Russia will raise prices for the delivery of American astronauts into orbit
Spacecraft cracked the U.S. in space
Obama asked the crew of the ISS, it can be seen from space the Great Wall
Communication session with U.S. President Barack Obama held a joint ISS crew members and the spacecraft Endeavour.
Shuttle Endeavour landed in Florida
Space Shuttle Endeavour on Sunday evening local time, landing at the Kennedy launch site in Florida.
Earlier on Sunday, NASA experts said that the planting could be delayed due to bad weather conditions in the area of Baikonur:
Sun 10 days to attack the earthlings! Expected anomalies
In the next 10 days in the sun to start the outbreak, which could trigger disruptions in radio communications and electronic engineering work. When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of the earth this will affect your well-being of people.
Smirnych space
Turning its lunar program, the U.S. announced the world: a man too early to seek other planets
Deforestation of Afghan
DB: This is Earth and Sky. Scientists from the United Nations are on the ground in Afghanistan to determine how decades of war have affected the country’s environment. Peter Zahler heads up the effort.
Peter Zahler: … there’s been literally 25 years of war. And that means 25 years of no management for natural resources — [...]
Earth & Sky Online
The Earth & Sky Web site appeared in 1995. Even then, the site was ahead of the curve in terms of useful content. We were one of the first radio program sites to offer transcripts and real-time streaming audio versions of all our broadcasts.
Meet Earth & Sky
Producing a daily science radio program is no small task. In the early days, it was just Joel, Deborah and an office manager somehow pulling it all together. Today, Earth and Sky employs an office manager,
Creating a Radio Show
Earth & Sky is now entering its eleventh year of production. We’ve produced over 3,000 radio shows. But if you heard the very first show, it would have sounded like this:
EVENING LOOKING EAST-NORTHEAST
There’s a constellation on this chart that’s easy to see on the sky’s dome — if your sky is dark enough. Corona Borealis, also known as the Northern Crown, will be arcing across the northern sky from now until about September. This constellation is located more or less along a line between two bright stars, [...]
Northern hemisphere
The planet Jupiter takes 12 years to go once around the sun. And in every 12-year orbit there’s a time when Jupiter is closest to the sun. Today’s the day. Jupiter is at perihelion today,
Sky watching Center
At Earth and Sky, we believe that everyone has a “gene” for astronomy. In a better world, we’d all be able to go into our backyards — look up to see the wonders of the universe — and know what we’re seeing! With our Tonight’s Sky feature,
Red Planet of Revealed
A quartet of letters in the February 17th Nature disclose results gleaned from images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft, which recently settled into its final orbit around the red planet.
Hubble Zeroes in on Fornax A
NGC 1316, otherwise known as Fornax A, is a multifaceted astronomical enigma: a source of relativistic plasma jets that emit copious radio waves; a distended galaxy with faint starry shells and convoluted dust lanes; and a source of cosmic X-rays. Astronomers long have suspected that Fornax A’s unusual nature results from one or more galaxy [...]
