Showing posts with label spaceflight. Show all posts
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NASAs Kepler cringe (credit: NASA)NASA's Kepler space cringe has been on a planet-hunting task seeing that 2009, inquisitive for Earth-like planets. The task has formerly devoted the discovery of 61 planets and found condescending than 2,000 planetary candidates. And recent data from the European Southern Observatory's HARPS (High-ranking Fluidity Radial haste Globe Hunter) planet-hunting cringe suggests that there are tens of billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy comrade, frequent said to bring into being the pinch education to support life.
These recent discoveries bring into being woozy scientists, and are fueling new hard work to search for life thoughtful in the universe. The Canadian Astrobiology Network (CAN), centered at the Assistant professor of Western Ontario, announced today a stiffen next to NASA. The press release from CAN stated, "A table of extraterrestrial targets, together with Mars and the moons Europa and Titan, bring into being been identified by NASA as having the potential to band life or to carry beloved penetration for researchers and scientists arrived the education that may bring into being been present on Sett because life started." As an associate appearing in the NASA Astrobiology Network, CAN hopes to "beef up existing ties, draw out the invention of new collaborations, and development homework opportunities for both Canadian and American researchers and students," according to CAN run Neil Banerjee.
Disdainful impetuous was today's announcement that the Kepler task donate hoodlum at negligible command 2016. Alternatively without a break to guess in the manner of this year, NASA announced today that reinforcement for Kepler is being strung out. "Have a break.com" explains, "NASA's rewarding Kepler space observatory, which has found cryptogram of thousands of alien planets, donate supply hunting old-fashioned new worlds for at negligible four condescending existence."
The increase of new search initiatives and the continuation of existing exultant missions are carnival cryptogram that the forward movement formerly built up by distinctive science in the search for extraterrestrial life is continuing, and, perhaps frozen growing.
g STARS - While researchers argue whether Earth is getting warmer and if humans are contributing, a heated debate over the global effect of sunlight has boiled to the surface. See article. For related stories, see "Sun continues to be surprisingly active" and "After 30 years of dimming, Earth now brightening".
g ABODES - "CSI-like" techniques used on minerals are revealing the steps that led to evolution of the atmosphere on Earth. Studies during the last five years have led to a growing consensus by the scientific community of what happened to produce the protective ozone layer and atmosphere on our planet. See article.
g LIFE - Scientists have discovered a mass graveyard of bird-like feathered dinosaurs in Utah. The previously unknown species provides clues about how vicious meat-eaters related to Velociraptor ultimately evolved into plant-munching vegetarians. See article.
g INTELLIGENCE - Language, foresight, musical skills and other hallmarks of intelligence are connected through an underlying facility that enhances rapid movements. Creativity may result from a Darwinian contest within the brain. See article. Note: This article is from 1994.
g MESSAGE - For many years the microwave Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence held the spotlight, while the number of optical SETI observatories on this planet could be counted on the thumbs of one hand. Since a recent Optical SETI Conference, however, that has begun to change, with optical SETI finally emerging into the scientific mainstream. Advancing technology is only partly responsible for OSETI's change of fortune. See article.
g COSMICUS - NASA's Mars Polar Lander disappeared as it arrived at the Red Planet in December 1999. Lacking any telemetry from the spacecraft, investigators could not pinpoint with great certainty what caused the failure. Now, the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor satellite has apparently discovered the crash site. See article.
g LEARNING - From a life-like painting of a triceratops to exquisitely detailed drawings of ancient mollusk shells, a small gallery of paleontological art can be seen via the Internet. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History has opened a Paleo Art Web page featuring years of artwork from its collections. The site includes a section discussing the techniques of doing paleontological illustration and a section on protecting and conserving art.
g IMAGINING - During the past several years, evolutionary biologists have proved that the disparate creatures of our planet are, at a fundamental genetic level, very similar to one another. The genes that differentiate the top and the bottom of a bug, for instance, are the same ones that differentiate our fronts from our backs. According to the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, this new understanding is among "the most stunning evolutionary discoveries of the decade," and is clearly "a dominant theme in evolution." The same law applies, it appears, to the extraterrestrial creatures that come out of Hollywood. See article. Note: This article is from 1997.
g AFTERMATH - Communicating with Aliens, Part II: Where might one look for strategic clues to enrich any communication process with aliens - extraterrestrial or otherwise? Who are the people most skilled at communicating in unforeseen contexts and ways? See article.
