There are advances being made almost daily in the disciplines required to make space and its contents accessible. This blog brings together a lot of that info, as it is reported, tracking the small steps into space that will make it just another place we carry out normal human economic, leisure and living activities.
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Video Retrieved From GoPro Balloon That Soared to Nearly 100,000 Feet
Breathtaking footage of the Grand Canyon was retrieved from the camera, found by a hiker in the desert two years after it crashed,
via New York Times
Bezos Announces Rocket Launch Site
Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the chief executive of Blue Origin, revealed plans to build a rocket manufacturing plant and use a launch site in Florida.
via New York Times
Butterfly wings help break the status quo in gas sensing
The unique properties found in the stunning iridescent wings of a tropical blue butterfly could hold the key
The post Butterfly wings help break the status quo in gas sensing has been published on Technology Org.
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Cassini finds global ocean in Saturn's moon Enceladus
A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.
via Science Daily
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Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Company, to Launch from Florida
A rocket company founded by Jeffrey P. Bezos, the Amazon chief executive, announced plans to use a historic launch site at Cape Canaveral.
via New York Times
Northern Lights Or Aurora Borealis, Tilton Lake, S Poster
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VIDEO: Hawking on internet and humans' fate
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original post »Professor Stephen Hawking talks to the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones about the power modern technology has to transform our lives.
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Relax on Kepler 16b vacation advert space tourism Wrapping Paper
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A wonderful, retro-style advert in an art-nouveau tradition. Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that double-sunsets are anything but science fiction.
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Image credit: NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program Office: exep.jpl.nasa.gov
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Tadpole Nebula, Auriga Constellation Star Sticker
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series An awesome outer space picture featuring the Tadpole Nebula, a star forming hub located about 12000 light years away in the Auriga constellation.
This nebula is brimming with new-born stars, many as young as only a million years of age. It's called the Tadpole nebula because the masses of hot, young stars are blasting out ultraviolet radiation that has etched the gas into two tadpole-shaped pillars, called Sim 129 and130, the yellow forms that seem to be swimming away from the three red stars close to the centre of the picture.
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Spitzer and Hubble Create Colorful Masterpiece.ai iPad Cases
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Time-Lapse Analysis Offers New Look at How Cells Repair DNA Damage
Time-lapse imaging can make complicated processes easier to grasp—think of a stitched-together sequence of photos that chronicles the
The post Time-Lapse Analysis Offers New Look at How Cells Repair DNA Damage has been published on Technology Org.
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Made from Solar Concentrate
By combining designer quantum dot light-emitters with spectrally matched photonic mirrors, a team of scientists with Berkeley Lab
The post Made from Solar Concentrate has been published on Technology Org.
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Earth Rising Over Moon Surface Poster
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North Korea Plans Rocket Launch That Could Lead to Missile
The launch is officially to put a new weather satellite in orbit, but the United States and allies see the rocket as a nascent intercontinental ballistic missile.
via New York Times
North American and Pelican Nebulae Star Sticker
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous picture from outer space featuring the North American and Pelican emission nebulae in the constellation of Cygnus, The Swan. The red, green and yellow areas all highlight the cloud of interstellar ionised hydrogen.
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Rosetta navcam and Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Wrapping Paper
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series: Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has 19 very distinct regions. They've been named to continue the ancient Egyptian theme of the Rosetta mission. Grouped according to the type of terrain, five basic categories have been determined: dust-covered (Ma'at, Ash and Babi); brittle materials with pits and circular structures (Seth); large-scale depressions (Hatmehit, Nut and Aten); smooth terrains (Hapi, Imhotep and Anubis), and exposed, more consolidated ('rock-like') surfaces (Maftet, Bastet, Serqet, Hathor, Anuket, Khepry, Aker, Atum and Apis). How the ancient Egyptians would have bristled with pride!
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Full Hubble ACS Image of NGC 3603 Case For iPad Air
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