From Strawberries to Wolves, See the Full Moon Names of 2016
Astrophotographer Jennifer Rose Lane sent in a photo of the full moon, taken on Jan. 5, 2015, in Chapmanville, West Virginia.Credit: Jennifer Rose Lane With the first full moon of 2016 set to rise on Saturday, it’s the right time to take a look at each full moon’s distinctive names for the year to come. […]
Bigger On the Inside: 1st Look at Houston's New 747-Space Shuttle Exhibit
Independence Plaza at Space Center Houston is the only place in the world where the public can see a space shuttle (mockup) mounted atop a Boeing 747 jetliner. It is also the only exhibit where the public can enter both vehicles.Credit: collectSPACE.com HOUSTON — A large sign outside the entrance to Space Center Houston promotes the […]
How This Flower Was Saved From Space Station Mold
This zinnia bloomed on the International Space Station after mold attacked some of its fellow flowers.Credit: Scott Kelly/NASA/Twitter As mold threatened zinnia flowers in the space station Veggie experiment, investigators decided to take a bold move: allow an astronaut to take care of the flowers without always calling for help from home first. The result? […]
Blizzard Bears Down on U.S. East Coast
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite snapped this image of the blizzard approaching the U.S. East coast around 2:35 a.m. EST on Jan. 22, 2016 using the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument’s Day-Night band. To source
Launch timelapse
A timelapse of last month’s Principia launch to the Internaional Space Station with ESA astronaut Tim Peake, in 4K ultra-high definition To source
LISA Pathfinder arrives at its worksite
After a six-week journey, LISA Pathfinder arrived at its destination today, an orbit around a point of balance in space where it will soon start testing technologies crucial for exploring the gravitational Universe. To source
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Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 18-22 January 2016 To source
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Sorry, E.T.: The Aliens May All Be Dead
If aliens are out there, they may all be dead. It might be relatively easy for life to evolve on hospitable planets throughout the universe, but very hard for it to get any kind of a foothold, a new study suggests. This could be the answer, the study’s authors say, to the famous Fermi Paradox , […]
How Holograms Could Aid Alien Life Hunt
Examples of organisms and trajectories observed in sackhole brines of Malene Bay, Greenland, using digital holographic microscopy. (A) Appearance of a nearly full-screen image containing objects suggestive of bacteria (arrows). (B) Zoomed-in appearance of a single bacterial cell. (C) Amplitude image of non-motile diatom. Note the clear resolution of cell walls and nuclei. (D) More […]
Star Cluster Sparkles Like Jewels in Hubble Telescope View (Photo, Video)
Dozens of stars glimmer like jewels in a jaw-dropping new photo by the Hubble Space Telescope. The new Hubble image depicts the star cluster Trumpler 14, a collection of about 2,000 young stars that lies 8,000 light-years from Earth, near the center of the Carina Nebula. You can zoom in on the glittering star cluster […]
NASA Sees Massive Winter Storm Moving East
A massive winter storm that is expected to bring snow and ice to the eastern United States in the next 48 hours dwarfs the central part of the country in a new satellite image. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-West satellite spotted this cloudy view of the large storm near the Gulf Coast today […]