With ESA astronaut Tim Peake stepping out of the International Space Station tomorrow, have you ever wanted to know if you have what it takes to be an astronaut? ESA is offering a trial version of a test developed for future astronauts for you to try at home – and by taking part you will […]
The super-luminous supernova ASAS-SN15lh is the most luminous ever measured. Here, an artist’s illustration visualizes what it would be like to see the supernova from an exoplanet located about 10,000 light years away — about the distance from the Earth to the center of the Milky Way.Credit: Beijing Planetarium/Jin Ma A blazing-bright object appears to […]
By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist | January 14, 2016 02:00pm ET NOVA: A white dwarf star pulls matter off of a companion red giant star until a powerful nuclear fusion explosion occurs on the dwarf’s surface. The star is not destroyed and additional explosions can occur, a phenomenon called a recurrent nova. SUPERNOVA: Much more […]
The Expanding Danger of Space Debris: Fragmentation GOCE – The Formula One of Spacecrafts Planning the Assault: Why Bomb the Moon? Europe’s Automated Orbiter Evolves Orbiting Carbon Observatory Moonwalker’s Emotions Color the Gray Moon Constellation: ISS Danger on the Pad! A Hotel Room in Space Video – Hurricane Bertha: View from a Million Feet Targeting […]
Mallory Stewart, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for emerging security challenges and defense policy, called a 2007 anti-satellite test by the Chinese military a “remarkable incident of irresponsible behavior” during a Jan. 11 speech.Credit: The Atlantic Council WASHINGTON – The outcry that followed the Chinese military’s 2007 destruction of a weather satellite and the […]
Features of heated material (shown in red) piling up in front of fast-moving stars create bow shocks that stand out from the cooler background material (shown in green). Stars are shown in blue.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Wyoming KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The galaxy’s fastest stars may have just become easier to pick out of a crowd. As […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket performs a static fire test on the pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on Jan. 11.Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX performed a successful static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket late Jan. 11, clearing the way for the launch of an ocean science satellite, and another first stage […]
Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission have assembled this highest-resolution color view of one of two potential cryovolcanoes spotted on the surface of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. To source
ESA astronaut Tim Peake is on a half-year mission in space. See his amazing photos of life and the view from Earth orbit in this Space.com gallery. HERE:…Read More » Peake took this image from the International Space Station on Dec. 29, 2015 with the caption, “There may not be much snow in the Alps […]
Watch media briefing on the European Data Relay System (EDRS) on Friday 15 January at ESA Headquarters, from 11:30 CET To source
Operations image of the week: Huygens’ fish-eye view of Titan a decade ago To source
An occultation of Pluto and the sun, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft, reveals new information about the atmosphere — in this case, that Pluto has blue skies. The image was captured by the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) and released Oct. 8, 2015.Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI The airplane was already flying off the southwest coast of […]
(L to r) NASA astronauts Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher and Sally K. Ride. These six women were the first official female astronaut candidates, although 12 women underwent some astronaut training in the 1960s.Credit: NASA Thirty-eight years ago this week, NASA announced the names of […]