As with the supermoon, this time the terrestrial satellite will be the protagonist of a new visual effect in the skies of our planet.
Specifically, on the night between Friday 13 and Saturday 14, people who look at the sky will meet the "Micro Full Moon of the Harvest".
It is a phenomenon that occurs when the Moon It is located at the furthest point of the orbit around the Earth, that is, about 405 thousand kilometers away, which could make it appear a little smaller or less bright in the sky. As a result, it will appear 14% smaller than a typical full moon.
However, as explained by various astronomers, this celestial body does not change in size as seen in our sky, but is only a visual illusion when approaching and moving away from Earth on the route through its orbit around the planet.
This Moon also has the quality of being close to the September equinox, point that marks the end of winter and the beginning of the spring in the southern hemisphere.
According to Newsweek, the myth of the "moon from harvest" It originated from the ancient traditions of Native Americans that explained that the arrival of this phenomenon brought a prolific harvest season for farmers and peasants. The POT He also explains: "Many crops ripen at the same time in late summer and early fall (boreal), so farmers were extremely busy at this time of year. They had work after sunset. The light of the moon became an essential part of agriculture and therefore was born Harvest moon"
At this time of the year, the moon starts to be delayed, on average, by 50 minutes. In the days before the equinox the difference is reduced to 30 minutes. The reason for this, according to NASA, is because "the moon's orbital path forms a narrow angle with the night horizon." Or in other words, there is more light available during those days.
On September 28 there will be a new supermoon, but this will occur in the new moon period. This is why he will not deliver a great show in heaven.
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NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft officially rendezvoused on Monday with Bennu, an asteroid with a little probability of hitting Earth in the distant long run.
‘We have arrived,’ communications method engineer Javi Cerna named out in the mission management middle at Lockheed Martin outdoors Denver at about 10 minutes right after nine a.m. PT.
Osiris-Rex, which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, introduced from Earth on Sept. eight, 2016, getting much more than two many years to url up with its focus on.
The objective of the mission is to develop into the very first US spacecraft to return a sample from an asteroid to Earth. Japan’s Hayabusa mission productively introduced again particles of an asteroid in 2010 and the comply with-up, Hayabusa-2, is currently preparing for the sequel at the space rock Ryugu.
Osiris-Rex is outfitted with a extravagant robotic arm tipped with the equal of a tremendous top quality Store-Vac named the Contact-And-Go Sample Arm System, or Tagsam. Tagsam will get to out and actually tag the surface area of Bennu. Then, whilst touching the historical rock, it’s going to blow a burst of nitrogen gasoline to loosen up bits of particles that’ll be sucked up and transported residence.
This cosmic pickpocketing will not just take position until finally 2020. Right up until then, Osiris-Rex will be orbiting, scanning and mapping its host to assist choose just the suitable ‘tag’ website.
In a way, asteroids are like time capsules that offer a search at the photo voltaic method billions of many years in the previous and researchers hope the mission will generate a much more thorough background of our corner of the universe and possibly even expose the origins of daily life on Earth. Some astronomers theorize that the constructing blocks of daily life have been very first sent below by an asteroid.
In addition to hunting deep into the previous, you will find also a probability Osiris-Rex will assist us program for the long run.
‘Bennu is a possibly harmful asteroid,’ states Wealthy Burns, Osiris-Rex job supervisor for NASA. ‘There’s a really smaller probability that it will affect Earth in the following century.’
The mission will examine one thing named the Yarkovsky outcome, in which warmth from the sunlight is absorbed by an asteroid and then radiated again out into place, performing as a kind of mini-thruster that influences its motion. Superior knowing of this outcome could assist researchers forecast the flight paths of asteroids, especially individuals that may possibly pose a menace to Earth in the long run.
On Monday, the mission group executed a burn off to changeover into functioning close to the asteroid, a demanding job supplied the moment gravity of an item that is the smallest to at any time be orbited by a spacecraft.
Throughout NASA’s push occasion for the arrival at Bennu, navigation engineer Coralie Adam defined that the very first shut flyby of Bennu (at a length of about five miles or eight kilometers) will just take position Tuesday.
Osiris-Rex will commence its residency in the asteroid’s orbit by traveling more than its poles and equator to start mapping the rock’s gravity and also determining landmarks on the surface area that’ll be utilised for navigation in the course of the mission.
‘Looking at Bennu in much more and much more element is heading to assist us establish all the locations that we should not go to sample from,’ mentioned Dani Della-Giustina of the College of Arizona, the picture processing direct for the mission.
The sample Osiris-Rex collects will be flown again to Earth, wherever mission planners purpose to land it in the Utah desert in 2023.
In accordance to the mission’s deputy principal investigator, Heather Enos, we can assume to see some of the very first science info and possibly some new shut-up photographs from Bennu following 7 days.


Bay Area To Get A View Of Total Lunar Eclipse
Bay Area residents willing to stay up late have the opportunity to see the longest total lunar eclipse of the decade.
The Earth's shadow will cover the moon early Tuesday morning around 3 a.m. Pacific time, when filtered light will turn the moon a rusty red.
Eclipses can be deep blood red, orange, brown or a dull rust shade, according to scientists.
The total eclipse ends around 4:20 a.m. Pacific time.
Of the 230 lunar eclipses scheduled for this century, only 85 are total. This will be the second eclipse this year. The next will happen in February, according to Chabot Space & Science Center, a nonprofit interactive center in Oakland.
The eclipse begins at 12:52 a.m., when the moon enters the Earth's partial shadow. At 1:51 a.m., the moon will make its first contact with the Earth's total shadow. For the next hour, the moon will be swallowed by Earth's shadow until it is engulfed at 2:52 a.m., according to Chabot Space & Science Center.
To the casual viewer, the moon will be whole again at 5:24 a.m.
Besides the West Coast of the U.S. and Canada, the best viewing will be in New Zealand and eastern Australia.
In the Bay Area, there will be typical areas of low clouds along the coast. Seeing the eclipse may be difficult for residents in Pacifica and Half Moon Bay, said Bob Benjamin, a National Weather Service forecaster.
"It could be worse," Benjamin said.
Along the eastern side of the Peninsula there will be partially cloudy skies, but it is not expected to be totally overcast, he said.
Residents in the East Bay and in most areas away from the coast should be able to view it.
The best advice is to move inland and avoid city lights, which will make it more difficult to see, he said.
To celebrate the eclipse, the Chabot Space & Science Center, located at 10000 Skyline Blvd. in Oakland, is hosting a "Once in a Red Moon" viewing party on its observatory deck atop the Oakland Hills and in its planetarium Monday night.
Doors open at 10 p.m. and there will be activities like a moon hike and telescope viewing. Visitors can rock out to lunar-themed music on the observatory deck. There also will be a variety of hands-on activities and a full-dome digital simulation of the eclipse.
"Although we know exactly when every total eclipse will happen, we never know what each will look like," said Chabot astronomer Conrad Jung, who will co-host the event. "A few decades ago, we had a total eclipse that displayed a rich canvas of colors and, in the same year, one in which volcanic ash in the atmosphere created a shading so dark the moon was rendered invisible. It's always interesting to see which moon shows up."


What does outer space sound like? Years of Carl Sagan documentaries have told us that the music of the cosmos is minimalist, melodic electronica, but starting at 4 p.m. EST Tuesday, all that is about to change. Instead, Will.i.am will take his rightful place as the Official Artist of Space, when NASA broadcasts his new song "Reach for the Stars" from the Mars Curiosity rover.
According to NASA, Will.i.am was chosen because of his deep love of space exploration, as well as the fact that he rode an elephant around a moon of Jupiter in the Black Eyed Peas' "Meet Me Halfway" video.
As the Official Artist of Space, Will.i.am's duties will include acting as Earth's representative at any diplomatic space-talks, and shilling Target lamps to extraterrestrials. The position has remained officially vacant since David Bowie resigned in 1978, though Daft Punk filled in on an interim basis from 1998 to 2002.


