Tatooine-Like Planets with 2 Suns Need Perfect Ingredients to Form
An artist’s impression of Alpha Centauri, which involves two close-orbiting stars, with an Earth-mass planet in orbit around one. A third star orbits the close pair from a distance.Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org ) Astronomers have long struggled with how young planets form around pairs of stars without destroying themselves, but new research suggests it […]
NASA Wants to Use Hoverboard Tech to Control Tiny Satellites
California-based company Arx Pax has developed a hoverboard using “Magnetic Field Architecture” technology.Credit: Arx Pax It’s a vision of the future that may even have eluded Marty McFly: hoverboard tech in space. NASA wants to make this vision a reality, and soon. The space agency is teaming up with California-based company Arx Pax, which has […]
MAVEN Using Stars To Study Mars' Atmosphere | Video
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission is exploring the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere and using the light of stars to determine its composition. The mission hopes to better understand the history of water on Mars. Credit: NASA/GSFC To source
Rocks Here Sequester Some of Mars' Early Atmosphere
This view combines information from two instruments on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to map color-coded composition over the shape of the ground in a small portion of the Nili Fossae plains region of Mars’ northern hemisphere. To source
Soyuz Snaps Amazing View of Space Station Dock Switch | Time-Lapse Video
The Earth and Space Station can be seen from the Soyuz TMA-16M’s point of view. The ‘parking spot’ move was necessary to make way for a new crew arriving the following week. Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Gennady Padalka were at the helm of the spacecraft during the flight on Aug. 28th, 2015. Credit: […]
Prawn Nebula View Offers Stunning Glimpse of 'Cosmic Recycling' (Video)
A new view of the Prawn Nebula shows “cosmic recycling” at work: Glowing clusters of newborn stars illuminate surrounding gas, expelled from an earlier stellar generation, which will eventually form into even newer stars. The 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Obsevatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile snapped a choice section of the reddish nebula […]
Alien Oceans' Glint Could Reveal Habitable Water Worlds
This artist’s concept shows Kepler-62f, an exoplanet in the habitable zone of its host star, which is located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Researchers think Kepler-62f may be a “water world.”Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech The bright glint of alien oceans may be visible from afar, allowing astronomers to flag potentially habitable exoplanets. As […]
'Cosmic Recycling' Seeds The Prawn Nebula | Observatory Zoom-In Video
The MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile was used to deliver a new stunning view of the nebula (also known as Gum 56). For over millions of years, stars have been born from the gas of the nebula and in turn they have re-seeded the area through the course of the their […]
US Military Launches Advanced Tactical Communications Satellite Into Orbit
An unmanned Atlas V rocket carrying the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System 4 satellite (MUOS-4) launches into space from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in a pre-dawn liftoff on Sept. 2, 2015.Credit: United Launch Alliance The United States Navy launched an advanced new tactical communications satellite into orbit today (Sept. 2) to join […]
[Project Topics] Hayabusa2 additional ion engine operation for Earth swing-by
Topics List Sep. 2, 2015 UpdatedHayabusa2 additional ion engine operation for Earth swing-by On Sept. 1 (Tue.) and 2 (Wed.), the ion engine of the Hayabusa2 was additionally operated in order to increase the orbit control accuracy for the Earth swing-by.The additional jet emission was completed as scheduled, and the ion engine was operated for […]
One man and his robot
Technology image of the week: ESA’s head of telerobotics introducing the rover Andreas Mogensen will soon be operating from orbit To source
[Earth Observation Research Center (EORC)] Seen from Space – Release of JAXA Himawari Monitor
Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a new webpage “JAXA Himawari Monitor ” showing the color images and the quicklook images of the geophysical data from the geostationary satellite of Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Himawari-8. JAXA and JMA has exchanged the agreement on the distribution and the release […]
Full replay: iriss launch
Watch the full replay of Soyuz TMA-18M launch to the International Space Station with ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen To source