Although the space agency has suffered from insufficient funding for its task, NASA has pressed ahead in the long process of finding near-Earth objects, which are more commonly referred to as NEOs. By doing so, the agency is able to anticipate whether a particular space rock is a future threat to our planet, something that
The Sun actually gets hotter as you travel away from its surface, jumping from 6,000 K there to over 1,000,000 K a few million kilometers above in the corona. This effect contributes to solar flares that can damage earthbound electronics and we have no idea how it does this. But NASA is about to find out thanks to the IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) spacecraft that just launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base today.
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While it’s the International Space Station that tends to take all the glory, there is in fact another: China’s Tiangong-1, which went into low-Earth orbit in 2011. In this amazing pictures, you can see it silhouetted against the Sun.
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Earlier this month we heard about Google’s Project Loon, which was touched on in a leak back in May. Under the project, the company plans to offer inexpensive Internet in areas where connectivity is poor or unavailable, doing so at a reasonable rate. While its plans are certainly ambitious, another company has already taken the
Hubble has produced some spectacular images of space, but few of them are as interesting as the one it has recently taken of two galaxies colliding into each other, known amongst enthusiasts as “The Penguin.” The galaxies get their name from their conjoined, uncanny resemblance to a penguin or some type of bird standing upright,
The past two days have been full of what’s called “Supermoon” sightings due to the fact that the Earth has been as close to our moon as it’s going to be all year long. While the past two days have brought on a flood of “oh my goodness that’s the biggest moon I’ve ever seen”
This amazing image shows how messy space can be, as two galaxies collide and deform each other— creating new stars as gas and dust are pushed and pulled in all directions.
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It’s kind of hard to scope things out on Venus because the surface probes we send get obliterated pretty quickly by the heat. Pictures of Venus’ surface do exist, though, and this one shows "large circular domes" that look pretty darn hot. The domes are thought to be magma erupting through vents, in a process that happens on Earth too, called volcanism. Get it? Volcanoes? Get it? Okay. Moving on.
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If there’s ever a night to let the moon hit your eye like a big pizza pie, it’s amore tonight. If you go gaze into the abyss over head this evening, you’ll be treated to a supermoon,
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In case you missed the supermoon of 2011 and 2012, this weekend you’ll have the chance to see the moon at its closet point to the Earth, which will peak on Sunday. Such a phenomenon makes the moon appear huge, and will be the largest of 2013. The supermoon has long been a source of
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