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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Jul. 20, 2011 | 11:38 PDT | 18:38 UTC
A fourth moon for Pluto
That's right: Hubble observations have yielded the discovery of a third small body orbiting Pluto and Charon. The faint thing, mellifluously designated S/2011 (134340) 1 but which is being referred to as P4, is only 10% as bright as Nix, the... More»
Jul. 19, 2011 | 10:55 PDT | 17:55 UTC
Guest Blog: Jason Davis: Your guide to a shuttle landing
Welcome to the final installment of my guest blog series on the countdown, ascent, and landing of the space shuttle (here are the first and second parts). On Thursday, July 21 at 5:56AM EDT (9:56 UTC), the space shuttle program will come to an end... More»
Jul. 19, 2011 | 09:27 PDT | 16:27 UTC
Vesta in infrared color!
Yet another sharp-eyed reader (I love my readers!) pointed out to me that the German-language release on the MPS website about the latest Vesta image from Dawn included what looked like a tiny thumbnail of a color view. This is the first color view... More»
Jul. 18, 2011 | 17:21 PDT | Jul. 19 00:21 UTC
Yet another new image of Vesta
A sharp-eyed reader noticed that a size comparison montage posted by the Dawn mission today included an image of Vesta that had not yet been released separately to the public, and it is a very cool one. It was taken at a different time of the... More»
Jul. 18, 2011 | 15:08 PDT | 22:08 UTC
Congratulations to the Dawn team on their orbit entry & pretty pictures!
There's a new orbital mission on the map! As of Friday, the relatively small mass of the asteroid Vesta (it only weighs in at a bit under 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms, or half a ten thousandth of Earth's mass) has finally taken hold of its... More»
Jul. 18, 2011 | 12:08 PDT | 19:08 UTC
Congratulations to Russia on the launch of Spektr-R (RadioAstron)
by Louis Friedman
Good news from Russia today: after 20 years of development they have finally launched their RadioAstron satellite (the official name is Spektr-R) into a high elliptical orbit around Earth.
We congratulate the Russian team on... More»
Jul. 15, 2011 | 15:51 PDT | 22:51 UTC
Video: Top 5 Awesome Things About the Webb Telescope
With all the turmoil over the House's cancellation of the James Webb Space Telescope it seems an appropriate time to post this Youtube video:The video isn't just about JWST; the Vlog Brothers' summation of why space exploration is important is... More»
Jul. 15, 2011 | 15:33 PDT | 22:33 UTC
Program and abstracts for DPS/EPSC 2011 now online
The program and abstracts for the next big space meeting have now been posted, and there's a lot of great stuff to look forward to. The meeting is jointly hosted by two organizations, the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for... More»
Jul. 14, 2011 | 15:31 PDT | 22:31 UTC
House Committee Votes the Wrong Way – JWST to be Canceled
by Charlene Anderson
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representative's Appropriations Committee marked up the bill covering NASA's budget that was sent to it by the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) Subcommittee, and the results will not make... More»
Jul. 14, 2011 | 11:53 PDT | 18:53 UTC
Guest Post: Frank Trixler: Origins 2011 conference, part 1
Frank Trixler offered to send me a couple of blog entries from a conference he planned to attend, and I welcomed the opportunity to present a report from the forefront of scientific research. I hope to see more scientists offering to share their... More»
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