Vertigo Comics is known as a bastion for mature, diverse storytelling, and now one of its architects has gone solo to honor, celebrate, and introduce some of the most game-changing women in history. Former Vertigo Executive Editor Shelly Bond’s first post-DC project is a anthology profiling some of history’s most iconic, game-changing women . “I hope […]
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Bezos and Blue Origin Reportedly Pitch 'Amazon-like' Delivery for the Moon
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos poses in front of his rocket. Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, reportedly pitched the new administration on setting up an “Amazon-like” delivery service for the moon. In a January white paper circulated within NASA and the Trump transition team, Blue Origin proposed developing a cargo lander called Blue Moon […]
Star Eclipse: Bright Aldebaran Hides Behind Moon Saturday
One of the sky’s brightest stars will vanish behind the moon as seen from most of the contiguous U.S. and Central America on Saturday night. This stellar eclipse will be widely visible at a convenient time: For the West, it will happen early in the evening, while viewers on the East Coast can watch the […]
‘Spooky Meteor Noises’ Reproduced and Explained by Scientists | Video
By Steve Spaleta | March 3, 2017 12:20pm ET “Photoacoustic coupling” may be behind strange sounds accompanying or even preceding a bright meteor soaring through Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists reproduced sounds based on the measured brightness of a fireball that was observed in Dec. 2014 for the study. credit : Space.com/Spalding et al./Sandia National Laboratories/Pavel […]
Venus Is About to Leave the Evening Sky: Here's What to Know
Skywatcher Cory Poole captured this photo of Venus and Jupiter in Redding, California, on July 5, 2012. Poole wrote: “You can see Venus passing through the Hyades open star cluster with Jupiter and the Pleiades above that.” We are coming to the end of a spectacular evening showing by the planet Venus. It seems hard […]
Dressed to thrill
Mission teams on two continents completed a pre-launch ‘dress rehearsal’ yesterday, ensuring everything is ready for Sentinel-2B liftoff next week. To source
Hubble Showcases a Remarkable Galactic Hybrid
UGC 12591’s classification straddles somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral galaxy. It lies just under 400 million light-years from us in the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster. To source
NASA Telescope Recovered In Antarctica 1 Year After Parachuting Down | Video
By Steve Spaleta | March 3, 2017 09:19pm ET The Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flare (GRIPS) mission was lofted into the stratosphere by high-altitude balloon in Jan. 2016. After 12 days of collecting data, it parachuted back down to the frozen tundra of Antarctica. Weather hampered recovery efforts until Jan. 2017. credit : NASA Goddard […]
Watch Sentinel-2B launch
Follow the Sentinel-2B launch live from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 7 March. Streaming begins at 01:30 GMT (02:30 CET), with liftoff scheduled at 01:49 GMT (02:49 CET) To source
Follow #Sentinel2Go
Live from ESA’s Space Operations Centre in Germany: follow the event leading up to the launch of Sentinel-2B. Streaming begins at 00:30 GMT (01:30 CET) on 7 March To source
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 27 February – 3 March 2017 To source
NASA Spacecraft Avoids Collision with Martian Moon Phobos
Close call! NASA’s Mars-orbiting spacecraft shifted course this week to avoid a future collision with Mars’ dark moon Phobos . The MAVEN spacecraft — short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN — has been orbitng Mars for more than two years , monitoring the Red Planet’s atmosphere. On Feb. 28, it performed a rocket motor burn […]
New Jupiter Images: Do You See Cotton Candy or Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'?
An image of Jupiter’s swirling clouds takes the place of the swirling night sky in Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” in an image created by JunoCam user Amelia Carolina Sparavigna. Jupiter’s swirling cloud tops, photographed by NASA’s Juno probe, look like something straight out of a dream, or even a famous painting. Citizen scientist Amelia […]