Jeff Cheney: Outer Space

Pentagon to merge Space and Strategic Commands

Space Today: The US Defense Department announced Wednesday that it plans to merge the US Space Command, which oversees military space activities, with the command that oversees US nuclear forces.
[spacetoday.net]

World Trade Center Flag Returns from Space

NASA Today: "An American Flag recovered from the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks returns to New York City after traveling nearly 5 million miles in space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour during STS-108 in December."
[Steven's Weblog]

NGC 7023 really should be called the Pearl Nebula.
[blackholebrain]

Super blackhole found! Some 40,000 lights years away---right in our cosmic backyard, the Milky Way---sits GRS1915+105, which is a normal star and blackhole binary system (astronomer slang "microquasar"). But this blackhole is not your ordinary blackhole. Oh no... it's about twice as big as current theories would allow for such a system----tipping the scales at a whopping 14 Suns.[via slashdot]
[blackholebrain]

But hey, nevermind that mindless crap... The Leonids are coming!!! Oh yeah----as you must have heard by now, this Sunday morning... Nov. 18...3-5am CST... coffee, blanket, lawnchair... and up to 4000 meteors per hour!!! WOW! [via sci/nasa]
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