Space Walk to Fix Ammonia Leak
Astronauts complete space walk to fix ammonia leak. A coolant pump was replaced and appears to be working fine. This video also includes an update from the NASA centres.
Monthly Archive: May 2013
Planck Satellite Maps The Dawn Of Time
Just after the ‘big bang’ light was closely linked to matter, mapping light can tell us a lot ab out the structure of the early Universe. It turns out that the light map fits...
NASA Update – 11th May 2013
The latest update from the NASA centres with information on an ammonia leak on the ISS. Also included is information on the ‘Humans 2 Mars’ summit, which discussed the policy and technological challenges associated...
The Planet Mercury
An introduction to Mercury, the innermost planet in the Solar System and which orbits the Sun once in about 88 Earth days, completing three rotations about its axis for every two orbits. Mercury is one of...
Heliophysics Fleet Captures May 1, 2013 Prominence Eruption – NASA
Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). An active region just around the East limb (left edge) of the sun erupted with a huge cloud of solar material — a heated,...
When Two Galaxies Collide
The Chandra X-Ray Telescope has been used to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. Each of the galaxies is as big as our own...
IC 1101, The Largest Galaxy in the Universe
The smallest galaxies can be 200 million light years across. The largest galaxies in the Universe are ellipticals and can contain as many as a trillion stars. The largest galaxy we have ever seen...
Fermi’s Close Call With A Soviet Satellite – NASA
In 2012, the Goddard CARA team participated in collision-avoidance maneuvers for eight missions, which included the Fermi spacecraft which was in danger from being in collision with a Russian satellite. Fermi rockets were designed...
ESA, The Space Agency For Europe
An introduction to ESA, The European Space Agency. The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation, a cooperative coming together of its twenty Member States in their national interest and common good. Even though a...
The Journey of Light Through Time and Space
The Planck spacecraft scans the skies for the afterglow of the big bank that created the Universe. Here we follow the life of a proton as it travels through space and time. Planck is...
Mysterous Giant Hurricane on Saturn
A member of the Cassini imaging team talks about the mysterious hexagon that we posted about a couple of months ago. It appears that the centr eof the Hexagon is a hurricane that is...
China Launches ChinaSat 11
China successfully launched the ChinaSat 11 communications satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center with a with Long March 3B rocket and successfully entered it into geosynchronous orbit. httpv://youtu.be/hCrS0B3MvRM The communications satellite consists of C-band...
Astronomical Sights In May 2013
What’s happening in the sky this May 2013 by Jane Houston Jones from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Information on which astronomical sights will be available for viewing.
