deep impact

Communications lost, NASA Deep Impact Mission ended

Last month controllers lost contact with NASA’s Deep Impact mission, several weeks were spent trying to uplink commands to reactivate it’s onboard systems. The last communication with the probe was…

Clusters

Hubble Finds Largest Group of Star Clusters, Clues to Dark Matter

(NASA) – The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the largest known population of globular star clusters, an estimated 160,000, swarming like bees inside the crowded core of the giant grouping of galaxies…

JAXA Epsilon-1 Rocket Launch

JAXA Launches New Rocket Epsilon-1

JAXA launched a new rocket called the Epsilon Launch Vehicle (Epsilon-1) on September 14th 2014 at 14:00jst. This was the second attempt to launch after a failed attempt which was…

The DSCOVR Satellite

Al Gore’s Pet Satellite Lives Again in DSCOVR

Sometimes you just have to laugh at things our government does. I remember hearing about what was jokingly called “GoreSat” back in the day. The actual name of the satellite…

voyager exits helosphere

Voyager 1 enters interstellar space, what does it mean to us?

It is official, NASA has announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 36 years ago, has exited our solar system and entered interstellar space.  KnowledgeOrb has been reporting on the…

SPRINT - A

Japan JAXA set to launch new rocket September 14

After an automatic abort on the first launch attempt of Japans new Epsilon-1 rocket from the Uchinoura Space Center a new launch day of September 14th has been selected. JAXA…

Annular Eclipse of the Sun by Phobos

Photo of Lunar Eclipse…on MARS!

MSL Curiosity Rover takes clearest images ever of Eclipse on Mars. Photos of the Moon passing in front of the Sun on Earth are a dime a dozen. This series…

Image Credit: NASA

Odd Alignment, Butterfly Nebulae rotate perpendicular to galaxy.

An interesting phenomena has been reported in a called “Alignment of the Angular Momentum Vectors of Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Bulge”, appearing in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This…