…it’s a space station. Well, not really. But even this thing at a measly 300(ish) meters across has enough gravity to trap a moon (and keep it bound, even when it’s doing a flyby of MUCH bigger fish, like us). Full story with an animated gif of the moon orbiting the asteroid here: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4459
Month: January 2015
There’s no place like home
Let’s be honest, you needed something to splash up on that fancy external monitor. How’s about a live view fo the Earth from the ISS? Granted, half of the orbit it’s dark (because…nighttime). But every half hour or so it’s a very pretty thing to watch. Update: Here’s a link straight to the NASA… Continue reading There’s no place like home
Commuting is for the birds
Okay, so I know that this is old news for most people, but commuting sucks. If the world were a perfect place, then we’d all be able to ditch the car, live in close proximity to all of our friends and relatives, and have an amazing grocery store within an easy bike ride of our… Continue reading Commuting is for the birds
One week in Google’s Inbox
I’ve been in the process of attempting to reduce the electronic clutter in my life. I talked a little bit about this before, and I’ve certainly haven’t missed the deluge of posts in my RSS feed. I decided to take the next step and try to see if I could make myself a “Inbox Zero”… Continue reading One week in Google’s Inbox
Popularity and/or substance
From Scientific America, they’ve got a mapping strategy that identifies papers that got a big “traditional” splash (the news, research blogs, Mendeley citations, etc) vs those that make a splash on social media. The image below is the result, which is from this article.
Astro Pics of the Year
Okay, while I admit that I found this page because it had the NuSTAR observation of the Sun listed as one of the top ten pics, it also made me think that this was a GOOD year for space imagery… IFL: Top 10 Space Images of 2014
Merging Active Galaxies
Beautiful new shot of Arp299. Red/Blue are the NuSTAR false color hard X-ray images overlaid on an HST optical image. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC Associated news release here, where you can also get a link to larger versions of the image. Because you know you want this to rotate through as your desktop background.
Reducing Infinites
Like most of us, right my primary means of consuming new content is via an RSS reader. I’ve pretty much forsaken Facebook except to keep up with family and old friends and occasionally use my Google+ page as a means of discovering new content (mainly photography, both terrestrial and space), but 99% of the time… Continue reading Reducing Infinites
Yep, we made it into APOD. And on the evening news. Woot. This particular link goes straight to the APOD coverage, but if you Google “NuSTAR Sun” then you can find lots of great coverage.