Today on SPACE.com --- Monday July 24, 2006 -- http://www.space.com/
/------------------------------------- Advertisement: Astrophotography Made Easy and Affordable! with great cameras from Orion http://www.telescope.com/jump.jsp?itemID=237&itemType=CATEGORY&path=1%2C3 -------------------------------------/ In today's issue: Science/Astronomy: * New Life in Dead Star: Supernova 'Changing Right Before Our Eyes' * Doorstep Astronomy: Wild Ducks and a Chrysanthemum * Is SETI Barking up the Wrong Tree? * Image of the Day: Remember the Moon Spaceflight: * SPACE NEWS: Eumetsat to Go Beyond Weather and Explore Earth Science * BLOG: Sex in Space -- Getting a Grip on Gravity * Back at Full Strength, ISS Crew Takes a Break * Bigelow's Big Gamble: Building a Space Station * NASA Readies Space Station Trusses for Next Shuttle Launch * Space Adventures Offers $15 Million Spacewalks for ISS Visitors * NEW! Daily Space Trivia NEW! LiveScience.com * Trivia: The Artifact Wars * How Cacti Survive: Surprising Strategies Quench Thirst * Robotic Surgeon Attacks Moving Tumors * The Artifact Wars: Nations Battle Over Bits of History * The Real Reason Louisiana is Sinking * New Gallery: The World's Biggest Beasts NEW! Cool Stuff: * Gallery: SOHO Cool! * VIDEO: Novas: Pouring Gas on a Fire * A SPACE.com Adventure: Launch into Zero-G! * Gallery: Moon Shots * New Wallpaper: Spaceships * Vote: The Best Space Movies * Nebulas: The Best of Your Amazing Images * New! Search for Your Next Hi-Tech Job Opportunity Now! Plus... * Uplink, SPACE.com TV and NightSky * Starry Night, TeamSETI ----------------------------------- Science/Astronomy: * New Life in Dead Star: Supernova 'Changing Right Before Our Eyes' http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060724_1987a_dust.html Newly detected dust found around the burst remains of a dead star could help reveal how planets and stars formed and how life began. * Doorstep Astronomy: Wild Ducks and a Chrysanthemum http://www.space.com/spacewatch/060721_night_sky.html Two objects are well placed for viewing as soon as the sky gets sufficiently dark. * Is SETI Barking up the Wrong Tree? http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_thursday_060720.html Some people mistakenly confuse a long search with a thorough one, and figure that the lack of a SETI detection indicates that we're alone in the Galaxy. This, however, is nonsense. * Image of the Day: Remember the Moon http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_060721.html Two astronauts left the Moon 37 years ago today, the first of only 12 humans ever to walk on its surface. ----------------------------------- Spaceflight: * SPACE NEWS: Eumetsat to Go Beyond Weather and Explore Earth Science http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmonday_060724.html The 20-nation Eumetsat organization has approved a new long-term strategy that foresees its gradual mutation from a meteorological agency into Europe's environmental satellite services operator. * BLOG: Sex in Space -- Getting a Grip on Gravity http://www.livescience.com/blogs/author/leonarddavid While sex in space is now a front and center topic of talk in public space travel circles, it may be far more complex and foreboding than once thought. * Back at Full Strength, ISS Crew Takes a Break http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060723_exp13_postshuttle.html Three astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are taking a well-earned break one week after NASA's shuttle Discovery left their orbital laboratory. * Bigelow's Big Gamble: Building a Space Station http://www.space.com/news/060721_genesis-1_impact.html The Genesis-1 module orbiting the Earth not only transmits its temperature, integrity, power levels and overall healthit also signals entrepreneurial zeal and private sector spunk. * NASA Readies Space Station Trusses for Next Shuttle Launch http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft_060721_sts115_trusses.html In a big room at Kennedy Space Center, cylindrical labs and plastic-draped trusses surround a 17-ton space girder whose time to fly has come. * Space Adventures Offers $15 Million Spacewalks for ISS Visitors http://www.space.com/news/060721_spacetourist_eva.html It may be the pinnacle of travel perks, but the only firm arranging private trips to the International Space Station (ISS) is now offering a bonus spacewalk for clients willing to pay for more than a standard $20 million trip. * NEW! Daily Space Trivia http://www.space.com/php/trivia/ One of Today's 5 New Questions: Which of the twelve astronauts who landed on the Moon is the only one who did not have his picture taken standing on the Moon? ---------------------------------- NEW! LiveScience.com http://www.livescience.com/ * Trivia: The Artifact Wars http://www.livescience.com/php/trivia/index.php?quiz=artifacts Two hundred years later Greece is still asking for the Elgin Marbles; Egypt wants its obelisks. What's all the sniveling about? We test your knowledge of archaeology's most contested items and the people who fight over them. * How Cacti Survive: Surprising Strategies Quench Thirst http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060724_mm_cacti_survive.html They work the night shift, let their roots die, and fend off thirsty predators to conserve every precious drop. * Robotic Surgeon Attacks Moving Tumors http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060724_robot_doctor.html One of the nation's top cancer surgeons has just become a little bit better, and all it took was the installation of a new brain. * The Artifact Wars: Nations Battle Over Bits of History http://www.livescience.com/history/060721_artifact_wars.html Museums often hold important cultural objects from other countries that were obtained in a long chain of "criminal and sleazy" activities. Let the lawsuits begin. * The Real Reason Louisiana is Sinking http://www.livescience.com/environment/060721_la_wetlands.html The sinking of Louisiana's Gulf coast could be due to the shallowest delta sediments pushing down the underneath layers, a new study suggests. * New Gallery: The World's Biggest Beasts http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=814&gid=52&index=0 Huge creatures that went extinct, and other big animals that still roam this planet ... for now anyway. ---------------------------------- NEW! Cool Stuff: * Gallery: SOHO Cool! http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=1448&gid=119 Best images of the Sun from the SOHO spacecraft. * VIDEO: Novas: Pouring Gas on a Fire http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=novas When one star dumps pure fuel on another, a runaway thermonuclear blast can be touched off. * A SPACE.com Adventure: Launch into Zero-G! http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/zerog/ All Aboard! Join us for an intense multimedia experience aboard a Zero-G weightless flight! * Gallery: Moon Shots http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=4026&gid=289&index=0 The Moon photographed in various shapes, sizes and colors, as seen through the telescopes of Space.com readers. * New Wallpaper: Spaceships http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wallpapers/collection.php?collection=hayhurst3 Take a trip into the future with cool spaceship images by Steve Hayhurst. * Vote: The Best Space Movies http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacemovies/ Is your favorite space movie on the list? Find out now! * Nebulas: The Best of Your Amazing Images http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=3841&gid=279 Explore the beautiful nebulas of our universe, photos submitted by Space.com visitors! * New! 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