tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62272009840889264972024-03-25T07:06:01.420-07:00NASA Space Information,Shuttle Station,Climate Change,Earth Moon Mars,Solar System UniversUpdated News from NASA Space Information,Shuttle Station,Earth Moon Mars,Global Climate Change,Solar System, Universe,AeronaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.comBlogger1840125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-8205525647547804252014-05-05T22:49:00.001-07:002014-05-05T22:51:49.488-07:00Orange Sun Sparking
Our Sun has become quite a busy place. Taken only two weeks ago, the Sun was captured sporting numerous tumultuous regions including active sunspot regions AR 2036 near the image top and AR 2036 near the center. Only four years ago the Sun was emerging from an unusually quiet Solar Minimum that had lasted for years. The above image Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-11985221451457376972014-05-05T03:30:00.000-07:002014-05-05T22:54:52.999-07:00Galaxy Cluster Magnifies Distant Supernova
How do you calibrate a huge gravitational lens? In this case the lens is the galaxy cluster Abell 383, a massive conglomeration of galaxies, hot gas, and dark matter that lies about 2.5 billion light years away (redshift z=0.187). What needs calibrating is the mass of the cluster, in particular the amount and distribution of dark matter. A new calibration Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-34377349032901152382014-05-04T00:00:00.000-07:002014-05-05T22:58:17.551-07:00A Scorpius Sky Spectacular
If Scorpius looked this good to the unaided eye, humans might remember it better. Scorpius more typically appears as a few bright stars in a well-known but rarely pointed out zodiacal constellation. To get a spectacular image like this, though, one needs a good camera, color filters, and a digital image processor. To bring out detail, the above Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-48759406049884842952013-09-26T22:30:00.001-07:002013-09-26T22:30:35.112-07:00Unbelievable Discount Offers On Magazines From Magzter Digital Magazine StoreMagzter invites you to be a part of Digital Magazine Reading Week Offer between 24th to 30th September, 2013
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We are looking to make this a huge Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-73761803963591482562012-04-16T02:29:00.001-07:002012-04-16T02:29:20.798-07:00The Eagle Nebula from Kitt Peak
From afar, the whole thing looks like an
Eagle.
A closer look at the
Eagle Nebula,
however, shows the
bright
region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of
dust.
Through this window, a brightly-lit
workshop appears
where a whole open cluster
of stars is being formed.
In this cavity
tall pillars and
round globules of dark dust and cold
molecular gas
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-69794125849001578812012-04-15T02:22:00.000-07:002012-04-16T02:26:04.163-07:00Fata Morgana: A Possibly Titanic Mirage
Did this mirage help sink the Titanic?
The optical phenomenon called
Fata Morgana can make
strange shapes or a
false wall of water appear above a watery horizon.
When conditions are right, light reflecting off of cold water will be
bent by an unusual layer of warm air above to arrive at the observer from several different angles.
A conceptually comparable
mirage can make a
settingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-83086373529418422132012-04-14T02:44:00.000-07:002012-04-16T02:49:47.236-07:00Six Moons of Saturn
How many moons does Saturn have?
So far 62 have
been discovered, the smallest only a fraction
of a kilometer across.
Six of its largest satellites can be seen here, though, in a sharp
Saturnian family portrait
taken on March 9.
Larger than Earth's Moon and even slightly larger than Mercury,
Titan
has a diameter of 5,150 kilometers and starts the line-up
at the lower left.
Continuing to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-82993536250974278952012-04-13T02:52:00.000-07:002012-04-16T02:52:47.157-07:00A Dust Devil of Mars
It was late in the northern martian spring
when the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
spied
this local denizen.
Tracking south and east (down and right)
across the flat, dust-covered
Amazonis Planitia
the core of the
whirling dust devil is about 30 meters in diameter.
Lofting dust into the thin
martian
atmosphere, its plume
reaches more than 800 meters above the surface.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-50578827540942228682012-04-12T03:07:00.000-07:002012-04-16T03:11:15.652-07:00Yuri's Planet
On another April 12th,
in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin
became the first human
to see planet Earth from space.
