NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’
(NASA) – In the latest data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100…
New Active Large Sunspot Coming Into View
We could see a continuation of the recent rather heavy solar weather as a new, not yet named sunspot comes into view. There is no current adverse space weather but…
Spectacular SpaceX Falcon Rocket Failure
This failure was unusual in a few ways I will go into that in a bit but I want to be clear that failure of rockets is just part of the…
Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed ‘Nasty’
(NASA, ESA) -Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before in our Milky Way…
You could help name a PLANET! Your vote counts!
The first ever contest allowing members of the public to name a planet has begun. The IAU is organizing a worldwide contest to give popular names to selected exoplanets along…
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,…
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…
