The Moon of Water

A NASA planetary mission has discovered large lakes just under the very rough and icy layer of Jupiter's moon Europa. Underneath these lakes is a vast ocean of liquid water. It is very difficult to study this ocean because the icy layer is ten miles thick! These lakes have the possibility of supporting life.

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That Was Close!

Tomorrow, an asteroid will flyby Earth inside of the Moon's orbit! The last flyby of a large asteroid was in 1976 and the next one will be in 2028. A picture was taken of the asteroid yesterday (left) and it was about 860,000 miles away from Earth.

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Giganto Black Holes

In case you don't know, black holes are bodies of infinite gravity from which nothing can escape, not even light! One telescope that can study these objects is the Chandra X-ray Observatory. It recently found some very large black holes in the southern sky similar to ones found in the early universe. Since Chandra looked at the same part of the sky for six weeks, it could see black holes from up to 950 million years ago! These baby black holes are a little less powerful than quasars; very bright black holes that throw of energy due to gas and dust falling in to them.

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Sittin' On Your Butt With Ubuntu

Hello! Today, (like most Saturdays), is  a day for me and my mom to be on our computers. But, today is different. The other day I downloaded Ubuntu 11.04 Beta, an operating system similar to Windows and Mac OS but it is completely free of charge! Ubuntu 11.04 looks completely different for previous versions (right) and is much faster and sleeker. Anyways, it's supper cool and you can get the stable version later this month.

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Oh Baboo!

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Let's see. We have the disaster in Japan (right). Anyway, last night was the super moon. The moon was closer than it has been in 19 years and it was 3 times brighter.

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God's Garden Hose

There are rivers of water vapor high in the atmosphere that "flow" over parts of the Pacific and can cause serious flooding when they start to rain. The can flood an area the size of Maryland 1 foot (0.3 meters) deep! A sensor called HAMSR (built by JPL) will study these river aboard an aircraft called Global Hawk. HAMSR will measure the density and temperature of the rivers by recording the heat given of by oxygen and water molecules in the atmosphere.

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NASA's Global Hawk

Maybe?

As it turns out, NASA is planning to launch STS-133 on February 24. Do you think they will stay with that? I don't think so.[polldaddy poll=4534261]

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Death-row Pardon, Two Minutes Too Late...

Yesterday, I was sick. Extremely sick. So sick I could barely use my computer! Months ago, I signed up Google Chrome OS's Polit Program but I haven't even gotten an e-mail about it. So, I was watching You-Tube videos about it (below) and I'm thinking, I'm never going  to get into the polit program, then my Mom calles me and I think I'm in trouble but, lo and behold, I seem my Mom with the box my computer is supposed to come in! "Isn't it Ironic? Don't 'cha think?"(Alanis Morissette's "Ironic". Yes, even I have heard it.)

Movie Making

Here is a series o videos on movie making. Enjoy!





 

1 Day Left!

You only have 1 more day to submit your questions!

Only a Few Days Left!

You only have a few days left to submit you videos about STS-133. The top video is the reminder. The video below it is the information about it.

Star-Gazing Time

Here is another video for star-gazers courtesy of Hubble Site. Enjoy!

STS-133 Questions Reminder

Just as a reminder, all questions for STS-133 must be submitted by January 3, 2011. You can find my channel at this link.

Noon Year's Eve, 2010

Every year at The Discovery Science Center, they drop balloons when it is New Year's day in other countries. This video was filmed from my new Flip Mino HD. Enjoy!