Commenting on his
view from orbit
he reported, "The sky is very dark; the Earth is bluish.
Everything is seen very clearly".
To celebrate, consider this recent image from the orbiting
International Space Station.
A stunning view of the planet at night
from an Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-5593848259882083822012-04-11T03:12:00.000-07:002012-04-16T03:22:40.833-07:00Geostationary Satellites Beyond the Alps
Why don't those stars move?
Stars in the sky will typically appear to rise and
set as the Earth turns.
Those far to the north or south will appear to
circle the pole.
If you look closely at the
above time-lapse movie,
however, there are points of light that appear
stationary.
These objects are not stars but
human-launched robotic spacecraft that remain fixed high above the
Earth's Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-74913566806556895582012-04-10T03:30:00.000-07:002012-04-16T03:32:30.316-07:00A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree
What do the following things have in common: a cone, the fur of a fox, and a Christmas tree?
Answer: they all occur in the constellation of the unicorn
(Monoceros).
Pictured above as a star forming region
cataloged as NGC 2264, the complex jumble of
cosmic gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant and
mixes reddish emission nebulae
excited by energetic light from
newborn stars Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-25654034574472237852012-04-09T03:38:00.000-07:002012-04-16T03:39:27.342-07:00Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster M53
If our Sun were part of M53, the
night sky would glow like a jewel box of bright stars.
M53, also known as NGC 5024, is one of about 250
globular clusters that survive in our Galaxy.
Most of the stars in
M53
are older and redder than our Sun, but some enigmatic stars appear to be bluer and younger.
These young
stars might contradict the hypothesis that all the stars in
M53 formed at Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-81178573571885124302012-04-08T03:40:00.000-07:002012-04-16T03:42:22.139-07:00Io: Moon Over Jupiter
How big is Jupiter's moon Io?
The most volcanic body in the Solar System,
Io (usually pronounced "EYE-oh") is
3,600 kilometers in diameter, about the size of
planet Earth's single large
natural satellite.
Gliding
past Jupiter
at the turn of the millennium, the Cassini spacecraft captured this
awe
inspiring view of active Io
with the
largest gas giant as a backdrop,
offering a stunning Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-54523599191084341942011-12-23T03:23:00.000-08:002011-12-23T03:23:13.239-08:00Shell Galaxy NGC 7600
Similar in size to the Milky Way,
elliptical galaxy NGC 7600 is about 150 thousand light-years distant.
In
this deep image, spanning about 1/2 degree on
the sky
toward the constellation Aquarius, NGC 7600 sports a remarkable
outer halo of nested shells and broad circumgalactic structures.
The tantalizing features can be explained by
the accretion of
dark matter and stars on
a cosmic Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-17217479259677729152011-12-22T00:54:00.000-08:002011-12-22T00:54:55.115-08:00Through a Sun Tunnel
Today the Sun stands still at 05:30 UT.
Halting its steady march toward southern declinations and
begining its annual journey north, the event is known as
a solstice.
In the northern hemisphere
December's solstice marks
the astronomical start of winter.
And if you're in
the Great Basin Desert outside of
Lucin, Utah, USA, near solstice dates you can watch the Sun rise
and set through
Sun Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-35291833775262731802011-12-21T00:47:00.000-08:002011-12-21T00:47:28.229-08:00A Horseshoe Einstein Ring from Hubble
What's large and blue and can wrap itself around an entire galaxy?
A gravitational lens mirage.
Pictured above,
the gravity of a luminous red galaxy
(LRG) has
gravitationally distorted
the light from a much more distant blue galaxy.
More typically, such light bending results in
two discernible images of the distant galaxy,
but here the
lens alignment
is so precise that the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-16784895857792144312011-12-20T00:30:00.000-08:002011-12-20T01:58:16.051-08:00NGC 253: The Sculptor Galaxy
NGC 253 is not only one of the brightest
spiral galaxies visible,
it is also one of the
dustiest.
