Astronomy
Supernova Super Hero
Supernova SN2011fe, nearby in the galaxy M-101, is the first stellar explosion of its type to be observed in decades, and offers astronomers a valuable opportunity to refine our understanding of the size and expansion of the Universe.
Post on Sep 09, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
NASA’s WISE Spots Ys
NASA’s WISE spacecraft has revealed something new lurking in the dark: Y Dwarfs.
Post on Aug 26, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Dawn of A New Era
We have achieved orbit – that is, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is now orbiting and studying the large asteroid Vesta.
Post on Aug 12, 2011 by Ben Burress
Quasar APM 08279+5255: Really Big Bathtub Drain?
Somewhere out there, at the most distant reaches of space and time, a vast space-ocean with 140 trillion times more water than the drop that fills Earth's ocean basins is pouring down the drain of a super black hole.
Post on Jul 29, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Millie Hughes-Fulford: Scientist in Space
As the space shuttle program comes to an end, QUEST profiles Marin County former astronaut Millie Hughes-Fulford.
Video on Jul 26, 2011 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
A Year in the Life of an Ice Giant
Would you believe we discovered the planet Neptune only one year ago?
Post on Jul 15, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Celebrate Science with SETI this Summer
Learn more about SETI's mission and goals at this family friendly event on July 23rd.
Post on Jul 12, 2011 by Laura Khalil
Dawn: Mission to Explore Strange New Worlds
We are soon to explore a new world, one that we haven't seen up close before: the asteroid Vesta. What will we find, and why are we even interested in what amounts to a mega-mountain of rock hurtling through space?
Post on Jun 30, 2011 by Ben Burress
The Sun is Having A Blast!
"Wow!" was what everyone who watched this solar flare event and enormous Coronal Mass Ejection were saying–pretty much all they could say with their jaws dropping the way they were.
Post on Jun 17, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Milky Way 2.0?
A recent image of a "twin-like" galaxy to the Milky Way may offer us the best glimpse of our home that we'll ever see.
Post on Jun 03, 2011 by Ben Burress
Dark Endeavours
When NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off on its 25th and final mission to space on Monday morning, it carried a bus-sized, two billion dollar observatory that will probe some of our Universe's deepest, darkest secrets: dark matter, and the unaccounted antimatter.
Post on May 20, 2011 by Ben Burress
Your Photos on QUEST: Steven Christenson
Most nature photographers put their cameras away at night. Not Steven Christenson. As the co-founder of the very successful Bay Area Night Photography group, he guides like-minded, low-light photographers to find interesting subjects after the sun goes down. Steven reveals his special process of photographing star trails for Your Photos on QUEST.
Video on May 18, 2011 by Amy Miller from QUEST Northern California
Producer's Notes: Finding Light
When I was trolling for our first YPOQ photographer for the new season of QUEST TV, I went back to some of those early submissions and was immediately struck by Christenson’s set of vibrant, kinetic images.
Post on May 17, 2011 by Amy Miller
Is it Time for SETI to Stop Looking?
Are we alone? For more than 50 years, scientists have listened for a signal from intelligent life on other planets… and come up empty. Now, they're running short of money. Is it time to give up?
Audio Report on May 09, 2011 by KQED QUEST staff from QUEST Northern California
Should SETI Stop Looking?
Of all the questions in science, few have haunted humans as persistently as this: Are we alone? For more than 50 years, scientists have listened for a signal from intelligent life on other planets… and come up empty. Now, they're running short of money. Is it time to give up?
Post on May 06, 2011 by Amy Standen
Earth to ET: I'm Not Listening!
SETI's Allen Telescope Array is placed in hibernation due to funding cuts, putting the search for extraterrestrial intelligence on hold.
Post on May 06, 2011 by Ben Burress
Searching for Life on Mars
After multiple unmanned missions to Mars, we still don't know if life has ever existed there. NASA scientists are hoping a new high-tech rover will help them solve the mystery. The Mars Science Laboratory is scheduled for launch in late 2011 and will search for any evidence that the Red Planet was once capable of supporting life.
Video on May 04, 2011 by Rachel Silverman from QUEST Northern California
Producer's Notes: Searching for Life on Mars
Science to the side, Mars has meant many things to us earthlings.
Post on May 03, 2011 by Rachel Silverman
Serving Up Delicious Scoops of Sun Daily
The Solar Dynamics Observatory was launched last year, and since then has been capturing high resolution, multi-wavelength visible and extreme-ultraviolet imagery at very frequent intervals.
Post on Apr 22, 2011 by Ben Burress
Celebrating 50 Years with Yuri
50 years ago the launch of a bell-shaped capsule called “Vostok 1” on April 12th, 1961 by Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history as the first human to enter outer space. Yuri’s Night was created to connect and inspire the globe about human spaceflight.
Post on Apr 14, 2011 by Cat