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Mike Mackowski is a long-time space modeller and one of the main members of the online Yahoo 'Space Modelers' group. Over some years now, Mike has compiled seven hardcopy books especially for modellers on spacecraft topics, including titles for Gemini, Mercury and two volumes on Apollo, one for the Command Service Module and one for the Lunar Module. Now he has produced his first 'Tech Report', a series intended to be shorter and to be available only as a download, thus having the advantage that they can be in colour.
Skylab details
Tech Report #1.0 (TR1) is on Skylab, prompted by Mike's particular interest in America's first space station. Mike worked for a time at McDonnell Douglas in St Louis, where Skylab's airlock module was built. Previously he had spent time as a student at NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where the Skylab trainer was housed. He was also at Marshall when Skylab was actually launched in 1973.
What's in the TR1 pdf
TR1 contains images of the actual Skylab (perhaps surprisingly, not that many were taken) and many drawings showing schematics of what was a very complex object, especially when it came to the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) that once in orbit, had to rotate 90 degrees from its stowed launch position.
Making a 1:96 scale Skylab
TR1's end-section has details of Skylab models that have been available (not many) with reference to my own "Creating Space "book, and then a chapter on modelling a Skylab in 1:96 scale. In all, you get 22 pages as a pdf download, well worth the asking price of 6.00 USD.
Visit Yahoo Space Modelers group here.
For Tech Report #1.0 and previous books, check out Space in Miniature here.
See "Creating Space" here.
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1 TR1 download cover.
2-3 Space in Miniature hardcopy covers.
4 Mike Mackowski (left) with Mat Irvine at the 2002 US IPMS Nationals held at Virginia Beach, US.
5 Logo for the Yahoo Space Modelers group.
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"THOSE WHO TEND TO CRY WOLF, AND PLACE FALSE INFORMATION ON THE WEB, CAN EASILY BE RECOGNIZED, AND YOU AS VIEWERS SHOULD OSTRACIZE AND HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR USELESS SELFISH LIES THEY PLACE ON THE INTERNET."LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS ON THEIR INTERNET PAGE, AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THEIR TRASH !"
Far to long have we as a society of humans, been denied the truth by our own Governments, that we should still have these idiots doing their dirty work for them ! False Information takes years of experience and sightings to a level of disbelief.
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It was the year before Neil Armstrong made his famous leap onto the lunar surface. Apollo space missions dominated the American consciousness. The television screen was filled with such shows as "Lost in Space, The Invaders" and the soon-to-be-canceled "Star Trek."
Almost on cue, what was described as a whirring saucer-shaped object with colored lights appeared over Redlands just before 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4.
Only this UFO sighting wasn't the tale of a single person on a lonely isolated road. This object was reportedly seen by as many as 200 residents in the north part of the city. The city's police switchboard was swamped with calls.
Witnesses said the hair on their arms stood up. Some felt "strange" or sick to their stomachs. Dogs barked wildly. Children reportedly cried and tried to hide, even some who didn't see the object. Even adults were frightened.
Some residents said they watched the craft for two to three minutes, others for just a few seconds. Finally, the craft zipped vertically into the sky and moved off, disappearing into the northwest. A short time later, a similar object was reported over Victorville, about 35 miles northwest of Redlands.
Beverly Sanderson, 79, didn't see or hear the unidentified object, but for a time, it became part of her late husband's life. Judson "Sandy" Sanderson was one of four University of Redlands professors who investigated the incident. Their work landed them on a Los Angeles television show and became part of the Congressional record in connection with the famous Blue Book Project, which investigated the UFO phenomenon.
The Inland Empire has had no shortage of UFO sightings over the years. Giant Rock, near Landers, is a well known site for UFO enthusiasts. In the past year, the Mutual UFO Network has recorded six sightings in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. In May, a Press-Enterprise reader sent in a detailed report of a sighting in the area between Lake Perris and Hemet, where a glowing craft spent 15 to 20 minutes flitting back and forth across the night sky.
Such things fascinated Sanderson's husband.
"He was always interested in UFOs," Beverly Sanderson said. "I'm not saying he was a believer, but I think he was much more open-minded than I was. The thing I'm sorry about was that he went to his death not seeing one."
He died in 2006. His wedding band hangs from a chain around Beverly's neck.
She said the UFO sighting drew significant attention during the nearly year in which it was investigated. Her husband, a math professor, along with geologist Philip Seff and physicist Reinhold Krantz, interviewed about 30 witnesses for the report and tried to use their expertise to determine such facts as the size and behavior of the object.
They estimated the object was about 50 feet in diameter and had hovered about 300 feet from the ground - too low to be detected by the nearest radar installation at March Air Force Base near Riverside. March officials said they picked up nothing unusual that evening.
Redlands 1968 Ufo Sighting report
SPINNING AND WHIRRING
John Brownfield, an art instructor at the university, also participated in the study. He came up with a composite drawing of what people said they saw.
"I'm convinced the people I talked to actually saw something," said Brownfield, 72, who is retired and still lives in Redlands.
He said he no longer has the original copy of his chalk illustration but remembers trying to throw witnesses off while he was making drawings based on their descriptions. They inevitably stuck to their individual stories, he said.
"There were a lot of inconsistencies," he said. "About the only thing I could come up with that seemed to be consistent was that it was a disk-shaped object with lights in a circular pattern."
The details, he said, "varied from person to person. Were they flashing? Yes. No. What color were they?"
Several people reported red, green and white lights. Others saw orange lights or flames.
"There were a lot of people who saw something," he said.
One of those was Gayle Wirz.
Wirz, 75, now lives in Colton. His close encounter was brief, but he still remembers hearing his Redlands neighbor yelling over the backyard fence to come outside that February evening.
"I ran out my backdoor to see this silver-colored round machine hovering overhead," said Wirz, 70, adding that it was spinning and making a whirring noise. "I don't' know how high it was. It hovered for half a minute or less. Just in a snap of your fingers, it went straight up and disappeared."
Wirz, now retired, taught history for many years at Redlands High School. Despite the widespread reports and the excitement the sightings turned up, he said neither he nor his neighbors discussed it much after that night.
"We talked about it a little bit," Wirz said, adding that he remains skeptical about any visitors from another planet.
"My only conclusion was it was probably a military experiment," he said. Whatever it was, "It was there and then it was just gone."
CONGRESSIONAL MENTION
Others reported seeing the object climb rapidly into the sky, but then descend once more before moving off to the northwest. In congressional testimony that same year, UFO expert and physicist James McDonald cited the Redlands incident as an example of an event seen by a large number of people but which drew little attention at the time.
"This case has not received any scientific attention beyond this investigation by Dr. Philip Seff and his colleagues," McDonald said. "It has not received public notoriety. This was, in fact, only reported in a short column in the local paper and not on the wires anywhere. That happens over and over again."
The late Jerry Pettis, who represented the region in Congress at the time, said people should pay attention to the incident.
"I might observe that Redlands is a rather conservative community," Pettis said during McDonald's appearance before a congressional committee. "When people in Redlands say they saw something, they saw something."
The high point for the Sanderson family, Beverly said, was visiting the NBC studios in Burbank for a taping of the "On Campus"program. Her two children, she said, who were young at the time, were excited that their father was going to be on television. After the show, the family walked down the hall and stood in the wings of another studio, watching the taping of "Laugh-In," a popular comedy show at the time.
As the years passed, Sanderson said her husband remained interested in the incident, but it often was referred to in a light vein.
"We would joke about it," she said.
Sandy, she said, was intrigued but never became a UFO fanatic.
"We used to go to Albuquerque for the balloon festival," Sanderson said, "but he was never interested in going to Roswell," a UFO mecca due to a reported crash landing of an alien craft in 1947.
"If they weren't landing on his front lawn," Sanderson said, "he wasn't really interested."
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I saw no flash from a crash or start to grow on the ground. This was not a comet, plane, helicopter, or whatsoever else from this planet. And no I had not started celebrating the New Appointment yet. I mood never fail to take that 20 dependable odd seconds for the rest of my life.
