MESSENGER spacecraft to impact Mercury this month
(NASA) – NASA will hold a media and public event at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 16, to share scientific findings and technical accomplishments of the agency’s MErcury Surface,…
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Milky Way as it looked 10 Billion Years ago
(NASA) – In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronomers find that galaxies like our Milky Way underwent a stellar “baby boom,” churning out stars at a…
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 is expected ti impact the Earth on April 7th but…
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 (46,000 kilometers) away there appears to be two bright lights…
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 the dust structure of protoplanetary disks. The impressive image of…
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 this image is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849. You can…
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 miles (237,000 kilometers) from Ceres on Jan. 25, and represent…
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 young so that they would be able to support the…
