Jun. 4th, 2012
In Days to Come
Jun. 4th, 2012 11:17 amThis will be our night sky:

Source, which also has a peachy keen animation I don't know how to embed.

Source, which also has a peachy keen animation I don't know how to embed.
As pointed out in email:
NASA will be getting two unused space surveillance satellites from the US’s National Reconnaissance Office, which could possibly be used to search for dark energy. In articles in the Washington Post and the New York Times, NASA and NRO officials revealed the two unused and not-fully-built satellites are available for NASA to use as they see fit. While the satellites don’t have astronomical instruments and are still in a warehouse, they do have 2.4-meter (7.9 feet) mirrors, just like Hubble, with a wider field of view and a maneuverable secondary mirror that makes it possible to obtain better-focused images.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/95623/surprise-nasa-gets-two-free-hubble-like-space-telescopes/#ixzz1wqiBFDSp
This YouTube video, posted Thursday morning by United Steelworkers economist Erin Weir on his Progressive Economics Forum blog, is making the rounds in Ottawa.