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These grains are shunted regarding by winds shifting over the moon's short-lived. These winds aren't in particular immediate - on its own moving at regarding 1 m/s - but they casual in hardy information at some stage in the court, causing Titan's gather in a line to bank up in conclusive spaces over time.
Titan seems to be laden of skin and phenomena that are pretty everyday to citizens found on Sphere. The same as Cassini dressed in in the Saturn system in 2004, and dropped off ESA's Huygens dissect in 2005, scientists pride yourself on been studying the similarities among Titan and Sphere by exploring gather in a line dunes, channels and lakes of suspension ethane and methane scattered on the cross its short-lived.
Two discrete hill fields on Titan: Belet and Fensal, as imaged by Cassini's radar. It as well shows two constant hill fields on Sphere in Rub Al Khali, Saudi Arabia. Fensal is at best quality span and visage than Belet and observably shows thinner dunes gone brighter and wider areas in among, portentous smaller number splendid hill material in this region. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/ESA and USGS/ESA
Point former images pride yourself on spotted these eerily everyday patterns on Titan's dunes, this new image shows them in generous detail. The image was obtained by Cassini's Titan radar mapper on 10 July 2013, by a troop led by Steve Blockade at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, USA. The horizontal coal face near the centre is an remnant of radar image data organization.
The Cassini-Huygens handing over is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA and Italy's ASI space agency.
Credit: ESA
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:
g ABODES - Some scientists have thought that the Earth's Ice Age conditions 12,900 years ago were triggered by a meteor or comet. But a recent study suggests that the evidence pointing to the ancient impact is nothing more than fungus and other matter. See article.
g LIFE - Scientists say they've discovered cookie-shaped fossils in Gabon that may represent the earliest-known multicellular life, dating back 2.1 billion years. But when you go that far back, claims about fossilized life get complicated. See article.
g MESSAGE - For almost half a decade, the SETI project has unsuccessfully searched for alien life. However, SETI may be looking for the wrong kind of signals from extraterrestrials, believe two researchers. See article.
g COSMICUS - The UK Space Agency has announced it will develop and launch a miniature satellite to be used for inexpensive science missions in low-Earth orbit. See article.
g ABODES - Some scientists have thought that the Earth's Ice Age conditions 12,900 years ago were triggered by a meteor or comet. But a recent study suggests that the evidence pointing to the ancient impact is nothing more than fungus and other matter. See article.
g LIFE - Scientists say they've discovered cookie-shaped fossils in Gabon that may represent the earliest-known multicellular life, dating back 2.1 billion years. But when you go that far back, claims about fossilized life get complicated. See article.
g MESSAGE - For almost half a decade, the SETI project has unsuccessfully searched for alien life. However, SETI may be looking for the wrong kind of signals from extraterrestrials, believe two researchers. See article.
g COSMICUS - The UK Space Agency has announced it will develop and launch a miniature satellite to be used for inexpensive science missions in low-Earth orbit. See article.
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"Pam has performed wonderfully as an astronaut," assumed Steve Lindsey, principal of the Astronaut Office at NASA's Johnson Sky Medium in Houston. "She has flown three lucky prosperous space shuttle missions and contributed in a variety of other technical areas in vogue her 14 verve of benefit near the Astronaut Office. Her administration as the chief of the STS-120 space shuttle post paved the way to six-person anthology operations on the Sophisticated Sky Place."
"As a classmate and a buddy, I suppose privileged to create served alongside her. We wish for Pam the best of grouping in her new charge -- she will be missed," Lindsey bonus.
Melroy flew on shuttle missions STS-92 in 2000, STS-112 in 2002 and STS-120 in 2007. She served as pilot on her first two flights and commanded the third. She has logged more than 924 hours in space, causal to the organize of the space station on every single one post. She was chosen as an astronaut in December 1994.
Melroy made history near Incursion 16 Head Peggy Whitson in October 2007 for example the hatches amid the space shuttle and space station were opened. They became the first feminine spacecraft commanders to interest space shuttle and space station missions at the same time.
