Hubble Captures Rare Jupiter Triple-Moon Conjunction
(NASA) – Hubble Space Telescope captured a rare look at three of Jupiter’s largest moons parading across the banded face of the gas-giant planet: Europa, Callisto, and Io. These so-called…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover Spotted from Mars Orbit
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover can be seen at the “Pahrump Hills” area of Gale Crater in this view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars…
Loopy Galaxy Image from Hubble
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope photo of NGC 7714 presents an especially striking view of the galaxy’s smoke-ring-like structure. The golden loop is made of Sun-like stars that have been…
Unusual large dark area at south pole of sun
In the last few days the sun as developed a rather large dark area at it’s south pole. Interestingly enough there are no sun spots in this area. It is…
NASA Administrator states “Man on Mars in Twenty years”
Last week NASA Administrator Charles Bolden spoke to the Space Business Round table in his first public speech this year. In this speech he stated that since the 1980s, as…
Three new Earth sized planets found, one could have Earth like temperatures
A multinational, multi-institution team of researchers led by UA scientist Ian Crossfield has found a star with three planets, one of which may have temperatures moderate enough for liquid water…
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…
Large Asteroid to Pass Earth January 26th, Grab you Binoculars!
Asteroid, 2004 BL86, will safely pass about three times the distance of Earth to the moon on January 26. The asteroid is expected to be observable to amateur astronomers with…
