Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the TV series “Star Trek” has captured the public’s imagination with the signature phrase,…
Category: 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
