News Release 8-Jul-2019 Neutron star mergers can provide new ‘cosmic ruler’ National Radio Astronomy Observatory Astronomers using National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes have demonstrated how a combination of gravitational-wave…
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Tumultuous Clouds of Jupiter
From NASA June 27, 2019 Tumultuous Clouds of Jupiter This stunning image of Jupiter’s stormy northern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of…
Citizen scientists re-tune Hubble’s galaxy classification
Royal Astronomical Society IMAGE: Spiral structure in the Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101), as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. view more Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC, and STScI Hundreds of…
Mature Galaxy Mesmerizes in New Hubble View
From NASA Image of the Day June 10, 2019 This striking image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), a powerful instrument installed on…
NICER’s night moves trace the X-ray sky
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. You may wonder: What is being shown? Air traffic routes? Information moving around…
Jezero Crater, Mars 2020’s Landing Site
From NASA May 28, 2019 NASA’s Mars 2020 will land in Jezero Crater, pictured here. The image was taken by instruments on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which regularly takes images…
NASA is Going Green, in Space
From NASA A small spacecraft the size of a mini-refrigerator is packed with cutting-edge “green” technology. NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission, or GPIM, will prove a sustainable and efficient approach…
NASA Testing Method to Grow Bigger Plants in Space
From NASA By Danielle Sempsrott NASA’s Kennedy Space Center In an effort to increase the ability to provide astronauts nutrients on long-duration missions as the agency plans to sustainably return…
Chinese Lunar Rover May Have Identified Mantle Exposure
Guest geological note by David Middleton Chang’e-4: Chinese rover ‘confirms’ Moon crater theoryBy Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website 15 May 2019 The Chinese Chang’e-4 rover may have confirmed a…
Elvis calls for “Space Wilderness” to Protect Solar System From Mining!
Guest ridiculing marveling by David Middleton I had to take a break from writing the sequel to How Climate Change Buried a Desert 20,000 Feet Beneath the Gulf of Mexico…
Liftoff of SpaceX’s CRS-17 Dragon Cargo Craft
From NASA A cool image as space exploration marches onward. ~ctm May 6, 2019 SpaceX’s Dragon lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape…
Hubble Spots Stunning Spiral Galaxy
From NASA May 3, 2019 Few of the universe’s residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy. These limelight-hogging celestial objects combine whirling, pinwheeling arms with scatterings of sparkling stars,…
NASA’s Landmark Twins Study Reveals Resilience of Human Body in Space
From NASA Results from NASA’s landmark Twins Study, which took place from 2015-2016, were published Thursday in Science. The integrated paper — encompassing work from 10 research teams — reveals…
Epic photos of the Earth from 1 Million Miles at Sol-Earth L1
On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the world the first image of the sunlit side of Earth captured by the space agency’s EPIC camera on NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite. The…
Massive twin star discovered snuggling close to its stellar sibling
University of Leeds Astronomers have discovered a binary star system with the closest high-mass young stellar objects ever measured, providing a valuable “laboratory” to test theories on high mass binary…
Hubble’s dazzling display of 2 colliding galaxies
Located in the constellation of Hercules, about 230 million light-years away, NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding galaxies. They were first discovered in 1784 by William Herschel and were…
UCF research laying groundwork for off-world colonies
Public Release: 4-Mar-2019 UCF research laying groundwork for off-world colonies Space economy estimated at $1.1 trillion by 2040 University of Central Florida Before civilization can move off world it must…
Hubble reveals dynamic atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune
Public Release: 7-Feb-2019 Hubble reveals dynamic atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center During its routine yearly monitoring of the weather on our solar system’s outer planets, NASA’s Hubble…
How to watch NASA’s New Year’s date with a distant space rock
From The Toronto Star Sun., Dec. 30, 2018 To ancient explorers, “Ultima Thule” was what lay past the northernmost edges of maps, beyond the borders of the known world. So…
“Russia will Shape the Future of Spaceflight”: Announces Nuclear Powered Reusable Rocket Programme
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Russia has just raised the stakes in the space race, by going public with a reusable commercial nuclear powered launch vehicle which has been under…
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