Astronomy by Nigel Romany

NOTICES/NEWS
see also Alien & UFO, Earth Corner, Space Stations, Space Tourism, and 2012 and Planet X sections

2012

Jun 12, 2012 Europe to build world's biggest telescope powerful enough to see mountains on planets beyond our solar system
Europe to build world's biggest telescope powerful enough to see mountains on planets beyond our solar system

May 31, 2012 NASA Astronomers Predict Titanic Collision: Milky Way vs. Andromeda
Astronomers Predict Titanic Collision: Milky Way vs. Andromeda

May 31, 2012 SpaceX Dragon Capsule Returns To Earth With Pacific Splashdown
SpaceX Dragon Capsule Returns To Earth With Pacific Splashdown

May 22, 2012 SpaceX Launch: Falcon 9 Rocket Blasts Off On Historic Trip To International Space Station
SpaceX Launches Private Capsule on Historic Trip to Space Station

Apr 5, 2012 Legal loophole in 1967 Outer Space Treaty and 1979 Moon Treaty Act could let billionaires BUY up planets before human settlers arrive (and they could even snap up the Moon)
Billionaires should be allowed to BUY up planets and rip up an out-of-date space treaty, claims expert

Apr 4, 2012 Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthrough
Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthrough

Mar 20, 2012 Elon Musk Says Ticket to Mars Will Cost $500,000 | Mars for the 'average person'
Elon Musk Says Ticket to Mars Will Cost $500,000 and Mars for the 'average person'

Mar 19, 2012 Billionaire Elon Musk to Neil Armstrong: Give Private Space Travel a Chance
Billionaire Elon Musk to Neil Armstrong: Give Private Space Travel a Chance

Mar 18, 2012 Billionaire Elon Musk of SpaceX on CBS’s 60 Minutes
Elon Musk of SpaceX on CBS’s 60 Minutes see also here and CBS 60 Minutes here and transcript here. See also here

Mar 13, 2012 Man on Moon & Mars landing: Russia space plans unveiled
Man on Moon & Mars landing: Russia space plans unveiled

Mar 1, 2012 NASA loses laptop with command codes for ISS
NASA loses laptop with command code for ISS see also here and here

Feb 27, 2012 Amateur Space Balloons - Taylor Made Space Balloon
Great Heights Reached with Gaffer Tape

Feb 17, 2012 John Glenn fever gripping Cape Canaveral -- again
John Glenn fever gripping Cape Canaveral -- again

Feb 17, 2012 Next China space mission to be manned
Next China space mission to be manned

Feb 16, 2012 Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit
Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit

Feb 15, 2012 CleanSpace One - Swiss craft janitor satellites to grab space junk
Swiss craft janitor satellites to grab space junk see also here

Feb 15, 2012 Human and humanoid robot shake hands in space 1st
Human and humanoid robot shake hands in space 1st more info on robonaut here

Feb 9, 2012 Earth: Blue Marble 2012
Earth From Above: The Blue Marble

Jan 1, 2012 Proposed Hacker Satellite System Would Fight Web Censorship
Proposed Hacker Satellite System Would Fight Web Censorship

2011

Dec 27, 2011 New telescope will be 'second biggest structure created by mankind' after Great Wall of China
New telescope will be 'second biggest structure created by mankind' after Great Wall of China

May 27, 2011 Aussie student finds universe’s ‘missing mass’
Student finds universe's missing mass

2010

Oct 23, 2010 Virgin Galactic eyes NASA commercial space work
Virgin Galactic eyes NASA commercial space work

Oct 23, 2010 German government asks EU to propose cost cuts to Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system
German government asks EU to propose Galileo cost cuts

Oct 21, 2010 Moon crash kicks up ice, silver, mercury: NASA
Moon crash kicks up ice, silver, mercury: NASA

