• Best Space Pictures of the Week - Sept. 29, 2012

    Updated: 2012-09-29 14:24:32
    See amazing photos of Earth and space from the week.

  • The Cool Clouds of Carina

    Updated: 2012-09-29 00:49:04
    Observations made with the APEX telescope in submillimetre-wavelength light at a wavelength of 870 µm reveal the cold dusty clouds from which stars form in the Carina Nebula.

  • Asteroid Dust Could Fight Climate Change on Earth

    Updated: 2012-09-28 23:13:25
    The space cloud would form a huge 1,600-mile-across sun shade.

  • Surprising Troughs on Asteroid Vesta Might Have Resulted From Collision

    Updated: 2012-09-28 22:46:17
    Another asteroid may have slammed into Vesta's south pole.

  • Ganymede: Jupiter’s Largest Moon | Video

    Updated: 2012-09-28 21:53:03
    Perhaps as old as the Solar System itself, Ganymede – the largest moon of any planet – is the only moon known to have a magnetic field.

  • Callisto: Jupiter’s Dead Moon | Video

    Updated: 2012-09-28 21:48:59
    99% the diameter of Mercury but only a third of Mercury's mass, what lies beneath deep beneath Callisto's pockmarked surface may surprise you. And it's probably the best place to base future explorations of the Jupiter system.

  • Io: Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon – Worst Smell in the Solar System | Video

    Updated: 2012-09-28 21:47:10
    Tidal forces of Jupiter's huge mass cause sulphur volcanoes of Jupiter's inner most moon to constantly erupt. Io is literally tearing itself apart. It's the most geologically active body in the solar system.

  • Saturn's Glorious Rings Dazzle in NASA Photo

    Updated: 2012-09-28 21:12:16
    The Cassini probe snapped the shot this past June.

  • Harvest Moon Meets Uranus in the Sky Saturday: How to Watch Online

    Updated: 2012-09-28 19:04:27
    The Slooh Space Camera will be webcasting live feeds from observatories around the world. <p

  • Death Valley, Earth and Gale Crater Mars - What In Common? | Video

    Updated: 2012-09-28 18:18:02
    Alluvial fans (river exits) are present in California, just as they are on the Red Planet. Curiosity Rover is nearing one the first target sites in the Gale crater to study where water once flowed on ancient Mars.

  • Saturn: Delicate Rings Of Ice And Supersonic Winds | Video

    Updated: 2012-09-28 16:47:34
    The rings of Saturn have captured human curiosity for centuries. But they aren't the only fascinating mysteries surrounding the sixth planet from the sun.

  • Venus Transit From Arctic and Australia Shows Parallax | Video

    Updated: 2012-09-28 15:25:44
    In this superimposed view: Upper Venus = Canberra, Australia and Lower Venus = Svalbard ( Arctic) the planet appears on two different paths. June 5, 2012 was the last time Venus will cross the face of the Sun (as seen from Earth) in our lifetimes.

  • What is the Temperature on Earth?

    Updated: 2012-09-28 05:58:50
    The average temperature is 61 F (16 C), but temperatures vary greatly around the world.

  • Dawn’s Stellar Anniversary

    Updated: 2012-09-27 23:40:29
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft makes its journey to its second target, the dwarf planet Ceres, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. Artist’s concept of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Dear Dawnniversaries, On the fifth anniversary of the beginning of its ambitious interplanetary adventure, Dawn can look back with [...]

  • How to See Uranus in Telescopes This Weekend

    Updated: 2012-09-27 22:46:36
    The off-kilter planet Uranus hits night sky milestone on Saturday: Opposition.

  • Super-sized Black Hole 'Tornado' Simulated by Computer | Video

    Updated: 2012-09-27 20:09:45
    What happens when black holes collide? A super-computer simulation has found that magnetized gas can form a funnel-like structure jetting up and out of the accretion disk.

  • Messenger: New Views of Mercury

    Updated: 2012-09-27 19:43:15
    NASA's Messenger mission has spent several years mapping Mercury, which was poorly understood for decades.

