Human spaceflight image of the week: Thomas Pesquet’s space residence photographed from his old address on Earth To source
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Landing Sites for 2020 Mars Rover: NASA Weighs 3 Options
NASA’s top three choices to land its Mars 2020 rover are Northeast Syrtis, Jezero crater and Columbia Hills. Credit: NASA NASA has selected three potential landing sites for the upcoming Mars 2020 rover: an ancient lake, a past volcanic hotbed and an early hot-spring site. Scientists chose the final three candidates at a workshop last […]
JUICE: Exploring Jupiter's Moons
Artist’s impression of the JUICE spacecraft. JUICE, also known as the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer, is a European Space Agency mission intended to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons: Europa, Callisto and Ganymede. A single orbital spacecraft, with no lander, will be the first to orbit Ganymede, and one of a handful of […]
Solar Cycle's Ups and Downs Witnessed by Spacecraft For 7 Years – Time-Lapse Video
By Steve Spaleta | February 13, 2017 11:02am ET NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been capturing imagery of the Sun since its launch in Feb. 2010. Since then It has watched a large part of the 11-year solar cycle. credit : NASA/GSFC Watch more ► Shows Skylon SABRE – A True Space Plane | Video Sh… […]
F for Fabulous
When seen up close, the F ring of Saturn resolves into multiple dusty strands. This Cassini view shows three bright strands and a very faint fourth strand off to the right. To source
NASA Reopens Michoud Assembly Facility Damaged by Tornado
NASA has reopened its Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans as recovery work continues in the wake of a powerful tornado that damaged the manufacturing center last week. “Significant progress has been made on tornado recovery, and NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility reopened on Monday Feb. 13 for normal operations with a few exceptions,” NASA officials wrote […]
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Space Science Image of the Week: Remembering Rosetta’s close comet flyby on Valentine’s Day 2015 To source
Planet Formation May Rely on Dusty 'Traffic Jam' In Early Star System
Researchers think the collapsing gas cloud forming the new star system L1527 might look something like this — with a large, flattened envelope of gas transitioning to an inner protoplanetary disk. Data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array in Chile suggests the material experiences a slow-down at the spot where its angular momentum overpowers the […]
The Brilliant Stars of Sagittarius Glitter for Hubble Telescope
Part of the constellation of Sagittarius, known as The Archer, was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera in fantastic details. Stars across the photo twinkle with reds, blues, silvers and golds. Thousands of stars and galaxies set a phenomenal backdrop in this Hubble Space Telescope image that includes a section of the constellation of […]
Jupiter's Little Red Spot Eyed by NASA Spacecraft (Photo)
Jupiter’s northern hemisphere shines in cosmic glory. Juno’s JunoCam imager collected this view of Jupiter December 11, 2016, including its very large storm known as the Little Red Spot. As NASA’s Juno spacecraft imaged Jupiter’s northern latitudes in December, the on-board JunoCam captured this fantastic view of a gigantic storm known as NN-LRS-1, or Jupiter’s Little […]
Baby Supernova Discovery Hints at How Star Explosions Are Born
An image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey of galaxy NGC 7610, where researchers recently found a newborn supernova. Baby pictures of a newborn supernova have captured this stellar explosion after the first half-dozen hours of its life, shedding light on how these giant explosions happen, a new study finds. This newly discovered cosmic baby […]
More Alien Worlds? New Data Haul Identifies 100+ Possible Exoplanets
Artist’s conceptions of the probable planet orbiting the star GJ 411, which lies just 8.3 light-years from Earth. Astronomers have spotted more than 100 new potential alien planets, including one in the fourth-closest star system to the sun, a new study reports. This haul of newfound possible exoplanets, which have yet to be confirmed as […]