Archives for November 2008
Endeavour to land in California
Published on 30 Nov 2008 at 12:42 pm.
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The weather forecast in Florida is not looking good for the STS-126 mission to land at KSC today, and tomorrow’s forecast isn’t looking favorable, either. So, mission controllers have decided to have the Endeavour land at Edwards Air Force Base, in California, instead. Landing would occur on orbits 25o or 251 this afternoon. […]
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CoS #80
Published on 22 Nov 2008 at 10:19 am.
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The Carnival of Space, 80th edition, is not active over at Starts with a Bang. Ethan has made this the Thanksgiving edition. (This next Thursday is the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States.) So, follow the link and then follow the collection of nice blog entry links for all kinds of the best space […]
Copernicus Found
Published on 21 Nov 2008 at 2:17 pm.
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Nicolaus Copernicus is famous in astronomy. His work is mentioned in nearly every introductory astronomy class that is taught. Incorrectly, he is sometimes attributed with originating the theory that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun (heliocentric model) rather than the Sun and planets revolving around the Earth (geocentric model). In […]
CoS 79
Published on 17 Nov 2008 at 10:33 am.
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I have been buried in paperwork of late, so there hasn’t been much blogging going here at Astroprof’s Page. However, you can still read a lot of good blog entries for the past week collected over at this week’s Carnival of Space, the 79th edition, being hosted at One Astronomer’s Noise.
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R.I.P. Phoenix
Published on 10 Nov 2008 at 5:00 pm.
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The Phoenix Lander on Mars has not been heard from in a week. It was designed to last for 90 days, but lasted for over 5 months. However, weather conditions at its location on Mars have been rapidly getting harsher, and the sunlight has been getting less. Adding to the problems with […]
CoS #78
Published on 8 Nov 2008 at 1:13 am.
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The Seventy-Eight Carnival of Space (CoS) is being hosted this week at Simostronomy. He has a good collection of space related blog entries from around the blogosphere so that you don’t have to go reading every blog all the time (though, if you did that, you’d certainly have a lot of very interesting things to […]
X-Ray Crab
Published on 7 Nov 2008 at 5:13 pm.
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Messier 1, the Crab Nebula, is a famous supernova remnant in Taurus. It was left behind by the supernova visible from Earth in 1054. The Crab Nebula is about 6000 light years away. The image above is a composite make from three different instruments. The green and dark blue images […]
