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...
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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.
Strange Goings On Regarding Comet ISON!?
Is there some sort of coverup going on regarding comet ISON? When ISON was discovered it was being hailed as the Comet of the millenium. Could it be comet of the millenium in more...
More On The Two New Planetary Systems Found By Kepler
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might...
Testing NASA’s New Robot
In this NASA video segment learn about the mobile robot NASA plans to use for future missions to Mars and the Moon. The new rover being tested has been dubbed ATHLETE ( the All-Terrain Hex-Limbed...
Earth Day 2013 – NASA
Here is the latest update from all the NASA facilities and projects. It also includes NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver tour of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission control room and was briefed on Goddard Earth...
Curiosity Update – 17th April 2013
A NASA scientist gives the latest update on Curiosity, including information that shows that the Red Planet doesn’t have the same atmosphere it used to. Experiments show that the atmosphere used to be much thicker...
Lunar Lander Mission – ESA
A simulation of the Lunar Lander Mission proposed by ESA. The mission was due for liftoff around 2017 but in late 2012 the mission was put on hold. Lunar Lander is a robotic explorer...
To Space and Back!
Wow! An amazing experiment by an amateur to send a model glider to the edge of space and control it back down to Earth. The video is amazing. Well done guys!
