(New Orleans, LA) It’s hard to think of anything scarier than snakes in this case, but how about flying without a pilot over hurricanes, forest fires, snow-packed mountains, and more? That’s the flight plan announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today at the American Meteorological Society Meeting in New Orleans. […]
Archive for January, 2008
Hurricanes on a plane
Published January 22nd, 2008 in Oceans, Innovation, Earth, Climate & Weather and Science. 0 CommentsGiant gas cloud headed straight for our galaxy
Published January 11th, 2008 in Space and Science. 1 Comment(Austin, TX) An enormous cloud of hydrogen gas in space threatens to crash into our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers announced at the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
There’s no need to panic though, as the gas cloud is predicted to strike a spiral arm of the Milky Way 40,000 light years from […]
Supercluster “suburbs” roughed up by dark matter
Published January 10th, 2008 in Space and Science. 0 Comments(Austin, TX) An unseen substance violently pulls galaxies through a dense region of space, the “outskirts” of a massive supercluster, scientists announced at the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
In a map of the largest area ever imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, dense pools of what’s described as dark matter […]
Hubble worth the risk, says NASA astronaut
Published January 8th, 2008 in Space and Science. 2 Comments(Austin, TX) In the fall of 2008, NASA will send a crew aboard the Atlantis space shuttle to perform a final service mission on the Hubble Space Telescope, a panel of scientists announced in Austin at the 211th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Astronaut John Grunsfeld told Earth & Sky that repair work and […]
Microsoft founder Bill Gates gave a huge shot in the arm, $10M, for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to be built atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile. What’s more, the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences doubled that gift, donating $20M. These gifts, announced January 3, 2008, bring the telescope […]