While maybe not quite as cool as the create your own Lingerie girl from yesterday,  Google Sky now allows you to zoom across the cosmos, just as Google Earth allows you to spy on your sun bathing neighbor.  Very cool.

(what Gliese 581-C might look like prior to walmartization)
From MSNBC.COM:
Scientists find most Earth-like planet yet
Models predict planet should be either rocky or covered with oceans
An Earth-like planet spotted outside our solar system is the first found that could support liquid water and harbor life, scientists announced today.
Liquid water is a key ingredient for life as […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
Russia eyes industrial development of moon
Expert believes Soyuz rockets able to reach Earth’s closest neighbor
MOSCOW - Russia is working on a space transport system that could eventually lead to the industrialization of the moon, a space expert said.
Thirty-eight years after the United States put the first man on the moon, Russia could reach it […]

From Nasa:
Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
March 27, 2007
Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission.
NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has appeared in Cassini images indicates […]

 
From CNN.COM:
Diamond star thrills astronomers
Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.
The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.
It’s the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our […]

Over on the Discovery channel they’ve been doing a show on ways the world could end.
It’s actually quite fascinating.  In addition to the usual suspects (Nuclear War, a rogue Asteroid, Epidemics, Global Warming, etc.) there are a few I never really thought of.
My Three favorites…
A Nearby Gamma Ray Burst.
Apparently, around once a day, somewhere in […]

No… It’s not a site to purchase your one way ticket for the Rapture.   Heavens-Above.COM allows you to track satelites, constellations, and other astronomical information.
Why do you care?
Lets say you’re on a camping trip, away from city lights, or maybe on the beaches of Mexico, you plug your information into Heavens-Above, and you can find […]

I love this photo of Astronauts working on a piece of the International Space Station.  It’s almost out of a Science Fiction film.
Question of the Day…
What’s the Land Mass they are floating above in this photo?

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From Faux News: 
Solar Storm May Ground Aircraft, Overload Power Grids
The severe geomagnetic storm bombarding the Earth on Thursday was expected to disrupt radio, television and cell-phone communications worldwide and could force airlines to reroute passenger flights that normally fly over the North Pole.
Power-grid operators will have to make sure their systems do […]

From Space.COM:
Scientists Spot ‘Tsunami’ on the Sun
A major flare on the Sun earlier this week generated what scientists are calling a solar tsunami.
The tsunami-like shock wave, formally called a Moreton wave, rolled across the hot surface, destroying two visible filaments of cool gas on opposite sides of the visible face of the Sun.
Astronomers using a […]

 
From CNN.COM: 
NASA wants permanent moon base
HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) — NASA’s plans for returning people to the moon — an objective called for by President Bush in 2004 — includes establishing a permanent outpost that would be used to prepare for a manned trip to Mars.
The moon base would be at either the north or south […]

 
Sorry about the lack of postings the past few days.  I moved this weekend, and my new place doesn’t have an internet connection yet, then on top of that I’ve been pretty Ill for almsot a week now.  First with food poisoning, then with some kind of lung-butter lung phlegm situation.  ack.
In the news…
Kofi Annan […]

(note: there is no sound with this video)

From YahooNews:
Hunt for alien life turns to ET-TV
PARIS (AFP) - A new generation of ultra-powerful radio telescopes designed to peer into the origins of the Universe could reportedly also be used to look for any radio or TV emissions by extraterrestrial civilisations.
According to the New Scientist, TV and radio broadcasts are in the 50-400 megahertz […]