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Celestial Objects Named After Indonesians
Four celestial objects have been named after former heads of Indonesia’s Bosscha Observatory, providing new additions to the list of heavenly bodies with Indonesian appellations. The objects, identified only by numbers as asteroids 12176, 12177, 12178, 12179 since they were discovered 33 years ago, are now officially recognized by the international astronomic community as 12176 Hidayat, 12177 Raharto, 12178 Dhani and 12179 Taufiq. Hakim Luthfi Malasan, the current head of the Bosscha Observatory in Lembang, Bandung, said he received an e-mail earlier this week from the International Astronomical Union, the highest authority on astronomical science, informing him about the naming of the asteroids. He said the IAU had approved naming the asteroids after the four past observatory directors in November 2010. “This is a reward for Indonesian astronomers. It is also a gesture of appreciation to the observatory,” Hakim said in an interview this week. He said it was the first time that Indonesians who had headed the observatory had received the honor, although two other former observatory directors, Gale Bruno van Albada and The Pik Sin, who were both Dutch citizens, had their names immortalized as asteroids 2019 van Albada and 5408. The asteroid 12176 Hidayat is named after Bambang Hidayat, who was the observatory’s head from 1968 to 1999. The IAU lauded him as “an active promoter of astronomy in Indonesia, known for his work on visual binaries and H-emission-line stars.” He also served as vice-president of the IAU from 1994 to 2000. The second asteroid, 12177 Raharto, is named after Moedji Raharto, a senior lecturer and expert on galactic structure at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). He served as director of Bosscha Observatory from 2000 to 2003. Asteroid 12178 Dhani is named for Indonesian astronomer Herdiwijaya Dhani. He is an expert on solar physics and is known for his work on binary stars, solar magnetic activity and its influence on weather and climate. He led the observatory from 2004 to 2005. The last asteroid named after one of Bosscha’s former heads, 12179 Taufiq, honors Taufiq Hidayat, who was director of the observatory from 2006-2009. He is an associate professor at ITB’s astronomy department best known for his work on the solar system and extra solar transits, as well as his battle again urbanization around the observatory. The observatory has had 12 directors since it was established in 1923. The four asteroids were first sighted on the Main Belt area between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, on Oct. 16, 1977, by C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld and T. Gehrels at Palomar Observatory in San Diego. Budi Dermawan, an expert in asteroids from ITB, said the main responsibility for designating and naming newly observed minor planets or asteroids lies with the Committee for Small Body Nomenclature, which assigns provisional designations using the year when the asteroid is discovered and the sequential order of discovery within that year. “Before getting to the next phase of an asteroid listing, more sightings of a new asteroid are needed to make sure that it is indeed a new one and not a rediscovery of a minor planetoid which had been discovered before but was lost in orbit for some time,” Budi said. If the number of regular sightings is enough to calculate an orbit, the asteroid is assigned a sequential number as its designation. The discoverer could propose a name for the asteroid after it is assigned a numeric designation. After publication in the Minor Planet Circular, with a brief citation of why the asteroid is named as such, the name becomes official. According to Budi, there are at least 11 other asteroids with Indonesian names, including 754 Malabar; named after the observatory's neighboring Malabar Mountain; 772 Tanete, named after a location in South Sulawesi; and 2307 Garuda. Given the international esteem extended the country’s astronomers, Hakim said it was ironic they did not receive much appreciation from their own countrymen. He said that he hoped this recognition would serve as an appeal to the government and other stakeholders about the importance of the observatory’s work. Hakim said light pollution from homes and businesses encroaching on Bosscha’s surrounding were interfering with their telescopic observations. He said there is actually a regional bylaw which states that the area within a two kilometers radius around the observatory should be free of any building or lights, but the bylaw was rarely enforced. “The encroachment is making our location unsuitable for celestial observation because the sky is no longer dark enough,” Hakim said. News Source : The Jakarta Globe Photo Source : thebooksmugglers
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Meteor Crater, Arizona and Winslow, Arizona
You are hunting pronghorn antelope, and suddenly the herd freezes and bolts away frantically. Puzzled, you look up into the afternoon Arizona sky and see this incredibly bright light streaking across the sky heading right toward you! Every second the light gets bigger and brighter. It is moving toward you at an unfathomable speed. Suddenly, you hear an incredibly loud roar, louder than any thunder you’ve ever heard. The ground shakes. Now the light is so bright you cannot look at it, but the glimpse you had shows its really big now. Another tremendous roar with more shaking. You run away as fast as you possibly can! But it’s too late. For a brief second, there is a monumentous explosion. You are completely obliterated in a split second. The northern Arizona landscape is instantaneously changed forever.
That’s what it would have been like to experience the meteor that slammed into northern Arizona about 50,000 years ago near what is now Winslow. A nickel-iron core meteorite about 160 feet (about 49 meters) in diameter smashed into the earth at around 29,000 miles per hour (that’s about 12.96 kilometers per second)! The force of the impact has been estimated at 10 Megatons of TNT!
A megaton is 1 million tons. For comparison purposes the atomic bomb that the US dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945 released about 15 kilotons (a kiloton is 1000 tons) of TNT energy. So, the energy released when that meteorite slammed into the earth was 667 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb!
The impact vaporized nearly everything around it and dug a crater about 3900 feet (1200 meters) in diameter, and originally about 660 feet (201 meters) deep. The tremendous force of that meteorite turned the rock layers upside down as they were redeposited all around the crater. Today the Barringer Meteor Crater, as it is known, is about 560 feet deep, and the rim rises about 148 feet (45 meters) above the surrounding landscape.
There are very, very few visible meteor craters on earth today. Between erosion and the plate tectonics most of the impact craters have been wiped away. When viewed from high altitude the crater looks remarkably like what we see on our moon, or even on Mars.
The evening of my trip through the Petrified Forest, I had a hotel reservation in Holbrook, Arizona which is not too far west of the Park. Prior to the trip I found a place called the 66 Motel in Holbrook right on old Route 66. The photos looked pretty good, so I made the reservation for two nights thinking it would be cool to experience a bit of historic nostalgia.
I mean I knew it wasn’t going to be a 5 star hotel, but the photos made it look like it was clean and decent. Well, when I got there, boy did I get a nasty surprise! The place was a total dump; the room stunk like it hadn’t been aired out in 5 years. I really didn’t know what to do, so I decided to just go get some dinner and think about things. I found a really wonderful little restaurant on the other end of town called Bienvenidos. It is a family diner with really great food and service.
While at dinner I kept thinking about the dank motel and who would even stay there. I just didn’t feel comfortable about staying there at all. So, I found a room at the Best Western near the Bienvenidos Restaurant, and moved over there. That proved to be a great decision.
However, the next morning when I was getting ready to head to breakfast then off to the Meteor Crater about 45 miles away, I was thinking about returning my room key to the folks at the 66 Motel. I totally forgot my camera gear in my room at the Best Western. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize this until I was in the parking lot at the Meteor Crater!
After some choice words that I won’t repeat here, I just decided to use my phone. So, the photo quality in this post isn’t quite as good as those from my Nikon D500. My Samsung Galaxy just doesn’t handle the higher dynamic range situations nearly as well as the Nikon. That’s probably because I always shoot in raw files, and then convert them to JPG’s later while my phone just shoots in JPG files.
While the Barringer Meteor Crater is a US National Landmark, it is owned and administered by the Barringer family company. Back in the early 1900s, Daniel Barringer (the land owner) proposed that this crater was produced from an impact with a meteorite, not a volcano as was the prevailing thought at that time. He spent many years mining the bottom of the crater, thinking that there would be this huge meteorite underneath. There was not. The largest fragment that has been found is in the museum at the crater and is about 18 inches across, but very heavy due to its iron-nickel composition. Most of the meteorite was vaporized upon impact, and what wasn’t was turned into tiny little fragments that are scattered all over the area, as far as up to 12 miles away!
During the Apollo space program our astronauts trained at the crater for the lunar landings. Where else in the world would they find such a perfectly preserved meteor impact crater so similar to the lunar landscape?
The crater site houses a wonderful museum, a nice cafe and gift store, and they run several tours out to the crater rim several times a day. There are also multiple observation platforms on the north side where the buildings are located. No one is permitted to hike the crater rim or down into the crater without the express permission of the Barringer company. They want to limit foot traffic to keep erosion and human impact as small as possible at it is indeed a national landmark. In fact, if you magnify my crater photos, you may see the faint remains of the old trail on the southern side down to the Barringer mine from over 100 years ago.
For anyone who is a bit of a space or geology nerd, the place is fascinating. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the crater, and was actually there for several hours. The weather was pretty good that day, especially for June in Arizona.
On the way back to Holbrook from the meteor crater, I took old Route 66 right through the heart of Winslow, Arizona – the closest town to the Barringer Meteor Crater. Well, if you are a classic rock music fan, you’re probably heard the Eagles song, “Take it Easy”. Here is the “flatbed Ford”. The girl wasn’t in the Ford. 😂
Winslow has really taken the Eagles song to heart and is doing a lot of business from the tourism from old Route 66 and the band. The old downtown is quite nice and looks like a fun place to hang out, shop and eat. I just got out and walked around taking a few photos as I was wanting to get back to my hotel in Holbrook hoping that my camera was there in the room where I remembered leaving it.
Winslow was a blast; I really need to come back here with my wife for a little vacation. I’m sure she would love to explore the shops and restaurants.
Well, when I returned to my room at the Best Western in Holbrook, there was my camera, sitting by the chair just where I left it. I breathed a huge sigh of relief, but I really felt stupid for leaving my camera. However, later that evening a bit of a storm was rolling in, and I was able to capture this cool sunset image of Holbrook with my Nikon – yeah!
I have no idea where I stayed with my folks when I was a kid when we last visited this area. But I have wanted to return to the meteor crater since that day when I was small child. This trip has been a total blast, and my next post should give you all more interesting scenery. Stay tuned.
I really hope you are enjoying this series about the Route 66 trip. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog. Stay safe out there and stay positive; there are glimmers of normality.
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Awesome post. I learned lots. I also realized that I need to do route 66 all the way. Great pics even for a Samsung phone.
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Thank you! I actually only drove a small portion of old 66. But there is so much to see. Just don’t book a room at the 66 Motel in Holbrook, AZ. 😂
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 4:12 PM Tim’s Viewpoints & Visuals wrote:
> Tim Harlow posted: ” Meteor Crater, Arizona and Winslow, Arizona You are > hunting pronghorn antelope, and suddenly the herd freezes and bolts away > frantically. Puzzled, you look up into the afternoon Arizona sky and see > this incredibly bright light streaking across ” >
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You are welcome, Ben! It was a fun place. Just wished I could have hiked the whole time, or maybe gone down into the crater.
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A detailed exploration of the technology necessary to make a manned mission to Mars possible, and how long such a journey might take.
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Assuming you had a spaceship that could travel at the speed of light, it would still take you approximately 34 million hours to reach Mars. But, of course, we don’t have any technology that can travel that fast. The fastest man-made object is NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which clocked in at a speed of 265,000 mph (114 km/s) as it passed Earth on its way to Jupiter. If we could harness that kind of speed, it would still take us approximately 130 years to reach Mars. So, unfortunately, it looks like we won’t be able to visit our red neighbor anytime soon.
The technology available today
With the technology available today, it would take approximately 9 months to get to Mars. The average person would not be able to survive the trip because of the amount of radiation they would be exposed to. Another problem with current technology is that we do not have a way to land on Mars without being destroyed by the atmosphere.
The journey to Mars
The journey to Mars is a long and difficult one, but it is possible with current technology. It would take approximately 9 months to get to Mars with today’s technology. The journey would be long and difficult, but it is possible with current technology.
The challenges of getting to Mars
While there are many challenges to getting to Mars with today’s technology, it is still possible. The biggest challenge is the distance between Earth and Mars. It would take approximately 9 months to get to Mars with current technology. Additionally, there are significant challenges in terms of providing adequate food, water, and air for the astronauts during the journey. Another challenge is radiation exposure, which could be harmful to the astronauts during the long journey. Finally, there is the challenge of landing on Mars and returning safely to Earth. Overall, while there are many challenges to getting to Mars with today’s technology, it is still possible.
The potential for future technology
With current technology, it would take about 9 months to get to Mars. However, there is always the potential for future technology that could make the trip much shorter. For example, NASA is currently working on a new space suit that could allow astronauts to travel faster and for longer periods of time. Additionally, they are also working on a new heavy-lift rocket that would be much more powerful than the ones currently in use. If either of these technologies becomes reality, it would greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to get to Mars.
The importance of getting to Mars
The importance of getting to Mars is twofold. First, it would be an incredible scientific achievement. Second, it would give humanity a place to colonize if something were to happen to Earth.
With current technology, it would take about 9 months to get to Mars. However, there are plans to develop faster spacecraft that could make the journey in as little as 30 days.
The first step in getting to Mars is developing a spacecraft that can make the trip. This is an incredibly complex feat of engineering, and it will take many years to perfect. Even once a spacecraft is developed, it will likely take several trial runs before everything works perfectly.
After the spacecraft is developed and tested, the next step is actually making the journey to Mars. This will be an enormously costly undertaking, and it will require international cooperation on a scale that has never been seen before.
Once humans finally arrive on Mars, they will face many challenges. They will need to find a way to live and work in an environment that is completely hostile to life as we know it. But if we can overcome these challenges, we will have accomplished something incredible: we will have become a multi-planetary species.
The benefits of getting to Mars
There are many benefits to getting to Mars with today’s technology. One benefit is that it would allow us to better understand our place in the universe. Another benefit is that it would give us the opportunity to study Mars’ climate and geology up close. Additionally, it would allow us to search for signs of life on Mars. Finally, it would give us a new challenge and adventure.
The risks of getting to Mars
The risks of getting to Mars are very high. The journey would take several months, and there would be a high likelihood of exposure to radiation and other dangers. There is also the risk that people would not be able to adjust to the different environment on Mars, and that they would not be able to return to Earth.
The costs of getting to Mars
With current technology, it would be prohibitively expensive to send people to Mars. The cost of putting a person on the surface of Mars has been estimated at $30 billion. And that’s just for the trip there and back!
If we want to establish a permanent human presence on Mars, the costs would be even higher. Estimates for establishing a permanent base on Mars range from $50 billion to $100 billion.
The high cost of getting to Mars is due to the need for heavy propulsion systems to escape Earth’s gravity and then slow down when approaching Mars. Additionally, the journey would take several months, requiring life support systems and food for the astronauts.
With current technology, it would take about 9 months to get to Mars. However, there are companies working on developing new propulsion systems that could reduce the travel time to as little as 30 days.
Even if we could reduce the cost and travel time of getting to Mars, there are still many challenges to overcome before humans could establish a permanent presence on the red planet.
It would take between 9 and 10 months to get to Mars with current technology. This is because the planet is about 140 million miles away, and the fastest spacecraft today can only travel at about 17,000 miles per hour.


