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Black Hole Jets Hotter Than Expected
Artist’s impression of a quasar, with a supermassive black hole in the center. Credit: Wolfgang Steffen, Institute for Astronomy, UNAM, Mexico New observations of a jet-emitting black hole show astonishing temperatures inside the jets of 10 trillion degrees Kelvin — a toasty 18 trillion degrees Fahrenheit. This new measurement shows that quasars can blow far […]
Mysterious Mars Mounds Were Liquid-Filled Craters
Image of Gale Crater, with the landing zone of the Curiosity rover (circled). The blue line shows where Curiosity has moved. Credit: NASA/JPL On Mars, formerly water-filled craters transformed to dry mile-high mounds with the help of wind, according to new research. The results explain the geography of Gale Crater (the Curiosity rover’s landing site) […]
The Turbulent North Atlantic
The Gulf Stream waters flow in somewhat parallel layers, slicing across what is otherwise a fairly turbulent western North Atlantic Ocean in this March 9, 2016 image collected by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite. The turbulence is made visible by the pigmented phytoplankton it entrains. To source
Saturn Is Absolutely Gorgeous in This Photo from NASA's Cassini Probe
An image of Saturn, taken by the Cassini probe on Feb. 19, 2016. The spacecraft captured this image from roughly 1.2 million miles, at 7 degrees above the ring plane using its wide-angle camera. The moon Dione can be seen in the lower left of the image. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Saturn, the jewel of […]
Lego 'Star Wars' Game Shows Off Flexible Fun in Gameplay Trailer
May the Force be with you! A new trailer has just been released from “Lego Star Stars: The Force Awakens,” which will echo many key sequences of the hit film from last year. Players can take part in airborne TIE fighter battles, check out famous “Star Wars” locations, use the Force to move objects around […]
International Space Station: Facts, History & Tracking
The International Space Station, as photographed by crewmembers aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2010. Credit: NASA The International Space Station (ISS) is the most complex international scientific and engineering project in history and the largest structure humans have ever put into space. This high-flying satellite is a laboratory for new technologies and an observation […]
Twister on Mars! Opportunity Rover Makes Tracks Ahead of Dust Devil (Photo)
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover captured this image of its tracks and a distant dust devil on April 1, 2016. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity is no storm chaser. A photo snapped by Opportunity Friday (April 1) shows the six-wheeled robot’s tracks in the foreground and a Martian twister off in the distance, perhaps giving […]
SpaceX, Boeing on Track to Launch Astronauts in 2017: NASA
Launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which SpaceX is modifying to accommodate crewed launches aboard its Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: Sarah Lewin/Space.com SpaceX and Boeing are still on track to start launching astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017, NASA officials said. NASA has contracted with […]
NASA Science Chief, Former Astronaut John Grunsfeld Retiring
NASA science chief and former astronaut John Grunsfeld — shown here in the space shuttle Columbia’s cargo bay in March 2002 — will retire from the agency on April 30, 2016. Credit: NASA NASA science chief John Grunsfeld, a former astronaut who famously helped repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit, will end his […]
Is Mysterious 'Planet Nine' Tugging on NASA Saturn Probe?
Artist’s concept of “Planet Nine,” a hypothesized world about 10 times more massive than Earth that may orbit far from the sun. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) The hunt is on to find “Planet Nine” — a large undiscovered world, perhaps 10 times as massive as Earth and four times its size — that scientists think […]
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