The rugged landscape of Saturn’s fracture-faced moon Dione is revealed in images sent back by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft from its latest flyby. Cassini buzzed past Dione on June 16, coming within 321 miles (516 kilometers) of the moon’s surface.
Raw, unprocessed images from the flyby are available here.
A selection of some of the images is also available.… Read the rest of this article
AAVSO Alert Notice 520V404 Cyg, an X-ray nova and a low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) with black hole component, is undergoing its first reported X-ray and optical outburst since 1989. Large scale, rapid variations are being reported in wavelengths from X-ray to radio by professional and amateur … Read the rest of this article
NASA will land in Mars, Pennsylvania Friday, June 19 to celebrate Mars’ New Year with Red Planet enthusiasts of the Keystone State for three days of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) activities. The goal is to encourage young people to pursue careers in in these critical fields of study that will enable NASA’s journey to Mars.
At the … Read the rest of this article
Saturn’s moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what makes the depressions they lie in? A new study suggests that the moon’s surface dissolves in a similar process that creates sinkholes on Earth.
Apart from Earth, Titan is the only body in the Solar System known to possess surface lakes and seas, as seen … Read the rest of this article
Here’s a replay of the media briefing at the Paris Air Show with members of the Rosetta team following contact being re-established with Rosetta’s Philae lander. ESA’s Rosetta comet-chaser has captured the world’s imagination. It is the first mission in history to rendezvous with a comet, land and escort it during its journey around the Sun. The briefing includes an … Read the rest of this article
NASA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) have launched a global photography competition to highlight how the vantage point of space helps us better understand our home planet, improve lives, and safeguard our future by aiding sustainable development on Earth.
To highlight the role of space-based science and technologies and their applications on Earth, NASA and … Read the rest of this article
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden signed agreements with two European partners to advance Mars exploration and our journey to the Red Planet during meetings Tuesday at the Paris Air Show.
Bolden and Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French space agency, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), signed an agreement for France to provide the mast for the SuperCam component of NASA’s … Read the rest of this article
Here’s a replay of the press conference at the Paris Air Show on the first results from ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV). After a perfect mission on 11 February 2015, IXV travelled from the splashdown site in the Pacific Ocean just west of the Galapagos islands, to Le Bourget. In the five months since the mission, the initial analysis has … Read the rest of this article
AAVSO Alert Notice 519Nova Sgr 2015 No. 2 (PNV J18365700-2855420; see AAVSO Alert Notice 512 at http://www.aavso.org/aavso-alert-notice-512) is undergoing a significant fading visually as its infrared excess increases, indicating that substantial dust production is underway.
Nova Sgr 2015 No. 2 was discovered by John Seach (Chatsworth … Read the rest of this article
Rosetta’s lander Philae has woken up after seven months in hibernation on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The signals were received at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt at 22:28 CEST on 13 June. More than 300 data packets have been analysed by the teams at the Lander Control Center at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
“Philae is doing … Read the rest of this article
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