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His hide became the much-desired golden fleece. This constellation reminded the Greeks of Castor and Pollux, the mythological twin sons of Zeus.
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It was thought to bring good luck to sailors since it appeared at the end of the winter storm season. Cancer represents the crab that Juno, queen of the gods, sent to rescue Hydra.
But Hercules stepped on the crab, crushing it to death. To reward the crab for its heroic attempt, Juno chose it to represent this constellation. Libra is the symbol of balance.
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This constellation appears at the time of the autumnal equinox, when days and nights are equal. This constellation is usually pictured as Chiron the archer, who is a centaur half man, half horse.
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Chiron is said to be aiming his arrow at Scorpio to avenge the death of Orion. In many cultures, Capricorn has the head of a goat and the tail of a fish. The goat, an expert climber, represents the sun's climb from its lowest position in the sky. After December 22, the shortest day, the sun's time in the sky increases daily. The Babylonians believed that this group of stars represented an old man pouring water from a jar.
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The Greeks saw Ganymede, the cup bearer of the gods, who poured the water of life. Everyone knew that Heracles was the strongest man in the world and even Apollo yielded to him.
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I find myself turning to space and the wisdom of astronomers like Sagan more and more as the climate crisis worsens. But the relevance of the great beyond to environmental destruction extends past cosmic therapy. We tell stories about aliens invading Earth to colonise our covetable planet and steal its natural resources. The inhospitality of neighbouring planets like Venus reminds us of the value of our home. And some consider an extraterrestrial colony our literal Plan B in the face of climate catastrophe. At the dawn of the Anthropocene with an increasingly chaotic climate, how do our views on the universe continue to evolve?
The term ‘Environmental Humanities’ describes writing and art that explores nature — but the focus tends to favour a landlubber’s perspective. In 2013, John R. Gillis coined the term ‘Blue Humanities’ for the eco-study of the vast world of the sea. But what about humanity’s reckoning with our larger environment, our ultimate home?
Introducing the Dark Humanities — an intellectual domain for dark times. The term I’ve proposed also evokes the mystery epitomised by dark matter. We know so little about space and its cryptic vastness stupefies us, humbles us, and can even soothe us. The Dark Humanities serves as a container for the thoughts of H.G. Wells, Neil deGrasse Tyson and other sci-fi writers and astronomers weighing in on our planet and its larger context. It’s also my own preferred form of climate crisis therapy.
One of the cornerstone subjects of this new sub-discipline is cosmic time and scale, which provide reassurance in moments of environmental distress. When I look up, I’m reminded of the age of the universe: 13.8 billion years. The Milky Way’s arm arcing across the sky reminds us of our humble place in the expanse of space. We are small fish contemplating a great bridge.
When we look skyward, we are also peering back in time. If nuclear weapons detonated our planet, it would take just over four years before the sight of the explosion reached the not-too-distant star Proxima Centauri. Studying a single star is like reading an old letter that floated across the sea to reach you:
Enjoy this vision of myself from 6.24 years ago. This is your nightly reminder of the epic breadth of space. Distances are great. Time is inconceivably massive. The short-lived mistakes of your species are but a blip in space time. There will be a new chapter — a better read — if not on your planet, then in some other corner of the universe. Cheer up.
Of course, the next chapter for ‘earthlings’ might play out light years away from our home planet. The question of relocating humans after we fully trash Earth is one the Dark Humanities must address. A century in the future, we may find ourselves in exile on Elon Musk’s million-person SpaceX colony on Mars. The future colonists will peer back at our ruined planet through a telescope with a light-year-long sigh.
Techno-optimists actually cite space colonisation as a reason not to fret over our environmental anxieties. When asked about global warming, Libertarian 2016 presidential candidate Gary Johnson suggested space travel as a viable solution: ‘We do have to inhabit other planets,’ he stated in a TV interview.
I’m all for space exploration, but not in lieu of protecting our own planet. Many bank on our ability to overcome the inhospitable conditions on Mars. Some feel confident we’ll discover another version of Earth close enough to ferry supplies and large populations to. Yet all of these prospects are far riskier, far more expensive than fixing the environmental ills we’ve created here on Earth.
Plans for space settlement might even transform humans into the colonising, resource-plundering cosmic creatures we’ve long envisioned in films. H.G. Wells gave us one of our earliest depictions of aliens in his 1898 novel War of the Worlds. ‘Yet across the gulf of space,’ he wrote, ‘minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.’
As a growth-oriented, technology-obsessed society swinging the wrecking ball at our own planet, humans are beginning to resemble Wells’s envious Martians and other similar depictions of extraterrestrials. The alien invasion narrative might just be a Freudian cautionary tale about our own species — an eerily familiar story that hits close to home planet.
If we don’t manage to develop viable colonies cosmically abroad to salvage humanity, we may also try our luck at cracking a wormhole transit corridor. We could voyage back in time to the ’70s to institute a carbon tax, obviating the need to pursue Planet Bs in the first place.
To those who don’t place blind faith in technology’s ability to extricate humans from the environmental mess we’ve made, spirituality can at least offer a coping mechanism. That’s why cosmic spirituality is an important branch of the Dark Humanities — how can we find comfort in the night sky and all that it signifies, as some do on an excursion to forest or sea?
As an environmentalist, I often wish religion had a place in my life. A deep belief in divinity and kismet might impart a sense of calm. As agnostics, my sister and I joke that space is our religion and the late Carl Sagan our god. We talk of starting a cult of Saganism to worship the enigmas of the cosmos and the sage preaching of Sagan, who also regarded science as a form of religion. ‘Science is not only compatible with spirituality,’ he wrote, ‘it is a profound source of spirituality.’
For environmentalists who consider themselves atheist or agnostic, cosmic spirituality offers a source of solace. But at the same time, cosmic perspective also reminds us that our ‘pale blue dot’, as Sagan refers to Earth, is still the only known viable planet on which humans can eke out a living.
In this sense, a cosmic philosophy offers something of a paradox to the environmentalist. The reassuring perspective of space-time scale instils us with a sense of calm about our present predicament. Concurrently, the knowledge that Earth is the only planet we have fills us with urgency.
Tackling the climate crisis in the 21st century means striking a balance. We must do all that we can to prevent and adapt to the riskier world wrought by the Anthropocene. But to stay sane and effective, we must also think like Carl Sagan. In the colossal scheme of the cosmos, the climate crisis — like everything else — is relative.
When outrage at the injustice of environmental destruction does get the better of me, I think of the soundtrack of the first 750,000 years of the universe post-Big Bang. University of Washington astrophysicist John G. Cramer rendered a recording from cosmic microwave background data gathered by the Planck satellite mission. You can listen here.
Imagine how glorious it would be to drown out the voices of international politicians engaged in their annual unproductive climate talks with this sound. Obliterate the whining of the remaining climate sceptics as they seal the end of the Holocene and its hospitable climate with this cosmic song of beginning.


