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Tuesday, 20 October 2009 |
The peak for the 2009 Orionid meteor shower is set for Wednesday morning, October 21st. Sixty or more meteors per hour are expected to be the highs for the event, but you never know how many you'll see from hour to hour?
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009 |
The NASA launch of the space shuttle Atlantis for its STS-129 mission has been delayed from Thursday, November 12, to Monday, November 16, 2009.
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009 |
European astronomers have announced that 32 exoplanets have just been discovered using instruments at the European Southern Observatory, taking the number of planets orbiting around stars other than the Sun to over 400.
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Monday, 19 October 2009 |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers, on October 15, 2009, about the Web advertising of fake “Tamiflu” pills for H1N1 flu treatments. The FDA states that such purchases should only be made through licensed U.S. pharmacies and with a medical professional’s prescription.
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Sunday, 18 October 2009 |
At first, spectators and NASA scientists were disappointed that a debris plume was not visible as the LCROSS spacecraft imaged its Centaur rocket impacting the Cabeus crater on the Moon. However, now, enhanced crash images show a 1-mile high plume did occur—much shorter than the 12-mile plume predicted.
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Saturday, 17 October 2009 |
According to a Netherlands study, living close to green spaces means you are less likely to be depressed, anxious, and have other health-related problems. This conclusion is not new to the medical community, but it does add concrete scientific evidence to the already assumed statement that: Green is Good!
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Saturday, 17 October 2009 |
THE NASA spacecraft IBEX is making a map of the edge of the heliosphere, the magnetic boundary formed by the solar wind and interstellar matter at the edge of the solar system. Unexpectedly, IBEX imaged a "bright, winding ribbon of unknown origin" that goes about 80% away around the solar system.
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Friday, 16 October 2009 |
The Indian Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft discovers that the Moon absorbs rays from the Sun in order to create water on its lunar surface. Surprisingly, though, some of them are reflected back into space. Learn why this is important in our continuing investigation of our local solar system and the much larger universe.
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Thursday, 15 October 2009 |
Offshore infrastructure connected to oil and gas reserves is potentially at risk from the likely impact of climate change on the Australian seabed, according to the CSIRO following its completion of a five-year study.
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Thursday, 15 October 2009 |
According to a recently published report in October 2009 by the Guttmacher Institute, an estimated 70,000 women die from unsafe abortions each year around the world. And, another five million women are treated for complications from unsafe abortions.
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 |
The Hubble Space Telescope has just revealed a gigantic collision of two spiral galaxies about 250 million light-years away from our own Milky Way galaxy. Check out the images of the resulting "bright and bizarre" galaxy that astronomers are calling NGC 2623.
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