Today on SPACE.com --- Tuesday October 31, 2006 -- http://www.space.com/
/------------------------------------- Advertisement: The Best Space DVDs ever. With new sets on Project Mercury and the X-15, packed with new digital transfers and rare material. Spacecratfilms.com http://www.spacecraftfilms.com -------------------------------------/ In today's issue: Science/Astronomy: * Antarctic Microbes Handle Mars-Like Conditions * Mass Migration: How Stars Move in Crowd * Watch the Great Bear Hibernate * Image of the Day: Hubble's Stellar Echo Spaceflight: * Hubble Saved: NASA Approves Shuttle Flight to Service Space Telescope * 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 * Why We Love to be Scared * Ghost Photos: A Close Look at the Paranormal * Top 10 Deadliest Animals * NEW: Life's Little Mysteries: Why is Hair Parted? * It's on the Web; It Must Be True * Elephant Self-Awareness Mirrors Humans 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: Tidy Explosion * New Gallery: Comet SWAN * New Gallery: Spitzer's Latest Views (2006) * Amazing Images: Upload Yours Now and Even Buy a Poster! * Uplink: Out of This Word Message Boards Plus... * Uplink, SPACE.com TV and NightSky * Starry Night, TeamSETI ----------------------------------- Science/Astronomy: * Antarctic Microbes Handle Mars-Like Conditions http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061031_st_mars_life.html Lab experiments with primitive microbes taken from an Antarctic lake have shown that the hardy single-celled organisms can tolerate at least the warmest of the frigid temperatures found on Mars. * 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. * 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. * Image of the Day: Hubble's Stellar Echo http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_061031.html The ghost-like echo of a stellar eruption is caught by the Hubble Space Telescope. ----------------------------------- Spaceflight: * Hubble Saved: NASA Approves Shuttle Flight to Service Space Telescope http://www.space.com/news/061031_hubble_wrap.html The decision is in and the Hubble Space Telescope is saved. * 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: When was the first double rendezvous accomplished in space? ---------------------------------- NEW! LiveScience.com http://www.livescience.com/ * Why We Love to be Scared http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/061030_fear_factor.html >From haunted houses to horror films, humans seek to be frightened. Find out >why many people can even laugh in the face of fear. * 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. * Top 10 Deadliest Animals http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/top10_deadliestanimals.html Creatures that scare the socks off us. * NEW: Life's Little Mysteries: Why is Hair Parted? http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/ Why is Hair Parted? Find out, and return daily for investigations into the world around you. * It's on the Web; It Must Be True http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/061031_bad_med.html How to separate wheat from chaff and not get shafted will searching for health information in the Internet. * Elephant Self-Awareness Mirrors Humans http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/061030_elephant_mirror.html Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror, joining only humans, apes and dolphins as animals that possess this kind of self-awareness, researchers now report. ---------------------------------- 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: Tidy Explosion http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=CasA_Burst Artist's animation of Cassiopeia A, the glowing remains of an exploded massive star. * 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 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. 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