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Here’s to the incredible Hubble Space Telescope turning 21 today… Happy birthday Hubble (for real this time) | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine: “Today is the 21st anniversary of Hubble’s launch into space — I wrote about this the other day, when a pretty picture of colliding galaxies was released, but got the date wrong. [...]

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Yet another reason it’s fascinating to study atoms and radioactivity… it could have big implications for finding water/life in other parts of the galaxy… Starless planets may be habitable after all – space – 20 February 2011 – New Scientist: “Gravitational tussles with other planets or passing stars can eject planets from their solar systems. [...]

I was hoping yes… Can you see the flag on the Moon with a telescope? Click to find out!

NASA – A Supermassive Black Hole: “The colorful zigzag provides the evidence. If no black hole were present, the line would be nearly vertical. The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph measured a velocity of 880,000 mph within 26 light-years of the galaxy’s center. This measurement allowed astronomers to calculate that the black hole contains at least [...]

Exciting news… Space Success: Tiny NASA Satellite Unfurls Solar Sail (Pictures) – Tech Talk – CBS News: “The NanoSail-D satellite — which ejected from its mothership just this week, more than a month late — deployed its sail at about 10 p.m. EST yesterday (Jan. 20; 0300 GMT on Jan. 21) and is operating as [...]

So cool… Voyager 1 at edge of solar system @Makezine.com blog: “Sometime around 2025, the two craft will fall silent. In 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will sail as Earth’s ambassador among the stars of the constellation Camelopardalis — the Giraffe — in the northern sky. Voyager 2 is headed for Sirius, the brightest star in [...]

Using what we know about Newton’s Laws, could we send a camera into space? What would it take? Want to try after we’re done with the balloon racers?

I could watch this over and over and over (watch it full screen, btw). THIS is why I am a science teacher. YouTube – NASA – The Frontier Is Everywhere Thanks to Michael Marantz for putting that together and using the EPIC Carl Sagan clip. Now go do me proud.

Fascinating news! Smallest planet is nearly Earth-sized – space – 10 January 2011 – New Scientist: “Astronomers have found the smallest planet outside our solar system yet. The alien world is just 1.4 times as wide as Earth, but it is far too hot to host life as we know it.” Head over for a [...]