Explore the Universe Using New Hubble Public Research Tools
A new astronomy research tool which makes exploring the universe as easy as pointing and clicking has been released by our friends at Hubble. Now you can be your own research…
Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured Mars water signatures in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Scientists…
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…
RIP Leonard Nimoy, Spock.
Like so many of us I grew up with Star Trek and Mr. Spock. I cannot begin to tell you how many people at NASA reference Star Trek and the character Leonard…
Hubble finds dust forming young planet around new star
(NASA) – Over a decade before planets were found orbiting normal stars, the astronomy world was intrigued by the discovery of a vast, edge-on, pancake-flat disk of dust and gas…
Bright Fireball seen over New York, Ohio area
(NASA) – A very bright fireball seen over New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania at 4:45:17 EST this morning, February 17th. It was captured by three NASA cameras. The video came…
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…
Second bite of Martian mountain taken by NASA Rover
(NASA) – The second bite of a Martian mountain taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover hints at long-ago effects of water that was more acidic than any evidenced in the…
