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 Children enjoy a view through a telescope at an astronomy event in Rochester, Illinois. Photo by Nancy Atkinson. Most children are naturally interested in science. And if you’ve ever heard a five-year-old recite complicated dinosaur names, or all the planets in the Solar System (possibly with a passionate plea on behalf of poor Pluto!), you will know that when it comes to children and science, dinosaurs and astronomy lead the field. I don’t know about paleontologists, but astronomers are investing serious time and effort to build on children’s fascination with the universe. Probably the most successful program of this kind is “Universe Awareness” (UNAWE), aimed at bringing astronomy to children aged 4 to 10 – and in particular to children in underprivileged communities. To help teachers and educators bring astronomy to their kindergarten and elementary school classrooms, UNAWE created a teaching kit: “Universe in a Box,” with materials for over 40 age-appropriate astronomy-related activities.
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Post tags: astronomy for children, kickstarter, UNAWE, Universe Awareness, Universe in a box
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 A false-color image of the Smith Cloud made with data from the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). New analysis indicates that it is wrapped in a dark matter halo. Image Credit: NRAO / AUI / NSF A high-velocity cloud hurtling toward the Milky Way should have disintegrated long ago when it first collided with and passed through our Galaxy. The fact that it's still intact suggests it's encased in a shell of dark matter, like a Hobbit wrapped in a mithril coat.
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Post tags: dwarf galaxy, Hydrogen Gas Cloud, Milky Way Collision
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 NASA's Opportunity Mars rover captures sweeping panoramic vista near the ridgeline of 22 km (14 mi) wide Endeavour Crater’s western rim. The center is southeastward and also clearly shows the distant rim. See the complete panorama below. This navcam panorama was stitched from images taken on May 10, 2014 (Sol 3659) and colorized. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/Marco Di Lorenzo/Ken Kremer-kenkremer.com
More mosaics and 10 year route map below NASA's incredibly long lived Opportunity rover has driven to the ridgeline of a Martian mountain and captured spectacular panoramic vistas peering down into the vast expanse of huge Endeavour crater and out along the jagged rim segments leading to her next target – which scientists believe holds minerals indicative of a habitable zone. See mosaic views above and below. Since departing the world famous 'Jelly Doughnut' rock by the summit of 'Solander Point' in February, Opportunity has spent the past several months driving south and exploring intriguing rock outcrops on ‘Murray Ridge’ located along the eroded western rim of Endeavour Crater.(...)
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Post tags: Curiosity Rover, habitable zone, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), JPL, Mars, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Meridiani Planum, NASA, Opportunity, Opportunity Rover, red planet, Search for Life
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 A Camelopardalid meteor flashes across the Cassiopeia-Andromeda border this morning (May 24) as seen from north of Duluth, Minn. U.S. Credit: Bob King So how were the ‘Cams’ by you? Based on a few reports via e-mail and my own vigil of two and a half hours centered on the predicted maximum of 2 a.m. CDT (7 UT) Saturday morning the Camelopardalid meteor shower did not bring down the house. BUT it did produce some unusually slow meteors and (from my site) one exceptional fireball with a train that lasted more than 20 minutes. (...)
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 Hotfire test of Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ26 engines on the E-1 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center on Jan 17, 2014. Credit: NASA
See up close AJ26 photos below A Russian built rocket engine planned for future use in the first stage of Orbital Sciences Corp. commercial Antares rocket launching to the International Space Station failed during pre-launch acceptance testing on Thursday afternoon, May 22, at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. "There was a test failure at Stennis yesterday afternoon (May 22)," Orbital Sciences spokesman Barry Beneski told Universe Today. The Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ26 rocket engine failed with extensive damage about(...)
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Post tags: AJ26, Antares rocket, commercial resupply services (CRS), CRS, Cygnus cargo vessel, international space station, ISS, NASA, NASA Wallops, NK-33, Orb-1, Orb-2, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Soviet Union, Yuznoye Design Bureau
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Guests: David Dickinson (@astroguyz, www.astroguyz.com), Alessondra Springmann (@sondy), Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) & Mike Simmons (Astronomers without Borders) This Week’s Stories:
Possible Meteor Storm
Starlight Festival
ISEE-3 space act/reboot/amp arrived
Dream Chaser wind tunnel tests
Mars crater discovered
Atlas Launch
Mars Crater Seen Before/After We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page.
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Post tags: Atlas V, Camelopardalids, Mars Crater, meteor shower, starlight festival
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 A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 on May 22 at 9:09 a.m. EDT. Designated NROL-33, the mission is in support of national defense. Credit: ULA An Atlas V rocket thundered to space on Thursday, May 22, carrying a clandestine surveillance satellite for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) amidst a swirling controversy regarding the boosters long term viability due to its dependence on the continued assured supply of Russian made engines. The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket soared to space with a super secret payload designated NROL-33 in support of US national defense from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:09 a.m. EDT. (...)
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Post tags: Atlas V rocket, cape canaveral, NASA, National Reconnaisance Office, NRO, NROL-33, NROL-67, SLC-41, ULA, United Launch Alliance, USAF
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 Five moon pictures based on data gathered by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA If you’re a fan of moon observation, it’s lucky for you that spacecraft such as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter exist. For about the past five years, the NASA spacecraft has been in orbit around a closest large neighbor, taking images of the surface in high-definition. To celebrate LRO’s fifth anniversary, NASA is asking members of the public to vote on which of those images (above) is their favorite. This isn’t so much a statement about the scientific data it has collected, NASA said, but more appreciating the images as art. (...)
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Post tags: LRO, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
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 Images of Earth assembled from over 36,000 fan-submitted “selfless” on Earth Day, April 22, 2014 (NASA) On Earth Day, April 22, NASA invited people around the world to share their “selfies” on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Instagram, showing where on Earth they are and marking them with the hashtag #GlobalSelfie. Well, here we are a month later and the results have just been released… proof of what a beautiful world we all make up! (...)
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Post tags: Earth, Earth Right Now, GlobalSelfie, GSFC, m Earth Day, NASA, NPP, selfie
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 Scale model of the Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Dream Chaser is readied for wind tunnel testing at high speeds that simulate the conditions it will encounter during its flight through the atmosphere returning from space. Credit: NASA/David C. Bowen
The private Dream Chaser mini-shuttle being developed by Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) has successfully completed a series of rigorous wind tunnel tests on scale models of the spacecraft – thereby accomplishing another key development milestone under NASA's Commercial Crew Program to restore America's human spaceflight access to low Earth orbit. Engineers from SNC and NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia conducted six weeks of intricate testing with several different Dream Chaser scale model spacecraft to study its reaction to subsonic, transonic and supersonic conditions that will be encountered during ascent into space and re-entry from low-Earth orbit.(...)
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Post tags: Atlas V rocket, boeing CST 100, cape canaveral, CCiCap, CCP, commercial crew program, dream chaser, kennedy space center, NASA, Sierra Nevada, SNC, space taxis, SpaceX Dragon
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