In an effort to improve fuel efficiency, NASA and the aircraft industry are rethinking aircraft design. To source
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Exoplanet Anniversary: 1st Alien Worlds Confirmed 25 Years Ago Today
This artist’s illustration shows the three known planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12. The two outermost planets, now officially named Poltergeist and Phobetor, are the first confirmed exoplanets; their discovery was announced in January 1992. The exoplanet revolution began 25 years ago today. On Jan. 9, 1992, astronomers Alex Wolszczan and Dale Frail published a […]
Photographer Captures Spectacular Star Trails Over Sculpture Park
Amateur astrophotographer Adam Gordon took this photo of star trails in Anza Borrego Desert State Park in southern California on Sept. 30, 2016. Star trails look larger than life among the sculptures of a grasshopper and scorpion. Astrophotographer Adam Gordon took the image at California’s Anza Borrego Desert State Park on the night of Sept. […]
Breakthrough Starshot Enlists Giant Telescope to Seek Planets at Alpha Centauri
Breakthrough Initiatives, a private organization that’s dedicated to looking for life elsewhere in the universe, has enlisted the help of a massive telescope in Chile to search for planets around one of the nearest star systems to our sun, officials announced today. Earlier this year, scientists announced the discovery of a potentially rocky planet orbiting […]
Two–faced moon
Space Science Image of the Week: A global colour mosaic of Saturn’s moon Dione shows striking contrasts between its two faces To source
Dark Nebula Glows Red in Amateur Astronomer's Photo
Thick blankets of dust surround the predominantly dark region in Barnard 343, a dark nebula in the constellation Cygnus. Astrophotographer Jeffrey O. Johnson took this image from his backyard in Las Cruces, New Mexico. “I took this image after I found the dark area when looking at a star map (Google Sky) and looking specifically […]
Lucky Shot! Skywatcher Captures Space Station Soaring Over Vienna
Matthias Raudonis took this image of the ISS over Vienna on June 10, 2016. Skywatcher Matthias Raudonis had only one chance to catch the International Space Station (ISS) over Vienna. With a bit of luck and precise timing, he captured the shot. Raudonis was in Austria on a student exchange program from Germany. He’d planned […]
Your Home Planet, as Seen From Mars
Here is a view of Earth and its moon, as seen from Mars. It combines two images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with brightness adjusted separately for Earth and the moon to show details on both bodies. To source
How Far to That Galaxy? Thousands of Cosmic Distances Now Catalogued
This NASA graphic displays all of the astronomical light sources included in the new NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database, an online catalog of more than 100,000 galaxies. One of the most basic questions in astronomy is how far away something is. Now, a new catalog of objects will help scientists answer that question for tens of thousands […]
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Moon Probe Helps NASA Map Path of 2017's Great American Total Solar Eclipse
As eclipse hunters flood the United States this August to watch what scientists are calling the Great American Total Solar Eclipse , new data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (among other sources) will provide them with the most accurate maps ever for where to catch the eclipse. Solar eclipses occur when the moon passes in […]
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Space Station Astronauts Taking Spacewalk Today: Watch It Live
NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough performs a spacewalk outside the International Space Station during the STS-126 space shuttle mission in 2008. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson are venturing outside the International Space Station today (Jan. 6) to upgrade the orbital outpost’s electrical power system. Kimbrough and Whitson departed through NASA’s Quest airlock shortly after […]