ESA Cheops Satellite to search for Super Earths
ESA (European Space Agency) has announced they will lunch a satellite called Cheops – (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite) in 2017 The mission will study near, bright stars that are already know…
Category Archives: Astronomy
Hot Spot on Saturn is largest ever seen
Earlier this yer a large hot spot appeared on Saturn. This spot was unusually large and hot. It was captured in the video below by Cassini. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft detected…
Cassini 15 years of mission success
The Cassini Spacecraft was launched to Saturn in 2004. Since then it has inspired the world with increadable imagages and science data from the ringed planet and it’s moons. Since…
Incredible Video of Saturn Flyby from Cassini
This awesome movie is from the Cassini Spacecraft. It contains NO CGI or animations of any kind and uses only images capture from Cassini. Inspiring to watch.
NASA Reacts to European Discovery of Earth Size Planet, Embarrassment?
NASA issues a statement about the Alpha Centuri Exoplanet Discovery, are they a little embarrassed? As reported by KnowledgeOrb earlier this week an Earth sized exoplanet was discovered orbiting our…
Video of Meteor over California 10/19/12
Security Camera video of Meteor as it breaks up over San Jose California Meteor video captured breaking up over San Jose’s/ The city skyline by a security camera at the…
Earth Sized Exoplanet Found just 4.4 light years away
Our closest neighbor has an Earth sized planet orbiting it. (Update – 10/20/12 – NASA issues statement about Exoplanet Discovery. See KnowledgeOrb Article – Did NASA miss an obvious place…
WISE Telescope adds color to Jupiter Asteroids
Wide-field Infrared Explorer reveals that the Jovian Trojans asteroids are uniformly dark with a hint of burgundy color, and have matte surfaces that reflect little sunlight. There is a group…
