Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Rockets . ... New Shepard taking off (image credit: Blue Origin) . ... This is a reusable, vertical takeoff, vertical landing two-part suborbital space vehicle. The two sections of New Shepard are a pressurised crew module or capsule for six passengers (with its own launch escape system) and a propulsion module (or booster rocket) propelled by a Blue Origin BE-3 liquid propellant rocket motor. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... galaxies . ... black holes . ... Study reveals a remarkable symmetry in black hole jets . ... The result provides a tantalizing hint that common physical processes are at work. т??What weт??re seeing is that once any black hole produces a jet, the same fixed fraction of energy generates the gamma-ray light we observe with Fermi and Swift,т?? said Rodrigo Nemmen from NASAт??s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. ...

... This oral history is being conducted with Christopher Harris in Washington, D.C., for the NASA Headquarters History Office. ... The interview is part of a series to capture knowledge about NASA?s participation in the 2010 rescue of thirty-three Chilean miners. ... Harris: Okay. ... I?m curious if the State Department had received a request for help from Chile about this, would you have thought about going to NASA for these things if NASA hadn?t already been contacted as well by the Chilean...

... Astronomy Beat . ... This is a selective list of some short stories and novels that use more or less accurate science and can be used for teaching or reinforcing astronomy or physics concepts. I include both traditional ?science-fiction? and (occasionally) more serious fiction that derives meaning or plot from astronomy or physics ideas. ... The Internet Speculative Fiction Database: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi (A remarkable site which indexes most stories and novels in science fiction. ...

... Уран - седьмая планета от Солнца и третья по размеру. ... Кольцо Урана рассмотреть вообще очень сложно, обычными оптическими средствами здесь не обойтись. ... Уран - старинное Греческое божество Неба, самый ранний высший бог, который был отцом Хроноса (Сатурна), Циклопа и Титана (предшественников Олимпийских богов). ... Как у Земли, Юпитера и Сатурна, у Урана есть магнитный хвост, состоящий из захваченных полем заряженных частиц, растянувшийся на миллионы километров за Уран от Солнца. ...