On this day in 1963, Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space. Chosen from more than four hundred applicants (and five finalists), she was selected to pilot Vostok 6, a one-person space capsule. Before her recruitment, she was a textile worker who skydived as a hobby. To become a member of the Cosmonaut Corps, she was actually honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force, and as such was also the first civilian to fly in space. She was in space for three days, during which time she took photographs, oriented the space capsule, maintained a flight log, and completed a total of 48 orbits of the Earth. The photographs she took on this mission were later used to identify aerosol layers in the atmosphere.
When the female cosmonauts were dissolved in 1969 she ended up becoming a member of the Communist Party and remained politically active through the collapse of the Soviet Union; to this day she is still regarded as a hero in post-Soviet Russia. Now 79 years old, she carried the Olympic flag in the 2014 Winter Olympics, and also recently offered to go on a one-way trip to Mars, if the opportunity presented itself.
On this day in 2012, Liu Yang became the first Chinese woman in space, as a crew member of the Shenzhou 9 mission. She was born in Zhengzhou, Henan in 1978, graduated from the People’s Liberation Army Air Force Aviation College of Changchun, and joined the People’s Liberation Army Air Force in 1997. She is an experienced pilot with 1,680 hours of flying experience, who became the deputy head of her flight unit, and held the PLAAF rank of Major. Liu was chosen as a candidate for the astronaut corps after two years of training. She was then selected for the crew of Shenzou 9 for the first manned mission to China’s first space station Tiangong 1, along with Jing Haipeng (a man, and the first repeat Chinese space traveler), and Liu Wang (a male Chinese pilot). The mission launched on this day in 2012, 49 years to the day that Valentine Tereskova launched to space as the first ever female space traveler. During her own mission, Liu performed space medicine experiments.
(‘Fun’ fact: Liu is married, something that is “preferred” for Chinese astronauts, as they believe spaceflight could “potentially harm women’s fertility” and that “married women would be more physically and psychologically mature”. Originally people thought this was a requirement by the Chinese Astronaut Centre, but they denied that and said it was a “preference” instead.)


An Egyptian researcher from the University of Technology in Munich, Germany, will join NASA as the first Egyptian astronaut at the agency.
Akram Abdellatif, 27, who currently works at the German Aerospace Center, will go into space starting in 2017 after he receives training in Florida, US.
The Munich university website said Abdellatif has achieved his dream of being an astronaut and is currently preparing a PhD degree on bio-aviation.
According to the website, Abdellatif started his career as a communications engineer, then moved to Stuttgart for studies in 2009. Concurrently, he looked for job opportunities at one of the European airlines, but was not yet qualified.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm


The fastest object ever made by humans discovered extremely high-energy rogue waves in our sun and recorded the speed of the solar wind that predicts each model. The discovery was neither expected nor easily explained, indicating that there are significant gaps in our understanding of the sun.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, came several days closer to the sun in November and April 2019 than the previous mission. Scientists have revealed the incredible results of these first two encounters with the fastest spaceship ever in four articles. Posted in Nature on Wednesday.Although the sun is the center of the solar system and its radiation has nourished life on earth, it is one of the most undiscovered objects in space due to its intense heat and radiation.
“It was very interesting,” said Justin Casper, lead author of a study at the University of Michigan and professor of space science, on the phone. “It is a discovery.
During his two encounters, Parker traveled 15 million miles above the surface of the sun, surpassing the record 25 million miles set by NASA’s Helios 2 mission in 1976. Parker has also claimed the title of the fastest artificial object in history. From Helios 2 when it approaches the sun at more than 153,000 miles per hour.
In an amazing discovery, Parker discovered new phenomena within a quarter of an astronomical unit (AU) in the distance between the Earth’s surface and the Sun. At this distance, the investigation found that the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emitted by the sun, rotates at a speed much faster than the estimated models.
It’s 15 to 25 times faster than predicted by standard solar models, so we have that in our standard models Sun something interesting – how it turns and how the wind escapes.
Parker was also surprised by a series of unusually intense “phone waves” in the solar wind. Intercontinental missions have long observed low-energy alpine waves, waves that flow from the sun through magnetic plasma. But Parker is the first person to tie “huge big waves” near our star.
Although the mechanism behind these waves is not yet known, the sheer force of these waves could help explain two extremely mysterious things about the sun: the solar corona or atmosphere, about 1 from its surface. Why is it a thousand times hotter? And why does the solar wind suddenly accelerate the supersonic at a certain distance from the sun?
Scientists suspect that an exciting process has thrown heat and energy into the solar corona. Newly discovered bullying waves can be part of this dynamic.
Parker’s new data has challenged long-held hypotheses about the sun, leading to better models of solar storms that could affect the earth, and star developments across the universe. The mission is just getting started.


perpetual motion wrote:I have no idea how they could find out about this.
Is this from another imaginative paper theory from the mainstream Mensa group.
"(Dust) particles larger than (about one 100,000th of a centimeter in diameter) form a large disk-shaped cloud that orbits the Sun between the orbits of Venus and the asteroid belt. (This cloud produces zodiacal light).Forces acting on these dust particles (called the Poynting-Robertson effect) should spiral most of them into the Sun in less than 10,000 years. Known forces and sources of replenishment cannot maintain this cloud, so the solar system is probably less than 10,000 years old)".
If this dust cloud exists now, then it must be older than 10,000 years. This dust could have been created by such events as a large number of comet tails spewing dust from one of their tails, or from such a event such as a major collision, or from plasma arc discharges such as the postulated close encounter with Mars, or the release of Saturn's plasma axial column of satellites. The solar system may be much older and some process replenished this dust. Is my thinking correct?
Dating is always problematic,


Market Place in Bolton is excited to invite families to join them for a weekend of FREE intergalactic adventure as they explore the wonders of the universe in their first ever space spectacular!
The out-of-this-world event is set to take place from 11am - 4pm on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st July, when wannabe cosmonauts can enroll at the Astronaut Academy. They'll be assigned their astronaut ID and climb into an awesome space suit with helmet, before being put through their paces and having their interstellar skills and knowledge expanded and tested with a variety of games. They will play 'pass the planet'. Saturn ring hoopla and black hole bingo, plus enjoy a solar system search quiz, lost in space rocket riding and moon walk tests.
On completion of their rigorous training, the 'qualified' cosmonauts will be awarded a certificate of completion as well as some well-earned 'Magic Stars' or a 'Milky Way' as reward.
Wannabe spacemen and women of all ages (yes, including Mum and Dad!) can then don their space suits and pose for selfies with a range of props including inflatable planets and aliens, plus jump into the rocket ship cockpit, for the ultimate photo opportunity!
So, customers are invited to come and experience the wonders of the universe in our spectacular, fully immersive planetarium. It's guaranteed to be out-of-this-world fun!
Nikkia Wilson-Cook, Centre Manager, Market Place says: "We're so excited to be hosting this fun, free event for Bolton families. It's the first time we've run an event on this theme and we're sure it will be a big hit and ignite the little ones' imaginations and a fascination with space travel!


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Dr Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) was recruited for a space mission due to her technical expertise, not her experience as an astronaut. Nervous and jittery during a spacewalk, she’s hardly reassured by the smooth patter of veteran Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), who’s up there with her. Then the unthinkable happens. Debris from a demolished Russian satellite comes hurtling towards them, and the two are cut loose both from the space station and from communications down below.
Spinning through the void, attached to one another only by a thin cord, survival seems impossible for Stone and Kowalski. Is there any way they can reach the distant Russian station, and find a way back down to Earth?


