With the launch of Sentinel-3A confirmed for 16 February, preparations for liftoff are charging full speed ahead. The tricky task of fuelling the satellite has now been ticked off the ‘to do list’ and the propulsion team is already decontaminating their equipment before returning home. To source
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CosMix: The Universe Is Alive With Music Goddard Space Flight Center’s Best Videos NASA Edge NEOs: Near Earth Objects – The Video Show Inside Space Station – The Video Show Exploring the Southern Sky – ESO at 50 | Vide… Last Venus Transit In Your Lifetime | Video S… Curiosity – The SUV of Mars […]
The dwarf planet Ceres as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park), and M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (STScI) Ceres is a dwarf planet, the only one located in the inner reaches of the solar system; the […]
Everyone knows that UFOs are cool, but the surprisingly low temperatures of one cosmic flying saucer may force astronomers to rethink their ideas about how planets form. Scientists have made the first direct measurements of large dust grains in the planet-forming region of a disk dubbed the Flying Saucer, which surrounds a young star in […]
An artist’s conception shows a family of comets as it passes in front of a star — one of the best explanations for the strange dimming around Tabby’s star. It’s looking less likely that a swarm of comets or an “alien megastructure” can explain a faraway star’s strange dimming. The star (nicknamed “Tabby’s Star,” after […]
High-flying spy planes such as the U-2, seen here, likely spurred many reported UFO sightings over the years, CIA officials have said. Credit: National Security Archive In 1947, New Mexico police officer Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeding car when he heard a loud noise. He saw a flame shoot up in a nearby patch […]
CosMix: The Universe Is Alive With Music Goddard Space Flight Center’s Best Videos NASA Edge NEOs: Near Earth Objects – The Video Show Inside Space Station – The Video Show Exploring the Southern Sky – ESO at 50 | Vide… Last Venus Transit In Your Lifetime | Video S… Curiosity – The SUV of Mars […]
Good news for “Star Wars” fans who can’t get enough of “The Force Awakens”: The popular Lego video game series will add a new installment that closely mirrors the hit film. Even the newly released trailer for the Lego “Force Awakens” video game — which will hit stores on June 28 — has some inside […]
| 1 | 2 | 3 | The stars are parts of our lives much more than we realize. Essentially, everything that is around us – and in us – was forged a long time ago inside a stellar furnace. All of the chemical elements that are heavier than carbon, the oxygen we breathe, the […]
On the morning of Feb. 4, 2016, the waning crescent moon will be between Saturn and Venus, seen here half an hour before sunrise. Credit: Starry Night Software For the last couple of weeks, early risers have been enjoying the “parade of the planets,” as all of the naked-eye planets gather in the dawn sky. […]
Moon Trees, like this one at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, stand as living monuments to the 1971 Apollo 14 mission. Credit: NASA They are spread across the United States, standing as living monuments to a moon mission 45 years ago this week. The “Moon Trees ” — redwoods, loblolly pines, sycamores, Douglas firs […]
Technology image of the week: a commercial forest seen through the ‘eyes’ of a 3D laser scanning system To source