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NASA Planning for EML-2 Space Outpost In this article on NASA Planning for EML-2 Space Outpost we provide definitions and discuss the plans and provide direct links to NASA's information on this hot topic! Note: EML stands for "Earth Moon Librattion" . A Earth Moon Libration point is a place in space where the combined [...]

QQ47 Asteroid Threat To Earth was downgraded 7 years ago In this Article – QQ47 Asteroid Threat To Earth was downgraded 7 years ago – we provide  the update from NASA in September 2003 and then following that is one of the many original news blurbs that indicated a potential earth impact by QQ47. There [...]

Asteroid 2005 YU55 to miss Earth November 8, 2011 This article, Asteroid 2005 YU55 to miss Earth November 8, 2011, gives the details on the Near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 which is 1300 feet in Diameter,  and that will pass between the earth and the moon on November 8, 2011. That will be the closest that [...]

The Last Space Shuttle Mission STS-135 In this article on The Last Space Shuttle Mission, we give a little history and then a review of the The Last Space Shuttle Mission. Most of this information is from the NASA website. If you haven't been there you have to go there and check out their info [...]

SETI Allen Telescope Array Shut Down In this article, SETI Allen Telescope Array Shut Down, we provide information on the SETI Project and its recent shutdown and provide important links for more information and what you can do to help! SETI Allen Telescope Array Shut Down – About SETI From the NASA site at: http://history.nasa.gov/seti.html [...]

Stardust Spacecraft (of the Stardust NExT mission) Sends images of Comet Temple 1 from within 200km The Stardust NExT Mission is already a huge success with the comet samples taken from Comet Wild 2. Now Stardust is delivering on its second objectives with its close encounters pictures and analysis of Comet Temple 1! The Comet [...]

NASA Studies deflecting Asteroid like Apophis to avoid an Earth Impact 2029,2036 The potential change in Apophis' position by 2036 caused by altering energy absorption for the extreme spin pole and mass combinations shown (the most effective and least effective cases) starting in 2018. Figure by J. Giorgini (JPL). Summary: The Asteroid Apophis is a [...]

VB 10 – Van Biesbroeck's Star: A Large Planet Orbiting a Small Star   [/caption] Illustration Credit: JPL-Caltech, NASA The following is from NASA's popular Astronomy Picture of the day at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090603.html   Explanation: Can a planet be as large as the star that it orbits? Recent observations have discovered that nearby Van Biesbroeck's star [...]

Betelgeuse,AKA Alpha Orionis, is set to go SuperNova! Betelgeuse (sounds a lot like "beetle juice"), also known as Alpha Orionis, is one of the largest and brightest stars known. The star is a familiar orange fixture easily visible to the unaided eye toward the constellation of Orion. It is also going to go SUPERNOVA sometime [...]