This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1–2403. This is one of six being studied by the Hubble Frontier Fields programme, which together have produced the deepest images of gravitational lensing ever made. Image released Oct. 22, 2015.Credit: NASA, ESA and the HST Frontier Fields team (STScI) The Hubble […]
This image of Pluto’s small moon Kerberos was created by combining four images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, at a range of 245,600 miles (396,100 kilometers) from Kerberos.Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Pluto’s tiny satellite Kerberos has gotten its first close-up. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has […]
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*.Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y.Bai. et al. When the monster back hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy belched out an exceptionally high number of powerful X-ray flares last year, it made astronomers wonder — is this a sign that […]
Space Science Image of the Week: An intense burst of charged particles from the Sun created this eerie celestial display, captured in the skies above Norway To source
The International Charter Space and Major Disasters celebrates 15 years of free access to the best-available satellite images To source
An artist’s impression of the hottest and most massive contact binary system, where the two similarly sized stars share material.Credit: ESO/L. Calcada Scott Kelly set a new record for American spaceflight, a collector set a new record for the most money ever paid for astronaut memorabilia, and scientists are continuing to search for signs of […]
A new, insanely massive picture of the Milky Way — 46 billion pixels across — marks the largest astronomical image of all time, researchers say. It’s so…Read More » big, it we can only show part of it on this page. [Read the full story. ] Less « To source
Kibo-ABC Member Countries’ News: Indonesia and Japan Last Updated: October 26, 2015 Indonesian Youth talked with Astronaut Soichi Noguchi in the communication event of Space Science Festival in Bandung, Indonesia The communication event with JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, has been held as a part of Space Science Festival in Indonesia, organized by National Institute of […]
About this Image Dione, one of Saturn’s larger moons, orbits across the face of the planet with Saturn’s unilluminated rings crossing the planet’s middle. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Sizes: Wallpaper download options Standard Wide To source
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket passed its critical design review, gaining a new look in the process.Credit: NASA NASA’s next-generation rocket has a new look. The space agency has revealed a reworked color scheme for the Space Launch System heavy-lift booster, removing the paint from one major component, while adding “racing stripes” to […]
In this silent films from the records of the United States Air Force, parts of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) spacecraft are showcased by men in white coats. According to the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the mission was “to place military personnel in orbit to conduct scientific experiments to determine the ‘military usefulness’ of […]
An illustration depcits NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Pluto-like object in the distant Kuiper Belt.Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Steve Gribben NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has begun chasing down another distant, icy object. New Horizons, which in July performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto , fired up its engines yesterday (Oct. […]
Aquarius, an easily overlooked star pattern with a storied history, will appear to the south during the evening this week. For almost 30 years, I’ve served as a guest lecturer and instructor at New York’s Hayden Planetarium, and if there is one thing that I think has set me apart from my colleagues, it is […]