Nov. 19, 1969, Apollo 12 Lunar Module Intrepid
The Apollo 12 Lunar Module (LM), in a lunar landing configuration, is photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) on Nov. 19, 1969. Aboard the LM were astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., commander; and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot. To source
Gigantic Ice Cloud Spotted on Saturn Moon Titan (Photos)
As winter sets in at Titan’s south pole, a cloud system called the south polar vortex (small, bright “button”) has been forming, as seen in this 2013 image.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected a massive, never-before-seen icy cloud at the south pole of Saturn’s huge moon Titan. The newly spotted feature — […]
Is This the Loneliest Galaxy In the Universe?
Spiral galaxy MCG+01-02-015 floats in a lonely patch of space.Credit: ESA/HUBBLE & NASA AND N. GORIN (STSCI) The universe has structure: long filaments of dark matter threaded with galaxies and clusters of galaxies punctuated by vast voids. These voids are just that; devoid of the rich concoction of stars that are beaded along the universal 3-dimensional web […]
A witness to a wet early Mars
Vast volumes of water once flooded through this deep chasm on Mars that connects the ‘Grand Canyon’ of the Solar System – Valles Marineris – to the planet’s northern lowlands. To source
[JAXA President Monthly Press Conference] JAXA President Monthly Regular Press Conference November 2015
JAXA President Monthly Regular Press Conference Date and time: From 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. on Nov. 12 (Thu.), 2015Venue: JAXA Tokyo Office Presentation Room (B1 floor)MC: Shigeki Kamigaichi, JAXA Public Affairs Department Director The Space Exploration Innovation Hub was approved as a support project by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), and JAXA has […]
Private Companies Will Help NASA Get to Mars, Space Agency Chief Says
Charles Bolden, NASA’s administrator, addresses a crowd at the first annual SpaceCom expo. Bolden spoke about the important role that private and commercial space companies will play in helping NASA send humans to distant space locations.Credit: Calla Cofield/Space.com HOUSTON — Work needs to be done by commercial companies to take up the responsibility of supporting […]
Lunar Lovers, Why Now Is the Best Time to Moon Watch
The first quarter moon is riding high in the western sky in the early evening this week, a perfect time to explore its surface with binoculars or a small telescope.Credit: Starry Night Software One of the first things every new moon watcher learns is that, when observing the moon, timing is everything. You might think […]
Einstein's Unfinished Dream: Marrying Relativity to the Quantum World
This artist’s illustration depicts how the foamy structure of space-time may appear, showing tiny bubbles quadrillions of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom that are constantly fluctuating and last for only infinitesimal fractions of a second. For more, see this NASA press release .Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at the […]
Planet Being Assembled As Astronomers Watch | Video
The Large Binocular Telescope and Magellan Adaptive Optics System are giving astronomers a ring-side seat to watch a ring of material form into planets around a young star. Very hot hydrogen-alpha emissions, in excess of 17,000° F, was detected and tracked, a sign of a newly accreting planet. (Full Story) Credit: Andrew Shuta (University of […]
Birth of Planets! Formation of Alien Worlds Photographed for 1st Time
Artist’s illustration of planets forming in a circumstellar disk like the one surrounding the star LkCa 15. The planets within the disk’s gap sweep up material that would have otherwise fallen onto the star.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For the first time ever, astronomers have directly observed planets in the process of being born. Scientists have photographed a […]
Deke Slayton to Fly, Again: Orbital ATK Names 2nd Ship for Astronaut
Astronaut Dan Tani (center) joins his fellow Orbital ATK officials to reveal the S.S. Deke Slayton II.Credit: collectSPACE.com/Talia Landman Deke Slayton waited 16 years to fly in space after he was selected as one of the original seven Mercury astronauts in 1959. Grounded for more than a decade as the result of a heart condition, […]
Cloud Patterns Over the Prince Edward Islands
Early November 2015 brought cloudy skies and intriguing patterns over the Prince Edward Islands in the South Indian Ocean. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured this scene on November 5. To source
Cloud Patterns Over the Prince Edward Islands
Early November 2015 brought cloudy skies and intriguing patterns over the Prince Edward Islands in the South Indian Ocean. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured this scene on November 5. To source