The moon shows its full face to Earth once a month. Well, sort of. In fact, the same side of the moon always faces the planet, but part of it is in shadow. And, in reality most of the time the “full moon” is never perfectly full. Only when the moon, Earth and the sun […]
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Celestial Photos: Hubble Space Telescope's Latest Cosmic Views
This image shows the top ten images entered into the Hubble’s Hidden Treasures image processing competition: Top row: NGC 1763 by Josh Lake, M 77 by Andre van der Hoeven, XZ Tauri by Judy Schmidt, Chamaeleon I by Renaud Houdinet, M 96 by Robert Gendler.Bottom row: SNR 0519-69 by Claude Cornen, PK 111-2.1 by Josh […]
Beautiful Galaxy Collision Captured by Hubble Telescope
Deep in the Universe, Hubble captured a stunning but turbulent scene with its Advance Camera for Surveys. An ultralumiunous infrared galaxy known as IRAS 14348-1447 almost a billion miles from Earth slowly but savagely blends two galaxies into one. Out in the far reaches of the universe, a beautiful, seemingly tranquil scene illuminates the cosmos. […]
NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson's 7th Spacewalk
NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson’s 7th Spacewalk To source
Breathtaking! European Southern Observatory Facilities In Aerial Views | Video
Recommended videos for you Breathtaking! European Southern Observatory F… Mission Control Houston – A Flight Director’s… Huge NASA Rocket Test Stand Constructed In 2…. Very Large Telescope To Be Upgraded For Alpha… Asteroid Flies Between Earth And Moon 2 Days… Early Universe Black Holes Grew In Bursts, X-… CAVES ‘Trippin’ – Enter The Otherworldly Real… […]
Mission Control Houston – A Flight Director's Walkthrough | Video
Recommended videos for you Mission Control Houston – A Flight Director’s… Huge NASA Rocket Test Stand Constructed In 2…. Very Large Telescope To Be Upgraded For Alpha… Asteroid Flies Between Earth And Moon 2 Days… Early Universe Black Holes Grew In Bursts, X-… CAVES ‘Trippin’ – Enter The Otherworldly Real… 2017 Solar Eclipse Path: Moon […]
'Garnet Planets' Would Be Hostile to Life
Olivine versus garnet planets: planets whose stars have more silicon than magnesium would have a harder outer core that’s less likely to exhibit plate tectonics. Here, a potential planet around the star Kepler 102, whose composition would be more like Earth’s, dominated by olivine, and a planet around Kepler 407, which would have a hard, […]
Giant Atoms Could Help Unveil 'Dark Matter' and Other Cosmic Secrets
Composite image showing the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The universe is an astonishingly secretive place. Mysterious substances known as dark matter and dark energy account for some 95 percent of it. Despite huge effort to […]
Live: Proxima spacewalk
Watch ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA’s Shane Kimbrough’s spacewalk to upgrade the Space Station’s power system To source
The Milky Way's Most Distant Stars May Be Stolen Goods
The Milky Way as seen over the ESO Paranal Observatory, Chile. Some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way may have been lifted from another galaxy, research released Wednesday shows. The unintended donor, known as the Sagittarius dwarf, is one of dozens of miniature galaxies that loop around the Milky Way. The Sagittarius […]
Wolf Moon – What Is It? When Does It Occur? | Video
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Weather watchtower
Technology image of the week: the towering payload module of MetOp-C, Europe’s next weather satellite, arrives at ESA’s technical heart To source
Caravan on ice
Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: delivering supplies in Antarctica To source