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  • Perseid Meteor Shower

    Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. The Perseid meteor shower is underway. There’s more to see than meteors, however, when the shower peaks on August 11th through 13th. The brightest planets in the solar system are lining up in the middle of the display. Dialogos of Eide

  • NASA’s Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket

    Source: Hubblesite.org July 3, 2012: Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets from the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen. This image was taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2004 and 2005 and the…

  • NASA’s Fermi Spots ‘Superflares’ in the Crab Nebula

    The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any previously seen from the object. The outburst was first detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on April 12 and lasted six days. The nebula, which is the wreckage of an exploded star whose light reached Earth…

  • SOHO Latest and Space Weather

    EIT 304 A large solar flare yesterday triggered a coronal mass ejection travelling at 1400 km/s that will reach Earth today. An energetic eruption of this level can disrupt satellites, so operation teams at ESA and other organisations are closely monitoring the storm. A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a huge cloud of magnetised plasma…

  • Grail: Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory

    GRAIL Spacecraft Logo NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, spacecraft logo is emblazoned on the first stage of a United Launch Alliance Delta II launch vehicle, now secured in the gantry at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 17B. Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann Mission Overview The GRAIL mission will place two…

  • Snow Angel

    Object Names: S106, Sh2-106, Sharpless 2-106Image Type: Astronomical/Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) December 15, 2011: The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched “wings” of the nebula record the contrasting imprint of heat and motion against the backdrop…

  • Comet LoveJoy

    Comet Lovejoy seen by SOHO “On average, new Kreutz-group comets are discovered every few days by SOHO, but from the ground they are much rarer to see or discover,” says Karl Battams, Naval Research Laboratory, who curates the Sun-grazing comets webpage. See Also: The beginning of the end for comet Lovejoy  One instrument watching for…

  • Kepler-22b

    Images credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech This image is an artist’s conception of planet Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It is the first planet that NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed to orbit in a star’s habitable zone — the region around a star where liquid water, a requirement…

  • Cassiopeia A

    In conclusion, we have a rich panorama of experiments that all make use of neutrinos as probes of exotic phenomena as well as processes which we have to measure better to gain understanding of fundamental physics as well as gather information about the universe. See:Vernon Barger: perspectives on neutrino physics May 22, 2008 This image…

  • Body Self Perception

    Body Self  Perception For me it is sort of like trying to define the space around you and the depth perception one has of that space. It is also about location and whether awareness can pick up on other thing happening within that environment, while circumvented to the virtual reality. This idea is one where I…

  • LRO’s Crater Science Investigations

    If you want to learn more about the history of Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system, craters are a great place to look. Now, thanks to LRO’s LROC instrument, we can take a much closer look at Linné Crater on the moon–a pristine crater that’s great to use to compare with other…