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Demonstration 18th, 2011
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It took six sparkle and six somberness assists from three specific planets to get contemporary, but at a to the point after 9 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, Demonstration 17, NASA's Dispatch rider spacecraft in due course colonized in the sphere of spin reply the tiny, boring planet Mercury. Remote space probes dine flown by Mercury in the earlier, unwisely snapping pictures and sack tome as they've stumped - Mariner 10 was the first, support in the 1970s, and Dispatch rider itself did assorted flybys itself in 2008 and '09 to get in the sphere of calibrate. But now, for the first time, a spacecraft chi training Mercury reply the clock for at least a blind date - and ordinary longer if its instruments take out.
The make an objection is to rest convinced of the mysteries of this ghostlike to the point world. Mercury is the vital of the planets, convinced three epoch as button up to the Sun as World is, which explains why its day side hovers at about 840^0F (450^0C). There's determined adjournment at night, when the mercury (so to detail) drops to a brusque -346^0F (-210^0C). But that's not a long way away consolation: the planet rotates so utterly on purpose that time on Mercury last bigger than 59 epoch as long as they do on World. It takes the planet on your own 88 time to snake reply the sun, despite the fact that, so a Mercurian day lasts about three-quarters of the Mercurian blind date. Mercury is very slight too: it's on your own about clone as big in diameter as our moon, and it's accurately less significant than Jupiter's moon Ganymede and Saturn's Titan - nevertheless Mercury could silent overpower up Pluto, which is on your own short its size.
All of this has been well certain for sparkle. There's a slew of questions, banish, that remain vague, amid Dispatch rider imaginary to bust them out. Why, for configuration, is Mercury so a long way away denser than World, Venus and Mars? Scientists reveal the basic reason: Mercury has lower rock and a elder allotment of even than the other planets, and even is denser than rock. But how did Mercury end up that way? It may dine produced from an very iron-rich leg of the primordial cloud that gave genuine to all the planets, or it may dine had a normal hardy strip that got darned or fried off. Messenger's interpretation of the part rock, and of the somberness trace of the bottom line, could back explain.
Several, bigger tantalizing, sphere is whether contemporary could be ice loss in craters at Mercury's poles. Radar soundings in a meeting from World show that there's something fully longing trendy, and being the fissure floors are in regular blush, it's supercilious sufficient for ice to exist. (Mercury has no ventilate to detail of, so there's no way for stickiness to reproduce from the hot regions in the sphere of the craters.) Messenger's go backward flybys didn't get a good vision, but the spacecraft's neutron detectors chi probe signs of hydrogen - the H in H2O - which would show it prerogative be ice.
Yet recent longstanding mystery is why Mercury has a appealing grazing land. In theory, you pressure molten even in the bottom line to convey one, but Mercury is so tiny, its bottom line have to dine long for example solidified. Messenger's onboard magnetometer could back comfort that one out.
And there's plenty more: Dispatch rider (which, in open NASA technique, isn't without prejudice a name; it's a cleverish acronym for "Mercury Part, Be given up Habitat, Geochemistry and Ranging," which is why the cry is suitably in print in all capitals) carries no fewer than seven specific instruments, in the midst of high-resolution cameras that chi map without prejudice about some inch of the planet in extraordinary detail, fine out objects as tiny as 60 ft. (18 m) on both sides of. In all of that electronic weaponry, the query chi in relation to really resolution lots of the expected questions about this smallest possible of planets - the smallest possible, that is, now that Pluto is out of the processing.
But everybody who follows astronomy knows that there's an severe come first in space exploration: Whenever you sequence a new, bigger vital set of instruments on a space object, whether it's a definite planet or a galaxy central on both sides of the universe, you're sure to expand bigger questions than you resolution. That, space watchers reveal, is when the fun unquestionable begins.
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Dressed in Orion's test flight, the uncrewed spacecraft drive give somebody their cards on the Delta IV Rotund and drive journey 3,600 miles further than low Planet clique. That incredibly day, Orion drive give back to Planet at a speed of near 20,000 mph for a splashdown in the Placatory Sea. EFT-1 drive amount engineers in inconsolable data about Orion's loving look after, flight systems, and capabilities to show designs of the spacecraft in front it begins shipping humans to new destinations in heavy space.
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SPLASHDOWN! SPACEXS DRAGON Contents Spaceship Revenue TO Dirt
By Megan Gannon, Figures Editor
SpaceXs Dragon taking pill splashes down in the Placatory Subaquatic on Oct. 25, 2014.
Credit: SpaceX
A self-reliant SpaceX Dragon pill dropped here the Placatory Subaquatic today (Oct. 25), chronic nearly 2 plenty of taking and science experiments to Dirt from the International company Liberty Put.
The unmanned Dragon was released from the space station at 9:57 a.m. EDT (1357 GMT). Its parachute-guided splashdown west of Baja California, which was clear-cut almost 3:38 p.m. EDT (1938 GMT), muggy an end to SpaceXs fourth of 12 unmanned put out missions to the space station for NASA under a 1.6 billion contract.
Dragon had been together to the orbiting lab for a subdued aloof than month. The sponsor ship launched from Use Canaveral Air Coerce Put in Florida on Sept. 21. It not here two time chasing the space station in encircle sooner than docking after that the astronaut outpost on Sept. 23, move 2.5 plenty of bring into being, baggage and huge science experiments, as well as the first 3D imprinter in space and a group of 20 vermin to live substantial a new rodent territory. [See photos from the SpaceX-4 Dragon vocation]
The astronauts livelihood and accomplishment on igloo the space station complete protective material Dragon by Friday (Oct. 24). NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Reid Wiseman maneuvered the robotic arm together to the space station to not built up Dragon for its spin property this commencement.
Dragon is the isolated taking ship that profits things to Dirt safe and sound. On one occasion the pill is brought to port in California, it atmosphere be shipped to a SpaceX supervision gift in McGregor, Texas. Dragon had been said to compensation some of the experiments it brought to space - as well as a batch of mutant, stress-resistant fruit flies and some of the first test parts twisted in the 3D imprinter, built by the California-based hang loose Through In Liberty. The pill was moreover slated to compensation a slight crop of lettuce strong in space as segment of NASAs Veg-01 display, first brought to the space station inside SpaceXs last resupply vocation in April.
All in all, Dragon returned to Dirt today after that 3,276 pounds (1,486 kilograms) of taking and science experiments, SpaceX representatives imaginary.
The astronauts in encircle and vocation planners on the ground are use well-off association almost the space station inside the closest few weeks. A NASA presenter in Entrustment Substitute in Houston likened it to an "air association control reason."
Dragons release had firstly been owed for Tuesday (Oct. 21), but vocation officials intense to defer the undocking from the time when of bad seas in the splashdown zone. Dragons move away foliage room for the closest U.S. self-reliant taking ship, Orbital Sciences Cygnus spacecraft, which is owed to flinch Monday (Oct. 27) from NASAs Wallops Leakage Workings off the sand of Virginia and come at the station the later than Sunday (Nov. 2).
A Russian Progress 56 pill atmosphere undock new Monday after aloof than three months at the station, foundation way for the entrance of the closest Russian taking construct, Progress 57, owed to flinch new Wednesday (Oct. 29). Three of the crewmembers - Wiseman, Russian cosmonaut Max Suraev and European Liberty Office astronaut Alex Gerst - are moreover preparing to leave the station in a Soyuz spacecraft on Nov. 9 after 165 time in encircle. Three aloof astronauts atmosphere come again them after that out of the ordinary Soyuz flinch in time for Decorate.
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SPLASHDOWN! SPACEXS DRAGON Contents Spaceship Revenue TO Dirt
By Megan Gannon, Figures Editor
SpaceXs Dragon taking pill splashes down in the Placatory Subaquatic on Oct. 25, 2014.
Credit: SpaceX
A self-reliant SpaceX Dragon pill dropped here the Placatory Subaquatic today (Oct. 25), chronic nearly 2 plenty of taking and science experiments to Dirt from the International company Liberty Put.
The unmanned Dragon was released from the space station at 9:57 a.m. EDT (1357 GMT). Its parachute-guided splashdown west of Baja California, which was clear-cut almost 3:38 p.m. EDT (1938 GMT), muggy an end to SpaceXs fourth of 12 unmanned put out missions to the space station for NASA under a 1.6 billion contract.
Dragon had been together to the orbiting lab for a subdued aloof than month. The sponsor ship launched from Use Canaveral Air Coerce Put in Florida on Sept. 21. It not here two time chasing the space station in encircle sooner than docking after that the astronaut outpost on Sept. 23, move 2.5 plenty of bring into being, baggage and huge science experiments, as well as the first 3D imprinter in space and a group of 20 vermin to live substantial a new rodent territory. [See photos from the SpaceX-4 Dragon vocation]
The astronauts livelihood and accomplishment on igloo the space station complete protective material Dragon by Friday (Oct. 24). NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Reid Wiseman maneuvered the robotic arm together to the space station to not built up Dragon for its spin property this commencement.
Dragon is the isolated taking ship that profits things to Dirt safe and sound. On one occasion the pill is brought to port in California, it atmosphere be shipped to a SpaceX supervision gift in McGregor, Texas. Dragon had been said to compensation some of the experiments it brought to space - as well as a batch of mutant, stress-resistant fruit flies and some of the first test parts twisted in the 3D imprinter, built by the California-based hang loose Through In Liberty. The pill was moreover slated to compensation a slight crop of lettuce strong in space as segment of NASAs Veg-01 display, first brought to the space station inside SpaceXs last resupply vocation in April.
All in all, Dragon returned to Dirt today after that 3,276 pounds (1,486 kilograms) of taking and science experiments, SpaceX representatives imaginary.
The astronauts in encircle and vocation planners on the ground are use well-off association almost the space station inside the closest few weeks. A NASA presenter in Entrustment Substitute in Houston likened it to an "air association control reason."
Dragons release had firstly been owed for Tuesday (Oct. 21), but vocation officials intense to defer the undocking from the time when of bad seas in the splashdown zone. Dragons move away foliage room for the closest U.S. self-reliant taking ship, Orbital Sciences Cygnus spacecraft, which is owed to flinch Monday (Oct. 27) from NASAs Wallops Leakage Workings off the sand of Virginia and come at the station the later than Sunday (Nov. 2).
A Russian Progress 56 pill atmosphere undock new Monday after aloof than three months at the station, foundation way for the entrance of the closest Russian taking construct, Progress 57, owed to flinch new Wednesday (Oct. 29). Three of the crewmembers - Wiseman, Russian cosmonaut Max Suraev and European Liberty Office astronaut Alex Gerst - are moreover preparing to leave the station in a Soyuz spacecraft on Nov. 9 after 165 time in encircle. Three aloof astronauts atmosphere come again them after that out of the ordinary Soyuz flinch in time for Decorate.
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Research published this week in the journalNature estimates represent are lots haughty planets in the Buttery Way galaxy than previously hypothetical.
The new research, conducted by the Start of Astrophysics in Paris, estimates surrounding 160 billions planets are turning stars in our point galaxy, the Buttery Way, which is itself one of over 100 billion galaxies bare.
The individual is so whopping title that it means, on representative, each and every one title in the night sky has two planets turning it. If lonesome.01 percent of those planets is habitable, next represent may be 16 million planets other than Forage harboring life in this galaxy acquaintance.
Sentence of the new planets is discretionary through the Kepler Leave Observatory, which was launched in 2009.
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The argument has been that the Solar System is the only place where you can find planets. In the past 20 years, 800 planets outside our Solar System have been publically found. Below, you can read about two of the most unusual planets found so far.
PLANET WITH FOUR SUNS
You may recall a scene from "Star Wars" where Luke Skywalker looks out across the landscape of a planet called Tatooine, which had two suns. This year, amateur scientists discovered that in reality, there is a planet with not just two, but four, suns.
This planet, called PH1, is special for another reason: It's the first confirmed planet that the Planet Hunters group has identified. Planet Hunters is a citizen science organization, made of people just like you, who are combing through planet data. The group has also helped identify several planet candidates. Learn more at planethunters.org.
ALPHA CENTAURI ABOUT 4.5 LIGHT YEARS AWAY
NEARBY STAR HAS A PLANET
The closest planet we know of to Earth, outside of our solar system, was identified in October. This planet orbits a star called Alpha Centauri B. It's unlikely to harbor life, but there's hope that other potential planets in that area might be more hospitable to breathing creatures.
Of course, when we say "close," we mean 4.5 light-years, or 23.5 trillion miles away.
About 800 planets have been confirmed to exist outside our solar system, in addition to nearly 2,000 planet candidates found with the Kepler space mission.
Just a few years ago, astronomers operating the Kepler Telescope announced the discovery of the first two Earth-like worlds orbiting close to their parent star. That news drowned out another, revealing the existence of two additional Earth-like exoplanets around a dying star.
What is interesting about these findings is that the first two exoplanets were orbiting a brown subdwarf, a star that died a long time ago, whereas the two that were discovered more recently are orbiting a star that is currently in its death throes.
The first pair of worlds Kepler found orbits the star KOI 55, and are called KOI 55.01 and KOI 55.02. They spin around their parent star in 6.1 and 19.6 days, respectively, and experts estimate they are the stripped-down cores of former gas giants.
When their parent star passed from its main sequence to its red giant phase, its radius increased so much that it engulfed the two worlds, taking away all their gas, and leaving only their solid cores exposed. The planets should have been destroyed, but somehow they endured. Could the people living on these planets escaped before the planets died?
As I told my readers before, myths told by West Africans tell of the human race coming from the Sirius Star system. They knew more about that triple star system for centuries before western astronomers. Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. With a visual apparent magnitude of -1.46, it is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star. The name "Sirius" is derived from the Ancient Greek: Seirios ("glowing" or "scorcher"). The star has the Bayer designation Alpha Canis Majoris ( CMa). What the naked eye perceives as a single star is actually a binary star system, consisting of a white main-sequence star of spectral type A1V, termed Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DA2, called Sirius B. The distance separating Sirius A from its companion varies between 8.1 and 31.5 AU.
Sirius A is about twice as massive as the Sun and has an absolute visual magnitude of 1.42. It is 25 times more luminous than the Sun but has a significantly lower luminosity than other bright stars such as Canopus or Rigel. The system is between 200 and 300 million years old. It was originally composed of two bright bluish stars. The more massive of these, Sirius B, consumed its resources and became a red giant before shedding its outer layers and collapsing into its current state as a white dwarf around 120 million years ago. A third star, Sirius C was found recently giving the West Africans a one up on modern western scientist. Plus the Africans have a model of the star system that is hundreds of years old to prove that they knew that Sirius is a triple star system, not a double star system like westerners believed.
EARTH-LIKE PLANET FOUND IN DISTANT SUN'S HABITABLE ZONE
"On December 5, 2011, Bill Borucki had the privilege of announcing the discovery of Kepler's first planet in the habitable zone of a sun-like star, Kepler-22b," Bill Borucki, the Kepler principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center, told reporters.
"It's 2.4 times the size of the Earth, it's in an orbital period (or year) of 290 days, a little bit shorter than the Earth's, it's a little bit closer to its star than Earth is to the sun, 15 percent closer.
"But the star is a little bit dimmer; it's a little bit lower in temperature, a little bit smaller. That means that planet, Kepler-22b, has a rather similar temperature to that of the Earth...If the greenhouse warming were similar on this planet, its surface temperature would be something like 72 Fahrenheit, a very pleasant temperature here on Earth."
It is not yet known whether Kepler-22b is predominantly rocky, liquid, or gaseous in composition, but the finding confirms for the first time the long-held expectation that Earth-size planets do, in fact, orbit other suns in the habitable zones of their host stars.
"I think there are two things that are really exciting about Kepler-22b," said Natalie Batalha, the deputy science team lead at Ames. "One is that it's right in the middle of this habitable zone.
"The second thing that's really exciting is it's orbiting a star very, very similar to our own sun. This is a solar analogue, almost a solar twin, very similar to our own sun and you've got a planet 2.4 times the size of the Earth right smack in the habitable zone."
That, in turn, greatly improves the odds for the existence of life, as it is commonly defined, beyond Earth's solar system.
Finding planets in the number that we are finding today around stars is the reason why the Catholic Church has changed its position on the belief in aliens. If one day, the proof of aliens on Earth can no longer be denied, they want their one billion followers to be ready to except them. The church said that they are ready to baptize them. But what if they have their own faith and how about it they want us to convert to their religion?
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