As the Dawn spacecraft approaches the dwarf planet CERES it takes ever clearer images. In this image taken from 29,000 miles…
Month: February 2015
RIP Leonard Nimoy, Spock.
Like so many of us I grew up with Star Trek and Mr. Spock. I cannot begin to tell you how…
Hubble finds dust forming young planet around new star
(NASA) – Over a decade before planets were found orbiting normal stars, the astronomy world was intrigued by the discovery…
Bright Fireball seen over New York, Ohio area
(NASA) – A very bright fireball seen over New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania at 4:45:17 EST this morning, February 17th.…
Visualization of the Protoplanetary Disk Around HL Tau
(Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo) – Here we show a test of a simple code to analyze and visualize…
Second bite of Martian mountain taken by NASA Rover
(NASA) – The second bite of a Martian mountain taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover hints at long-ago effects of…
North American Droughts longer than in past 1000 years
(NASA) Droughts in the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains during the last half of this century could be drier and…
Large filament seen on face of the sun
This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a filament of solar material hovering above the sun’s surface. SDO shows…
