“I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.” “There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.” — Pink Floyd NASA has taken a picture of the far side of the moon: The far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, is seen as it crosses […]
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NASA Discovers Cousin to Earth — Kepler 452b
NASA — NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another “Earth.” The newly discovered Kepler-452b is the smallest planet to date discovered orbiting […]
Earth
It’s been many years since NASA has taken a picture of Earth. Now, they released the Blue Marble image captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s #DSCOVR spacecraft. This is the first photo of the entire Earth taken in 43 years:
Past Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned images of Pluto from over three billion miles away. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto, about 7,750 miles above the surface. “My dad would be thrilled with New Horizons,” said Clyde Tombaugh’s daughter Annette Tombaugh, of Las Cruces, New Mexico. […]
1,000th Exoplanet Discovery
NASA reports finding another Earth-like planet: NASA Kepler’s Hall of Fame: Of the more than 1,000 verified planets found by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, eight are less than twice Earth-size and in their stars’ habitable zone. All eight orbit stars cooler and smaller than our sun. The search continues for Earth-size habitable zone worlds around […]
3D Printer Makes Wrench in Space
OUTER SPACE — What happens if you are on the Space Station and you need a wrench? Just have NASA e-mail it up and print it on the 3D printer. It is the first time that hardware was e-mailed to space. Mike Chen, founder of Made In Space (the company behind the 3-D printer) said, […]
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Landing On A Comet
The European Space Agency has successfully landed a spaceship on a comet. The Rosetta mission started 10 years ago when Philae was launched into space. An ESA spokesman said, “We are the first to have done that, and that will stay forever.”
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European Extremely Large Telescope
Astronomers are building a new telescope called the “European Extremely Large Telescope”. Construction has started in Chile where they have blown the top off of the Cerro Armazones mountain. The telescope will be the largest in the world and consisting of 789 hexagonal mirrors.
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Planet Kepler in Habitable Zone
EARTH — NASA has discovered the first habitable planet: Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets […]
Big Bang Heard
Scientists in the USA believe they have discovered echoes from the Big Bang! A specialized telescope (called Bicep — Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) that is located at the South Pole has detected “primordial gravitational waves.” “In physics, gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of space/time that propagate as a wave, traveling outward […]
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