March 2008: Upcoming Astronews and Notes.
Endeavor posed for Launch (Credit: NASA). Folks in the northern hemisphere, mark your calendars: spring in the form of the vernal equinox begins at 01:48am EST March 24th. That signals the end of...
View Article25.10.09: In Search of a Mirror Universe.
There is one enduring mystery in cosmology that just won’t budge; namely, just what happened to all that pesky anti-matter that was presumably created during the Big Bang? Was it annihilated, only to...
View ArticleFebruary 2010: Life in the Astro-blogosphere.
(Late breaking news: looks like Astroguyz will be tweeting live from the Johnson Space Center in Houston Feb. 17th as part of the STS-130 NASA Tweetup! Now is a good time to follow us on Twitter, as...
View Article24.02.11: Hefty Anti-particle Found.
Staring into STAR. (Credit: From the Brookhaven National Laboratories’ Flickr stream). The menagerie of bizarre sub-atomic particles just got stranger, as scientists at Long Islands Relativistic Heavy...
View ArticleApril 2011: Life in the Astro-Blogosphere.
The Best yet of our Quest… A “wing-transit!” (Photo by Author). Wow. April 2011 already and what a year its already been in history, astronomy and science. This month sees a look at some celebrity...
View Article13.04.11: Here Be Shuttles!
The Orbiter that started it all; Enterprise during a drop test. (All photos courtesy of NASA). The Space Shuttle program may be winding up, but you may soon have a chance to see one of these storied...
View Article19.04.11: AMS-02: A Preview.
AMS-02…Good to Go! (Credit: NASA.gov). A very special payload will be aboard the final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour, one that had a long hard road to launch. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)...
View ArticleMay 2011: Life in the Astro-Blogosphere.
April’s rising Pink Moon. (Photo by Author). The month of May brings with it the beginnings of true summer-like weather for most of the northern hemisphere. Weve survived a wacky weather spring, and...
View Article21.05.11: Student Project catches STS-134 launch from 100,000ft!
Endeavour on her way the orbit one last time…(Credit: Quest for Stars). A unique sentinel was on hand to witness the final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour this past Monday. Senatobia-1, an...
View Article28.05.11: Spiders in SPACE ( ACE).
A Terrestrial Golden Orb Spider. (Image Credit: NASA & Danielle Anthony). The recent final mission of the space shuttle Endeavour brought some very special residents to the International Space...
View Article04.06.11: MPCV=Orion Reborn?
MPCV in Martian orbit. (Artist’s concept/NASA). NASA may just have new marching orders for the post-shuttle era. Recently, NASA and Lockheed Martin announced a re-designation of its Orion (That OTHER...
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