ESA Rosetta Comet Lander Wakes up after 31 Month Hibernation
Not communicating with a spacecraft for an extremely long time. Normally regular health checks are made just so you know the spacecraft is ok. This is fine unless you have…
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ESA Comet Lander Mission Rosetta to “Wake up” Monday
For the first time mankind is about to orbit with a comet and land on it, complement of the European Space Agency. Rosetta was launched on March 2, 2004, and after several…
Swift sees activity at the center of Milky Way Galaxy – Video
(NASA) Swift’s seven-year campaign to monitor the center of the Milky Way has doubled the number of images available to scientists of bright X-ray flares occurring at the galaxy’s central…
Great Video of Possible Meteor over Iowa 12/27/13
Last night security cameras caught a very long duration video of what looks like a Meteor burning up. The fireball, a possible meteor, was spotted at about 5:40 p.m. could…
WISE Asteroid/Comet Hunter Mission Extended Reborn as NEOWISE
What do you do with a perfectly functional and succesful spacecraft who’s primary mission has ended? You make good use of the resource and taxpayer’s money and find a new…
Hubble Sees Water Venting from Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Made famous in the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey Jupiter’s Moon Europa may make truth out of the science fiction movie. We have not heard the message from the movie…
Hubble finds water on distant worlds
(Source NASA) – Using the powerful eye of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets. The…
Black hole 70 million times as massive as sun at center of M81 galaxy
When you think about how big our sun is, and then start to think about how massive some of the other objects are in the universe it is mind boggling….
