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NASA has helped to set a new record for the most women in space this week as it sent three female astronauts aboard the Discovery shuttle to join a fourth woman at the International Space Station.
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NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson arrived at the International Space Station Friday, Oct. 12, to begin her tenure as the first woman to command a station mission. Image at right: Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson.
Astronaut Peggy Whitson Photo: Cambria Harkey
Peggy Whitson: A Heroine of Science and Technology | Universe To
I would much rather write to each of you individually, but so many of you have had questions and I wanted to take some time to describe a little of what it's been like up here.
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Four women are currently orbiting Earth together aboard the International Space Station, setting a record for the most woman in space together.
Record-breaking women getting used to life aboard the Internatio
Rampaging Hot Jupiters May Keep Earthlike Planets Out of Their S
A bevy of backward-orbiting exoplanets could challenge theories of planet formation, new research suggests. The planets’ wonky orbits might also rule out the presence of Earthlike bodies in some planetary systems.The Cassini spacecraft has captured lightning flashing in a cloud on Saturn’s dark side in a first-of-its-kind video. Scientists have picked up radio signals for years that indicated that lightning storms happened on the planet, but this is the first time that they were able to see and “hear” the electrical storms at the same time.
Cassini Captures First Video of Extraterrestrial Lightning | Wir
Huge new baby stars shine bright in this image of the Rosette Molecular Cloud.
Gigantic Baby Stars Discovered in Cloud of Space Dust | Wired Sc
Impressive New Hubble Image of Odd Galaxy Triplet | Wired Scienc
This swirly, spooky, sparkly shot is of Messier 66, the largest of three spiral galaxies that make up the Leo triplet, 35 million light-years away. The galaxy measures around 100,000 light-years across and has odd, asymmetrical arms that were most likely pulled out of place by the gravity of the other two galaxies in the triplet.Phew, It Works! Science Begins at the LHC | Wired Science | Wire
Early this morning, two proton beams collided in the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile-long ring at a combined energy of 7 TeV, three times higher than ever before. Finally, the flood of data particle physicists have been anticipating for years for has begun. “It’s a great day to be a particle physicist,” said General Rolf Heuer, director of CERN where the LHC is located, in a press release Tuesday.The Apollo 13 module, had it not been for NASA’s heroic efforts to get it back on course, would have missed Earth and tumbled into the depths of cold, lonely space. At least that’s been the story repeated in popular, academic, and cinematic accounts of the ill-fated mission, like Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 . Now, space writer Andrew Chaikin and a team of modelers at Analytical Graphics have stumbled upon a surprise: The official story isn’t true.
Ron Howard Was Wrong: Apollo 13 Would Have Burned, Not Frozen |
The Venus Express spacecraft has found convincing evidence that Earth is not the only geologically active planet in the solar system. Infrared emissions from lava flows on the surface of Venus indicate that they are relatively young, which means the planet may still be capable of volcanic eruptions. “The solidified lava flows, which radiate heat from the surface, seem hardly weathered.
Venus Orbiter Finds Potential Active Volcanoes | Wired Science |
As a person who really enjoys flying airplanes, I never thought I would ever say this, but flying a simulator can be as much fun as flying the real thing. Of course it helps when the simulator is a replica of the space shuttle cockpit at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
What’s It Like to Fly the Space Shuttle? We Find Out | Wired Sci
To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the very human way that scientists, engineers and members of the public think about space exploration and the search for alien life. From Star Trek to SETI, our modern world is constantly imagining possible futures where we dart around the galaxy engaging with bizarre alien races. Denning points out that when people talk about these futures, they often invoke the past.