Today on SPACE.com --- Monday October 30, 2006 -- http://www.space.com/
/------------------------------------- Advertisement: Visit the LiveScience Store Cool Gifts, Gadgets, and Gear. Products for the inquiring mind. http://livesciencestore.com/index.html -------------------------------------/ In today's issue: Science/Astronomy: * Mass Migration: How Stars Move in Crowd * BLOG: The Story Behind the Nobel Prize * Watch the Great Bear Hibernate * Star Explosion is Suprisingly Neat & Tidy * Image of the Day: Aircraft of Tomorrow Spaceflight: * SPACE NEWS: Orbcomm Sets Ambitious Subscriber Goals with IPO * Report: China Orbits New Communications Satellite * Despite Setbacks, Teams Set Sights On Lunar Lander Purse * Next Space Tourist Launches Website, Aims for Orbit * Sea Launch Scrubs XM Satellite Space Shot * NEW! Daily Space Trivia NEW! LiveScience.com * Ghost Photos: A Close Look at the Paranormal * NEW: Life's Little Mysteries: Why Do We Carve Pumpkins at Halloween? * VIDEO: Cancer Smart Bomb * The Astronomy of Halloween * Global Warming Could Devastate Economy * Hurricane Created Rare 'Trapped Wave' NEW! Cool Stuff: * Wirefly X Prize Cup: Access the Archives * NEW! The Solar System Treasure Hunt * Vote: The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope * VIDEO: When Stars Collide * New Gallery: Comet SWAN * New! SPACE.com's Stellar Blast * New Gallery: Spitzer's Latest Views (2006) * Amazing Images: Upload Yours Now and Even Buy a Poster! Plus... * Uplink, SPACE.com TV and NightSky * Starry Night, TeamSETI ----------------------------------- Science/Astronomy: * Mass Migration: How Stars Move in Crowd http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061030_mm_star_migration.html The stellar residents of the jam-packed celestial cities known as globular clusters employ a traffic system that causes lightweight stars to zoom to the city edges while keeping giants centrally located, astronomers have concluded. * BLOG: The Story Behind the Nobel Prize http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2006/10/29/the-story-behind-the-nobel-prize/ On October 3, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Mather and George Smoot, scientists who explored the background glow from the Big Bang with NASA's COBE satellite. * Watch the Great Bear Hibernate http://www.space.com/spacewatch/061027_night_sky.html The celestial big bear is following its earthly cousins and going into its own stage of hibernation. * Star Explosion is Suprisingly Neat & Tidy http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061026_exploding_star.html Stars don't always rip apart in violent explosions. Some blow up in an orderly fashion. * Image of the Day: Aircraft of Tomorrow http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_061030.html It may only be a model, but this scale version of the X-48B prototype is poised for its first flight. ----------------------------------- Spaceflight: * SPACE NEWS: Orbcomm Sets Ambitious Subscriber Goals with IPO http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmonday_061030.html Two-way satellite messaging provider Orbcomm Inc. has restarted its planned initial public stock offering (IP0) and is telling prospective investors that the company will reach cash flow break-even status once it has 375,000 subscribers and that it is likely to pass the one-million-subscriber mark by the end of the decade. * Report: China Orbits New Communications Satellite http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/061030_china_launch.html China launched a domestically produced communications satellite into orbit Sunday to provide wider and more advanced television services across the country, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. * Despite Setbacks, Teams Set Sights On Lunar Lander Purse http://www.space.com/news/061027_lunarlander_update.html Rival space groups are vowing to push forward on vertical takeoff and landing rocket technology to vie for prize money in a NASA-sponsored lunar lander prototype competition. * Next Space Tourist Launches Website, Aims for Orbit http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/061026_simonyi_spacetourist.html With a March 2007 spaceflight in hand, American space tourist-in-training Charles Simonyi celebrated with a launch of his own Thursday as he debuted a personal website where he'll document his trek to the International Space Station (ISS). * Sea Launch Scrubs XM Satellite Space Shot http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sfn_061026_zenit3sl_cntdwn.html "Due to off-nominal data from its automated launch support equipment, Sea Launch today halted the launch of the XM-4 broadcast satellite," the company said in a statement released a short time ago. * NEW! Daily Space Trivia http://www.space.com/php/trivia/ One of Today's 5 New Questions: Which Shuttle was the only one to be fitted with ejection seats? ---------------------------------- NEW! LiveScience.com http://www.livescience.com/ * Ghost Photos: A Close Look at the Paranormal http://www.livescience.com/othernews/061030_ghost_photos.html Benjamin Radford explains the normal causes of the supposedly paranormal orbs in photographs used as evidence that ghosts exist. * NEW: Life's Little Mysteries: Why Do We Carve Pumpkins at Halloween? http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/ Why Do We Carve Pumpkins at Halloween? Find out, and return daily for investigations into the world around you. * VIDEO: Cancer Smart Bomb http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=cancersmartbomb Tiny nano-warheads, loaded for chemotherapy, seek out cancer cells in this new therapeutic technique. * The Astronomy of Halloween http://www.livescience.com/othernews/061030_halloween_astronomy.html Halloween means more than just a day for costumes and candy corn. It's the halfway point between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice, the last of four "cross-quarter" days on the solar calendar. * Global Warming Could Devastate Economy http://www.livescience.com/environment/061030_ap_gw_economy.html Unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression, a British government report said Monday, as the country launched a bid to convince doubters that environmentalism and economic growth can coincide. * Hurricane Created Rare 'Trapped Wave' http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/061030_trapped_wave.html A rare phenomenon that ramped up storm surge in the Gulf of Mexico during Hurricane Dennis last year has been identified, and researchers say the same enhancement could bring large surges during future hurricanes following similar paths. ---------------------------------- NEW! Cool Stuff: * Wirefly X Prize Cup: Access the Archives http://www.space.com/xprizecup/ Missed this year's events at the Wirefly X Prize Cup? Access archived videos, galleries, stories and more! * NEW! The Solar System Treasure Hunt http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/treasurehunt/ Our broadband multimedia adventure -- solve this solar system mystery! * Vote: The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope http://www.space.com/bestimg/index.php?cat=hst Vote now for the best Hubble image of all time... * VIDEO: When Stars Collide http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=when_stars_collid Stars are so far apart, it's hard to imagine them crashing. But they do. And the result isn't pretty * New Gallery: Comet SWAN http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=4414&gid=315 This striking green comet was captured streaking across the sky. * New! SPACE.com's Stellar Blast http://www.space.com/games/ Take a ride on an intergalactic shoot 'em up or choose from many more new games! * New Gallery: Spitzer's Latest Views (2006) http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=4363&gid=312 Check out the latest collection of cool cosmos taken by NASA's infrared eyes. * Amazing Images: Upload Yours Now and Even Buy a Poster! http://www.space.com/amazingimages/ Upload your cool science and space-themed images now. Get your own homepage, vote for your favorites and more! ---------------------------------- * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * NightSky: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- JOIN NOW! 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