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POPSFinding the weight of black holes This is a composite image of data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (shown in purple) and Hubble Space Telescope (blue) of the giant elliptical galaxy, NGC 4649, located about 51 million light-years from Earth.
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POPSLast shuttle flight set for May 2010 Weather permitting.Then there will be a transition to the new launch vehicles Here is a link to the NASA Constellation program page that includes details of the new launch vehicles Orion, and Ares. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/main/index.html
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POPSSpace Experts Call for ‘Fewer Astronauts, More Robots’ The suggestion sure makes a lot of economical sense. Resources should be focused to develop better technologies to carry load into orbit and beyond, because this is the real bottle neck of space exploration as of now. On the other hand, we cannot overlook the fact that sending men and women to space, ignites the imagination and inspires the coming generations. Space is the next frontier of adventure and mystery. The myth and the story are not less important than the economical aspect.
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POPSPlan to build telescopes from Moon dust I can't imagine them doing it any other way. After what we've seen with Hubble, The view from the dark side during a full moon, the improvement is likely to be the same magnitude. seems like the deeper we look into the stars, the bigger the Universe seems to get. Maybe we could get clearer readings that would show us where a few more 'earth-like' planets are.
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POPSHungry, hungry black holes The conclusion comes from a large observing campaign of the spiral galaxy M81, which is about 12 million light-years from Earth. In the center of M81 is a black hole that is about 70 million times more massive than the Sun, and generates energy and radiation as it pulls gas in the central region of the galaxy inwards at high speed.
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POPSExperimenting in a galaxy far far away While the readings confirm the laws of physics apply across the known universe, if it had been any other way, it would not only have been a surprise, but physics textbooks would have to be rewritten. Of course, the search has only just begun. The Radio Telescope is only a recent development, and much of what we know about the Universe, has been learned since the Hubble telescope became operational.
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POPSBricks Litter Space Shuttle Launch Pad Grounds Bloody reporters. "Most of the bricks were still scattered over the ground Monday, many of them in fragments, resembling the aftermath of a volcanic eruption." So this one thinks a few thousand bricks looks like the earth has moved. Must have pretty one sided relationships.
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POPSMysterious Outburst from the Edge of the Milky Way The outburst may represent a transitory stage in a star's evolution that is rarely seen. The star has some similarities to highly unstable aging stars called eruptive variables, which suddenly and unpredictably increase in brightness.
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