We are told most satellites orbit the Earth at altitudes of over km to avoid atmospheric drag, with a few circling in Medium Earth Orbit which goes up to 35,km! As you can see, all three objects above are in the seriously ferocious hot zone. The solar panels which adjorn these machines would barely function even if they could keep it together long enough. A British company found a drop of 1.
Galileo Galilei — and Johannes Kepler — Galileo pioneered the use of experimental method to discover mathematical laws governing the motion of terrestrial bodies.
Abstracting from the effects of friction, he proved that free bodies move horizontally with constant speed and fall vertically with constant acceleration. He also demonstrated that these two motions combine independently to produce parabolic trajectories.
Both the laws themselves and the method by which they were discovered were revolutionary achievements that opened the door to modern physics. At the same time, Kepler achieved a similar revolution in astronomy by discovering causal laws governing the motion of the planets around the sun.
His book, New Astronomy Based on Causescompleted the overthrow of the acausal, descriptive approach to astronomy that had impeded progress for so long.
Furthermore, some preliminary steps had been taken toward integrating the sciences of physics and astronomy. Earth was identified as one of the planets, and the telescope revealed that some celestial bodies have Earth-like characteristics: Our moon has mountains and valleys, Jupiter has moons, and the sun rotates.
How does one identify fundamental connections between phenomena that seem so radically different—for instance, between an apple falling or a pendulum bob swinging and a planet orbiting in an ellipse?
The key was to discover a mathematical theory relating motions to the forces that cause them.
This task was extraordinarily ambitious; in addition to the need for crucial new experiments and more accurate astronomical data, it required the development of new concepts and new mathematical methods.
When it was finally completed, the modern science of physics had been created—and celestial bodies took their place among its subjects, ruled by its laws. The Development of Dynamics Isaac Newton began with a problem that was simple enough to solve, yet complex enough to yield crucial new insights.
He began by analyzing the form of motion that the Greeks had regarded as perfect: Galileo had never grasped that bodies move with constant speed in a straight line in the absence of all external forces.
Kepler, on the other hand, had never grasped that any motion could occur in the absence of a force; he assumed that every motion is the result of an external push in the direction of the motion.
In his analysis of circular motion, Newton identified and rejected both of these errors. Prior to Newton, the case of the moon circling Earth was regarded as entirely different from the case of a hawk circling its prey.
Newton, however, ascended to a level of abstraction that treated these two phenomena as the same; his goal was to analyze circular motion as such, and apply what he found to any and all instances of it.
But he did not begin his analysis by considering the planets; he began with cases in which the cause of the motion is much easier to identify. He considered a weight attached to the end of a rope and swung around in a circle, and a ball rolling around in a circle inside a bowl.
In these cases, what is the cause of the circular motion?
For the weight, it is the tension in the rope; the man holding the rope must pull inward. If he lets go, the weight will no longer move in a circle, but will fly off horizontally in a straight line until the force of gravity pulls it to Earth.
For the ball in the bowl, the circular motion is caused by the inward push exerted by the surface of the bowl. If the ball escapes the bowl, then it too will initially fly off in a straight line. In both cases, the uniform circular motion of the body is sustained by a constant force directed toward the center of the circle.
In a notebook, Newton wrote an early version of what later became his first law of motion: Newton recognized that it was crucial to distinguish between the type of motion that results from a force and the type that can occur in the absence of force.
The concepts of motion used by Galileo were inadequate for this purpose.
However, something is essentially the same about the cases of acceleration studied by Galileo and the case of uniform circular motion: In both, a change in the motion results from an applied force on the body.Whether we are aware of them or not, Newton’s laws of motion are at play in nearly every physical action of our daily lives.
The 17th century was a time of intense religious feeling, and nowhere was that feeling more intense than in Great Britain. There a devout young man, Isaac Newton, was. The three laws proposed by Sir Isaac Newton concerning relations between force, motion, acceleration, mass, and inertia.
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On the first day of my very first geology class, my instructor told us, “Once you’re finished with this course, you’ll never see the world the same way again.” And he was right.
Now, I can look at mountains and envision the folding process that made them. I can look at beautiful red sandstones and discern the path the wind took as it deposited the sand composing them. I can pick up a landscaping rock and tell you that it is limestone, made from the remains of sea creatures who lived in warm waters. I can point out their fossils in that rock and name their kinds. I know from its rounded edges that it has spent time in a stream. Perhaps, that stream ran beneath glaciers 3 kilometers thick.
I do indeed see the world differently because I took geology classes. And a calculus class. And now an astronomy class. This past week, I learned to mark the moon’s phases, and it has again changed the way I see the world.
I leave work and walk to my car. Headed due east, I mark the hour, knowing the moon rises from that direction. I recall the phase of the moon and calculate its place in the sky at this time of night. “It was a waning gibbous two nights ago,” I tell myself, “so it must mean it will be a third quarter this evening.” And then I know the moon is still below my horizon.
As I do this, I am also reminded of Morgaine in Marian Zimmer Bradley’s Mists of Avalon. To her, the goddess and the moon were synonymous. As a priestess of Avalon, she wore a crescent shape on her forehead and learned the moon phases as part of her education. I am learning science, but I make connections to books read long ago.
Because our instructor showed us how Stephen Spielberg got the moon phases wrong** in ET, I now find myself critiquing the moon’s presence in all of the popular culture.
As I write this post, I am sitting at home on my bed. I look at my framed Mutt’s comic strip from 21 Nov. 2006. The little girl Doozy is hugging the chained-up Guard Dog. In the upper right corner hangs a waxing crescent moon. I think it through in my head: “Since moon is low in the sky, it need to be shortly after moon rise at 9 a.m. or moon set at 9 p.m. Assuming it is night and Doozy has her parents’ permission to wish Guard Dog a happy Thanksgiving because it’s still fairly early, it could very well be sometime between 6 and 9 p.m. when a waxing crescent would hang low in the western sky.” I conclude that artist Patrick McDonnell has drawn his moon phase correctly.
So lately, I have been thinking that all teachers–from all disciplines, not just science–should make a promise to their students at the beginning of the term: “Once you’re finished with this course, you’ll never see the world the same way again.”
**I have decided that botching the night sky in a movie must really annoy astrophysicists. Neil deGrass Tyson complained about the incorrect star field director James Cameron used in Titanic until Cameron changed the stars in an updated version of the movie.


About this Summinar
Star lore historian Mary Stewart Adams will lead us through the celestial highlights of the coming seasons, with emphasis on the summer constellations and their stories, through mythology, science, poetry and art.
"Our celestial world is like a mighty, living book that can be read from nearly every angle of human endeavor: Through the telescope of the scientist; the calendar of the agriculturist; the horoscope of the astrologer; the records of the historian; the rhythmic lines of the poet. Approaching the cosmos through the lens of the storyteller awakens the moral and cultural imaginations that are needed in order to inform and infuse the scientific research and discovery of our age with a soul-satisfying quality."
Cost per person
$15 session I
$25 session I & II
Date & Place
Monday, July 21
3:00 - 5:00 pm at Old Art Building
Since we are meeting during the day, Mary will provide maps of the night sky, so participants can familiarize themselves with the wonders of the night sky and learn the tales before heading out into the night.
Monday, July 21 • 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm
We will gather in the great outdoors to experience the transition from evening to night and translate our afternoon session into a night sky exploration of lore, science, mythology and art.
Session II -- Meet at the north end of Hwy 669 (S. Bohemian Road)
About the Leader
Mary Stewart Adams is a star lore historian, storyteller and author who has been immersed in the history of star knowledge for nearly 30 years. She writes and speaks extensively to local, national and international audiences on our relationship to the night sky and its cultural consequences. Mary has been honored as the Gary R Williams Dark Sky Advocate of the Year, NMEAC Environmentalist of the Year, and IDA Dark Sky Defender, and she serves on the International Dark Sky Places Committee of the International Dark Sky Association, designating dark sky places around the world. She led the initiative that resulted in designation for Emmet County's Headlands property as an international dark sky park,which further led to the State of Michigan protecting the night sky over an additional 23,000 acres Mary now serves as the Headlands' Program Director.
Mary's radio program "The Storyteller's Guide to the Night Sky" airs each Friday on Interlochen Public Radio during NPR Morning Edition. She makes her home under the starry skies of Harbor Springs, MI.


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President, Chen Moore and Associates
As published by the Sun Sentinel on September 30, 2022
Last week: For Floridians, the story of the week was Hurricane Ian. For those of us that grew up on 1990s end-of-world disaster movies, though, the story of the week was NASA’s successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission relating to altering the trajectory of asteroid Dimorphos. While It will take days to weeks for astronomers to confirm whether DART accomplished its primary goal, which is to speed up the time Dimorphos takes to orbit its partner asteroid, Didymos, by perhaps 10 or more minutes, the mission to make contact with an object 11 million kilometers from Earth was achieved.
Looking ahead: Hurricane Ian is heading to Tampa … Tallahassee … Tampa … And then it ends up in Fort Myers. In the time following recovery and rebuilding, there will be much learned from the data collected and how it impacts the models used to predict the path and intensity of hurricanes. Similarly, engineers use past information to calculate the duration and intensity of rainfall to prevent loss of life from hurricanes and random December rainstorms. Collaboration between cities, counties, water management districts and other stakeholders helps put the big in “big data,” which continues to make predictions better — but not perfect.


A conference hosted by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, held at Trinity College Dublin and funded by RadioNet, to promote the work, and professional development, of young radio astronomers in Europe.
Throughout its 50 year history, the Young European Radio Astronomers Conference (http://www.yerac.org) has brought together postgraduate and early career radio astronomers working at European institutions in order to facilitate networking, raise awareness of new developments in radio astronomy and aide in professional development. Ultimately it is YERAC's objective to properly equip the next generation of radio astronomers, in every manner of the word, to carry the field forward into the future.
- More comprehensive information is now available for both accommodation and travel/getting around in Dublin.
- Our participant guide for the conference is available here
- The abstract handbook can be downloaded here
- Our talk schedule for YERAC 2019 is now available.
- Registration for YERAC 2019 is now closed.
- Registration for YERAC 2019 has been extended with a new deadline of 10th May 2019 (17:00 UTC).
- Registration for YERAC 2019 is now open
with a deadline of 30th April 2019.
- The local organising committee is:
Eoin Carley and Simon Purser.
- The 49th YERAC will be hosted by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and held at Trinity College Dublin between the 26th and 29th August 2019.
- Previously, the 48th YERAC was held at ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands, between the 4th and 6th September 2018. More information can be found here about that event. Information about all previous years can be found at http://www.jive.nl/jivewiki/doku.php?id=yerac:yerac.


