A new planet was discovered orbiting the closest star to the sun, Alpha Centauri. Roughly the same mass as Earth, it is the lightest planet ever found orbiting another star. With surface temperatures of 1,200 degrees, it could not support life; however, it does spark curiosity in further exploration of Alpha Centauri. Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy […]
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New Planet Discovered Much Like Ours
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Mars
Curiosity is the name of the unmanned mission to Mars. A sophisticated robot is exploring the surface.
Space X Launches Historic Mission
Hawthorne, CA – Today, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft to orbit in an exciting start to the mission that will make SpaceX the first commercial company in history to attempt to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station — something only a handful of governments […]
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Space Shuttle Lands In Washington DC
NASA Transfers Shuttle Discovery to National Air and Space Museum Focuses on Bold New Era of Space Exploration WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA transferred space shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum during a ceremony Thursday, April 19, at the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. “Today, while we look back at […]
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Earth
Information: Go here to view an image that explains how composite images like these are created: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6803619953 Responding to public demand, NASA scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular ‘Blue Marble’ released last week (January 25, 2012). www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6760135001 The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 […]
Asteroid
This infrared image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole Nebula, a star-forming hub in the Auriga constellation about 12,000 light-years from Earth. As WISE scanned the sky, capturing this mosaic of stitched-together frames, it happened to catch an asteroid in our solar system passing by. The asteroid, called 1719 Jens, […]
Enough Space To Feel Sick
WASHINGTON, DC — Recent research aboard the space shuttle is giving scientists a better understanding of how infectious disease occurs in space and could someday improve astronaut health and provide novel treatments for people on Earth. “With our space-based research efforts, including the International Space Station, we are not only continuing our human presence in […]
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Super Perigee Moon
The full moon is called a super perigee moon since it is at its closest to Earth in 2011. The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March 1993.