The White House will not build a Death Star, tells us in hilariously geeky fashion. Lucas is adding another new scene to the end of Ep -IV - A New Hope - with Obama receiving a medal from Leia alongside Luke, Han and Chewie, just for being so bloody cool! There is also discussion about another re-hash of the end scene of Return of the Jedi, with Obama standing on the side of the tree house with Yoda and Annakin, radiating blue Jedi spiritual omnipotence and enlightenment, poor old Qui-Gon still doesn't get a look in though.
The previous White House occupant has been offered a part as Daft Dubya. Yes you read your script correctly....'Daft' I am aware it is Highly likely your president did not write that reply himself - you don't need to point that out - just go with the flow, maaan. And be thankful! I doubt David Cameron would have been cast in such benefic hues. May The Force Be With US. Astronomers may have just discovered the first known free-floating planet. There isn't any reason this object wouldn't or couldn't have satellites of its own; and probably does. Earth has 1-6 moons at any given time, but we don't really notice them because they're small and interloping.
Here, experiment: Sadly there is no way to intelligently answer those questions at this time beyond "Well, we do not know of any reason either of those things should be impossible, but we do not know anything about what would make that possible either. " We simply have no empirical evidence to work with here except for what we can observe in our own solar system, and we have absolutely no way to know whether what we observe here could be considered "typical" or whether our system represents some extreme abberration... or even whether the interactions which govern stellar/planetary formation allow for the word "typical" to have any meaning whatsoever.
So what you're saying is "Maybe, maybe not"? Wait, 1 to 6 moons? Exopolanets.jpg (Image JPEG, 1920x1280 pixels) - Redimensionnée (63%) Drake Vs Fermi... Aerial satellite captures final voyage of the Endeavour Space Shuttle - but the craft moved too quickly to get the perfect picture. If you are wondering why both the plane and its shadow appear to have a ghost, it is down to the high speed of the shuttle. The image was taken by a satellite photo company called DigitalGlobe - which provides images for Google Maps and Nasa among other clients. But their satellites take two images in quick succession - one a black and white (or 'panchromatic') image, and the other a colour image.
The two images are then merged to create a single, colour high-resolution image. But, in the split second between the two images being taken, the Shuttle jumped forward a hundred feet - giving it the ghostly luminous after-set appearance seen here. This is a satellite image of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, pictured on September 20 as it sits atop a modified 747 in-flight. After circling Sacramento, Endeavour veered toward the San Francisco Bay area, swooping over the Golden Gate Bridge as crowds snapped pictures on their cellphones and shared on social media sites. What a view! What a way to end! A first: Astronomers measure radius of supermassive black hole. How NASA Prevents a Space Plague Outbreak. Milky Way Galaxy is dwarfed by its massive hot gas "halo"
NASA wants to build a permanent outpost beyond the Moon. Space Tourism Is Here! Wealthy Adventurers Wanted. Jupiter may have just saved Earth from a devastating impact event. "Pretty wild, right? ". Yes! The claim of Jupiter saving the earth from THIS impact is pretty wild. If the dude was filming it when the comet collided, then geometry tells me that this comet was heading back to outer space, back to the Oort cloud or something. Space is vast. NASA: Extreme forms of life can survive on planets with weird orbits. Behold, the Toothbrush That Just Saved the International Space Station - Megan Garber. Astronauts aboard the ISS find a low-tech way to solve a high-tech problem.
Here is the high-tech implement that helped repair a damaged ISS. (NASA) It was a little like Apollo 13 -- if its mission to the moon had been saved by a tool of good oral hygiene, that is. Yesterday the International Space Station, having battled electrical malfunctions for over a week, was repaired by a combination that MacGyver himself would have been proud of: an allen wrench, a wire brush, a bolt ... and a toothbrush. Yep. It went like this: The International Space Station, currently home to six astronauts, last week encountered a malfunction in its Main Bus Switching Unit. But no big deal, the flight crew thought; this was exactly the kind of thing they'd prepared for.
But the Space Station's predicament remained. So, yesterday, Williams and Hoshide ventured outside the space station once again. This time, aided by the improvised tools, the repair worked. So: balance restored! How soon will Voyager 1 leave the solar system? Missions: By Year: 2010-2019: Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity. Astronauts repair space station with toothbrush. This solar eruption video will straight up melt your face it's so awesome. This Sun-like star is surrounded by sugar. NASA discovers millions of supermassive black holes. The Eulogy That Wasn't: The Fate Neil Armstrong Evaded : Krulwich Wonders... Hide captionNeil Armstrong casts a shadow in a photograph he took of the lunar lander Eagle near the end of his historic moonwalk.
