution, which started in the middle of the twentieth century. (FirstScience.com)
Strange Spinning Star Stumps Astronomers May 17, 2008
2, 2005) Magnetars - stars with magnetic fields a thousand million million times stronger than Earth's - are formed when some of the biggest stars in the cosmos explode, says a team led by Australian. (Jul. (Science Daily)
Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes May 16, 2008
A team of physicists led by Abhay Ashtekar, Holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Physics and director of the Penn State Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, has discovered such a mechanism. Broadly, their findings expand space-time beyond its assumed size, thus providing room for information to reappear. (Science Daily)
Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope will light your fuse May 15, 2008
You'll need a robust computer with Windows Vista or XP to explore the cosmos this way. Google Sky, a roughly similar offering, works with Macs. (USA Today)
A New Web Site Brings Space Down to Earth May 15, 2008
The service, which opened to the public on May 13, lets people explore the cosmos through any computer with an Internet connection. It combines about 12 terabytes of data, including 50 surveys and 1,000 high-resolution studies, with links to astronomy research on sites around the Web. (KFOR Oklahoma City, OK)
Prince Caspian rides out against tyranny May 15, 2008
There is a moral cosmos, as well as a physical cosmos ... The world of "Prince Caspian" is not a chaos, but a cosmos, a carefully structured world, both morally and materially, in which all individuals and events have spiritual significance. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Preventing an arms race in outer space May 12, 2008
Or will the Niagara current of defense contractor greed, imperial hubris, and inadequate politics carry the destructiveness of war into the "fourth battlefield" of the very cosmos. That is the question that has been asked at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva for the last six years. (Boston Globe)
Microsoft Set To Launch WorldWide Telescope, Gates Says May 10, 2008
With the launch of WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft will extend its battle for Internet dominance with Google to the cosmos ... With the launch of WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft will extend its battle for Internet dominance with Google to the cosmos. (InformationWeek)
Updates.... Whatever Happened To? May 7, 2008
He never accepted the big bang theory, preferring instead the idea of a steady-state cosmos; later, he embraced the view that life on Earth originated in outer space. These attitudes probably cost him a Nobel Prize [see the profile of Hoyle, The Return of the Maverick ; SciAm, March 1995. (Scientific American)
Bluegrass meets the red carpet May 2, 2008
It includes, says ESPN Films executive producer Connor Schell, the TV premiers of films such as Unstrung, about junior tennis, and Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos, examining years when soccer was America's spectator sport of the future. That's before it was clear soccer would always be America's spectator sport of the future. (USA Today -- Sports)
Mature Galaxies Found in Early Cosmos Apr 19, 2008
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Fifty Years of American Space Exploration [Slideshow] Apr 18, 2008
Almost half a century has elapsed since America's first fling with the cosmos. And what ride it has been as witnessed in these images from by Steven Dick, Robert Jacobs, Constance Moore and Bertram Ulrich, with a foreword by Neil Armstrong. (Scientific American)
Space Junk: Maybe we need Andy Griffiths Salvage 1? Apr 18, 2008
In fact, the NASA commander of the STS-48 mission in September 1991 had to perform an unplanned maneuver in order to avoid a near-collision with debris from the Cosmos 955 satellite. Most of the space junk still in orbit about the Earth is in low Earth orbit (LEO), but some of it exists in geosynchronous orbit. (iTWire)
Way of Christ Community changes name Apr 18, 2008
Definitely the Cosmos of Mattheis. totally unrelated to anything Christian. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Electric Solar Wind Sail Could Power Future Space Travel In Solar System Apr 17, 2008
9, 2001) This year s anticipated launch of the Planetary Society s "Cosmos 1" spacecraft may usher in the long-awaited age of solar sailing. The performance of such spacecraft could be. (Science Daily)
If it's not a planet or a star, what is it? Apr 11, 2008
Brown dwarfs are the oddballs of the cosmos, more massive than planets but not heavy enough to generate the thermonuclear fusion that powers real stars. Now astronomers have found the coldest brown dwarf to date. (MSNBC -- Technology)
