Space
Impressive CME erupts from the Sun 4/5/15, Expected impact 4/7/15
The Sun erupted with an impressive looking CME as you can see un the set of images above. This event…
NASA’s DAWN Spacecraft spots mysterious lights on CERES
As the Dawn spacecraft approaches the dwarf planet CERES it takes ever clearer images. In this image taken from 29,000 miles…
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…
Hubble finds Smiley Faced Galaxy Cluster
It is not hard to see the smiley face at the center of this Hubble image. In the center of…
Best ever view – animation of Dwarf Planet CERES
(NASA) The Dawn spacecraft has returned the sharpest images ever seen of the dwarf planet Ceres. The images were taken 147,000…
New Horizons in Final Stages of Pluto Encounter
I remember when New Horizons was launched in 2006 NASA made sure the engineers they had working the mission were…
Rosetta makes first ever landing on a Comet
Mission controllers at ESA's mission operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal confirming that the Philae lander had touched…
ESA Rosetta Probe to Land on Comet 11/12/14
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will deploy its harpoon laden comet lander, "Philae." for a landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko…
Hubble Images Stars with Planet Construction Zones
(NASA) - Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have completed the largest and most sensitive visible-light imaging survey of dusty…
Mars Satellite Fleet has Front Row Seat for Comet Viewing
(NASA) - The extensive fleet of science assets, particularly those orbiting and roving Mars, have front row seats to image and…