He's married a couple on board a Virgin America jet, he's also officiated the marriage of Google's co-founder Larry Page on his private island in the Caribbean, now Richard Branson wants to marry couples as they reach the apex of their Virgin Galactic flights into space. The British billionaire already ...
OK, yes, this is an image of Earth, but you were wondering there for awhile, weren't you! Interestingly enough, the white area is not snow, and the craters are not impact craters, but volcanic. And what spacecraft gets credit for the image? The International Space Station. This is one of the most recent ...
Today, the environment and the impact we are having on it as human beings is on everyone’s mind. It seems as though everywhere you look, there are new studies showing that we are seriously limiting the capacity of our planet to support all its forms of life, including ourselves. Due to the increased ...
Two “supernova factories,” rare clusters of Red Supergiant (RSG) stars, have recently been discovered. Together they contain 40 RSGs, which is nearly 20% of all the known RSGs in the Milky Way, and all 40 are on the brink of going supernova. “RSGs represent the final brief stage in ...
Using visible and infrared data collected from telescopes on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, a team of scientists, led by the University of Maryland's Jessica Sunshine, have identified three asteroids that appear to be among our Solar System's oldest objects.
Evidence indicates that these ancient asteroids are ...
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates, according to scientists in an upcoming review article in the journal Nature ...
Take a look at this amazing video shot from the cameras located on the solid rocket boosters on space shuttle Endeavour's recent launch. The fact it was a night launch really highlights all the flames and sparking.
Most interesting, however, is that during the first two and a half minutes of acsent ...
Two astronauts tested a special applicator and “goo” to see how well techniques developed for repairing damaged shuttle tiles work in orbit. Shuttle astronauts Mike Foreman and Bob Behnken used a T-RAD, or Tile Ablator Dispenser to squirt a pink, caulk-like substance called Shuttle Tile Ablator-54 ...
It's called the dead zone. Agricultural fertilizer byproducts like nitrogen are running off farms and into the Mississippi River, which then spills out into the Gulf of Mexico. Those chemicals help feed crops on land, but as they build up in the still, warm waters of the Gulf, they in turn feed excess ...
Warning - never ever look at the Sun directly with your telescope. There are ways to see the Sun with your telescope, but you do not want to look directly at the Sun as it will end in most possible catastrophe.
Such a stark warning is necessary. As an example of the power of the Sun, consider that the ...
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