Infinite Loop: See the Sun's Yearlong Figure-Eight in the Sky (Photo)
Astrophotographer Giuseppe Petricca took the image from Sulmona, Abruzzo, Italy. The dots forming a curved figure-8 in the sky mark where the sun appeared every day at the same time in a pattern called an analemma.Credit: Giuseppe Petricca This strange figure of the sun creating a figure-eight shape in the sky is an awesome sight, […]
'The Martian' Wins 2 Golden Globe Awards
Matt Damon plays fictional NASA astronaut Mark Watney in ”The Martian,” which won two Golden Globe awards.Credit: ™ and © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. “The Martian” won two Golden Globe awards Sunday evening (Jan. 10), just two days before the sci-fi epic’s release on DVD and Blu-ray. “The Martian ” won for Best […]
Hunting Uranus, the Solar System's Azure Ice Giant
This image shows a full, sunlit hemisphere of Uranus during NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flyby in 1986.Credit: NASA Amateur astronomers the world over enjoy regular views of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and even elusive Mercury. The outer solar system planets Uranus and Neptune, however, are often overlooked. Certainly they are fainter, as they are further […]
Wake Up Philae! Last-Ditch Effort to Find Rosetta's Lander
This image shows a view of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft taken on Dec. 15, 2015 from a vantage point 57 miles away.Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA With time running out to find the lost comet lander Philae, ground controllers attempted another communications pass on Sunday in hopes of getting the probe […]
'God Save The Queen' From Space — UK Astronaut's Message | Video
Moon Base Baseball? Why Not! Ep.2: Land and Deliver Hubble Service Mission 4 – Animation The Legacy of Space Shuttle Atlantis Wanted: Seven ‘Star-Travelers’ | Video Target: The Stars – Which Ones to Watch and Why The Expanding Danger of Space Debris: Fragmentation Target: The “Fuzzies” – Galaxies, Nebulae and Comets ISS: We may be […]
Tribute to a Starman: David Bowie Mourned by Astronauts, Scientists
Astronauts, scientists and members of the spaceflight industry are joining people all over the world in mourning the death of music icon David Bowie, who passed away Sunday (Jan. 10) after a battle with cancer. Tributes to the late artist have been flooding Twitter today (Jan. 11). Former astronaut Chris Hadfield wrote, “Ashes to ashes, […]
Invisible Dark-Matter Dwarf Galaxy Ripped Through Ours | Supercomputer Simulation
Follow the ripples! That’s what scientists have done to pinpoint the location of a dwarf galaxy, composed mainly of dark matter, that disrupted our Milky Way galaxy. A billion-year time-lapse reveals the path it traveled. Credit: Sukanya Chakrabarti video, edited by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally. To source
Starburst Spider
Mars’ seasonal cap of carbon dioxide ice has eroded many beautiful terrains as it sublimates (goes directly from ice to vapor) every spring. In the region where the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image on Feb. 4, 2009, we see troughs that form a starburst pattern. […]
Space on Dailymotion
Welcome to ESA’s new Dailymotion channel: Connect with us! To source
How to Spy on Alpha Centauri and Other Binary Stars to Hunt Exoplanets
An artist’s illustration of Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars. More planets orbiting two stars have been found since Kepler-16b’s discovery.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A new technique could allow scientists to photograph potentially life-supporting planets in nearby multistar systems, its developers say. The most straightforward way to learn about […]
These Are the Space Missions to Watch in 2016
This artist’s illustration shows NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Spaceflight fans will have a lot of cosmic action to keep them happy in 2016. While the coming year does not appear to promise anything quite as spectacular or awe-inspiring as 2015’s signature moment — the July 14 flyby of Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft […]
Making a mirror
The James Webb Space Telescope is rapidly taking shape, with 12 of the 18 mirror segments now installed To source
Dark pools on Titan
Space Science Image of the Week: Cassini–Huygens has discovered much about Saturn’s moon Titan, including pools of liquid methane and ethane on its surface To source