Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 7-11 November 2016 To source
Earth-Observing Satellite Launching Today: How to Watch Live
The WorldView-4 satellite and its Atlas V rocket being prepped for liftoff at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A sharp-eyed Earth-observing satellite is launching today (Nov. 11), and you can watch all the spaceflight action live. The WorldView-4 satellite is scheduled to lift off today at 1:30 p.m. EST (1830 GMT) atop a United […]
Maria Mitchell: Astronomer & Feminist
Maria Mitchell studied navigation and astronomy in the 1800s. She discovered a comet in 1847. Maria Mitchell was a 19th-century astronomer and feminist who is best known for discovering a comet in 1847. Her discovery made her instantly famous and resulted in her being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — the […]
Henrietta Swan Leavitt: Discovered How to Measure Stellar Distances
Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered a relationship between the period of a star’s brightness cycle to its absolute magnitude. The discovery made it possible to calculate their distance from Earth; Henrietta Swan Leavitt was a Harvard “computer” — one of several women in the early 1900s who studied photographic plates for fundamental properties of stars. Leavitt […]
Annie Jump Cannon: 'Computer' Who Classified the Stars
Annie Jump Cannon examines a photographic plates of the night sky. She created the stellar classification system still used today. Annie Jump Cannon was a female astronomer best known for coming up with the current system of stellar classification. Her system — ranking stars as O, B, A, F, G, K or M, with “O” […]
Supermoon Forecast: The Moon Hasn't Been This Close in Almost 69 Years
On Monday (Nov. 14) at 6:15 a.m. EST, the moon will arrive at its closest point to the Earth in 2016: a distance of 221,524 miles (356,508 kilometers) away. This distance, which is measured from the center of the Earth to the center of the moon, is within 85 miles (137 km) of the moon’s […]
Rare 'Supermoon' In Nov. 2016 – NASA's Advice On How To Watch It | Video
Recommended videos for you Rare ‘Supermoon’ In Nov. 2016 – NASA’s Advice… WorldView-4 Satellite Launched Atop ULA Atlas… ‘Supermoon’ Science: NASA Explains What’s Rar… NASA Astronaut Honors Veterans From Space Sta… Hurricane Surface Winds To Be Studied by Sate… ‘Fight For Space’: NASA and Science All-Stars… Nat Geo’s ‘Mars’ Is ‘More Dramatic Because It… Largest […]
Virunga Mountains
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-1 radar composite image of the Virunga Mountains in East Africa, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source
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[JAXA President Monthly Press Conference] JAXA President Monthly Regular Press Conference October 2016
JAXA President Monthly Regular Press Conference Date and time: From 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. on October 14 (Fri), 2016Venue: JAXA Tokyo Office Presentation Room (B1 floor)MC: Yoshikazu Shoji, JAXA Public Affairs Department Director IAC (International Astronautical Congress) ,2016 IAC (International Astronautical Congress) was held in September in Guadalajara, Mexico. IAC is annually organized in autumn. […]
NASA's HoloLens Demo Puts Researchers on Mars, Space Station and Workbench
Marikje Jorritsma, an intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and a master’s student at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, demonstrated JPL-developed programs for Microsoft’s HoloLens headset at an NYU event Nov. 7. Here, she manipulates a technical model of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. NEW YORK — Visitors from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) […]
Largest 'Supermoon' Since '48 Will Not Be This Close Again Until 2034 | Video
Recommended videos for you ‘Fight For Space’: NASA and Science All-Stars… Nat Geo’s ‘Mars’ Is ‘More Dramatic Because It… Largest ‘Supermoon’ Since ’48 Will Not Be Thi… Daisy Ridley Applauds Women’s ‘Invaluable Con… Satellites ‘You Can Hold In Your Hand’ Spurri… Voting From Space? NASA Astronaut Explains Fr… ‘Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet’ […]
Getting to Know the Getz Ice Shelf
As scientists and crew with NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission prepared for a research flight on Nov. 5, 2016, the weather in Punta Arenas, Chile, was cold, wet, and windy. But when they reached their survey site in West Antarctica, skies were clear and winds were calm—a perfect day for scientists to collect data over the […]
What President Trump Means for NASA
What will President Donald Trump mean for NASA? Shown here on May 03, 2016 in New York City. What NASA programs will President-elect Donald Trump support, which will he potentially work to eliminate, and whom will he nominate for NASA’s top leadership position? Two space policy reporters offered their insight on these questions. Brian Berger […]