The latest Planetary Society Hangout discussed the question of how the US budget sequester process will affect
NASA’s programs and goals? How does the budgeting process normally work? How normal (or abnormal) a situation is this for planning budgets and reaching goals at the U.S. Space Program? We answer all of these questions with Dr. Jon Morse, Professor of Physics at RPI and previous Director of Astrophysics at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C
Theo Pirard of the Space Information Center/Belgium sends me a pointer to the technical presentations given at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs‘s Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2013 50th Session (STSC 2013) going on this month (11-22 February)
Some samples:
Distant infrasound detectors picked up the big sonic boom on meteor fireball that expoded last Friday over Chelyabinsk meteor blast :
Danielle Signor has posted a collection of gorgeous looking Moon-themed mechanical wrist watches: Moon Watching — Silver Rockets.
For example, there is the Cyrus Klepcys Watch
J-P Metsavainio (Astro Anarchy) of Finland has created wonderful 3-D images of nebulae and other celestial objects. Here’s a gallery of them : New Dimension: Nebulas Are Even More Amazing in 3-D -Wired Science/Wired.com.
And he has converted some to animations like this tour of the Rosette Nebula:
And the IC 410 emission nebula: