Crescent Neptune and Triton
The Voyager 2 spacecraft camera captured the gas giant planet Neptune and its cloudy moon Triton together in crescent phase.
Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut b
This Hubble Space Telescope false-color composite image, reveals the orbital motion of the exoplanet Fomalhaut b. Based on these observations, astronomers calculated that the planet is in a 2,000-year-long, highly elliptical orbit. Image © NASA, ESA, and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley and SETI Institute)
Moon’s Saturn
This sharp image Saturn is captured emerging from behind the Moon, giving the illusion that it lies just beyond the Moon’s bright edge. Of course, the Moon is a mere 400 thousand kilometers away, compared to Saturn’s distance of 1.4 billion kilometers. Image © Jens Hackmann
Humans won’t Survive another 1000 years on Earth
71-year-old professorStephen Hawking urges continuing space exploration. He said, humans would survive another 1,000 years “without escaping beyond our fragile planet.”
Sun’s Most Powerful Solar Flare of the Year
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an M6.5 class flare at 3:16 am EDT on April 11, 2013. This image shows a combination of light in wavelengths of 131 and 171 Angstroms. Image © NASA/SDO
The beginning of the universe, for beginners
In this video CERN physicist Tom Whyntie explains ‘how did the universe begin and how is it expanding.’ He shows how cosmologists and particle physicists understand the Big Bang, by replicating the heat, energy, and activity of the first few seconds of our universe. Watch the video…
NASA’s Concept of Asteroid Capture
This how NASA intends to capture an asteroid: NASA’s FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable lunar orbit where astronauts can visit and explore it. Have a look at the video…
International Dark Sky Week
The next few nights celebrate the stars! The International Dark Sky Week (April 5-11, 2013) is a worldwide event against light pollution and going on now!
Io’s Volcanoes are in the Wrong Place
Jupiter‘s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, with hundreds of volcanoes, some erupting lava fountains up to 250 miles high. Image © NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Have scientists found Dark Matter?
Researchers reported that the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) may have detected particles produced by “cosmic glue” the dark matter, which makes up 27% of our universe. Image © NASA
