People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA’s Cassini mission on July 19 — the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture. The mission has assembled a collage from those images. The collage is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/collage2013.html .
“Thanks to all … Read the rest of this article
Kirobo, the talking robot that also recognizes faces, was launched into space on August 4, inside a Japanese cargo transfer vehicle headed for the International Space Station.
The 13.4-inch-tall robot was created as part of the “Kibo Robot Project” at the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology.
Kirobo, whose name was created by mashing together the … Read the rest of this article
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy were hard at work outside the International Space Station (ISS) for the second time, when water started to leak into Luca Parmitano’s space suit helmet, immediately resulting in the duo heading back to the Quest Airlock to terminate the EVA. Luca and Chris explain the events that happened during EVA # … Read the rest of this article
When the Space Age began, astronomers knew of exactly zero planets outside the solar system. What a difference 50 years makes.
Modern, ground-based telescopes and NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have now confirmed more than 850 exoplanets, while thousands more await confirmation. The pace of discovery suggests “there are at least 100 billion planets in our galaxy,” says John Johnson of Caltech, … Read the rest of this article
Atmospheric physicist Nick Gorkavyi missed witnessing an event of the century last winter when a meteor exploded over his hometown of Chelyabinsk, Russia. From Greenbelt, Md., however, NASA’s Gorkavyi and colleagues witnessed the atmospheric aftermath. The explosion created a never-before-seen belt of “meteor dust” that circulated through the stratosphere for at least three months.
Shortly after dawn on Feb. 15, … Read the rest of this article
The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes directly in front of the other, Deimos, in a new series of sky-watching images from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity.
Large craters on Phobos are clearly visible in these images from the surface of Mars. No previous images from missions on the surface caught one moon eclipsing the other.
The telephoto-lens … Read the rest of this article
AAVSO Alert Notice 489Event: Nova Del 2013 = PNV J20233073+2046041
Discovered by: Koichi Itagaki (Teppo-cho, Yamagata, Japan), reported by S. Nakano (Sumoto, Japan)
Discovery Magnitude: unfiltered CCD magnitude mag 6.8 using a 0.18-m reflector
Discovery date: 2013 Aug. 14.584 UT
Coordinates: R.A. 20 23 30.73 Decl. +20 46 04.1 (2000.0)… Read the rest of this article
A spectacular Nova explosion in constellation Delphinus was discovered on August 14th – SLOOH covered it live yesterday to showing this amazing event as it happened in true color – narrated by SLOOH’s Bob Berman.
The nova explosion was of a previously unseen White Dwarf star. The star explosion became visible near the constellation Delphinus on the 14th, and it … Read the rest of this article
This fantastic time-lapse video, created by Daniel López, shows the night-time weather and skies above various parts of La Palma in the Canary Islands. Watch it in full-screen mode and turn up the volume on your speakers!
The island is also home to the world-class Roque de los Muchachos Observatory. There are several webcams dotted around the observatory … Read the rest of this article
You’ve probably seen the SpaceX Grasshopper blast off, hover and land vertically before. You’ve probably seen it fly higher than the Chrysler building. Now you can see this innovative little rocket zooms 250 meters into the air and fly 100 meters sideways. You know what it does next? It lands vertically. Just like rockets from old 1950s sci-fi movies!
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