NASA insiders wonder if Trump will advance plans to send humans to the Red Planet
Two weeks after a presidential election that could have vaulted him to the head of NASA, John Grunsfeld reached across his peanut curry at a small restaurant on the far west side of Manhattan, grabbed my notebook and sketched out a plan for a trip to Mars. Grunsfeld, astronomer, astronaut and former associate administrator of NASA, was in town to promote a National Geographic TV series about Martian exploration. On his shirt was a picture of a space shuttle and the Hubble Space Telescope. We’ve..>> view originalAstronomers spot 'planet-eating' star similar to our sun
December 18, 2016 —As the latest Star Wars installment draws crowds to movie theaters this weekend, scientists are talking about a real Death Star, of sorts, about 300 light-years away.Using a 3.6-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, a team of researchers have been studying a star very similar to our sun. But unlike our friendly neighborhood star, however, this one is known to have destroyed some of its own planets, in a possible preview of what the future might hold for some p..>> view originalSeattle Audubon to hold Christmas Bird Count
Seattle Audubon Christmas Bird Count is Dec. 31, and there are two ways to participate. Seattle Audubon’ invites anyone interested in birds to join in the Christmas Bird Count on Dec. 31. It’s part of the National Audubon Society’s annual project to track the state of North American birds. Seattle’s first count was in 1908 with one participant recording nine bird species; more than 120 species are now regularly tallied at the daylong event. This year’s count covers a 15-mile-diameter circle ce..>> view originalShocking video of killer whales goes viral
Astonishing new video footage of two killer whales and their calves tearing apart a shark has the scientific community buzzing.Stunning video taken from a drone has emerged of an extremely rare sight caught on camera: two adult female killer whales and their two calves eating a shark alive in California’s Monterey Bay. This type of kilelr whale, the offshore killer whale, is tough to catch on film, and even tougher to see eating, but drone pilot Slater Moore managed to capture the incredible fo..>> view original
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