• Saturn Up Close and Personal - Cassini's 15th Anniversary Video

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:50:57
    The NASA spacecraft had delivered spectacular imagery of Saturn and its moons. It launched in 1997 and has been exploring the system since 2004.

  • Same Day ISS Delivery - Russian Cargo Ship Blasts-Off | Video

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:23:36
    The Progress 49 cargo vehicle launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 31st, 2012. It's scheduled to dock to the International Space Station 6 hours later.

  • Ancient Star Cluster Curiously Young Looking | Video

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:15:03
    The best view yet of NGC 6362 reveals the globular cluster containing many yellowish red giant stars and many blue stragglers (stars given a shot of new material some point in their lives).

  • Moon and Jupiter Create Celestial Halloween Treat

    Updated: 2012-10-31 11:14:05
    A conjunction between the planet Jupiter and Earth's moon will occur this week.

  • Stunning Star Cluster Includes Deceptively Young Stars

    Updated: 2012-10-31 11:14:01
    Old stars, as well as some that look deceptively young, are on view in a glowing globular cluster </img

  • Halloween Special: The Scariest Things in Space

    Updated: 2012-10-30 19:45:33
    Here's a brief rundown of the spookiest things in space, from vampire stars to zombie planets. </p

  • Mini Planetary System (Artist Concept)

    Updated: 2012-10-30 17:17:46
    This artist's concept depicts an itsy bitsy planetary system -- so compact, in fact, that it's more like Jupiter and its moons than a star and its planets. <p

  • Nearby Galaxy Convicted of Star Theft

    Updated: 2012-10-29 22:39:01
    One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way snatched stars from its neighbor, astronomers say.

  • Volcanic Eruptions on Jupiter's 'Pizza Moon' Io Spotted from Earth

    Updated: 2012-10-29 20:29:30
    A team of SETI scientists have been able to watch Io's volcanic eruptions from the safety of Earth, more than 620 kilometers away.

  • NASA to Announce Early Universe Findings Thursday

    Updated: 2012-10-29 20:29:03
    A discovery made by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope will be discussed.

  • Full Moon 'Fright Night': Watch the Hunter's Moon Live Online Tonight

    Updated: 2012-10-29 18:36:20
    Live telescope views of the full moon and other celestial "scary" sights will be on show.

  • Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble

    Updated: 2012-10-29 17:20:49
    A giant bubble blown by the massive Wolf-Rayet star HD 50896, the pink star in the centre of the image.

  • Splashdown! SpaceX Dragon Returns To Earth | Video

    Updated: 2012-10-29 17:01:21
    The private cargo capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean after a resupply mission to the International Space Station on October 28th, 2012.

  • Hurricane Sandy From Space - Bears Down On Megalopolis

    Updated: 2012-10-29 15:50:58
    The International Space Station has returned the latest imagery of the massive storm on October 29th, 2012. <img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DDulvhbiNpV_4LfsVF9Yms5MsZE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"

  • Best Space Pictures of the Week - Oct. 28, 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-29 06:57:05
    See amazing photos of Earth and space from the week.

  • Hurricane Sandy - Growth of a Monster Storm | Video

    Updated: 2012-10-29 04:35:03
    This time-lapsed full Earth view of the storm shows the early stages of formation to the full blow devastating storm it is today on October 29th, 2012. Animation from NASA GOES-13 satellite observations.

  • SpaceX Dragon Leaves Space Station | Time-lapse Video

    Updated: 2012-10-28 19:44:36
    The cargo capsule is on its way back to Earth as it departed the International Space Station on October 28th, 2012.

  • Sharpening up Jupiter

    Updated: 2012-10-28 09:36:55
    Amazing image of Jupiter taken in infrared light on the night of Aug. 17, 2008 with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) prototype instrument mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope.

  • Hurricane Sandy Expands, Gets More Intense | Video  

    Updated: 2012-10-28 04:51:41
    NOAA's GOES-13 satellite (Oct. 26-28, 2012) shows Hurricane Sandy move out of the Bahamas and its western clouds spread over the U.S. eastern seaboard.  

  • A week of planets

    Updated: 2012-10-17 11:16:00
    Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive A week of planets An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name A week of planets It has been a busy few days of planetary discoveries and this might be down to people saving announcements up for the AAS's Division for Planetary Sciences meeting dps12 Yesterday saw the announcement of PH-1 as the first confirmed planet discovery by users of the Planet Hunters website . The planet is very interesting because it is in a 4 star system It orbits a double star which is orbited by another pair of stars at 1000 AU distance . In our solar system that would put the second pair 20 times further away that the Kuiper Belt but not as far as the start of the the Oort Cloud . You can

  • Slice of History: Is It a JPL Magic Trick?

    Updated: 2012-10-10 01:17:12
    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/. Is it a JPL magic trick? — Photograph 328-161Ac In 1960 through 1961, several different experiments were conducted at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in search of [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • 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

  • 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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  • Fingering Culprit That Polluted Solar System

    Updated: 2012-08-03 01:53:11
    The downward propagating shock wave has compressed the target cloud core and is injecting shock fron

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