A collection of images have been collected and shared this week by the Hubble space telescope which depict what’s essentially a cosmic bloodbath. The team responsible for the release of … Continue reading
These are photos of a rocket from NASA’s GREECE mission blasting off into the beautiful Aurora Borealis over Venetie, Alaska earlier this week. I wish I could be that rocket.
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Despite the mammoth budgets assigned to next-generation military aircraft programs, the Department of Defense is always looking for ways to streamline the development process and shave dollars from a combat system’s bottom line. You’d think the DoD would take Boeing’s lead and just build quarter-sized, remote controlled flight test prototypes, like the X-36 agile fighter.
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A rather large asteroid named 2014 DX110 is set to make a “close approach” to the Earth today. Astronomers say the asteroid will indeed pass between the Earth and Moon. While that sounds frighteningly close to use, it’s actually very far away.
NASA says that the asteroid passing between the earth and the moon is a “non event.” The asteroid will be 217,000 miles from the Earth at its closest point. That is 9/10ths of the distance from the Earth to the moon.
The asteroid is 90-feet across and will speed by at 33,000 mph. It will be within that cosmically close 217,000-mile range for a while today. If you want to see it you can log into the Slooh.com website for the Canary island telescope to check it out starting at 3:30pm EST.
The asteroid has a 1 in 10,000,000 chance of hitting the Earth during its fly by, which is still 17.5 times more likely than you winning the Powerball jackpot.
[via USA Today]
If you are the sort that likes to worry about an asteroid hitting the Earth, you have little to fear today. NASA says that the flyby of asteroid 2014 DX110 … Continue reading
Surprise! NASA just issued a last minute asteroid notice: Today, a 100-foot (30 meter) asteroid called 2014 DX110 is going to fly by Earth closer than the Moon. The closest point will be 217,000 miles (about 350,000 kilometers) at around 4PM Eastern Standard Time.
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In the late 1950s, at the dawn of the Space Age, the idea that a wingless vehicle could somehow generate lift just from its body shape was seen as beyond preposterous. But less than a decade later, this early forerunner of the Space Shuttle proved the design far more science than fiction.
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Nope, you’re not looking at stills from the Oscar-nominated film Gravity. They’re all real photos, straight from NASA, and they were all shot in space.
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NASA has deployed a flock of CubeSat miniature satellites from the International Space Station, sharing an image of the NanoRacks hardware being released from the end of a customized robotic … Continue reading
This stunning image shows the launch of the Japanese H-IIA rocket as it carries the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory into space. The rocket thundered into the sky at 1:37 p.m. EST on Thursday February 27th and this image was, unsurprisingly
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