  • Jupiter: Giant, Windy Gas-Ball Protecting The Inner Solar System | Video

    Updated: 2012-09-27 19:30:22
    By far the most massive planet in our solar system, Jupiter features giant hurricanes, auroras, abstract artistic cloudswirls, and maybe even a solid core. It also protects Earth by gravitationally clearing the solar system of asteroids and comets. <p

  • Milky Way Quiz: Test Your Galaxy Smarts

    Updated: 2012-09-27 18:44:16
    These cosmic conundrums will challenge your knowledge of our home galaxy.

  • Mars Rover Curiosity Photo Reveals Crescent Moon Phobos

    Updated: 2012-09-27 05:04:56
    Curiosity took a break from Martian rocks to observe Mars biggest moon in the sky.

  • A Lonely Planet

    Updated: 2012-09-24 17:40:00
    Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive A Lonely Planet An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name A Lonely Planet A few years ago I half-jokingly suggested that it would be great to have a Lonely Planet guidebook to Mars . Today I was reminded of that idea and even Lonely Planet joined in the conversation pointing out some others on their wish list So , I've mocked up how Lonely Planet Mars might . look A what if mock-up of a Lonely Planet guide for Mars click to embiggen Background : credit ESA DLR FU Berlin G . Neukum Tags : Mars Lonely Planet guidebook Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Monday 24th Sep 2012 17:40 BST Add a comment Permalink Comments : ADD A : COMMENT Don't provide an email URL unless

  • How to Observe the Moon (Infographic)

    Updated: 2012-09-20 22:21:38
    With a pair of binoculars or a small telescope, many spectacular features can be spotted on the moon.

  • APOD 500,000

    Updated: 2012-09-07 00:37:00
    It was only a year ago that I mentioned that @apod had 250,000 followers on Twitter. Since then it has doubled to 500,000. This growth could be some kind of network effect caused by more re-tweets making more people aware of the account. It could be that Twitter still has @apod as an auto-follow for new account signups. Perhaps there are just more spam accounts randomly following people. Whatever the cause, I've put in no effort other than to try to keep the daily updates going despite Twitter's increasingly locked-down API. - taken from Astronomy Blog (www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/)

  • CoS 128

    Updated: 2012-09-05 22:17:55
    I've been busy catching up on my classes, so I haven't posted anything lately.  But, you can catch up on lots of great space-related blog posts at the 128th Carnival of Space, being hosted this week at the AARTScope Blog. -Astroprof

  • Electrostatic Radiation Shielding

    Updated: 2012-09-05 22:17:52
    Clearly carrying heavy shielding to protect astronauts from radiation in space is expensive.  If you havent' been reading my space radiation series as I've been posting, then you can look over the last several of my postings about space radiation to see some of the problems.  So, some other strategy ...

  • Cosmic Rays

    Updated: 2012-09-05 22:17:49
    Part 3 of my series on space radiation is about the radiation itself.  The term cosmic rays is generally used to describe this radiation.  Unfortunately, as often happens, the term evolved before the nature of the phenomenon being studied was known, so it may not be the best term to ...

  • Dawn’s Split from Asteroid Vesta - Mission Insider Explains

    Updated: 2012-09-05 19:27:59
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft makes its journey to its second target, the dwarf planet Ceres, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft departed the giant asteroid Vesta on Sept. 04, 2012 PDT to begin its journey to a second destination, the dwarf planet Ceres, which [...]

  • Geoff Notkin Rock Star

    Updated: 2012-09-02 06:07:01
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  • Full Moon Calendar 2012 | Next Full Moon

    Updated: 2012-07-31 20:52:31
    The full moon happens once a month. Find out when.

  • Huge Mars Robot Armed With Laser, Cameras, Curiosity (Infographic)

    Updated: 2012-07-30 21:32:03
    The nuclear-powered mobile science laboratory Curiosity will roll across the surface of Mars for years, searching for the conditions that may have once made Mars an abode of life.

  • 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 – [...]

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