universetoday — The sky map of the Faraday effect caused by the magnetic fields of the Milky Way. Red and blue colors indicate regions of the sky where the magnetic field points toward and away from the observer, respectively. The band of the Milky Way (the plane of the Galactic disk) extends...
universetoday — Today's article is about neutrino astronomy... on ice. According to Wikipedia, a journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in the scientific literature. And of course, the first rule of Journal Club is… don’t talk about Journal Club. So, without further ado – today’s...
universetoday — An artist's impression of an accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar. The flowing material from the companion star forms a disk around the neutron star which is truncated at the edge of the pulsar magnetosphere. Credit: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Dana Berry It’s a millisecond pulsar… a...
blogs.discovermagazine — Wanna get Scott Sigler’s brand-spankin’ new novel The MVP for three bucks off? Read on… Scott is a pal of mine, but he’s also a few other things… like a NYT best selling author, for example. His science-based horror books like Infected, Contagious, and Ancestor are really fun (and ookie) reads....
blogs.discovermagazine — This is cute and all, but I was debating whether to run it on the blog or not when I got to the 1:05 mark or so, and decided to go ahead. Why? Watch: Did you get the joke? It’s a Chandra X-ray Observatory image in the background if that helps....
scienceblogs — "More days to come / New places to go I've got to leave / It's time for a show Here I am / Rock you like a hurricane!" -The Scorpions It's isn't just Earth, of course, where these great cyclonic storms occur, whipping across the planet and wreaking havoc as they rage above...
universetoday — The Rosetta mission will do something never before attempted: land on a comet. The spacecraft is now on its way to intercept comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in January 2014 and land a probe on it for what promises to be an amazing view. But what we know of comets so far...
futureoftech.msnbc.msn — "A Day Made of Glass 2," Corning's expanded vision for the future of glass technologies.By John RoachCorning, the company known for its innovation in glass, has just put out another mesmerizing video exploring how its interactive display technology could mate with the computers and gadgets of the tomorrow.The video envisions interactive...
universetoday — Night time Panorama of US East Coast from the ISS Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured this stunning nighttime panorama of the major cities along the East Coast of the United States on Jan. 29, 2012. Credit: NASA Do you live here? Tens of millions of Earthlings live and work...
futureoftech.msnbc.msn — Johns Hopkins University / YouTubeInformation on the mechanics of a painted lady butterfly's flight patterns gleaned from high-speed video may be used to construct better designs for military drones. By John RoachHigh-speed video cameras are allowing university researchers to document how butterflies gracefully flutter through the air. The U.S. military...
universetoday — A 3-d view of a well-preserved and unnamed impact crater on Mars, as seen by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Click for high-resolution version. This is why I always keep a pair of 3-D glasses by my computer. This well-preserved crater on...
universetoday — Are you listening to Astronomy.FM? If not, you should join the audience of over 25,000 listeners in 85 countries who are enjoying this amazing free service. Astronomy.FM is billed as “The only all-Astronomy radio station in the Known Universe.” You can listen to this one-of-a-kind radio station...
planetary — Patrick Donohue is a fourth-year Ph.D. student working with Clive Neal at the University of Notre Dame, whose primary research focus is on the origin and evolution of high-titanium lunar basalts. He writes a geology blog and is active on Twitter under the username poikiloblastic. He's also an amateur...
blogs.discovermagazine — This is so cool: NASA’s twin GRAIL spacecraft (now named Ebb and Flow) have cameras on board to take images of the lunar surface, and an animation has been put together of Ebb’s view of the Moon’s far side! Pretty neat. I love the wide-angle view; the individual images were taken...
universetoday — The barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Credit: NASA & ESAIs this what we look like? Astronomers don’t know for sure exactly what the Milky Way looks like, but searching out other barred spiral galaxies like this one is...
blogs.discovermagazine — There is just something wonderful when Hubble points to nearby spiral galaxies. Sprawling and detailed, we get both great resolution on smaller features as well as a jaw-dropping overview of a grand spiral… like, say, NGC 1073: Yeah, I know. [Click to galactinate -- I had to shrink it to fit...
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planetary — JPL issued a news note today with that most dreaded of press release titles: "Mission Status Report," which I dread because it's usually a euphemism for "something bad has happened to one of our spacecraft." But this time it contains nothing but good news. It briefly notes that the...
universetoday — Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, this is a close-up look at the brightest distant "magnified" galaxy in the universe known to date. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Rigby (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), K. Sharon (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago), and...
photoblog.msnbc.msn — NASAResponding to public demand, NASA scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular "Blue Marble" picture released last week. The new image combines data acquired during six orbits by the Suomi NPP satellite. Both of the new "Blue Marble" pictures were taken using a new instrument flying aboard Suomi...
universetoday — View of parachute ballute deployment at apogee during Armadillo Aerospace’s STIG-A III rocket launched from Spaceport America, taken January 28, 2012. Image courtesy of Armadillo AerospaceOver the weekend, Armadillo Aerospace launched one of their STIG-A rockets and captured a unique image of their recovery system. A ballute is a...
universetoday — Earth's eastern hemisphere made from Suomi NPP satellite images. (NASA/NOAA)In response to last week’s incredibly popular “Blue Marble” image, NASA and NOAA have released a companion version, this one showing part of our planet’s eastern hemisphere.The image is a composite, made from six separate high-resolution scans taken on January 23...
universetoday — In what might be the most unusual public service announcement for NASA, comedian Stephen Colbert uses his unique sense of humor to spread the word about the great things NASA is doing, especially on the International Space Station. But then, he WOULD support the ISS since NASA named an...
universetoday — The newly discovered planet is depicted in this artist's conception, showing the host star as part of a triple-star system. The diagram below shows the orbits of the detected planets around the host star in relation to the habitable zone. Images courtesy of Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Carnegie Institution.A new-found planet is...
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn — Slideshow: Stunning scientific sightsClick through prize-winning photos and illustrations from the 2011 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.Launch slideshowBy Alan BoyleVisualizing science has come a long way from the days of overhead projectors and boxes of microscope slides — and to see just how far we've come, all you need to do...