Mar’s MAVEN Mission to Launch Nov 18th
What happened to the Atmosphere on Mars? Where did the water go? These are the questions Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) is trying to answer. This is the first mission devoted…
GOCE Satellite uncontrolled re-entry Update
UPDATE 11/11/13 – Update from ESA – GOCE has re-entered. The atmospheric interface at ~80 km altitude occurred, following a USSTRATCOM confirmation, at the latest, at 01:16 CET (00:16 UTC)…
Hubble Sees Asteroid Spout Six Comet-like Tails
(Source NASA) – It’s not often that astronomers stumble across a celestial interloper that they can only describe as “weird and freakish.” Hubble researchers say they were “literally dumbfounded” when…
How to get a job at NASA – Series Part 4 – Internships
One of the best ways to get a job at NASA is to first work as an intern. There are many internships both working for NASA itself and for contractors…
Hubble’s New Image of Our Nearest Neighbor Proxima Centauri
Shining brightly in this Hubble Space Telescope image is our closest stellar neighbor: Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri lies in the constellation of Centaurus (the Centaur), just over four light-years from…
GOES-R main instrument cleared for installation
(Source – NOAA) A key instrument that will fly on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R (GOES-R) spacecraft, NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary satellites, is cleared for installation on the…
Great Amateur Image of Sun During X Class Events
This image was captured on October 26th by Astronomer Paul Stewart Sun in Hydrogen Alpha and White Light Sunspot AR1882 (lower left) is being very active, releasing a X1 and…
Comet ISON Flight Path Animation
As you can see from this animation we are going to get an excellent view of comet ISON or the “Comet of the Century” as some have called it. Many…