Neil Armstrong/NASA Neil Armstrong casts a shadow in a photograph he took of the lunar lander Eagle near the end of his historic moonwalk. On July 18, 1969, President Nixon's speechwriter Bill Safire drafted a statement — a just-in-case statement. The manned mission to the Moon was only days away. The White House was preparing for all contingencies. It was getting them off the moon that was risky. The title of his memo. "Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.
" Astronomers discover Milky Way’s twin, Magellanic Clouds and all. The Most Breathtaking Space Pictures You've Never Seen Before. Future - Science & Environment - Drake equation: How many alien civilizations exist? Are we alone? It is a question that has occupied mankind for centuries. Today, we live in an age of exploration, where robots on Mars and planet-hunting telescopes are beginning to allow us to edge closer to an answer. While we wait to establish contact, one technique we can use back on Earth is an equation that American astronomer Frank Drake formulated in the 1960s to calculate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations may exist in the Milky Way galaxy. It is not a rigorous equation, offering a wide range of possible answers. Instead it is more a tool used to help understand how many worlds might be out there and how those estimates change as missions like Kepler, a telescope that is currently searching for Earth-like planets, begin to discover more about our universe.
And now, a video of 2,299 exoplanets orbiting a single star. Astronomers catch a star in the act of devouring a planet. Spacewalking cosmonauts heave a 20-pound metal ball into Earth orbit. These mirrors will allow us to observe the birth of the Universe. Yes, really. For it to work as a telescope it would require a housing with a collector (secondary mirror). Otherwise you have orbit's largest mirror, not a telescope. It seems though, the housing in this case is 4 open sides held by poles. Not sure if I'm worried by it but it does seem wonderfully mad x-x I worked on JWST for three years as a Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman (the prime contractor for the Observatory). Simply put there is no plan. Interesting stuff. Sure, they'll be able to upgrade the sensors and software and whatnot, but it's hard to imagine a way to service the mirrors via spacewalk (though it is amusing to picture an astronaut out there with a squeegee and bucket).
The Hubble has been the gift that keeps on giving, and really NASA has a reputation going of its projects far outlasting their planned usefulness, whether they by satellites or rovers. Thanks for answering my question. Barring massive, rapid advances in human spaceflight, nobody will be upgrading the sensors on JWST. Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Delusions of Space Enthusiasts. By Jim PlaxcoImages copyright Jim Plaxco Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astronomer and Hayden Planetarium Director, discussing space exploration. As a part of the 2006 International Space Development Conference, I had the opportunity to attend several banquets each featuring a different speaker.
The Friday night dinner consisted of the usual hotel banquets fair and a faire in the person of Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson. For me the highlight of the evening was the charming former JPL employee sitting next to me at dinner. We had many common interests and spent more time talking than eating our respective meals. However, all that came to a close when Dr. Tyson opened by voicing his concern about the future of science in our country. Tyson opened his presentation with a series of "Visionless Quotes" related to space exploration.
For example: "Man will not fly for 50 years" made by Wilbur Wright to his brother Orville in 1901. Closer to home, University of Chicago astronomer F. Dr. On the Same Plane. Scientists have discovered a distant solar system very much like our own, in which the orbits of all known planets lie in nearly the same plane and are aligned with the star's rotation.
In recent years, astronomers have discovered a flurry of solar systems filled with exotic planets such as massive "hot Jupiters" that orbit close to their parent star, and rocky "super Earths" between one and 10 times the size of our planet. Some of these exoplanet systems have been discovered through wobbles of the star due to gravitational interactions with the orbiting planets; others betrayed their presence when planets regularly passed in front of, or transited, their parent star, temporarily blocking some of the light streaming toward telescopes here. "For the first time, we can probe a system of planets that looks like our own," says Sanchis-Ojeda. "There are relatively few solar systems like ours," says Drake Deming, an astronomer at the University of Maryland, College Park. Espace. The Solar System. Lune. Soleil.
Vénus. Saturne. The Groundbreaking Camera That Captured Man's First Steps on the Moon. This massive Saturnian thunderbolt was so bright it was visible from space. In broad daylight. What does space smell like? It’s strange to think... Apparently, the Death Star Was Destroyed 1,500 Years Ago. Why did all the planet-forming dust around this star disappear in only three years? If giants are common in inner solar systems (they seem to be), then its possible a gas giant or even a system of gas giants collected the material... Its also possible that there's an eccentrically orbiting giant that wildly varies its distance from the parent star, which would allow it to sweep up large amounts of material on the inbound/outbound trajectories without creating too much wobble that we'd notice with limited observations.
