Interesting hypothesis from Jesseca… Tree Frog Science: ISS Camera Location: “Our model would have had a camera placed like one of the main cameras on the International Space Station.” We’ll (hopefully!) find out next week!
Can you see the flag on the Moon with a telescope?
I was hoping yes… Can you see the flag on the Moon with a telescope? Click to find out!
Supermassive Black Hole
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 [...]
Best Space Pictures of 2010
From National Geographic… Best Space Pictures of 2010: Odd Aurora, Ring of Fire, More
NASA Experiment Contest
Anyone want to give it a shot? NASA – Kids In Micro-g!: “The experiment demonstration must take no more than 30 minutes to set up, run and take down. Experiment challenge winners and runners-up will be selected regionally and nationally by the Education Offices of the ten NASA centers. The ten regional winners, one national [...]
Why Am I a Science Teacher?
When I was in 7th grade (way back in the early 1990′s), my dad gave me my first computer. Of course, this was before the days of the World Wide Web being used as it is today, so there wasn’t much “mult-media” accessible on the computer (not that it could have handled much to begin [...]
The View
This is just awesome: The View Astronaut Michael Good peers through a window toward Atlantis’ crew cabin interior, where his shirt-sleeved support team members busy themselves to aid the flight’s second of five spacewalks to perform work on the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronaut Mike Massimino can be seen in the background at work on the [...]
Launch Video for STS 125
By the end of the school year, you’ll understand most of the incredible science behind how we can launch such a heavy object(s) into orbit (it involves more than “rockets go boom” but that’s a part of it)! Amazing. Keep up to date with this mission to Hubble Telescope (the last one!) via NASA. By [...]
STS 125 Launches Today
The 125th Space Shuttle mission launches today, and it’s a big day for science! NASA has a fantastic interactive webpage they’ve built for the mission so you can learn more about the mission’s goals (always good to have those!), the astronauts and the Hubble Space Telescope. Thanks to the principles of acceleration, trajectory, projectiles, chemical [...]
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