NGC 6872 and IC 4970 are two galaxies in the process of merging. IC 4970 is the small galaxy at…
Month: January 2013
Mars Rover Dusts off Surface for a better look.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS First Use of Mars Rover Curiosity’s Dust Removal Tool This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager…
NASA Kepler hints at over 250 new potentially habitable worlds
NASA Kepler released last month 18,406 planet-like detection events from its last three year mission to search for exoplanets (Kepler…
NASA Prepares for Launch of Next Earth Observation Satellite
(Source NASA) — NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base…
Video from Chandra, Nutron Star Ejecting Jets of Particles
The hero of this Chandra movie is the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that was formed when a massive star…
Solar activity heating up, large flare and more sun spots
Today 1/9/13 at approximately 05:30 UTC a very large solar flare occurred as can be seen in the image above. It does…
India Plans Launch “Mangalyaan” Mission to Mars in November 2013
In an announcement on Friday at the Indian Science Congress (ISC) by J N Goswam. director of the Physical Research Laboratory in…
Solar Flare Ballet 12-31-12
A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on December 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the…