Oct 13, 2010 Father-Son Team Launch Balloon With HD Camera, iPhone Into Space
Father-Son Team Launch Balloon With HD Camera, iPhone Into Space - TIME see also here for the Brooklyn Space Program

Oct 8, 2010 NASA Digitally Alters Picture
Conspiracy theorists confident Photoshopped NASA image is a cover-up

Oct 6, 2010 Caribbean Island Curacao to Offer Rides Into Space
Caribbean Island to Offer Rides Into Space see their website at Space Experience Curaçao

Oct 1, 2010 China launches second lunar exploration probe
China launches second lunar exploration probe

Sep 30, 2010 Congress backs Obama plan on NASA's future
Congress backs Obama plan on NASA's future

Sep 30, 2010 Russian firm unveils plan for first space hotel, US Co. also plans to build a space complex
Russian firm unveils plan for first space hotel

Sep 29, 2010 Russia to launch commercial space station by 2016
Russia to launch commercial space station by 2016

Sep 29, 2010 NASA and NSF-Funded Research Claims To Finds First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet 20 light years from Earth
NASA and NSF-Funded Research Finds First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet see also here

Sep 27, 2010 Virgin to launch space tourism in 18 months
Virgin to launch space tourism in 18 months

Sep 21, 2010 Rocket with secret satellite launched from California
Rocket with secret satellite launched from California

Sep 18, 2010 Iran aims to put a man in space by 2017
Iran invites Turkey into space program: report

Sep 12, 2010 Japan Launches Its First GPS Satellite
Japan Launches Its First GPS Satellite

Aug 30, 2010 NASA's new goal: Manned asteroid mission by 2025 as a stepping stone to a crewed mission to Mars in the mid-2030s
'Plymouth Rock' Deep Space Asteroid Mission Idea Gains Ground

Aug 25, 2010 Top Secret X-37B Shuttle Disappears For Two Weeks
US military's top secret X-37B shuttle 'disappears' for two weeks, changes orbit Try to find X-37B here using Simple Satellite Tracking from Spaceweather.com

Aug 24, 2010 Rich exoplanet system discovered in southern constellation of Hydrus
Rich exoplanet system discovered

Aug 23, 2010 NASA to Reveal Big News From Kepler Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Thursday
NASA to Reveal Big News From Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Thursday

Apr 22, 2010 US military launches top-secret robotic spacecraft - X-37B
NASA to Reveal Big News From Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Thursday

Apr 13, 2010 Neil Armstrong blasts Obama over NASA proposal
Armstrong: Obama hurting space effort

Mar 22, 2010 VSS Enterprise's (by Virgin Galactic) first 'captive carry' flight!
VSS Enterprise's first 'captive carry' flight! and click here for Virgin Galactic website See also The Spaceship Company
Space Tourism is very much soon here! Got US$200,000? And here's an interesting site

April 24th, 2010 is Astronomy Day

2009

For all you astrophotographers out there I thought you might be interested in something closer to home: How to Photograph Lightning Perfectly from PC World.

NASA & ESA to launch two (2) IR telescopes on May 6, 2009. NASA's one is called Herschel and ESA's one is called Planck (see also here). .

The Galileoscope - US$15 telescope see Sky & Telescope article about it here

International Year of Astronomy 2009
100 Hours of Astronomy - International Year of Astronomy 2009 Cornerstone Project

SLOOH SpaceCamera - Your Live Online Observatory see old article at http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2005/04/67232

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to launch June2nd, 2009 to spend a year mapping the moon. If you thought Google Earth was cool, get ready. You'll be able to tell whether there are license plates on rovers from the Apollo missions. Keep an eye out for this one. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will also be launched on May 21, 2009.

NOTICES/NEWS see also Alien & UFO, Earth Corner, Space Stations, Space Tourism, and 2012 and Planet X sections

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NOTICES/NEWS
see also Alien & UFO, Earth Corner, Space Stations, Space Tourism, and 2012 and Planet X sections