Discovered in 1783 by Caroline Herschel in the constellation of Sculptor,
NGC 253 lies only about ten million light-years distant.
NGC 253 is the largest member of the
Sculptor Group of Galaxies, the nearest group to our own
Local Group of Galaxies.
The dense dark
dust
accompanies a highAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-66439463250605088702011-12-19T01:56:00.000-08:002011-12-20T01:56:26.715-08:00A Geminid Meteor Over Iran
Some beautiful things begin as grains of sand.
Locked in an oyster, a granule grows into an iridescent
pearl,
lustrous and lovely to behold.
While hurtling
through the atmosphere at 35 kilometers per second, a generous cosmic
sand grain becomes an awe-inspiring meteor, its transient
beauty displayed for any who care to watch.
This years
Geminid meteor shower peaked last week with Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-48650579290865999452011-12-18T01:53:00.000-08:002011-12-20T01:53:29.412-08:00Hints of Higgs from the Large Hadron Collider
Why do objects have mass?
To help find out,
Europe's
CERN has built the
Large Hadron Collider
(LHC), the most powerful
particle accelerator
yet created by
humans.
Since 2008, the
LHC has smashed protons into each other with unprecedented impact speeds.
The LHC is exploring the leading explanation that mass arises from
ordinary particles slogging through an otherwise Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-48836783992526398632011-12-17T01:51:00.000-08:002011-12-20T01:51:41.094-08:00Comet Lovejoy: Sungrazing Survivor
Like most other sungrazing comets, Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3)
was not expected to survive its
close encounter with the Sun.
But it did.
This image
from a coronograph
onboard the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft identifies the still
inbound
remnants of the tail, with the brilliant head or coma
emerging from
the solar glare on December 16.
The Sun's position, behind an occulting disk to block theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-47466880189607880282011-12-16T02:29:00.000-08:002011-12-16T02:29:57.787-08:00Red Moon RisingThis surreal, wintry scene is a composite picture recorded on December 10 as the Moonrose behind the Zagros Mountains of Iran. A total lunar eclipse was already in progress. The image combines nearly 500 successive frames taken over 1.5 hours beginning in twilight as the eclipsed Moon steadily climbed above the rugged landscape. The reddened lunar disk and deep blue twilight make for a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-34300604497306233822011-12-15T02:22:00.000-08:002011-12-16T02:27:54.914-08:00The Umbra of EarthThe dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. For example, last Saturday the Full Moon slid across the southern half of Earth's umbral shadow, entertaining moonwatchers around much of the planet. In the total phase of the eclipse, the Moon was completely within the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-5943028574978807362011-12-14T21:50:00.000-08:002011-12-14T20:29:44.631-08:00A Lunar Eclipse Over an Indian Peace PagodaOur Moon turned red last week. The reason was that during December 10, a total lunar eclipse occurred. The above digitally superimposed image mosaic captured the Moon many times during the eclipse, from before the Moon entered Earth's shadow until after the Moon exited. The image sequence was recorded over a Shanti Stupa Peace Pagota near the center of New Delhi, India, where the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-4898899650747938662011-12-13T21:29:00.000-08:002011-12-13T19:53:54.092-08:00In the Vicinity of the Cone NebulaStrange shapes and textures can be found in neighborhood of the Cone Nebula. The unusual shapes originate from fine interstellar dust reacting in complex ways with the energetic light and hot gas being expelled by the young stars. The brightest star on the right of the above picture is S Mon, while the region just below it has been nicknamed the Fox Fur Nebula for its color and structure. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227200984088926497.post-20156968646923525162011-12-12T00:00:00.000-08:002011-12-12T00:00:09.591-08:00An Unusual Vein of Deposited Rock on MarsWhat could create this unusual vein of rock on Mars? A leading hypothesis is that this thin rock layer dubbed "Homestake" was deposited by a running liquid -- like most mineral veins are here on Earth. And the running liquid of choice is water. Therefore, this mineral streak -- rich in calcium and sulfur -- is the latest in the growing body of evidence that part of Mars had a watery past. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837916047052304785noreply@blogger.com0