Space station sees southern lights
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:15:39 -0800

Quantum fluctuations in science, space and society, from quarks to Hubble and Mars. Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor. E-mail Alan, or connect via Facebook, Twitter or Google+. This Jan. 3 video was taken by International Space ...

What does sunset look like on an alien world? Astronomer 'decodes' Hubble ...
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:16:13 -0800

By Rob Waugh Professor Frederic Pont at the Unversity of Exeter has reconstructed the startling, alien colours of a distant world's sunset - HD 209458, known as Osiris, using data from the Hubble space telescope. Osiris's atmosphere was first scanned ...

New-home closings sink to low in 2011, data show
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:22:42 -0800

By hubble smith the Las Vegas homebuilding industry sagged to a record-low 3793 new-home closings in 2011, a 30 percent decrease from the previous year, Las Vegas-based housing research firm Sales Traq reported in December Fast Facts.

North Las Vegas solar panel plant lays off 200 workers
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:11:07 -0800

By Hubble Smith One month after losing its chief executive officer in a fatal plane crash, Amonix is laying off about 200 people from its solar panel manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas, a company spokeswoman confirmed late Wednesday.

Evolution defenders to fight climate skeptics
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:44:42 -0800

Quantum fluctuations in science, space and society, from quarks to Hubble and Mars. Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor. E-mail Alan, or connect via Facebook, Twitter or Google+. This file photo shows the reduction in water levels due to ...

Hubble : Still Unbeatable
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:09:50 -0800

-Edwin Hubble Given the relative peace of our night skies, combined with the vast distances from our Solar System to the nearest star, we don't often think about the cosmic catastrophes that took place in our past. But these catastrophes are the very ...

Europe's Orbiting Observatories Capture Stunning New Images of the "Pillars of ...
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:30:41 -0800

Two of the European Space Agency's (ESA) orbiting observatories have captured new and spectacular views of the gas pillars in the Eagle Nebula (M16) that were the subject of the iconic 1995 Hubble images dubbed "Pillars of Creation.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Zooms in on Double Nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy
Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:41:52 -0800

Tucson, AZ A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, the only galaxy outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only other ...

Bernie Badger: Familiar sights make Hubble pass easier to spot
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:18:18 -0800

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) makes a pass at 7:47 tonight that takes it up past the brightest celestial objects currently visible: Venus, the Moon, and Jupiter. Rising out of the west, the HST will come within 2 degrees west (right) of Venus at ...

Alan Dee's guide to the pick of the week's TV
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:21:28 -0800

For those of us who have stuck with this amusingly charming effort from small-screen legend David Jason, tonight sees the airing of the concluding episode of the series about Hubble , the hapless security chief to the royals, who literally fell into his ...

Recommended: Strange species found in Suriname
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:05:31 -0800

Quantum fluctuations in science, space and society, from quarks to Hubble and Mars. Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor. E-mail Alan, or connect via Facebook, Twitter or Google+. In a Conservation International video, researchers describe ...

Amarc prepares to drill major target at its Hubble Project, near Blackwater ...
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:32:41 -0800

The 140 square kilometre Hubble property lies within the emergent Blackwater gold district. Amarc initiated a regional program at Hubble in 2011, undertaking approximately 370 line kilometres of helicopter-borne, magnetic and electromagnetic ...

Webb telescope survives budget battle, but lots of work remains
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:33:31 -0800

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, and it will be almost three times the size of Hubble . JWST has been designed to work best at infrared wavelengths. This will allow it to study the very distant ...

Facebook's roots go way, way back
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:06:27 -0800

Quantum fluctuations in science, space and society, from quarks to Hubble and Mars. Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor. E-mail Alan, or connect via Facebook, Twitter or Google+. A woman from Tanzania's Hadzabe tribe studies a ...

Looking up: Fiery red star of winter
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:32:05 -0800

It was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble picture reveals a huge ultraviolet atmosphere with a mysterious hot spot on the stellar behemoth's surface. By Peter Becker One of the most striking stars in the entire night sky, ...

Hubble spots cluster forming 13 billion years ago
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:58:43 -0800

Astronomers peering far back in time through the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope have detected a group of infant galaxies being thrust together by the power of mysterious dark matter when the universe was young. That "protocluster" is the most ...

God Squad: Valuing the valid
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:04:38 -0800

Also, the Hubble space telescope has shown that this sun is only one of billions in the known universe. Doesn't that mean that Earth can't possibly be the only planet in the universe harboring life? -- W., Guilford,... Rabbi Marc Gellman.

Weekly Space Roundup for January 26, 2012
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:06:38 -0800

After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He's written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic and fights the ...

An astronaut and a scientist
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:20:14 -0800

On 4 January, John Grunsfeld, the fix-it-man for the Hubble Space Telescope, became the head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. But the former astronaut is quick to point out that he is an astrophysicist too, having done a cosmic-ray experiment for ...

Cushing wrestles to first in Coweta Invitational
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:29:36 -0800

Daniel Hood (106), Kyle Knight (138), Gage Stallworth (152) and Brock Hubble (220) earned victories while Mason Roberts (120) and Ryan Moline (145) earned second-place finishes for the Tigers. Class 5A No. 7 Claremore finished second with six wrestlers ...