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  • US, China Agree to Discuss Cooperation in Space یکشنبه 1 آذر‌ماه سال 1388 20:37
    The United States and China have agreed to discuss expanded cooperation in space exploration and science. According to a joint statement released in Beijing on Tuesday, the two counties will start a "dialogue" on human space flight and exploration, and both nations looked forward to reciprocal visits by the...
  • Spirit Extrication, Day 1: Drive Stopped After 1 Second یکشنبه 1 آذر‌ماه سال 1388 20:37
    Mission managers sent the drive commands to the Spirit rover at 4 a.m. EST (0900 GMT) today, — Nov. 17, 2009 and Sol 2088 for the rover — but the data back from the rover indicates the rover stopped less than one second after it began moving its wheels when the rover automatically sensed more lateral tilt than...
  • ALMA Telescope Makes First Observations یکشنبه 1 آذر‌ماه سال 1388 20:35
    The ALMA telescope located high in the Chilean Andes made its first measurements on Tuesday using just two of the eventual 66 antennas that will comprise the array. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array took interferometric measurements of radio signals, or "fringes," from a distant quasar at...
  • New Movie Reveals Birth of Super-Suns یکشنبه 1 آذر‌ماه سال 1388 20:30
    A two-year look at "proplyds," or protoplanetary disks in the constellation Orion has provided astronomers with a new high-resolution time-lapse movie that reveals the process of how massive star form . The birth of the largest stars has been mysterious, in part, because massive stars are rare and tend to...
  • Leonids Light Up The Night – 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower Informati یکشنبه 1 آذر‌ماه سال 1388 20:29
    The annual Leonid Meteor Shower is about to light up the night… And the time to start watching is now. The year 2009 will not see a Leonid storm, but an outburst for sure. There are still some uncertainties regarding the time of maximum of the 1466 trail. For those of you seeking a definitive date and time, it isn't...
  • Go to Bed for NASA یکشنبه 1 آذر‌ماه سال 1388 20:24
    If you don't quite have the right stuff, but always thought being an astronaut would be cool, here's a way for you to contribute to the US space program. Go to bed. With NASA. "I would absolutely recommend it. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life," said Heather Archuletta, who has...
  • 35 Radio Observatories Link to Break Record یکشنبه 1 آذر‌ماه سال 1388 20:22
    Ever wondered what the largest telescope on the Earth is? Well, this coming Wednesday and Thursday of this week, the largest telescope ever assembled will take observations for a whole day. How big is the telescope? About the size of the whole Earth! 35 radio telescopes on 7 continents will link together for one whole...
  • Atlas Launch halted by ORCA; Shuttle Atlantis Next in Line دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:31
    (Editor's Note: Ken Kremer is in Florida for Universe Today covering the current launch attempts of the space shuttle and Atlas) Image caption: The Atlas 5 will orbit the commercial Intelsat 14 communications satellite . This photo shows upper portion of rocket and umbilical cord connections leading from mobile launch...
  • Designing a Better Astronaut Glove دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:30
    If you can build a better mousetrap, then you can certainly build a better glove for astronauts! Making a glove that both protects the hands of the astronauts in the harsh environment of space or on the Moon , and allowing them the dexterity to manipulate tools is a tough challenge for NASA . That's why they are...
  • Water on the Moon دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:28
    Water has long been suspected to exist in the permanently shadowed polar craters on the Moon , and now the LCROSS impact has allowed scientists to make a direct and definitive finding of this precious resource in a place NASA and other space agencies are considering exploring with human expeditions. Many say this...
  • Ok, Spirit Rover, Let's Blow This Pop Stand! دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:27
    On Monday, Nov. 16, NASA will begin transmitting commands to the Spirit rover on Mars to begin the extrication process to free the rover from where she has been stuck since April 23rd of this year. While members of the rover team have not given up on getting the rover to rove again, they were very guarded at a press...
  • LCROSS Confirms "Buckets" of Water on the Moon دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:26
    The LCROSS team announced today the mission successfully uncovered water during the Oct. 9, 2009 impacts into the permanently shadowed region of Cabeus cater near the moon ’ s south pole . "Indeed yes, we found water. We didn't find just a little bit we found a significant amount," said Tony Colaprete,...
  • Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – November 13-15, 2009 دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:25
    Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's a dark sky weekend and for many of us, the weather scene is improving greatly. Are you ready to enjoy some astronomy ? Then take the chance to get out in the early morning and admire the alluring dance of the "Old Moon in the New Moon 's Arms" as it silently changes...
