Watch Live: Comet C/2013 A meets planet Mars on Virtual Telescope
Watch Live Feed from the Virtual Telescope HERE! The Comet and the Planet: comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring meets planet Mars” – 19 Oct. 2014, 16:45 UT, 12:45 EST. Related:…
Mars Satellite Fleet has Front Row Seat for Comet Viewing
(NASA) – The extensive fleet of science assets, particularly those orbiting and roving Mars, have front row seats to image and study a once-in-a-lifetime comet flyby on Sunday, Oct. 19. Comet C/2013…
Hubble Makes Most Detailed Map Yet Of Exoplanet
(NASA, STSci) – A team of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a planet orbiting another star, revealing…
NuSTAR finds Shockingly Bright Star
(NASA) – The NuSTAR Telescope (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) has found a pulsating, dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. This is the brightest pulsar ever recorded….
Mars Rover Drills First Mount Sharp Sample
This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the first sample-collection hole drilled in Mount Sharp, the layered mountain that is the…
Video of Twisting M7.3 Solar Flare
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 3:01 p.m. EDT on Oct. 2, 2014. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun 24-hours a day, captured images of…
India’s Mars Orbiter Takes Impressive Full Globe Image
In the first week since it was inserted into Mars orbit, the newest addition to the small Martian fleet of spacecraft has managed to send home a rather impressive full…
Arctic Sea Ice at Sixth Lowest Recorded Level
As if we needed more bad news about global warming, data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.Arctic shows sea ice coverage…
