Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 21-25 March 2016 To source
Hubble Looks Into a Cosmic Kaleidoscope
This cosmic kaleidoscope of purple, blue and pink marks the site of two colliding galaxy clusters. To source
Mercury Spacecraft Departs Cosmosphere for 3-Year Exhibit in Indiana
— Liberty Bell 7, astronaut Gus Grissom’s 1961 Mercury capsule, has left the Cosmosphere in Kansas for a three-year loan to The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis in Indiana. Credit: Cosmosphere Liberty Bell 7, the historic NASA capsule that launched the second American to space, is leaving its museum home for the home state of its […]
Easter's Early Arrival: How the Moon Shapes the Date
The full moon of March 23, 2016, shines brightly in this image taken in Chapmanville, West Virginia, by photographer Jennifer Rose Lane. Credit: Jennifer Rose Lane Photography This month, depending on which time zone you live in, the vernal equinox (the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere) occurred either on March 19 or […]
Tallest Peak on Saturn's Huge Moon Titan Identified (Photo)
Three ridges on Titan known as Mithrim Montes contain the Saturnian moon’s tallest peak. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI Titan’s tallest peak rises nearly 11,000 feet (3,350 meters) into the huge Saturn moon’s hazy skies, new observations by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggest. Images and radar data taken by Cassini peg a 10,948-foot-tall (3,337 m) mountain in an equatorial […]
United Launch Alliance Confirms Engine Issue on Latest Atlas Rocket Launch
An Atlas 5 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 22. The rocket’s upper stage burned for more than a minute longer than planned, ULA confirmed March 24. Credit: NASA/Tony Gray & Kevin O’Connell WASHINGTON — The upper stage of the Atlas V that launched a Cygnus cargo spacecraft March 22 fired for more […]
Sea Ice Is Melting Faster Than Expected, NASA Says | Exclusive Interview
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Etosha
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2A image of the Etosha salt pan, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source
Writing Sci-Fi? First Understand How Elephants Aren't Dragonflies (Op-Ed)
Credit: Miroslaw Swietek Ken Liu is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy awards, he has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed and Strange Horizons, among others. Ken’s debut novel is […]
'The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories' (US 2016): Book Excerpt
“The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories”, by Ken Liu. Credit: Copyright 2016 by Ken Liu, Saga Press, Simon & Schuster Ken Liu is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, the Hugo and the World Fantasy Award, he has been published in The […]
Radar Pegs 3rd Closest Comet At 3000ft-Wide | Video
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Alluvial Fans in Saheki Crater, Mars
Alluvial fans are gently-sloping wedges of sediments deposited by flowing water. Some of the best-preserved alluvial fans on Mars are in Saheki Crater, an area that has been imaged many times previously. To source
With the Right 'Words,' Science Can Pull Anyone In (Op-Ed)
This artist’s conception of Cygnus X-1 shows the black hole drawing material from companion star (right) into a hot, swirling disk. Credit: Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center . Sutter is also host of the podcasts Ask a Spaceman […]