  • NASA Science News for November 13, 2009 دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:24
    The argument that the Moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. At a press conference today, researchers revealed data from NASA's LCROSS mission indicating that water exists in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/13nov_lcrossresults.htm?list1035898
  • Unusual Massive White Dwarf Stars Have Oxygen Atmospheres دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:23
    White dwarfs are strange stars , but researchers recently discovered two of the strangest yet. However, these two oddballs are a missing link of sorts, between massive stars that end their lives as supernovae and small to medium sized stars that become white dwarfs . Somehow, these two once-massive stars avoided the...
  • Crescent Earth as Seen by Comet Chasing Spacecraft دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:20
    Title this one "Rich Blue Crescent" (as opposed to Pale Blue Dot .) This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser today (November 12) at 12:28 GMT from about 633,000 km as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final swingby. Closest...
  • NASA Science News for November 12, 2009 دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:19
    On Monday, NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap . FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/12nov_freespirit.htm?list1035898
  • Shedding Light on the Sun's "Lithium Mystery" دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:18
    For decades, astronomers have known our Sun contains a low amount of lithium, while other solar-like stars actually have more. But they didn't know why. By looking at stars similar to the Sun to study this anomaly, scientists have now discovered of a trend: the majority of stars hosting planets possess less than 1% of...
  • 2012: NASA's Scientific Reality Check دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:17
    NASA is now joining in to combat the 2012 nonsense. Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth Object office has produced a video and written an article, providing the scientific realities surrounding the celestial happenings of 2012. Yeomans has done a wonderful job explaining everything that is and isn't going to...
  • Great Observatories Combine for Stunning Look at Milky Way دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:15
    All we can say is, "Wow!" In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA 's Great Observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope , the Spitzer Space Telescope , and the Chandra X-ray Observatory — have collaborated to produce an unprecedented image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy...
  • Finding the Mama Bear of Black Holes دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:14
    While astronomers have studied both big and little black holes for decades, evidence for those middle-sized black holes has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., find that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a...
  • the Bluffer's Guide to the Cosmos دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:14
    Bluffer's Guide to the Cosmos The English language continually evolves. Just see Ambrose Bierce 's definition of dictionary. New concepts call for new words that often evolve from a new dictum. Astronomy has made its fair share of contributions to this cause. But, Daniel Hudon's book " ;The Bluffer's Guide to:...
  • Good News for Science News دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:13
    Here's some refreshing news! In an era when mainstream media is cutting back on their science departments and science reporting, the Discovery Channel has just made an investment to step-up their science news with the re-launch of their new and improved news website, Discovery News. In the middle of it all is our very...
  • NASA Science News for November 10, 2009 دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:11
    The 2009 Leonid meteor shower peaks on Nov. 17th with a sprinkling of meteors over North America and a possible outburst over Asia. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/10nov_leonids2009.htm?list1035898
  • Physicist Vitaly Ginzburg Dies at age 93 دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:10
    Vitaly Ginzburg, a Russian physicist and Nobel laureate, died yesterday of cardiac arrest. He was 93 years old. Ginzburg shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on superconductors, but contributed to many other fields of study, including quantum theory, astrophysics, radio- astronomy and diffusion of...
  • Planetary Society to Launch Three Separate Solar Sails دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:07
    LightSail-1 Artists rendition of LightSail-1 by Rick Sternbach. Credit: Planetary Society On the 75th anniversary of astronomer Carl Sagan's birth, the Planetary Society announced their plans to sail a spacecraft on sunlight alone by the end of 2010. Called LightSail, the project will launch three separate spacecraft...
  • Surprise! Unknown Asteroid Buzzed Earth دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:04
    A previously undiscovered asteroid came within 14,000 km of Earth last week, and astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before closest approach. On Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST a 7 meter asteroid, now called 2009 VA, came only about 2 Earth radii from impacting our home planet . This is the third-closest known...
  • NASA Satellites Monitor Tropical Storm Ida دوشنبه 25 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 16:03
    NASA has been keeping an eye on tropical storm Ida off the Gulf Coast, which was downgraded from a hurricane earlier today. Its satellites have been helping meteorologists to measure the rainfall and windspeeds of the storm. Ida is predicted by the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida to make landfall near...
  • One Strange Mars Rock دوشنبه 18 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 22:51
    Opportunity has come upon another big rock on Mars . But what is it? Another meteorite? A big clump of ejecta from an old impact? There's lots of other debris scattered around this area as well. The rock has been named " Marquette Island ," staying with the island theme for the other meteorites Oppy has come...
  • Bread Dropped By Bird Causes Problems for LHC دوشنبه 18 آبان‌ماه سال 1388 22:50
    Yes, this headline appears to be true. A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating on parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike...