Category Archives: Science

German satellite to fall to Earth this weekend

By doris | Published: October 22, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com A defunct German satellite is expected to fall to Earth this weekend, with experts predicting that up to 30 big pieces of the junked spacecraft could hit the planet. But exactly when and where the satellite will fall remains a mystery. The 2.7-ton Roentgen Satellite, or ROSAT, will likely plummet to [...]

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Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces

By doris | Published: June 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of [...]

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Weekend full moon the biggest in about 20 years

By doris | Published: March 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If the moon looks a little bit bigger and brighter this weekend, there’s a reason for that. It is. Saturday’s full moon will be a super “perigee moon” — the biggest in almost 20 years. This celestial event is far rarer than the famed blue moon, which happens once [...]

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Moonwatchers treated to total lunar eclipse

By doris | Published: December 22, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK – Skywatchers got an early holiday present this year: A total eclipse of the moon. Hanging high in the sky, the moon slowly turned from bright silver into a red disk early Tuesday. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth casts its shadow on the full moon, blocking [...]

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Strangers in the night: Lunar eclipse, solstice meet again

By doris | Published: December 21, 2010

Full Story at news.blogs.CNN.com It’s not every lifetime that you get a chance to celebrate a solstice with a total eclipse of the moon. Weather permitting, a lunar eclipse will be visible from 1:33 to 5:01 a.m. ET Tuesday, with the total eclipse starting at about 2:41 a.m., according to NASA. The eclipse happens to [...]

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Scientists discover monster star

By doris | Published: July 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Imagine a star so luminous that it would burn the Earth up if it were anywhere near, a star that outshines the sun as much as the sun outshines the moon. A monster even in the abyss of space. The star is not some scientist’s celestial dream. Astronomers used [...]

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GE to supply world’s largest wind farm

By doris | Published: December 11, 2009

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Electric said Thursday it has secured a $1.4 billion contract to supply wind turbines and provide services for what will be the world’s largest wind farm operation when completed in 2012. The conglomerate will supply 338 of its 2.5-megawatt turbines to New York-based Caithness Energy to be [...]

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Triple delight in the Milky Way

By doris | Published: November 11, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com NASA has blended three views of our home galaxy’s turbulent core to produce a picture filled with scientifically significant snap, crackle and pop. And the deeper you go into the image, the more you learn. The composite picture of the Milky Way’s center draws upon near-infrared data from the Hubble Space [...]

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Space hotel says it’s on schedule to open in 2012

By doris | Published: November 2, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Barcelona – A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project. The Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will [...]

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NASA’s prototype rocket set for Tuesday launch

By doris | Published: October 26, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A prototype version of NASA’s newest rocket is ready for its planned Tuesday launch, mission managers said Friday. NASA is set to test the design of its next-generation rocket, Ares I, during a demonstration liftoff called Ares I-X. The launch, slated for 8 a.m. ET on Oct. [...]

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NASA finally sees plume from moon impact

By doris | Published: October 19, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com NASA scientists have finally seen in their data a debris plume created by the impact of a moon probe last week. The faint plume was seen in the data from the engineered crash one week after the impact of the LCROSS probe. Scientists are hoping that analysis of the plume will [...]

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Authorities search house in ‘balloon boy’ case

By doris | Published: October 18, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Heene is the storm-chasing father whose giant Mylar balloon ascended into the sky late last week, sparking fears that his 6-year-old son Falcon was aboard. A dispatcher with the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department declined to release any information about the search, but said the office will hold a news conference at [...]

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Solar power outshining Colorado’s gas industry

By doris | Published: October 11, 2009

Full Story at Yahoo! News DURANGO, Colo. – The sun had just crested the distant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but already it was producing enough power for the electric meter on the side of the Smiley Building to spin backward. For the Shaw brothers, who converted the downtown arts building and community center into [...]

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Astronomy fans left disappointed after much-touted lunar impact

By doris | Published: October 10, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “We saw nothing,” he said. Samuels is vice president of the Fremont Peak Observatory near Monterey, California, which had invited members of the public to watch Friday’s NASA mission through its telescopes. The lunar strike happened shortly after 4:30 a.m. on the West Coast (7:30 a.m. ET). NASA had encouraged everyone [...]

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Scientists discover massive ring around Saturn

By doris | Published: October 7, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The ring’s orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet’s main ring plane. The bulk of it starts about 3.7 million miles (6 million km) away from the planet and extends outward another 7.4 million miles (12 million km). Its diameter is equivalent to 300 Saturns lined up side to side. [...]

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Telescope witnesses Milky Way starbirth

By doris | Published: October 3, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com The recently launched Herschel Space Telescope has just returned glowing pictures of our own Milky Way galaxy in infrared light. The European Space Agency mission (with contributions from NASA) lifted off in May on a quest to observe the universe in long-wavelength infrared light. The telescope used two instruments simultaneously to [...]

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Students launch camera to edge of space, snap pics of Earth

By doris | Published: September 22, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com His latest concept — to launch a camera into near-space using a weather balloon, a cell phone, hand warmers and a drink cooler — fell flat when he sent out an e-mail message to dozens of his classmates, asking for help. Unfazed, Yeh managed to find one friend willing to chip [...]

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South Korea sends first rocket into space

By doris | Published: August 25, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com GOHEUNG, South Korea – South Korea’s first rocket blasted off into space Tuesday following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international ire for its own launch. The launch of the two-stage Naro rocket could boost the country’s space ambition but the North warned [...]

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Telescopes to show universe soon after Big Bang

By doris | Published: August 20, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — It may not be possible to travel back in time, but seeing stars and galaxies as they looked millions or even billions of years ago is no problem thanks to telescopes, the closest thing we have to time machines. Now, astronomers are holding their breath to see what they’ll [...]

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Newfound planet orbits backward

By doris | Published: August 12, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Planets orbit stars in the same direction that the stars rotate. They all do. Except one. A newfound planet orbits the wrong way, backward compared to the rotation of its host star. Its discoverers think a near-collision may have created the retrograde orbit, as it is called. The star and its [...]

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