Mirror and Cache index - Science: Space
105 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 15:42:54 by gerardcornielje | 11 comments
Astronomers discover a planetary system containing at least five planets orbiting a star much like
our Sun.
174 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 19:41:36 by Anomaly100 | 11 comments
The moon may be shrinking, but it's still a big enough ball of fun to warrant its own night in the
limelight.On September 18 people around the planet will be gathering for the first ever
International Observe the Moon Night, a global event meant to get people excited about lunar science
and exploration. The whole thing started with a national.....
748 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 20:05:10 by biofriendlyblog | 143 comments
European astronomers on Tuesday said they had found a distant star orbited by at least five planets
in the biggest discovery of so-called exoplanets since the first was logged 15 years ago. One of the
planets is nearly the mass of Earth.
278 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 02:04:44 by Sadanana | 16 comments
The rotating corpses of massive stars can help scientists weigh the planets in the solar system. By
carefully timing radio blips from spinning stellar leftovers called pulsars, astronomers have
measured the masses of all the planets from Mercury to Saturn, plus all their moons and rings.
290 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 06:06:10 by GhostOf2010 | 15 comments
What's the matter with this cluster of galaxies? To find out what forms matter takes in the Abell
1689 cluster requires not only deep images from telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope, but
detailed computer modeling as well.
317 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 17:24:04 by DiggUnderground | 47 comments
Set against the inky blackness of space our Earth can be seen with the smaller Moon in orbiting
around it from a distance of around 114 million miles.
191 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 18:59:49 by SonnySays | 23 comments
She took us into the world of cadavers and examined the anatomy, physiology and psychology behind
sex. Now, Mary Roach discovers the surreality and weirdness of space.
315 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 16:32:29 by KusumSingh | 14 comments
This beautiful lake took a toxic turn in November 2009 when a major bloom of cyanobacteria spread
across the surface. The alga may have been fed by sewage and agricultural runoff that is rich in
phosphorous and nitrogen.
181 votes | submitted 2010-08-22 16:36:12 by itc518 | 30 comments
Would-be songwriters will get a chance at fame by penning a wake-up song for NASA's last space
shuttle mission, officials said.
412 votes | submitted 2010-08-22 16:53:23 by mmaine | 77 comments
Astronauts can become as weak as 80-year-olds after six months at the International Space Station,
according to a new study that raises serious health concerns as NASA contemplates prolonged trips to
asteroids and Mars.
402 votes | submitted 2010-08-22 14:06:04 by gorgeoussand | 26 comments
The powerful radio source in the center of M87 is a supermassive black hole, ripping away at the
heart of the galaxy.
174 votes | submitted 2010-08-21 14:40:36 by TouchingWood | 18 comments
New research suggests moons orbiting Jupiter-class worlds are unlikely to exist - at least around
the vast majority of extrasolar planets discovered so far.
318 votes | submitted 2010-08-21 14:11:55 by NickChopper | 23 comments
Storms on the distant horizon and comet dust raining through the heavens above are combined in this
alluring nightscape. The scene was recorded in the early hours of August 13 from the Keota Star
Party site on the Pawnee National Grasslands of northeastern Colorado, USA.
730 votes | submitted 2010-08-20 21:47:27 by duphregne79 | 88 comments
Space is one damn interesting place, chock-full of wacky phenomena, and you don’t even need to
work for NASA to understand it. Here’s a collection of interesting and altogether weird space
facts that you probably didn’t learn in school or even on TV.
210 votes | submitted 2010-08-20 21:20:21 by mdpatrick | 8 comments
Thrust from a Titan 3/Centaur rocket launched NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft on a 505-million-mile
journey to Mars on Aug. 20, 1975. Viking 2 followed three weeks later.
935 votes | submitted 2010-08-19 18:16:22 by jerryjamesstone | 119 comments
As we approach the 164th anniversary of Neptune's discovery, there's another reason why we should
celebrate this astronomical event: the gas giant is about to
217 votes | submitted 2010-08-19 05:30:50 by vroom101 | 15 comments
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (Expedition 22) snapped this spectacular shot on
3 January 2010 at 12:28:57 GMT while orbiting 181 nautical miles (335.21 kilometers or 208.29 miles)
above the North Pacific Ocean at latitude 1.5, longitude -114.6.