Astronomy

Meteor seen burning up from much of Eastern U.S.

On Friday March 22nd 2013 at about 8:00pm a meteor was observed that was seen from Maine to North Carolina.…

12 years ago

Best map ever of oldest light in the universe from Planck

The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the…

12 years ago

Congress Mulls Asteroid Protection for the Most Important Planet – Earth

On March 19th 2013 the U.S. Congress heard testimony from NASA about the potential of the most important planet in the…

12 years ago

Interesting Pictures of Earth-Moon Eclipsing Sun from SDO

File this under interesting trivia. On March 2, 2013, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) entered its semiannual eclipse season, a…

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Kepler out of Safe Mode, Observatory performing well

Kepler has been performing well and has been making science observations since recovery from safe mode on Jan. 27, 2013. Last…

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Comet Pan-STARRS viewable first part of March

Comet PanSTARRS Images Taken from Washington D.C. area 3/14/13   Original Image not enlarged. This gives you an idea if…

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NASA releases radar images of asteroid DA14 close approach

This 73-frame movie of asteroid 2012 DA14 was generated from data obtained by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on the…

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Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next Door

(Source - NASA) Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)…

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Asteroid DA14 Seen as it departs Earths Orbit

Outbound Near-Earth Asteroid, as Seen from Spain This set of images from the La Sagra Sky Survey, operated by the…

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Russian Meteor aftermath, Cleanup begins, NASA increases size estimate

Experts describe it as a "Small" object. The day after what NASA describes as a "small" meteor exploded in the…

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