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Want to Protect Earth from Aliens? NASA Is Hiring 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 15, 2017
If you’ve always dreamed of helping keep Earth safe from alien invaders, your ship may have just come in.

By David Aragorn
Atmospheric sound channels – good for sleuths but not UFOs 0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- August 14, 2017
US army efforts in 1947 to put ‘wiretapping’ balloons in the mesosphere led to flying saucer tales but ultimately to scientists finding natural channels of communication

By David Aragorn
The Mars Colony of the Future Could Be Powered by This Advanced Microgrid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 12, 2017
The industrial manufacturing giant Siemens is planning for the reality of supplying and maintaining energy for a civilization on the Red Planet.

By David Aragorn
NASA will get to test its planetary defense system way sooner than we thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 10, 2017
NASA is extremely interested in building a true astroid defense network that could spring into action as soon as a threat is detected, destroying or diverting a space rock before it can do any serious damage here on Earth.

By David Aragorn
NASA responds to job application from boy, 9 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 10, 2017
The youngster receives a letter after responding to an advert for the role of planetary protection officer.

By David Aragorn
LUNAR ECLIPSE 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 9, 2017
When the full Moon rose over Europe last night, it wasn’t its usual self. The normally bright lunar disk was dipped in shadow–a lunar eclipse.

By David Aragorn
PERSEID METEOR SHOWER 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 9, 2017
The full Moon is bright. So are Perseid fireballs. On Aug. 7th, a NASA meteor camera at the Kitt Peak National Observatory caught this Perseid meteoroid disintegrating over Arizona, easily visible in glaring moonlight.

By David Aragorn
The Space Junk Problem Is About to Get a Whole Lot Gnarlier 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 4, 2017
For a few months in the fall of 1957, citizens of Earth could look up and see the first artificial star. It shone as bright as Spica, but moved across the sky at a much faster clip. Lots of people thought they were seeing Sputnik—Russia’s antennaed, spherical satellite, and the first thing humans had flung into orbit. But it wasn’t: It was the body of the rocket that bore Sputnik to space—and Earth’s first piece of space junk.

By David Aragorn
Sun’s core rotates four times faster than its surface 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 4, 2017
The sun’s core rotates nearly four times faster than the sun’s surface, according to new findings by an international team of astronomers. Scientists had assumed the core was rotating like a merry-go-round at about the same speed as the surface.

By David Aragorn
Eastern Idaho braces for massive influx of eclipse tourists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 4, 2017
The total solar eclipse of 2017 is just three weeks away, and if you are planning a road trip to Idaho for the big event, you’re not alone.

By David Aragorn