The billionaire CEO of Amazon.com is also the founder of the private spaceflight company Blue Origin, which is slowly stepping into the public spotlight.Credit: Blue Origin In September, billionaire Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos announced that Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company he founded, would build a facility at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […]
At Astro Hack Week, hosted the week of September 2015 at New York University, astronomy researchers, programmers and data scientists spent mornings learning about different data topics and afternoons collaborating to put together new analysis tools and solve research questions.Credit: Daniela Huppenkothen NEW YORK — Last week, astronomers, astrophysicists, data scientists and programmers came together […]
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter often takes images of Martian sand dunes to study the mobile soils. These images provide information about erosion and movement of surface material, about wind and weather patterns, even about the soil grains and grain sizes. To source
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The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter often takes images of Martian sand dunes to study the mobile soils. These images provide information about erosion and movement of surface material, about wind and weather patterns, even about the soil grains and grain sizes. To source
Technology image of the week: practical testing of the navigation camera planned to guide ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission around its double-asteroid target To source
The clouds produced by five suborbital NASA rockets that launched on March 27, 2012, from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C., west to Charlestown, W. Va., and north to Buffalo, N.Y.Credit: NASA A NASA suborbital rocket launch Wednesday evening (Oct. 7) is […]
Artist’s illustration of SpaceIL’s lunar lander after it has separated from its Falcon 9 rocket.Credit: Courtesy of Spaceflight Industries The private race to the moon is really starting to heat up. A team from Israel called SpaceIL has signed a contract to launch its robotic lunar lander toward the moon aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 […]
David Levy presented 25 volumes of observation logs to the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City last month.Credit: David Levy A prolific comet hunter has donated almost 60 years’ worth — and counting! — of historic observation logs to be pored over by the public. Only one of David Levy’s 18,500 recorded skywatching sessions contains […]
A solar storm hurtles out towards Mars in this 2011 picture from NASA. Coincidentally, it happened around the same time the Mars Curiosity rover left Earth for the Red Planet.Credit: NASA/ESA/SOHO In “The Martian ,” Mark Watney deals with a lot of dangerous situations — food and communications being a couple of them. But what […]
Artist’s impression of the ExoMars 2016 mission, including the Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli, a small landing demonstrator module.Credit: ESA/ATG Medialab Earlier this month, the ExoMars launch date was pushed back by a couple of months. Instead of launching in January 2016, the European mission will launch the following March — but still get to […]
This map shows areas of North America where a sounding rocket launch should be visible on Oct. 7, 2015.Credit: NASA A NASA rocket launch on Wednesday (Oct. 7) should give skywatchers in the Eastern United States a real treat, weather permitting. NASA plans to launch a sounding rocket at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) on […]
The annual Draconid meteor shower will reach its peak overnight on Oct. 8 and 9, 2015. This image by skywatcher Richard Klofac of the Czech Republic shows a Draconid meteor streaking over Klofac’s garden during the October 2011 display.Credit: Richard Klofac Skywatchers have a chance to see some “shooting stars” this week with the annual […]