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What Is Outer Space?
Outer space (often called space) comprises the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. Outer space is used to distinguish it from airspace and terrestrial locations. Utilizing a new instrument developed by scientists at the University of Calgary, scientists have found that space begins 73 miles (118km) above Earth.
Contrary to popular understanding, outer space is not completely empty (i.e. a perfect vacuum), but contains a low density of particles, predominantly hydrogen plasma, as well as electromagnetic radiation and neutrinos. Hypothetically, it also contains dark matter and dark energy.
The term outer space was first recorded by H. G. Wells in his novel First Men in the Moon in 1901. The shorter term space is actually older, first used to mean the region beyond Earth's sky in John Milton's Paradise Lost in 1667.
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- Quotes Of The Day
- End-of-Year Sky Show: Geminid Meteor Shower Dec 12&13
- NASA Moon Crash Found 'Significant Amount' of Water
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"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions." --James Madison, National Gazette Essay, March 27, 1792* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
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"It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Sinclair, 1791
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"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington
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End-of-Year Sky Show: Geminid Meteor Shower Dec 12&13
By Jon Brooks, contributing writer, and Vera H-C Chan, Y! senior editor
The popular Perseid meteor shower may get the fair-weather attention, but the real show comes in winter.Most amateur stargazers huddle by the fireplace in December, when the Geminids rain debris above the Earth's atmosphere. A winter wallop has dropped temperatures to freezing in some parts of the nation, but don't let a difference of a few degrees Fahrenheit keep you from seeing the night show that NASA considers the "best meteor shower of 2009."
The shower (nearly) ends a stellar year for skywatching on a high note-which is appropriate, given that 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy. Meteor showers and plenty of other space-related phenomena captured cyberspace imagination this year.
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"To be alive and to be human is to struggle for what is right and against what is not." - Ronald Reagan
NASA Moon Crash Found 'Significant Amount' of Water
Friday, November 13, 2009
By Andrea ThompsonFox News
It's official: There's water ice on the moon, and lots of it. When melted, the water could potentially be used to drink or to extract hydrogen for rocket fuel.
NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month, mission scientists announced today. The findings confirm suspicions announced previously, and in a big way.
"Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount," Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
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Scientists Wonder About Planet's Location
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Newcastle-Under-Lyme, England (UPI) Aug 27, 2009British scientists are trying to determine why a Jupiter-style planet orbiting close to its sun has not spiraled into the star and burned up.
Wasp-18b is so close to the star Wasp-18 that it completes its orbit in less than an Earth-length day, astrophysicists at Keele University in Staffordshire say. In an article in Nature, they say standard astronomical theories hold the planet should have a lifespan of less than a million years, while Wasp-18b is believed to be a billion years old.
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Twitter Goes To Outer Space
Astronaut Twitters From Space
First person to tweet from spaceBy Alexander Villafania
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Posted date: May 13, 2009
MANILA, Philippines--Jack Dorsey will be very pleased that his creation, Twitter, is the first microblogging service to reach outer space.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Michael Massimino is the first person to send a tweet from outer space.
Massimino is part of the seven-man STS-125 shuttle mission to the Hubble Telescope.
Massimino is a mission specialist and one of the four in the crew to do spacewalks to service the Hubble Telescope. They are riding the shuttle Atlantis.
In his latest tweet, Massimino posted: "From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!"
His last message sent from earth was posted on May 11, hours before the launch: "I'm going to put my spacesuit on, next stop: Earth Orbit!!"
Massimino has been sending tweets since April 4th where he has posted updates about his shuttle mission training and preparations.
Since he started using Twitter, Massimino has so far registered 244,421 followers.
The STS-125 is the fourth "servicing mission" to the Hubble Telescope. The crew will be installing a new spectrograph, wide field camera and gyroscopes, and replace guidance sensors and repair the telescope's data handling unit.
Other members of the STS-125 mission are Commander Scott Altman, Pilot Gregory Johnson, Spacewalker Michael Good, Flight Engineer Megan McArthur, Mission Specialist John Grunsfield, and Spacewalker Andrew Feustel.
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Texas-size Computer Finds Most Massive Black Hole In Galaxy M87
by Staff WritersPasadena CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009
Astronomers Karl Gebhardt (The University of Texas at Austin) and Jens Thomas (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) have used new computer modeling techniques to discover that the black hole at the heart of M87, one the largest nearby giant galaxies, is two to three times more massive than previously thought.
Weighing in at 6.4 billion times the Sun's mass, it is the most massive black hole yet measured with a robust technique, and suggests that the accepted black hole masses in nearby large galaxies may be off by similar amounts. This has consequences for theories of how galaxies form and grow, and might even solve a long-standing astronomical paradox.
Gebhardt will detail these results in a press conference June 8 at 12 Noon PDT at the 214th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Pasadena, Calif. They will be published later this summer in The Astrophysical Journal, in a paper by Gebhardt and Thomas.
The illustration shows the relationship between the mass of a galaxy's central black hole and the mass of its central bulge. The new higher mass Gebhardt and Thomas computer modeled for M87's black hole, 6.4 billion solar masses, could change this relationship. They used a more complete computer model than previous work. This may mean that the black holes in all nearby massive galaxies are more massive than we think, signaling a change in our understanding of the relationship between a black hole and its surrounding galaxy. Credit: Tim Jones/UT-Austin after K. Cordes and S. Brown (STScI).
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Spirit Resumes Driving
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Spirit Resumes Driving While Analysis Of Problem Behaviors Continues"We expect we will see more of the amnesia events, and we want to learn more about them when we do," said JPL's Sharon Laubach, chief of the rover sequencing team, which develops and checks each day's set of commands."
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 27, 2009
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove on Thursday for the first time since April 8, acting on commands from engineers who are still investigating bouts of amnesia and other unusual behavior exhibited by Spirit in the past two weeks.
The drive took Spirit about 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) toward destinations about 150 meters (about 500 feet) away. The rover has already operated more than 20 times longer than its original prime mission on Mars.
This week, rover engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., judged that it would be safe to send Spirit commands for Thursday's drive. They also anticipated that, if the rover did have another amnesia event, the day's outcome could be helpful in diagnosing those events.
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CruiseReady Jan 16, 2011 @ 6:31 am | delete
- Great lens... big fan of the manned space program here. So sad that NASA is being hit with many klayoffs as the manned space program ends, and the shuttles are retired.
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