Time Lapse Movie Shows What It Feels Like to Fly Over Planet Earth
As they soar above Planet Earth on the International Space Station, astronauts regularly point their cameras toward home, and their images are stored on a massive…
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Skynet Needs Your Help Crunching Astronomical Data
Idle home computers are being sought to help search through tons of astronomical data. The Skynet project involves using the spare processing capacity of computers as…
Read the article →Dawn Spacecraft Images Vesta’s Striking Features
A new video from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. This image obtained by the…
Read the article →Planet With Two Suns Discovered by Kepler
The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA’s…
Read the article →NASA Milestone: James Webb Telescope Mirror Coating Is Completed
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached a major milestone in its development. The mirrors that will fly aboard the telescope have completed the coating process…
Read the article →AAVSO Alert Notice 448: Request for Observations of V455 and in Support of HST Observations
AAVSO Alert Notice 448 Request for observations of V455 AND in support of HST observations September 12, 2011 Dr. Paula Szkody (University of Washington) has requested…
Read the article →Memorial Image Taken on Mars on September 11, 2011
A view of a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center towers was taken on Mars yesterday, on the…
Read the article →AAVSO Alert Notice 447: Nova Sco 2011 No. 2 = PNV J16364440-4132340 = PNV J16364300-4132460
AAVSO Alert Notice 447 Nova Sco 2011 No. 2 = PNV J16364440-4132340 = PNV J16364300-4132460 September 11, 2011 Event: Nova in Scorpius Nova Sco 2011 No.…
Read the article →Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011
Take a look at some of the winning photos with two of the judges from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, astronomy programmes manager Olivia Johnson and public…
Read the article →The Moon Hoax – Dead and Buried
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists…
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