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APOD: 2010 February 13 - Waterway to Orbit
Two minute time exposure picture of the STS-130 launch. From Astronomy Picture of the Day via Reddit.
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Top 5 Awesome Things About the Webb Telescope (via vlogbrothers)
“Increasing the awesome”.
Update from NASAWatch:
A Carnegie astronomer notes: “While brimming with enthusiasm, this video makes a major error by claiming that JWST will be able “to see the Earth” if it was 25 light-years away. Sadly, this is not true. Here is what the JWST web page states is the true capability of JWST: “Webb can only see large planets orbiting at relatively large distances from the parent star. To see small Earth-like planets, which are billions of time fainter than their parent star, a space telescope capable of seeing at even higher angular resolution will be required. NASA is studying such a space mission, the Terrestrial Planet Finder.” This quote is from the JWST web page located at: http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/faq.html#basic JWST will do fantastic science, but if someone says that it will do things that are impossible for it to do, the entire project is likely to suffer.
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OMG. Look at that picture over there!
Being in space can change the way you view the Earth.
It was on the Apollo 8 mission that the famous “Earthrise” image was acquired
That was certainly the case for the Apollo 8 crew…
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Fly through Aurora at 28,000kmh
An amazing image taken by astronaut Soichi Noguchi from the ISS cupola.
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The space shuttle Endeavour in silhouette against the Earth. (via Orlando Sentinel - The Write Stuff – Awesome photo of space shuttle Endeavour).
Can’t believe how near we are to the end of the Space Shuttle programme.
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A bid has been submitted to see a south of Scotland forest recognised as the first “dark sky park” outside the US.
BBC NEWS | Scotland | South of Scotland | Forest pursues ‘dark sky’ status
What a great idea.
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via www.stevey.com
Amazing image. Via NASA_HSF.
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The reason for this success? Sweeting surprisingly argues that it is a lack of resources from Government. ‘People often ask me what is the secret ingredient and I reply that there has not been a lot of Government input to the industry, unlike other countries such as the US, Russia, China and India. Too much money makes you fat and lazy. Tight budgets have forced us to be more creative, more innovative.’
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The planet Jupiter shows evidence of having being hit by a large object, either a comet or asteroid. (via BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Jupiter ‘struck by large object’)
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Apollo Was A Good Thing To Do (via Neil Armstrong at the National Air & Space Museum | NASA Watch)
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The Apollo 14 site is particularly impressive and they say that they will able to get higher resolution pictures later:
The lower mission science orbit should enable imaging of the Apollo 11 and 16 sites at double the resolution they are shown here, and images of the Apollo 14, 15 and 17 sites at three times higher resolution that these images Robinson says.
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Our airless moon may still preserve the bootprints of the Apollo astronauts, but those prints cover only a tiny fraction of its surface.
To make the scale of the missions more understandable, we’ve mapped the lunar excursions in the free program Google Earth
Fascinating.
