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Slooh Celebrates Earliest Spring Since 1896: Watch Live Today
A view of Earth from space as seen by NASA’s NPP Suomi satellite as seen in January 2012. Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring Just in time for changing seasons, the online community observatory Slooh will host a live view of the sun and discuss the aurora borealis today (March 19) in a webcast celebrating the earliest […]
Soyuz Lifts Off Carrying Jeff Williams and Crewmates to Station
A Soyuz rocket lifts off from rom the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 19, (March 18 U.S. time) carrying Expedition 47 to the International Space Station. To source
Shoulders of giants
Stunning ultra high-definition video of ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia mission To source
90 Years Ago, the Liquid-Fueled Rocket Changed Space Travel Forever
Rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard stands next to his first liquid-fueled rocket prior to its launch on March 16, 1926. Credit: Clark University Robert H. Goddard Archive Launches of liquid-fueled rockets may be relatively routine today, but 90 years ago, they were brand-new. In fact, the first liquid-fueled rocket launched on March 16, 1926, under the […]
How to Spot Satellites
The streak in the night sky in this photo is actually the International Space Station soaring overhead at 5 miles per second. NASA photographer Bill Ingalls captured this photo in a 30-second exposure on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015 from Elkton, Virginia. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls If you go out and carefully study the sky near dusk […]
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Gantry Arms Close Around the Soyuz TMA-20M Spacecraft
The gantry arms close around the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft to secure the rocket, as seen in this long exposure photograph taken on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at launch pad 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Expedition 47 crew is scheduled for 5:26 p.m. EDT Friday, March 18. To source
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 14-18 March 2016 To source
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 14-18 March 2016 To source
Minor Lunar Eclipse: Earth's Shadow to Darken Moon Wednesday
On the morning of March 23, 2016, the moon will dip briefly into the Earth’s faint penumbral shadow in an event best seen from the Pacific Ocean and surrounding territories. Here is how the eclipse will look from Honolulu, Hawaii. Credit: Starry Night Software The moon will undergo a penumbral lunar eclipse next week that […]
New Crew Launching to Space Station Today: Watch It Live
The Soyuz TMA-20M rocket stands ready for lifoff at its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA Three new crewmembers will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) this evening (March 18), and you can watch all the spaceflight action live. NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka […]
Mon-Stars! Cluster of Massive Suns Spotted by Hubble Telescope (Photo)
The central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud appears in this Hubble Space Telescope image, released March 17, 2016. Credit: NASA, ESA, P Crowther (University of Sheffield) Some of the biggest and brightest stars in the universe are packed within a single cluster, a new study reveals. Researchers used the Hubble […]