An image snapped earlier this month by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft shows its target comet has quietened, demonstrating the unpredictable nature of these enigmatic objects.
The picture was captured on 4 June by Rosetta’s scientific camera, and is the most recent full-resolution image from the narrow-angle sensor. It has been used to help fine-tune Rosetta’s navigation towards comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, which was … Read the rest of this article
A new exhibit steeped in the cinematic world of “The Avengers” provides a super-powered dose of science and technology from NASA. The unique, interactive educational display premiered at Discovery Times Square in New York City on May 30, 2014, for a six-month engagement.
Marvel’s Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. — an acronym for Scientific Training and Tactical Intelligence Operative Network — is an … Read the rest of this article
NASA and its international partners now have the go-ahead to begin construction on a new Mars lander, after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Review on Friday.
NASA’s Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission will pierce beneath the Martian surface to study its interior. The mission will investigate how Earth-like planets formed and developed … Read the rest of this article
About 50 people from 11 U.S. states will attend a two-day NASA Social, to be held April 1 at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and April 2 at NASA’s Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif.
The attendees, who follow NASA and JPL on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social networks, will be provided a unique, in-person … Read the rest of this article
This is an entry level scope that is highly recommended for anyone who is taking their first steps into astronomy. Given the lack of any computerized feature and or finderscope, it really makes the newcomer adjust and learn how to find objects using a reflector telescope with and without an eyepiece.
The telescope is mounted on a Dobsonian mount – … Read the rest of this article
A new planetarium show, Journey to a billion Suns, premieres today in Hamburg, Germany, to tell the fascinating story of mapping the Milky Way, from ancient times to ESA’s recently launched Gaia mission.
The 45-minute, 360 degree full-dome planetarium spectacular was produced by Stargarten in cooperation with ESA and planetariums across Europe.
Gaia was launched on 19 December and … Read the rest of this article
The moon orbits the Earth and the Earth, along with the other planets in the solar system, orbit the sun. Any alignment of the objects in the night sky could be considered a chance event but we can predict them with astonishing accuracy.
On many occasions, objects will appear very close to each other in the sky during events known … Read the rest of this article
33 years ago, a seminal cosmology series hit TV screens. That was the PBS produced Cosmos series hosted by Carl Sagan. If you’re under 30, you may not even have heard of it.
Thirteen powerful episodes took the viewer from the edge of the Universe down to planet Earth and various characters who have changed or influenced the history of … Read the rest of this article
Inspired by the dream of space exploration, artist Katie Paterson imagined sending a piece of her meteorite artwork back to space in a celebration of science, art and human technology. Her vision may just become reality, with a little help from ESA’s can-do cargo vessel.
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Campo del Cielo, Field of the Sky, by Katie Paterson, is on display as part …
Applying a maxim from computer science to biology raises the intriguing possibility that life existed before Earth did and may have originated outside our solar system, scientists say.
In the science fiction movie Prometheus (2012), the building blocks of life were provided by a proto-human species from another planet.
Image credit: Prometheus (2012) from Twentieth Century Fox
Moore’s Law is … Read the rest of this article
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