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…
Alien Worlds Around Alien Stars
New collaboration to study star-planet magnetic interactions. (PHL @ UPR Arecibo – )The Planetary Habitability Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (PHL @ UPR Arecibo) is starting…
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…
NASA Study Mineral Veins on Mars
(NASA) – Scientists now have a better understanding about a site with the most chemically diverse mineral veins NASA’s Curiosity rover has examined on Mars, thanks in part to a…
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…
America’s Cleanest and Dirtiest States
(Source Modernize.com) – America’s energy policy has been the subject of much recent debate: From the Pope’s public advocacy of environmental stewardship to the EPA’s toughened regulations on pollution from petroleum refineries,…
