Free Blue Planet HD 189733b Wallpaper – Celebrate Discovery.
To honor the first ever detection of color in a planet outside our solar system we made desktop background wallpaper to celebrate. This week Hubble detected the color of a…
Category Archives: Astronomy
Hubble Finds Blue Planet 63 Light Years Away
(Source NASA) – Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away. The planet is HD…
Comet ISON getting closer, putting on 4th of July show
Comet ISON is approaching the sun at 48,000 miles per hour. As it does the tail grows longer and brighter. This November it could reach naked eye visibility and be…
New Indications Voyager 1 is about to Exit Solar System
When Voyager 1 and it’s twin were launched in 1977 no one really expected the Voyager spacecraft would last for over 30 years but in theory they could. In practice these amazing…
Rare alignment allows Hubble to become a planet hunter
(Source Space Telescope Science Institute) – With the probable demise of the Kepler mission due a failure of the components used to point the spacecraft, the reaction wheels, Hubble is helping…
Hubble image shows collision of galaxies causing them to warp
In this interesting image of two galaxies 326 million light years away, a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy is making one of them warp into this shape. The…
SMILE, Cassini to take picture of Earth from Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft which recently celebrated 15 years of success will take a picture of Earth on July 19, 2013. The Earth will appear as a small, pale blue dot between…
JWST Mirror Backplane Support Frame Complete, making progress!
It is hard to believe that there was a time when the James Webb Space Telescope was supposed to launch in the first decade of the new century. The new…
