(Source NASA) – Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second…
NASA plans to add inflatable module to Space Station
NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to provide a new addition to the International Space Station.…
NASA’S Galex Reveals The Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
NGC 6872 and IC 4970 are two galaxies in the process of merging. IC 4970 is the small galaxy at…
Mars Rover Dusts off Surface for a better look.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS First Use of Mars Rover Curiosity’s Dust Removal Tool This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager…
NASA Kepler hints at over 250 new potentially habitable worlds
NASA Kepler released last month 18,406 planet-like detection events from its last three year mission to search for exoplanets (Kepler…
NASA Prepares for Launch of Next Earth Observation Satellite
(Source NASA) — NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base…
Video from Chandra, Nutron Star Ejecting Jets of Particles
The hero of this Chandra movie is the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that was formed when a massive star…
Solar activity heating up, large flare and more sun spots
Today 1/9/13 at approximately 05:30 UTC a very large solar flare occurred as can be seen in the image above. It does…
