Note to My Readers: I rarely promote a new consumer product in my blog posts, but as I am a space enthusiast (and this comes to me from a colleague who is deeply involved in the Citizen Space / Space Arts movements), this new game is just too cool and fun-sounding to let pass…and I’m […]
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Comet ISON, the potential “comet of the century”, was recently photographed by NASA’s famous Hubble Space Telescope. The image, taken on April 10, depicts the bright comet making its way into the solar system. At the time, Comet ISON was about the distance from the Sun that Jupiter orbits at, 386 million miles. While that
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The Horsehead Nebula was recently photographed in infrared by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in celebration of the 23rd anniversary of the famous telescope’s launch on April 24, 1990. The Horsehead Nebula is a cloud of thick dust, located just to the south of the bright star Alnitak. It was first ‘discovered’ way back in 1888
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Dr. James E. Hansen has announced his retirement as head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, where he began his career in 1967. He plans to engage more actively in politics around the issue of climate change, continuing his work as the most educated pioneer of scientific climate change research. Dr. Hansen, now 72 years
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule has nearly finished its current stay at the International Space Station, being scheduled to depart around 7:06am on Tuesday, March 26th. The spacecraft successfully completed its most recent space docking at the ISS about three weeks ago, and will now be headed back to the Earth filled up with a variety of
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A sun-grazing comet and a solar eruption have been caught on film together by NASA’s twin STEREO spacecraft. The video shows comet Pan-STARRS and a massive coronal mass ejection (CME), caused by a recent solar flare, together in a striking new video. Comet Pan-STARRS is visible in the film as it’s moving through the inner
The practical possibility of quantum cryptography (QC) — of sending a secure message using “entangled” quantum particles (like photons) — made a big splash back a few years ago, but experiments since then were hampered by a limit to the distance such particles can travel (89 miles, to be exact) due to loss of signal
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One of the precursors to DNA, adenine, and other prebiotic molecules, have been discovered in interstellar space by researchers at the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia. The discovery of these molecules in the cold space between stars indicates that some of the precursors to life as we know it likely
Kepler-37b, an exoplanet the size of the Earth’s moon has been discovered in a planetary system in the constellation of Lyra by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. The planet is the smallest planet yet discovered arouns a Sun-like star. Kepler 37b is located, along with other planets in its star system, around 210 light-years from the
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The Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way (our Galaxy), has been captured in two new “eye-catching” images taken by the Herschel space observatory. Located about two million light years away, the Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), is the closest large galaxy us. It’s estimated to contain a good number more stars than the
