http://spacepragmatism.net Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:13:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Small Magellanic Cloud is one of the galaxies of our own satellites, remote a little over 200,000 years light. It is visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. Among the many cosmic objects therein, the open star cluster NGC 346 has attracted the attention of ESO astronomers ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/03/eso-auscultates-a-stellar-nursery.html Looking at the moon to the naked eye, one notices the presence of darker areas. They occupy about 16% of the surface of our satellite. Mistaken for stretches of water by early observers, they are actually large ponds dug by huge meteorites and progressively filled by outpourings of lava. They ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/03/the-origin-of-lunar-maria-are-accurate.html The Indian Minister of Finance has presented the country's budget for the coming year. The objective is to reduce the budget deficit without threatening the economic recovery begins. The program reinforces the space ambitions of India, which plans to soon become the fourth space power capable of launching a man ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/03/the-ambitions-of-the-indian-space.html The first segment of the main mirror of the future telescope James Webb Space (JWST James Webb Space Telescope) is taking shape. His temperature has been lowered significantly to almost -223 ° C, which has a mirror polished to a theoretical form taking into account the change in curvature that ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/03/hubbles-successor-the-james-webb-space-telescope-takes-shape.html Where to install the largest telescope in the world, including the diameter of the mirror primary rise 42 meters? Several sites are competing but the Committee of the ESO in charge of this difficult choice has announced its preference for the Cerro armazón, Chile, about 20 kilometers as the crow ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/03/the-giant-telescope-of-eso-in-chile-probably-will-move.html The matter seemed settled: the EELT the future giant telescope 42 meters in diameter that the Europeans intend to build should be installed on the South American continent. It would logically joined three other ESO observatories located in the Chilean Andes, in La Silla, at Paranal (head of the prestigious ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/03/giant-telescope-eelt-spain-wants-her.html By monitoring the vicinity of Earth in the infrared, the telescope spatial Wise has identified several unknown objects and potentially dangerous of asteroids dark. Not to worry, it is expected that improved means of detection leads to discover new things ... Launched December 14, 2009 and in use since ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/03/wise-detects-dark-asteroids-hitherto-invisible.html JB: This is Earth and Sky. Some experts believe that, in the 21st century, humanity's need for energy will exceed our ability to find and extract fossil fuels. DB: John Turner is a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. He advocates switching to hydrogen as our main ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/03/hydrogen-economy.html Specialists American space agency (NASA) began re-fueling space shuttle Endeavour to the launch site to them. Kennedy at Cape Canaveral (Florida), the launch of which was postponed yesterday. It is reported that the operation of refueling ship will take three hours, and the launch of Endeavour must be made at ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/03/nasa-prepares-to-send-space-shuttle-endeavour.html Russia will raise prices for the delivery of American astronauts into orbit, the head of the Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov. "At a meeting of heads of space agencies in Tokyo, I want to raise the issues of transport security station. Prior to 2012 there is an agreement. This will ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/03/russia-will-raise-prices-for-the-delivery-of-american-astronauts-into-orbit.html