A Perseid Meteor flashes across the night sky above Corfe Castle on August 12, 2016 in Corfe Castle, United Kingdom. A group of scientists has used starlight to test a feature of quantum mechanics that gave Albert Einstein the creeps. Entanglement is what Einstein referred to as “spooky action at a distance.” It’s a phenomenon […]
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In Photos: The Snow Moon Lunar Eclipse & Comet 45P Close Encounter
On Feb. 10-11, 2017, the Full Snow Moon passed through Earth’s shadow in a penumbrual lunar eclipse while the Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusáková made its closest approach. See photos of the awesome event here. [Read the full story ]THIS IMAGE: A comparison image of the Snow Moon penumbral lunar eclipse captured by the Slooh Community Observatory on […]
Green Comet 45P Captured by Slooh Telescopes | Video
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SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Stands Atop Historic NASA Launchpad for 1st Time
SpaceX is preparing to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from the historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has gone vertical at NASA’s historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) for the first time. The California-based company is getting ready for a planned Feb. 18 liftoff from LC-39A , […]
Hubble Sees Spiral in Andromeda
The Andromeda constellation is one of the 88 modern constellations and should not be confused with our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy. To source
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 6-10 February 2017 To source
Jeanette A. Scissum, Scientist and Mathematician at NASA Marshall
Jeanette Scissum joined NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964 after earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from Alabama A&M University. Scissum published a NASA report in 1967, “Survey of Solar Cycle Prediction Models,” which put forward techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot cycle. To source
Sunrise at Rogers Dry Lake
A sunrise photo of Edwards Air Force Base’s Rogers Dry Lake was taken after heavy rainfall in southern California. NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center is seen in the foreground. To source
CryoSat reveals lake outbursts beneath Antarctic ice
A novel way of using ESA’s CryoSat mission has revealed how lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier drained into the Amundsen Sea – potentially the largest such outflow ever reported in this region of West Antarctica. To source
NASA Finds Planets of Red Dwarf Stars May Face Oxygen Loss in Habitable Zones
NASA scientists are expanding the definition of habitable zones (the area around a star where a life-sustaining planet might lurk), taking into account the effect of stellar activity that can threaten exoplanets’ atmospheres with oxygen loss. original
[ISS / Japanese Experiment Module (KIBO)] Call for Proposals: Asian Try Zero-G 2017-2018
Call for Proposals: Asian Try Zero-G 2017-2018 Last Updated: February 9, 2017 Kibo-ABC would like to invite your ideas for the simple space experiment “Asian Try Zero-G 2017-2018” program to be conducted in the International Space Station (ISS)/Kibo. The selection area has 2 categories: Category 1 for those under 18 years old, and Category 2 […]
Blue jets studied from Space Station
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Antarctica’s Changing Larsen Ice Shelf
The Larsen Ice Shelf is situated along the northeastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming places on the planet. In the past three decades, two large sections of the ice shelf (Larsen A and B) collapsed. A third section (Larsen C) seems like it may be on a similar trajectory, with a […]