Got the Right Stuff? NASA Is Recruiting New Astronauts
Astronaut Joseph R. Tanner, STS-115 mission specialist, waves at the camera during a space walk. NASA will be seeking applications for astronauts starting in December.Credit: NASA/JPL Calling all aspiring astronauts: NASA announced today (Nov. 4) that it will be accepting applications starting in December for its next round of astronaut training. Currently, there are 47 […]
Sun 'Hocks A Loogie' And 'Sneezes' Plasma During 2 Flare-Ups | Video
On Nov. 4th, 2015, the Sun ‘spits’ into space following a M3-class eruption. The offending sunspot (AR2443) is close to 124,000 miles (200,000km) from “end to end” according to Spaceweather.com. Earlier in the day, sunspot AR2445 blasted an M1.3 flare, spewing superheated plasma out and back onto itself. Credit: NASA/SDO/mash mix: Space.com To source
Einstein's Biggest Triumph: A Century of General Relativity (Op-Ed)
A partial map of the distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, going out to a distance of 7 billion light years. The amount of galaxy clustering that we observe today is a signature of how gravity acted over cosmic time, and allows as to test if general relativity holds over these scales.Credit: […]
Worldwide Natural Disasters Seen Better By 'Crowdsourced' Satellite Coverage | Video
The ‘International Charter Space & Major Disasters’, founded in 2000 by the European, French and Canadian space agencies, pools satellite imagery from multiple satellites with no expectation of return on investment. Worldwide coverage to help relief efforts are donated by many nations in the spirit of goodwill. Credit: ESA To source
Tropical Cyclone Chapala Over the Gulf of Aden
Tropical Cyclone Chapala made landfall on mainland Yemen early on November 3, 2015, dumping torrential rains across the arid landscape. To source
Tropical Cyclone Chapala Over the Gulf of Aden
Tropical Cyclone Chapala made landfall on mainland Yemen early on November 3, 2015, dumping torrential rains across the arid landscape. To source
Apollo Moon Landing Sites, Moon Phases In Nov. 2015 Skywatching | Video
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Flying Telescope Catches Glimpse of Alien Planet
Postdoctoral fellow Daniel Angerhausen poses with SOFIA the night he observed an exoplanet with the plane-mounted instrument.Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute For the first time ever, astronomers have used instruments onboard the world’s largest airborne observatory to examine a massive planet beyond Earth’s solar system. Studies of exoplanets normally have been confined to either outer space […]
Dust Gaps Around Young Stars Not Exoplanet 'Proof'
Dusty disks, like the one shown here circling the star, are the breeding grounds of planets. When visible or near-infrared observations show a gap in a disk like this, it is often interpreted as evidence for an unseen planet. However, new research shows that a gap could be a sort of cosmic illusion and not […]
Is New Star Wars Movie (or Anything Else) So New?
A recent twitter feud pitting William Shatner against Star Wars’ fans over the upcoming J.J. Abrams film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” raises questions about the originality of popular culture. As Hollywood continues to mine the past for new on-screen material, some ask if anything we watch is really new anymore? The former “Star Trek” […]
Halloween Asteroid Not So Spooky in New Photos
These eight individual radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145 were captured on Oct. 31, 2015 using NASA’s DSS-14 antenna in Goldstone, California and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR/NRAO/AUI/NSF New photos show the less spooky side of the big asteroid that flew past Earth on Halloween. The 2,000-foot-wide (600 meters) asteroid 2015 TB145 […]
Makers of 'Star Wars' BB-8 Droid Toy Promise Hidden Tricks
Sphero’s version of the BB-8 droid featured in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is smaller than its movie-trailer analogue, but no less of a personality.Credit: Sphero/Lucasfilm Ltd. NEW YORK — The new BB-8 droid, which will appear in “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” in December, already has a high-tech mini-me or two — […]
Hey, Einstein: It Really Is a Quantum World (Google Hangout)
Alan Brown, writer and blogger for The Kavli Foundation, contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . What kind of universe do we live in? Dutch physicist Ronald Hanson has given us the best answer to that question yet — and Albert Einstein wouldn’t like it. The question revolves around a phenomenon called […]