Barbara Matthews took this image the first week of August from Donner Summit, a mountaintop on the northern Sierra Nevada range. While scouting locations to watch the Perseids meteor shower earlier this year, an astrophotogrpaher was able to capture this stunning shot of the Milky Way , our home galaxy. Barbara Matthews took this image the […]
Our week through the lens: 21-25 November 2016 To source
This image of M45, or the Pleiades star cluster, was taken by Ron Brecher in October 2016. Twinkling stars shines in the stunning stargazing image. This image is of M45, also known as the Pleiades star cluster, or the Seven Sisters . The image was taken by Ron Brecher in October 2016. The twinkling star field inspired Brecher. […]
Me, drawing a hypolith quadrat in the field. The Mars Society is conducting the ambitious two-phase Mars 160 Twin Desert-Arctic Analogue mission to study how seven crewmembers could live, work and perform science on a true mission to Mars. Mars 160 crewmember Annalea Beattie is chronicling the mission , which will spend 80 days at […]
Look almost directly overhead in the constellation Perseus at 10:30pm local time to see the variable star Algol. There is an apocryphal story, dating back to the mid-18th century, about a famous Paris astronomer who would stand on one of the Seine bridges on nights when the variable star Algol was in eclipse, to point […]
The Sentinel-1 satellites have shown that the Millennium Tower skyscraper in the centre of San Francisco is sinking by a few centimetres a year. Studying the city is helping scientists to improve the monitoring of urban ground movements, particularly for subsidence hotspots in Europe. To source
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-3 image of Japan, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source
The six Expedition 50 crew members celebrate Thanksgiving in space, Nov. 24, 2016, with rehydrated turkey, stuffing, potatoes and vegetables. To source
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A full-sized “pathfinder” of Vector Space Systems’ Vector-R rocket undergoing tests in September in Tucson, Arizona. WASHINGTON — Vector Space Systems said Nov. 18 that it has raised $1.25 million in funding to support development of its small launch vehicle, with a goal of a first launch by the end of next year. The seed investment […]
Join us Friday, 25 November, at 10:00 CET for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-3 image of Japan To source
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft begins a series of daring dives through Saturn’s rings Nov. 30, the first step in the probe’s “grand finale” investigation of the gas giant planet. From Nov. 30 to April 22, Cassini will dive through the outer edge of Saturn’s rings 20 times, once every seven days. The spacecraft will be entering […]
Thousands of pieces of space debris circle Earth in this artist’s impression. WASHINGTON — The international community needs to establish expected patterns of behavior in space, despite ongoing worldwide political tension, top Pentagon space experts said. “There is an erosion of some of the commonly accepted standards and norms, and there’s concern about that as […]