In our SA Skies
Before dawn Mon Aug 13
The Perseids are one of the best meteor showers for the northern hemisphere. The media will say they are not visible from the southern hemisphere, but you might see a few if you are in the northern half of SA.
No viewing equipment needed - just go outside and look for shooting stars coming from low in the north, during the hour before dawn.
Best place to view from: dark spot around latitude 58°N; failing that any dark site closer to home with a clear view to the north.
Best time: just before dawn.
Where are the planets now?
Get the planet "ecliptic longitudes" for any date this year here
A chart to plot planet longitues is here


This is it! The last triple-matched calendar date of the century! Gasp!
There’s been a mad rush to claim the date for wedding ceremonies and C-section deliveries. Many believe they can control destiny by aligning with the calendar. Amusing, perhaps; a bit sad, too. In the end, it’s much to do about nothing.
Winter’s chill has settled in here in the North Country. Cold usually means clear. Last night, it looked like God had tossed a gazillion diamonds across an inky black canvas. I was awestruck. There’s nothing like a stellar display to remind me that I am but a speck of dust.
Louie Giglio’s description of the vast universe is another good reminder. As Louie describes it, we live on a speck called Earth — 960,000 Earths would fit inside our Sun. And though our Sun is a massive star, it is just one of hundreds of billions of stars of the Milky Way galaxy — our cul de sac, so to speak, in our neighborhood of a mind boggling cosmos.
Correction: I am but a fragment of a speck of dust.
This morning I was happy to locate my dog-eared copy of The Day Christ Was Born and continue my Advent preparations. I also discovered an app tracking the Christmas story as it is read around the world. A star lights up every time someone accesses the scriptures. Captivating!
What is it about the Christmas story that we’re still absorbed in it — all over the world — two millennia past? In a word, it’s hope. Hope!
Hope that Someone else has this figured out. Hope that Someone else is in control. Someone who is on scale with our mind-blowing universe. Someone we can trust with our measly bit of dust. Events recorded more than 2000 years ago are called the Good News because Someone showed up!
God is with us. God is for us — you and me, too. From the beginning, God gave us reason to hope and then, to celebrate. As I mentioned a few days ago, Sara and wee Toby Groves tell the story so well: It’s True, (O Holy Night, 2008). Listen in…


- Richard Hollingham
- bbc future
Uranus is almost certainly the least appreciated planet in our solar system. When quest invites are handed out, he always seems to get ignored.
Spacecraft have been sent to Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter. There is even one in the direction of Pluto, the dwarf planet.
Uranus has only qualified for the planetary equivalent of an official encounter when Voyager 2 sped by on its way to the edge of the solar system in 1986.
But Uranus, in fact, is one of the most interesting, fascinating, and truly bizarre planets we know of.
«Uranus really stands out,» says Leigh Fletcher, a planetary scientist at Oxford University. «He’s the oddball in our collection of planetary types.»
With a volume 60 times that of Earth, Uranus is a compressed mass of toxic gases, including methane, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide, surrounding a small, rocky core.
«There is no solid surface on any of these giant planets,» says Fletcher. «There are no sharp boundaries, nothing to stand on or navigate, but there is a continuum from gas to liquid to some kind of solid.»
Orbited by 26 small moons, a few faint rings, and a weak magnetic field, Uranus appears to be tipped on its side.
Each planet has a slight tilt as it spins – which gives us four seasons – but unlike every other planet in the solar system, Uranus rotates on an axis that points almost directly at the Sun. Something Fletcher describes as «really weird.» .
«Imagine a world where winter equals 42 Earth years and the sun is not seen once during that time,» he says.
«There is a situation where the atmosphere doesn’t heat up for decades and that can lead to some really interesting atmospheric properties.»
Fletcher is part of an international team that believes Uranus has been ignored for too long.
This group of engineers and space scientists from Europe, the United States and some other countries, such as Japan, is working on a US$600 million mission proposal for the European Space Agency (ESA) with the aim of to send a space probe, within the next 10 years, to find out why Uranus is so strange.
The mission will investigate the atmosphere, the magnetic field and capture detailed images of this unknown world.
By comparing the ancient mix of gases held in Uranus’s atmosphere to Earth’s or Jupiter’s, they also hope to gain a better understanding of what conditions were like when the solar system began to form.
«I think of Uranus as the missing link,» says Fletcher. «A mission that can investigate the internal structure of the planet, detect atmospheric composition, and understand how the atmosphere evolves, would allow us to piece together the puzzle of how planets form.»
«I would say,» he adds, «that if we can’t understand how planets formed in our own solar system, it’s going to be even more difficult to do the same for planets circling other stars.»
However, there is a good reason why, in the entire history of space exploration, only one mission has visited Uranus: it is extremely difficult.
For starters, the planet is almost 3 billion kilometers from the Sun, that’s 20 times farther than Earth. Consequently, any spacecraft will take up to 15 years to get there.
Because sunlight is very weak at that distance, instead of solar panels, the mission will have to use a nuclear power source, which is more difficult to build and operate.
There is also the question of how to communicate with and retrieve data from a spacecraft that is so far away. Install a giant dish on the side or build a huge receiver on Earth? Or both?
Another major hurdle is the challenge of keeping the mission, operations, and engineering teams together during the decade between launch and arrival on the planet.
And all this before analyzing what instruments are going to be put on board.
Despite space agencies considering a mission to Uranus as a priority, previous proposals from ESA and NASA have long been forgotten, including a plan by a European team in 2010 known as uranus explorer. Why is the latter different?
«In 2010 we hadn’t worked out all the details,» admits Chris Arridge of University from London, one of the leaders of the Uranus team, who spoke to the BBC from a mission planning meeting in Washington DC.
«This time we have a very well-developed understanding of the science we want to do and the instruments we want to take with us.»
Scientists have until January 2015 to submit a detailed mission proposal to ESA.
«It takes a tremendous amount of work, as we have to work on everything from what kind of rocket we’re going to launch, what orbit we’re going to go into, and what instruments we’re going to take with us,» says Arridge. «However, there is a growing global momentum and a real sense of excitement.»
Even if the mission is accepted, it will not launch until at least 2020 and would only reach Uranus after a journey of more than a decade, in the mid-2030s.
However, for Fletcher, it will remain a dream come true.
«Today I find myself sitting in my office as a researcher in my thirties,» he says. «I hope I can be sitting in my office like a sixty-year-old researcher when the spaceship arrives.»
«Planetary exploration is not over,» adds Fletcher. «There are still interesting ideas like this on the table.»


Ken Kitano’s evocative and beautiful color photographs depict the distant hills and night skies above West Coast mountain landscapes. Using long exposures, often up to a full day, Kitano records what is imperceptible to the eye, such as the movement of the stars or the moon across the sky. Two series, Day Light and Watching the Moon, track the motion of the moon and the sun across the landscape. Because of the long exposure, the colors in the photographs are often surreal, as light streaks behind a stationary object — tree, mountain, or ocean. What is fascinating in these images is the relationship between the moving and the still and what changes from a fixed vantage point over time.
From the March 2015 issue of ArtScene


Adjusting to the “New Space” Era: The Next Generation of Space Gyroscopes
Cielo Inertial Solutions, which has developed technologies for the space industry for the past 20 years, has developed a “light” version of its flagship product – the Starlight 1000 space gyroscope – called Starlight 10, which will be available for “New Space” markets. “We’ve implemented some innovative technologies and have miniaturized components from the original product to adjust performance and costs to customer requirements”, says Dr. Amit Brandes, VP of Business Development & Programs.
Satellites in outer space need to maintain their orientation in relation to the Earth and their orbit. The requirement for accurate directional orientation comes in part from the payloads installed on the satellite, so that they will function properly. For example, observation systems taking images of the Earth need to be oriented in the right direction of the required object. This is not an easy task with observation distances of hundreds of kilometers from Earth’s surface and an accuracy requirement of only a few dozen meters. To succeed in this task, satellites use gyroscopes. These devices measure the angular motion and angular orientation of the satellite and keep it in orbit.
Cielo has been developing inertial technologies and sensors for the past 20 years, with a focus on gyroscopes. Its flagship product for Space applications is the Starlight 1000, used by several operators of space satellites. The Starlight 1000 is a particularly high performance and expensive product that usually fit governments’ needs, but it is less adequate for private companies working in what is now called the “New Space”.
While the Legacy Space is an arena where only countries and governments operate their space programs, the New Space brings the mysteries of space to the commercial arena, where private companies engage in space exploration.


Java simulations covering some of the new topics in the CfE Higher/Advanced Higher Physics curriculum.
Simulation topics :
- Special relativity : time dilation (digital clocks, analogue clocks, photon clocks)
- Particle acceleration : a cyclotron
- Doppler effect : Spectra from exoplanets
The simulations were written by Craig Roy using EJsS as part of an undergraduate summer project (Craig’s project report).
To run the simulations you will need to have a current version of Java installed.
These simulations are open source so the EJsS source files can be modified and edited by anyone who wishes to do so.
This is work in progress and feedback is welcome – comments and suggestions to g.r.m.robb-at-strath.ac.uk .


Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. The discovery, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, gives direct evidence for the existence of dark matter.
“This is the most energetic cosmic event, besides the Big Bang, which we know about,” said team member Maxim Markevitch of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
I love science. It acheives much. But God knows everything. We should listen to him more often:
There is nosuch thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is morefine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes;
Doctrine and Covenants 131 (Instructions by Joseph Smith the Prophet, given at Ramus, Illinois, May 16 and 17, 1843.)
Note the date of that last quote. <smile />
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NAME: Nicola Mari
BACKGROUND: I’m an unusual guy that does research about unusual things. I like astronomy and geology and am actually doing a Ph.D. in Martian Geology in the United Kingdom (UK), analyzing Martian meteorites. During my life, I have acted like a “modern Indiana Jones,” having a great and continuous spirit of adventure and exploration of remote places where I could find some interesting and peculiar geological samples or, if I’m lucky, a new piece of extraterrestrial material that can easily reveal processes in the cosmos. My other hobbies are filmmaking and gaming/game development.
PROJECT TITLE: “The formation and evolution of the Martian mantle: a Martian meteorite perspective”
AREA OF EXPERTISE: Planetary Geology, Martian Geology, Volcanology, Magmatology, Geochemistry, Cosmochemistry, Exoplanets
TIMELINE: 3 years
LOCATION: University of Glasgow (UK)
What’s the purpose of your project?
I do research on the formation and evolution of Mars, in particular of its mantle. In order to do this, I actually analyze real pieces that came from Mars, basically Martian meteorites. These samples represent basaltic lava erupted on Mars which can give me a large amount of information regarding the Martian mantle (for example, its chemistry and thermodynamics). Constraining the formation and evolution of this small red planet can give me precious information about how these types of terrestrial planets form and evolve in the Solar System and in exoplanetary systems.
How are you setting up and testing your project?
Initially, I need the actual Martian samples which are not easy to obtain. In order to obtain mine, I use the Martian material in collaboration with NASA and national museums. Then, in order to obtain information on the Martian mantle, I divide my project into four different parts: (1) extrapolating the temperature of the Martian mantle by analyzing and using olivines as special geothermometers; (2) revealing how many chemically different mantle reservoirs are present on Mars and the actual composition of the mantle by analyzing osmium isotopes and highly siderophile elements in Martian lava flows; (3) by finding the oxygen fugacity (oxydation state) of the Martian mantle with experimental petrology methods; and (4) by constraining the amount of volatiles (H2O, Cl, F) in the mantle with chemical analysis of amphiboles in Martian meteorites, and potentially trying to infer from where the water present in the Martian interior came from in the Solar System.
Any results yet?
Until now I may have potentially found the temperature of the Martian mantle during the Late Amazonian (around 500 million years ago) – I just need to check that all the results are okay. Also, I’m in the process of acquiring isotope data, and for now, I’m seeing that the Martian mantle seems to be more chemically differentiated than previously thought!
Further exciting discoveries coming soon…
What has been the most interesting/challenging (include lessons learned)?
Until now the most challenging situation was the phase of acquiring osmium isotope data. This was the first time I worked with wet chemistry. Also, all the processes of chemical extraction (it takes around 3 weeks) was very hard and dangerous (I risked to lose extremely precious pieces of Mars every second!). But it was also very nice: I crushed pieces of Mars for science!
How will this project help society?
I think that the future of mankind will be split between Earth and Mars. If we don’t study this small red planet starting now, it will be impossible to live there one day. And Mars is only the first step.


Yes, you read that right! There is supposed to be a super blood wolf moon lunar eclipse on Sunday, January 20, that you will be able to see without a telescope!
Why Super Blood Wolf?
Accord to WRAL, here is how the lunar eclipse got this name.
“Super” because the moon is near its closest point to the Earth in its orbit, a perigee-syzygy.
“Blood” because of the reddish hue it takes on during totality.
“Wolf” for the name given January’s full moon in recognition of hungry wolves displeased about mid-winter’s scarcity of food.
When Does it Start?
You will really start to notice things happening around 10:33 p.m. as the partial eclipse begins when the Moon first touches the darkest part of the Earth’s shadow. If you keep watching for the next hour after that, you should be able to see the Earth’s shadow creeping across the face of the Moon from the bottom up.
When is the Best Time to Watch?
If you are only going to watch for a short period of time, WRAL recommends that you turn to the sky from 11:15 p.m. until 12:15 a.m. If you are watching then, you should be able to see the eclipse progress as the full Moon darkens to a shade of orangey-red through the point of greatest eclipse at 12:12 a.m.
Where is the Best Place to Watch?
We may be biased, but can you imagine taking in the eclipse lakeside at Lake Gaston? The moon + the water, it does not get much better than that!
This is the only lunar eclipse of 2019 so you are going to want to make sure you stay up for it! Grab a heavy coat and a blanket. Sub-freezing temperatures are supposed to arrive with the eclipse.
We hope you enjoy the eclipse and we cannot wait to see your photos. As always, we are here for all of your real estate needs in the Triangle, Lake Gaston, and beyond.


Yautja Prime is the mysterious Predator homeworld which has been shown little in the movies and comic books. The information we do have is somewhat conflicting, mostly about the distance from Earth and the appearance of the surface. Here is a list of all notable references to the Yautja Prime, including the appearance in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and the Predator: Homeworld comic.
Yautja Prime in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
The most substantial appearance of Yautja Prime comes from the Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem movie, which is probably also the best part of the movie. We are shown a hot planet with flowing lava and no vegetation. Being a planet with hot climate makes sense as the Predators love to hunt during the hottest periods on Earth. The planet seems to have a rough terrain with canyons and mountains. There are big stone structures in the background, including pyramids similar to the ones seen in the first Aliens vs. Predator movie on Earth. In the far background, we see tall buildings, possibly a Predator city with skyscrapers. A couple of Predator spaceships are visible on the surface, including Wolf's ship. Wolf himself seems to live in some kind of penthouse-like apartment with a nice display of trophies and quick access to his equipment and trophies. Wolf is able to travel from Yautja Prime to Earth in a matter of hours, probably due to his very fast ship.
The Game Preserve Planet in Predators
The Game Preserve Planet is the planet or moon on which the movie Predators take place. It is a jungle world with an atmosphere and vegetation similar to Earth. The Predators are known to bring humans and other prey to this planet for hunting. The planet seems to be close by or being orbited by other planets, one of which could very easily be Yautja Prime. 2 of the 3 planets shown in the movie are quite similar to what we see in Aliens vs. Predator 3, including the cloud asteroids surrounding the planets. It makes sense for Predators to be allowed the luxury of hunting near their home planet, with humans being kidnapped from Earth for their pleasure. Some fans have speculated that the Game Preserve Planet is the actual Yautja Prime itself.
The Predator Planet in The Predator
The Predator planet shows up briefly in the recent The Predator movie by Shane Black. Through the bio-mask of the Upgrade Predator we are shown a hologram of a red planet and a Predator laying on a table with four other Yautja observing him. The Predator is being injected with an upgrade serum which triggers a rapid DNA reaction. The movie also hints that the Yautja are interested in invading Earth because of the planet becoming more attractive to them due to global warming. They want to harvest our best DNA and adapt themselves to Earth.
Yautja Prime in the Predator: Homeworld comic
The Predator: Homeworld comic offers us a quick glimpse at the Predator homeworld. Again, it seems to be a rock-based planet with little vegetation. The planet has two moons, a green one, and a red one. The Predators themselves live in simple tribal communities similar to Native Americans, in caves or simple structures. The characters in the comic speculate that the original homeworld of the Predators was actually Earth. They evolved on Earth swamps from reptiles and left the planet to seek a new home. That would explain why the Predators are somewhat similar to both humans and the reptiles of Earth and have a fixation on hunting on Earth.
Council of Ancients
The Aliens vs. Predator: Chained to Life and Death short comic also gave us a glimpse at life on Yautja Prime. It depicted towery buildings made of stone, reminiscent of Roman architecture both in the interiors and exteriors. Elder Predators were seen setting around a large table situated on a balcony, seemingly voting on some kind of issue after finishing a feast of exotic foods. The Aliens vs. Predator: Extinction game also described a Council of Ancients which was located on Yautja Prime. This served as a ruling council for the Yautja, with Predators with hundreds (if not thousands) of years of hunting experience making decisions for the Predator race. The council possibly served in conjunction with the Predator King, another ruler from the expanded Predator lore. Presumably, the King had a more of a presentational role and was called upon for meetings outside of Yautja Prime.
Hish-Qu-Ten Prime in Forever Midnight
Predator: Forever Midnight is a conflicting book released by DH Press in 2006. It ignored the Predators being called Yautja (like in the first Aliens vs. Predator novels) and called them Hish-Qu-Ten instead. The book explains a lot about the Predator culture and also some their homeworld. The Hish-Qu-Ten homeworld is said to be full of swamps, and the Predators evolved from swamp creatures. Some fans just choose to ignore this book, others consider the Hish-Qu-Ten to be another offshoot of the Yautja, just a different type of Predator. The Hish-Qu-Ten make another appearance in the Mortal Kombat X video game, as playable characters. The awesome cover of the book hints at the Predator homeworld in the background, although it is more similar to the Yautja Prime we see in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.
Yautja Prime in The Rage War Trilogy
Yautja Prime is mentioned at the end of the Rage War Trilogy. It is explained that Predator warriors are required to make a pilgrimage there at least once in their lifetime and that is a great honor for them. The planet is supposed to be very far from Earth and would take several months or even years to travel there using multiple dropholes (basically galactic space-gates). The book takes place in the distant year of 2692 and both human and Predator technology would be much more evolved by then. That is in conflict with what we see in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem where Wolf is able to travel to Earth from Yautja Prime in mere hours in the year of 2004.


