By George Marston, Newsarama Contributor | February 1, 2017 12:21pm ET Credit: CBS Production has begun on “Star Trek: Discovery ,” and to mark the occassion, CBS has released a behind-the-scenes featurette that shows off some of the show’s sets and costumes, culminating in a glimpse at the new starship’s captain’s chair. Have a look: [embedded […]
After a nail-biting first season full of rapidly shifting alliances, “The Expanse ” returns to Syfy tonight (Feb. 1), so buckle up for a 13-episode space ride. The science-fiction TV show, based on a series of novels by James S.A. Corey (actually Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), explores the difficulties encountered when humans expand across […]
NASA’s vortex coronagraph has imaged the planet-forming material surrounding the young star HD 141569A, which is located 380 light-years from Earth. A new imaging tool being used at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has delivered its first photos of young planetary systems. The vortex coronagraph instrument, which is installed inside the Near Infrared Camera […]
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This panorama, photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, shows nearly the full length of Lake Powell, the reservoir on the Colorado River in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Note that the ISS was north of the lake at the time, so in this view south is at the top left of the […]
NASA’s PolarNOx experiment launched on a Black Brant IX sounding rocket Jan. 27, 2017, from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. A sounding rocket flew successfully into the Alaskan sky Jan. 27 to track down nitric oxide, a byproduct of auroras (northern lights ) that form in the region. The Polar Night Nitric Oxide […]
By Steve Spaleta | February 1, 2017 10:25am ET On Feb. 26, 2017, South America, Africa and Antarctica will be treated to either a partial solar eclipse or a “ring of fire” annular eclipse. On the evening of Feb. 10th or 11th, depending on where you are, “the moon will darken slightly as it passes […]
In a new deep-space photo of two starry nebulas, a cat’s paw reaches out to high-five a glowing, red lobster. These two animal-shaped space blobs consist of interstellar gas and dust that is fueling the formation of new stars. Their evocative shapes have earned these two nebulas the nicknames the “Cat’s Paw Nebula” and the […]
Image of a January 2017 static-fire test of the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that already has one spaceflight under its belt. The booster launched SpaceX’s robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station in April 2016. SpaceX is gearing up for its first-ever launch of a used rocket, which is […]
By Steve Spaleta | February 1, 2017 05:38pm ET Mars, Venus, Uranus are visible this month. Comets 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova, and 2P Encke can be seen with binoculars and telescopes. Look to the west at sunse to see the triangular glow of light, known as the zodiacal light. Best Telescopes For The Money credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech Watch […]
Nick Graham, Buzz Aldrin and Bill Nye pose on the runway at the Nick Graham NYFW Men’s Fall/Winter 2017 fashion show on Jan. 31 in New York City. NEW YORK — Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon , just took one giant leap for all astronaut-kind when he became the first […]
A model of ‘folded’ space-time illustrates how a wormhole bridge might form with at least two mouths that are connected to a single throat or tube. Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center . Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman , RealSpace […]
Technology image of the week: testing a mechanism that will align the solar wings of Europe’s latest weather satellite To source