The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the winners of an international public contest called Hubble’s Hidden Treasures.
Budding amateur astronomers were invited to create beautiful color astronomical pictures from over 700,000 available images of stars, nebulae, and galaxies in the Hubble Space Telescope data archive. The vast amount of data available from Hubble means that there are at … Read the rest of this article
NASA is helping pigs and birds explore the Martian terrain and shed light on the agency’s missions to the Red Planet in the latest update to the game Angry Birds Space. Rovio Entertainment, creator of Angry Birds, announced the update Thursday, complete with a cast of agency rovers and landers.
Earlier this year, millions of gamers were introduced to … Read the rest of this article
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, which scientists announced today they have named for the late author Ray Bradbury1.
Making its first movement on the Martian surface, Curiosity’s drive combined forward, turn and reverse segments. This placed the rover roughly 20 feet (6 meters) from the spot where it landed 16 days ago. … Read the rest of this article
A simulated mission to an asteroid is under way at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The Research and Technology Studies (RATS) test, a 10-day asteroid exploration simulation in Johnson’s Space Vehicle Mockup Facility, kicked off this week. As NASA makes plans to send humans to asteroids by 2025, RATS and other mission simulations provide the agency with a way … Read the rest of this article
Thirty-five years ago today, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a journey that would make it the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune and the longest-operating NASA spacecraft ever. Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, that launched 16 days later on Sept. 5, 1977, are still going strong, hurtling away from our … Read the rest of this article
AAVSO Alert Notice 467Discovered by: Shigehisa Fujikawa (Kanonji City, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, reported by Mitsuru Soma, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan).
Discovery Magnitude: magnitude 9.4 C using a 105mm camera lens+CCD
Discovery date: 2012 Aug. 09.8048 UT
Coordinates: 06 39 38.74 +05 53 52.0 (2000.0)
Spectra: Spectra by Stephane Charbonnel … Read the rest of this article
Some 135 years after its discovery, Mars’ largest moon Phobos is seen in fantastic detail – and in 3D – in an image taken by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft as it passed just 100 km by.
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Mars Express HRSC (High Resolution Stereo Camera) image of Phobos taken on 9 January 2011 at a distance of 100 km with a resolution …
On August 19th, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called “Coronation.”
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This composite image, with magnified insets, depicts the first laser test by the Chemistry and Camera, or ChemCam, instrument aboard NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. The composite incorporates a Navigation Camera …
A new NASA video shows the cloud of dust that rose from the surface of the Red Planet after the Curiosity rover’s heat shield hit the Martian terrain during the spacecraft’s descent on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The video was made using a sequence of 25 images taken by the Mars Descent Imager on Curiosity while the rover … Read the rest of this article
The scientists and engineers of NASA’s Curiosity rover mission have selected the first driving destination for their one-ton, six-wheeled mobile Mars laboratory. The target area, named Glenelg, is a natural intersection of three kinds of terrain. The choice was described by Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology during a media teleconference on Aug. 17.
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