Vincent Brady has developed a marvelous technique for combining 360 degree views of the night sky and landscape with time-lapse sequences of long exposures to create gorgeous imagery like those in the video below. Find more about his work on his website: Vincent Brady | Planetary Panoramas – 360 Degree Night Sky Time-Lapse! (via i09)
An explanation of why the term “zero gravity” is misleading: Zero Gravity: It May Not Be What You Think.
A couple of videos explaining the same thing starting with a short one:
And then a longer one:
The io9 site hosts the latest Carnival of Space #358
NASA posted two press releases yesterday about the developments in the agency’s Asteroid Initiative. This includes a program to look for and track near earth asteroids . The current long term goal is to send an unmanned system to rendezvous with, capture, and move a small asteroid into an orbit in the Earth-Moon system where it would be visited by NASA astronauts:
Here is a video of discussion on June 19th by several NASA managers and scientists about the asteroid program :
Here’s the latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities aboard the Int. Space Station: