WERE DOOMED!! Milky Way in Head on Collision!!

  Pack up the car, get into the storm cellar, gather your survival gear were all doomed, the Preppers were right! If your still around in 4 billion years you…

Mars Curiosity High-Resolution Self-Portrait

Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on Sol 84 (Oct. 31, 2012) to take this self portrait. The new rover appears shiny and clean. It will be…

ESA Cheops Satellite to search for Super Earths

ESA (European Space Agency) has announced they will lunch a satellite called  Cheops – (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite) in 2017  The mission will study near, bright stars that are already know…

NASA’S Curiosity Rover Provides Clues to Changes of Martian Atmosphere

NASA –  MSL Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere. Learning what happened to the Martian atmosphere will help scientists…

Stunning Flares, CMEs and coronal loops in gradient solar video

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) helped create this stunning display of sharply defined coronal loops using a gradient filter on imagery of the sun next to fuzzier, cooler areas that…

Excellent view of Apollo landing sites seen from LRO

This Video shows various Apollo era landing sites as seen from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.   This NASA video highlights the new, sharper images of the Apollo 12, 14, and 17…

GOES 13 sees the life and death of hurricane Sandy

This video of satellite imagery from the GOES 13 satellite shows the life of Hurricane Sandy from its development in the Caribbean Sea on Oct. 21, through its track up…

Space Shuttle Atlantis rolls to final home

The Space Shuttle Atlantis rolled slowly to its final destination at Kennedy Space Center.  Shuttle is rolled on the roads at Kennedy to the visitors center on November 2, 2012. The…