First Planck all-sky carbon monoxide (CO) image
All-sky image of molecular gas and three molecular cloud complexes seen by Planck This all-sky image shows the distribution of carbon monoxide (CO), a molecule used by astronomers to trace…
Space Station Captures Views of U.S., Canada and Northern Lights
Space Station Captures Views of U.S., Canada and Northern Lights 02.10.12 Recent imagery taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station from Jan. 29-Feb. 3 includes several flights over the…
NASA 2013 Budget to be the lowest in four years.
NASA Budget to be proposed Monday On Capitol Hill Feb. 13, President Obama will ask for a $17.7 billion NASA’s 2013 budget sources said Friday. The proposal represents only a…
Hubble Telescope makes over one million observations
This is an artist’s concept of that planet, HAT-P-7b. It is a “hot Jupiter” class planet orbiting a star that is much hotter than our sun. Hubble Space Telescope’smillionth science…
Phobos Grunt Mars Probe killed by a software glitch…maybe
The ambitious Russian Mars probe which was supposed to place a lander on Phobos was doomed by a software glitch say Russian officials. “a programming error which led to a…
Satellites show cold snap in Europe..its COooooooold!
(Source NASA) – Rare snowstorms in Rome and Tripoli and mounting death tolls from exposure were among the consequences of a severe cold snap in Europe in late January and…
Portrait of a Doomed Asteroid
Source NASA – A new study provides a possible explanation of mysterious X-ray flares detected by the Chandra K-ray Observatory for several years in the region of Sagittarius A*, or…
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Finds Old Mars Landers
MRO HiRISE has taken 21,000 images in its life, recent images show older landers. (NASA) The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment…
