Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The space shuttle Endeavour’s twin giant rockets will be hoisted by crane next week and affixed into place atop the craft’s aft skirts in a first…
Category: Planetary Science
HAARP artificial airglow may be widely visible in Alaska
HAARP’s Ionospheric Research Instrument is a phased array of 180 high-frequency antennas spread across 33 acres. Credit: UAF/GI photo by JR Ancheta. Alaskans and visitors may be able to see…
Wearable devices may prevent astronauts getting ‘lost’ in space
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The sky is no longer the limit—but taking flight is dangerous. In leaving the Earth’s surface, we lose many of the cues we need to orient…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter
This image from a video animation provided by NASA depicts the Lucy spacecraft approaching an asteroid. On Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, Lucy encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its…
Astronomers now know how far the Earth is from 200 galaxies
CREDIT: NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI On July 11, 2022, the very first image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was released to the general public. It’s called Webb’s…
NASA C-130 makes first-ever flight to Antarctica for GUSTO balloon mission
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility C-130 aircraft delivered the agency’s Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) payload to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on Oct. 28, 2023. The GUSTO mission will launch on…
NASA X-ray telescopes reveal the ‘bones’ of a ghostly cosmic hand
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./R. Romani et al. (Chandra); NASA/MSFC (IXPE); Infared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DECaPS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt) In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in…
Mouse embryos grown in space for first time: Japan researchers
The mice embryos were thawed and grown on the International Space Station. Mouse embryos have been grown on the International Space Station and developed normally in the first study indicating…
Hubble captures galaxy pair Arp-Madore 2339-661
Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Acknowledgement: L. Shatz This striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the interacting galaxy pair known as Arp-Madore 2339-661.…
NASA rocket to see sizzling edge of star-forming supernova
This image shows an illustration of the constellation Cygnus, Latin for “swan,” in the night sky. The Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, also known as the Veil Nebula, is located near…
