• Preparing To Command The ISS - Sunita Williams | Video

    Updated: 2012-06-29 22:04:59
    SPACE.com's Clara Moskowitz chats with the next commander of the International Space Station - NASA astronaut Sunita Williams.

  • Pop A Water Balloon In Space - What Happens? | Video

    Updated: 2012-06-29 19:35:42
    NASA astronaut Don Pettit pops several of them to show the the behavior of the balloon and the water in a zero-g environment aboard the International Space Station.

  • Spacecraft to Pinpoint Portals of Sun's Extreme Energy | Video

    Updated: 2012-06-29 19:20:34
    The magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth merge several times a day, opening up a pathway for high energy particles to pass from the Sun. With the help NASAs Multisphere Mulitscale mission their exact locations may be derived.

  • M-Class Solar Flare Captured In Ultraviolet | Video

    Updated: 2012-06-29 18:57:35
    A strong flare erupted from sunspot AR1513 on June 29th, 2012 and the Solar Dynamics Observatory was on hand to record it with its ultraviolet camera. This time-lapse is looped and slowed for a close-up view. <br/

  • Fastest Pulsar Yet Revealed By Several Telescopes | Video

    Updated: 2012-06-29 16:29:09
    30,000 light years from Earth, pulsar IGR J1104-6103 appears to be wailing across the sky at between 5.4 and 6.5 million miles per hour. But theorists are at a loss to explain how this bright X-ray source could have gotten such a swift cosmic kick.

  • Asteroid Threat: Sizing Up Earth's Vulnerability to Space Rock Strikes

    Updated: 2012-06-29 10:35:32
    A civilization-threatening impact isn't imminent, but lots of asteroids out there could do serious damage.

  • Western U.S. Wildfires Seen From Space | Video

    Updated: 2012-06-28 20:26:10
    A camera aboard the International Space Station captured footage of the fires raging in Colorado and other states in June 2012.

  • Saturn Moon Titan May Hide Underground Ocean

    Updated: 2012-06-28 19:02:44
    The subsurface sea could contain water, and maybe even life.

  • Amazing Space Jellyfish Floats in Night Sky Photo

    Updated: 2012-06-28 18:39:35
    Astrophotographer Bill Snyder captured this photo of supernova remnant IC 443, the Jellyfish nebula.

  • Alien Planet's Evaporating Atmosphere Caused by Star Eruption

    Updated: 2012-06-28 16:04:52
    The astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to study the planet's atmosphere.

  • Private Foundation Gets Into Hunting Asteroids Business | Video

    Updated: 2012-06-28 15:59:37
    The B612 Foundation - a mash mix of astronomers, astronauts and tech pioneers - aims to launch their Sentinel Program to discover and map most of the larger and some of the smaller asteroids in the Earth 'threatening' neighborhood.

  • Portrait of a Dramatic Stellar Crib

    Updated: 2012-06-28 15:12:54
    One square degree image of the Tarantula Nebula and its surroundings.

  • Asteroid-Hunting Private Telescope Could Find 500,000 Space Rocks

    Updated: 2012-06-28 15:05:07
    To date, astronomers have found just 10,000 near-Earth space rocks.

  • Space History Photo: Simulated Van Allen Belts

    Updated: 2012-06-28 14:34:56
    Research on these mysterious "belts" of radiation, which begin just 4,000 miles from Earth's surface, was conducted at Lewis Research Center.

  • Stellar Flare Vaporizes Part Of Alien Planet's Atmosphere | Video

    Updated: 2012-06-28 14:22:25
    The Hubble Space Telescope has seen a burst of evaporation in the upper atmosphere of exoplanet HD 189733b following a intense flare from its parent star - leading scientists to believe that the extreme x-ray radiation from the flare is the culprit.

  • How the Private Sentinel Space Telescope Will Hunt Asteroids (Infographic)

    Updated: 2012-06-28 13:54:31
    From its station near Venus’ orbit, Sentinel will have a clear view of Earth’s orbit while looking away from the of the sun. <img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Zdiao4S7vzweBoCT583_1mwdrTw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"

  • Super-Close Asteroid Flyby Reveals Space Rock Secrets

    Updated: 2012-06-28 05:26:30
    The asteroid 2012 KT42 was the sixth-closest asteroid encounter on record.

  • Private Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope Mission to Be Unveiled Today

    Updated: 2012-06-28 05:09:32
    The Sentinel space telescope will hunt for potentially hazardous space rocks.

  • Asteroid's Near Earth Flyby Caught By NASA Telescope | Video

    Updated: 2012-06-27 21:45:11
    NASA's Infrared Telescope facility captured asteroid 2012 KT42 as it whizzed by Earth. The telescope locks onto the target (bright object) thus making the stars appear as streaks.

  • Milky Way Black Hole Eats Gas Cloud - Coming 2013 | Video

    Updated: 2012-06-27 21:05:38
    A giant gas cloud is on a collision course with our galaxy's supermassive black hole. This will give scientists the ability to watch the spaghetti-fying destruction of the cloud in real time.

  • DARPA To Salvage Satellites For Scrap?

    Updated: 2012-06-27 20:28:45
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Pheonix program hopes to develop small satellites to scour the junkyard of dead space birds to re-use components such as usuable antennas - thus bringing down the price of launch for all new satellites.

  • Transit of Venus 2012

    Updated: 2012-06-05 21:33:00
    Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive Transit of Venus 2012 An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name Transit of Venus 2012 Eight years ago on 8th June 2004 I was lucky enough to see the transit of Venus from Jodrell Bank Observatory . The website I made for that is still around . Over the next few hours we'll have another transit of Venus the last until 2117 The transit will be viewable from many places on Earth . If you don't have a view of the Sun from where you are clouds or the planet getting in the way there are plenty of live feeds : online LCOGT and the Institute for Astronomy , Hawaii The RAS via the GLORIA project NASA Edge Astronomers Without Borders Planet Hunters and more If you decide to

  • Dawn Goes Over ‘n’ Out

    Updated: 2012-06-04 18:03:55
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. On May 3, 2011, the mapping camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured its first image (left) of the giant asteroid Vesta. Only 5 pixels across, the image didn’t provide [...]

  • Slice of History: Something is Missing …

    Updated: 2012-06-04 17:22:01
    By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Something is Missing … — Photograph Number JB-16114B To anyone who came to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., after 1975, this photo may seem odd – [...]

  • Sunspots and flares

    Updated: 2012-05-12 13:51:00
    Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive Sunspots and flares An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name Sunspots and flares As we head towards the maximum of the Sun's 11 year cycle of activity , the Sun's surface is becoming much more interesting . Although here in the UK we've had awful weather for the past month or two , the sudden improvement of the past couple of days has meant we're able to see huge sunspot 1476 which is launching solar flares in our direction . Here is my photo taken a few minutes : ago The Sun seen at the eyepiece of a Coronado PST 12 May 2012 : CREDIT Stuart It isn't the best picture ever but you can see the sunspot to the left of centre as well as some prominences around the edge .

  • Slice of History: Scanning Electron Microscope

    Updated: 2012-05-10 19:17:45
    By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Scanning Electron Microscope — Photograph Number 354-1043B In late 1967, this Stereoscan Mark VI scanning electron microscope (SEM) was delivered to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory by the Cambridge Instrument [...]

  • Dawn Ascends Over Asteroid Vesta

    Updated: 2012-05-03 00:10:49
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta. The depiction of Vesta is based on images obtained by Dawn’s framing cameras. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | › [...]

  • Alien vs. Editor: A Pigment of Your Imagination?

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:50:10
    By Steve Edberg Alien vs. Editor is a forum for questions and answers about extrasolar planets and NASA’s search for life beyond our solar system. Leave your questions for author Steve Edberg and read more on the PlanetQuest website. Where would blue-skinned aliens exist? Joel asked: If you were to find aliens next to the sun, why would [...]

  • All Eyes on Asteroid Vesta

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:59:40
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows a young crater on Vesta that is 9 miles (15 kilometers) in diameter. Layering is visible in the crater walls, as are [...]

  • Highs and Lows of Exploring the Giant Asteroid

    Updated: 2012-03-02 21:30:05
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta. The depiction of Vesta is based on images obtained by Dawn’s framing cameras. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | › [...]

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