Yosemite National Park. I knew that the moon would be rising above the waterfalls, but we (my dad and I) weren’t sure if we were in the right place or angle for it. Thanks to my dad, we found the moon rising over the falls and I proceeded to set up my gear and photograph the nearly full moon as it peaked. Equipment: Nikon D810, 24-70 f/2.8, Gitzo Tripod, my Dad. Exposure: 28 sec., f/18, ISO 500 @ 35mm.Photographer: Angie Precure
I am a landscape photographer based in Oklahoma and when I am not traveling and photographing, I enjoy peaceful living in the country with my horse, two dogs, and my husband and kids.
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Gucci’s latest collection was a gift sent down from the stars
, 2022-05-17 18:31:49,
Last night, many of the guests at Gucci’s latest travelling show in the Puglian countryside complained about not sleeping well. Perhaps it was the inevitable jetlag that comes with the travelling circus of cruise shows, shuttling between continents far and wide in pursuit of catwalk spectacles, but it turns out there was an altogether more cosmic reason for the widespread insomnia. It was a full moon. Not just any full moon, but a peach-coloured ‘flower moon’ — named after the blooms of spring — in a full lunar eclipse. Is there anything more Gucci than a moon in full bloom? So, last night, beneath a lunar glow, Alessandro Michele staged one of his best shows yet, and certainly the most magnificent — with an ode to the stars, planets and all things astrological. According to him, it was a complete coincidence that it was a full moon — but then, as with most astrologically-related matters, it could have been fate for Italian fashion’s favourite Sagittarius.
Given an entire generation has adopted astrology and horoscopes as a sort of twenty-first-century religion, it couldn’t be more prescient — or smarter, given that there’s something universal about stargazing, befitting for a brand as global as Gucci with customers of all kinds of religions and races. The show itself was titled ‘Gucci Cosmogonie’, taking place on a steaming catwalk circling the pockmarked stone walls of the Castel del Monte in Puglia, which Gucci lit up with projections of shooting stars and faraway galaxies. It will go down as one of those unbelievably fabulous fashion moments: a fairytale castle lit up with stars, literal ones and Hollywood ones, under the glow of a scarlet moon! Every guest was gifted an actual star, too, named in their honour. Yes, really.
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The Ripken Foundation’s latest Ripken Playbook Live virtual event featured NASA astronaut, Christina Koch. Of her many professional accomplishments, Koch holds the record for the longest single space flight by a woman, longest time in space by a woman, and was one of two astronauts to complete the first all-female spacewalk. Not only did Koch share stories and answer questions about her journeys in space with our youth, but as a female working in a STEM career, she encouraged her young audience to continue to pursue STEM education and showed them literally how the sky’s the limit! This Ripken Playbook Live event is part of the Foundation’s continuing initiative to adapt our in-person programming to engage and mentor our youth virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. To watch a clip of this Ripken Playbook Live session with NASA astronaut, Christina Koch, click here!


The videos from SciShow gives information about what won’t happen to your body in a vacuum (e.g outer space). But I think we can all agree that the the later part of the video on what would happen is far more interesting. Skip ahead in the video to 1:46 if you just really want to know how you will die in space, should such a situation ever occur. At least we know that no one can hear you scream in space, right? Or can they?
I can imagine that your head would look something like this.


Learning Objective: be able to CREATE a graph of sunspot activity and DETERMINE if it is regular.
Learning Objective: Be able to OBSERVE and MEASURE the rotation of the Sun using sunspots.
Learning Objective: be able to diagram the energy flow in the earth.
Learning objective: be able to create a diagram of the magnetic field of the Atlantic Ocean.
DEMO: Magnetic Field Atlantic Ocean
Chrome Book Graph: Mag. Field Atlantic Ocean
Review Cornell Notes: 298-301 (WOR)
Cornell Notes 304-309
Plate Tectonics Coloring Activity
ANOTHER PIC FOR DONNER HERE...
VIDEO: Bill Nye Seafloor Spreading
Learning Objective: Students will be able to analyze the caldera system of Olympus Mons on Mars.


Astronaut, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Educator & Consultant
– Seasoned Public Speaker and Media Ambassador
– Leadership positions at NASA, and in space and technology companies
– Astronaut (US and Russian Spacecraft): 229 days spaceflight; 36 hours Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA)
– Commander: International Space Station Expedition 10
– Published Research Engineer
– Instrument-rated pilot, 3000 hours in various aircraft and spacecraft
– Foreign Languages: Russian, Mandarin
For more information on booking Commander Leroy Chiao, Ph.D for speaking engagements or events please contact us here
Leroy Chiao is a former NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander. He works in business and consulting. Chiao also holds appointments at Rice University and the Baylor College of Medicine, and is the special advisor for human spaceflight to the Space Foundation. He has worked extensively in both government and commercial space programs, and has held leadership positions in commercial ventures and NASA. Chiao has extensive experience as a NASA Astronaut and prior to that, as a Research Engineer. Dr. Chiao is a fellow of the Explorers Club, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and the Committee of 100. Chiao also serves in various capacities to further space education.
Dr. Chiao left NASA in December, 2005 following a fifteen-year career with the agency. A veteran of four space missions, Dr. Chiao most recently served as Commander and NASA Science Officer of Expedition 10 aboard the International Space Station. He has logged over 229 days in space – over 36 hours of which were spent in Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA, or spacewalks). From June-September 2009, he served as a member of the White House appointed Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, and currently serves on the NASA Advisory Council.
A native English speaker, Dr. Chiao also speaks Mandarin Chinese and Russian. He has flown space missions and worked closely with Russian, Japanese and European Astronauts and their affiliated space agencies. Dr. Chiao is uniquely qualified to speak about the United States, Russian, Japanese, European and Chinese Space Programs. A Space Station Commander and Space Shuttle Mission Specialist, Dr. Chiao was also a certified Co-Pilot of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. He is an expert in all facets of U.S. and Russian EVA hardware and operations and is EVA certified in U.S. and Russian spacesuits, tools, and training programs. In September 2006, Chiao became the first American to visit the Astronaut Research and Training Center of China. There, he met the first national Chinese astronauts.
Dr. Chiao studied Chemical Engineering, earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. He continued his studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, earning his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in 1985 and 1987. Prior to joining NASA in 1990, he worked as a Research Engineer at Hexcel Corp. and then at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Honors and Awards
- Space Technology Hall of Fame Inductee
- NASA: Distinguished Service Medal, 4 Space Flight Medals, 2 Exceptional Service Medals, 4 Individual Achievement, 2 Group Achievement Awards, Going the Extra Mile Award
- Russian Federation: Medal for the Development of Space; Order of Gagarin Medal
- Public Svc. Awards: Comm. of 100; Asian Chamber of Commerce; Asian Pacific American Heritage Assoc.
- Federation Aeronautique Internationale: Koroliev Diploma, Komarov Diploma, De La Vaulx Medal
- Distinguished Alumni Award, from the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Excellence in Achievement Award, from the University of California, Berkeley
- Explorers Club: Lowell Thomas Award
- Phi Kappa Tau Awards: National Hall of Fame, Borradaile Award, Alumnus of the Year Award
Speaking Topics Include
- Leading in the International Arena
- Positioning Your Endeavor: Technology Innovation Trends
- Effective Problem Solving: How to Lead Like an Astronaut
- Is it SADS, or Am I in Space? Medical Considerations for Spaceflight


Lockheed Martin Mars Experience Bus Takes Kids on a Tour of the Red Planet
Lockheed Martin has launched Generation Beyond, a first of its kind, national educational program to bring the science of space into thousands of homes and classrooms across America. The Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) program is designed to inspire the next generation of innovators, explorers, inventors and pioneers to pursue STEM careers.
“Our children — the elementary, middle and high school students of today — make up a generation that will change our universe forever. This is the generation that will walk on Mars, explore deep space and unlock mysteries that we can’t yet imagine,” said Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. “They won’t get there alone. It is our job to prepare, inspire and equip them to build the future – and that’s exactly what Generation Beyond is designed to do.”
The new STEM education program offers several interactive tools to engage and inspire students and educators, including the Mars Experience Bus, a first-of-its-kind “group VR” experience in which the windows of a seemingly ordinary school bus transform to take riders on a tour of the Martian surface. Cutting-edge technology creates a “1:1 relationship” between Earth and Mars – ie, when the bus turns the landscape turns just as it would in any bus excursion – that allows riders to truly feel that they are traversing the Red Planet, without the need for a headset or glasses, creating a beautifully/stunningly complex (and simple) experience. Students selected from Girls Inc. and 4H received a surprise ride, after which the bus was displayed indoors at the nation’s largest science festival, USA Science and Engineering Festival, sponsored by Lockheed Martin, in Washington D.C.


“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.” – Lord Halifax
I found this quote in a book, ‘Heart of the Comet’. It’s a work of fiction about life on Halley’s Comet which returned in 1986; the book was published in 1986 too, shortly before the comet made its appearance. I remember looking at it through a telescope one evening with my wife and daughters, aged 8 and 11 at the time. It was just a faint smudge of light.
It would be foolish indeed to crash through life without a care, not considering one’s actions. But it is surely equally foolish to spend so much time pondering and planning that nothing is ever actually done. An exciting life demands a certain amount of spontaneity!