Of course, something else could have collected the dust and material. We could have just seen the "billion-billion to one" shot of watching an advanced interstellar species mine a lifeless system for material. Or if it turns out that the system has rocky inner planets, we may have just seen a species prep a star system for eventual terraforming and colonization.
Behold the Boötes void, the spookiest place in the cosmos. Don't worry, people! NASA has a plan for moving the Earth. Right? I have to think that in 10 million years, if humanity (or its intelligent successors) somehow manage to survive for that whole period of time, we would figure out a way to snap our fingers and teleport the Earth to a safe place. Or just terraform another planet. Or exist as beings of pure energy floating in space. I mean, Jesus... "Is it worth 40 million years' work? " The answer: Who knows? The techs we have in 1000 years might *be* cavemen hitting each other with torches! SExpand And therein lies our problem. Astronomers discover binary stars in 'impossibly' tight orbits. These High-Res NASA Images Make Great Wallpapers For Your Retina MacBook Pro [Gallery. Space never looked so good. The downside to buying a new Mac with a 2880 x 1800 display is that it’s not easy to find content that matches such a high resolution.
All of your old Charlize Theron wallpapers you found on Google Images are going to look blurry and pixelated and just awful. Fortunately for you, we’ve put together a gallery of high-resolution NASA images that look terrific on the new MacBook Pro’s Retina display. Each image measures 2880 x 1800 pixels, so it’s perfect for your new machine. Download full-size image Download full-size image Download full size image Download full-size image Download full-size image Download full-size image There are more on the next page. Related. How This One Little Satellite Could Save Life on Earth. Thousands of Massive Plasma Tornadoes Discovered in Sun's Atmosphere. Communicating With Aliens - Chasing UFOs. For decades, researchers involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have scanned the skies for evidence that aliens are trying to contact us.
But so far, except for the so-called “Wow signal,” a tantalizingly brief, thus far unexplained narrowband radio burst picked up by an Ohio State University radio telescope in 1977, they’ve yet to find any evidence of a message sent by a faraway civilization. But imagine that tomorrow, researchers’ wildest dreams are realized, and they pick up a clear, unmistakable communication from deep space. That raises another intriguing dilemma. How would we respond to an alien species in a manner that they would understand? And what should we say to them? After all, it’s a bit much to expect that extraterrestrials—assuming that they possess sensory organs and brains reasonably compatible with ours—would comprehend English or another human language.
And some have actually tried already. The Space Craze That Gripped Russia Nearly 100 Years Ago | Wired Science. Newspapers proclaimed that hundreds of starships would soon venture out into the cosmos. People dreamed of moon colonies that were just a few years away. Ordinary citizens organized competitions to build rockets to reach the edge of space. Welcome to Russia in the 1920s. America’s fascination with space grew up in the 1950s and ’60s.
But the Russians had already beaten us to it a generation earlier, during the world’s first space craze. The entire country seemed to become captivated by the idea of interplanetary travel. Between 1921 and 1932, Russian media published nearly 250 articles and more than 30 nonfiction books about spaceflight. “In the 1920s, the line between lunar aspirations and lunacy was often invisible,” wrote historian Asif A. On the 51st anniversary of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human to reach space, it’s logical to look back to the famous Space Race between the U.S. and Russia. Russians have long had a spiritual fascination with space. Citations: Asif A. Asif A. Watch Earth's Heart Beat In This Mesmerizing Animation. Kepler scientists find freaky solar system that's unlike anything we've seen before.
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Deep Sky Colors - Astrophotography by Rogelio Bernal Andreo. The Atlantic | November 2003 | Columbia's Last Flight | Langewiesche. "5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Goodbye, Columbia" by Gregg Easterbrook. How will our starships navigate in deep space? Sex in Space: Amazing stories about space travel, the space shuttle Columbia, and celebrity astrophysicist Neil Tyson. How Much Is an Astronaut’s Life Worth? How alcohol is formed naturally in space. 10 Years of Aqua Satellite's Incredible Images of Earth From Space | Wired Science. Is this the way the world ends? This NASA Reconstruction of the Historic Apollo 8's Earthrise Is Simply Beautiful. Breathtaking new photos of Space Shuttle Discovery preparing for its final flight.
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