Weather permitting, the Geminid meteor shower is anticipated to bring up to 100 meteors per hour, with many visible to…
Year: 2015
NASA Space Telescopes See “First Born” Image of the Faintest Galaxy
(NASA) – Astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest object ever…
NASA Study Mineral Veins on Mars
(NASA) – Scientists now have a better understanding about a site with the most chemically diverse mineral veins NASA’s Curiosity…
Fixing JWST (and other large and complex space projects)
JWST is the kind of thing that causes “civilians” to shake their heads and wonder what is wrong with NASA…
America’s Cleanest and Dirtiest States
(Source Modernize.com) – America’s energy policy has been the subject of much recent debate: From the Pope’s public advocacy of environmental stewardship…
Hubble finds structures have never before been seen
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered never-before-seen…
Take an aerial flyby of Pluto
The latest images (as of Sept. 11, 2015) downloaded from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft were stitched together and rendered on…
Global Ocean Found in Saturn’s Moon
A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data…