Hubble and Star Trek to the Final Frontier
Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the TV series “Star Trek” has captured the public’s imagination with the signature phrase, “To boldly go where no one has gone before.” NASA’s…
Category Archives: Astronomy
JWST Mirror fully assembled in the clean room
If you live in the DC-Baltimore area do yourself a favor and go see the fully assembled mirror there. I went to see it a few weeks ago and it…
Hubble Sees a Star ‘Inflating’ a Giant Bubble
(Source NASA) – For the 26th birthday of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are highlighting a Hubble image of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive…
Kepler enters emergency mode
The Kepler spacecraft, which has been responsible for finding the majority of Exoplanets thus far, has entered emergency mode for unknown reasons. During a scheduled contact on Thursday, April 7, mission…
Geminid meteor shower peak Dec 13, NASA hosting tweet chat
Weather permitting, the Geminid meteor shower is anticipated to bring up to 100 meteors per hour, with many visible to the naked eye. This annual event occurs due to small…
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 seen in the early universe. It existed about 400 million…
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 and its scientific directorate. Speaking of the telescope as if…
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 moving features within the dusty disk surrounding the young, nearby…
