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by Kerry Sheridan MIAMI, United States (AFP) — NASA announced Tuesday the discovery of 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, more than doubling the number of exoplanets found with the Kepler space telescope. “This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth,” said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington. The unmanned Kepler space observatory, which launched in 2009, […]
Footage released by NASA on Sunday (April 17) shows the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis, as seen from an astronaut’s perspective, in a new “ultra high-definition” video resolution. The time-lapse video, shot from the International Space Station, shows the ethereal and hazy light formations passing across the night side of the planet. NASA released the footage to commemorate the launch of NASA TV UHD, a new television service operating in so-called “4K” video resolution. Aurora […]
Reuters – SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to launch on Friday (April 08), carrying a cargo ship that will take an experimental inflatable habitat to the International Space Station (ISS). The privately owned SpaceX, which is owned by Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk, has partnered with NASA to launch resupply missions to the ISS. The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to launch off of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, carrying with it the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module […]
Reuters – A video released by NASA on Monday (April 4) shows a spectacular view of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The video shows city lights and lightning flashes as the ISS circles the Earth. NASA describes the ISS as a “microgravity laboratory”, occupied by six people travelling at a speed of 5 miles per second and orbiting the Earth every ninety minutes. The space station has been occupied continuously […]
Reuters – In the latest image released by NASA on Monday (April 4), ‘a half-lit’ Saturn sits askew as the planet’s moon Dione (698 miles or 1,123 kilometers across) looks on from lower left,’ Nasa said. The picture was taken using the Cassini spacecraft wide angle camera at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers), NASA said. “The terminator, which separates night from day on Saturn, is also askew, owing […]
A NASA animation also shows the path the shadow of the moon took. Total eclipses occur when the moon moves between the earth and the sun, and the three bodies align precisely. As seen from earth, the moon is just broad enough to cover the solar face, creating a breath-taking silver halo in an indigo sky.
NASA uploaded video showing an animation of what a flight over the dwarf planet of Ceres would look like illustrating the different craters that can be seen including “Occator”, “Ikapati”, “Ahuna Mons”, “Urvara”, “Haulani”, “Yalode” and “Dantue” The video was uploaded onto the social media page for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on January 29, 2016. The video was created using images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, a probe that was launched in 2007 to study Ceres […]
NASA released video on January 15 showing a set of ‘magnetic arches’ which were created in December 2015 when a dark solar filament above the sun’s surface became unstable and then erupted. The video was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and then put onto social media. NASA said on social media that a small eruption in the upper right part of the sun’s filament was most likely related to the collapse. NASA also […]
A three-way competition to fly cargo to the International Space Station for NASA has ended, and the U.S. space agency announce the winners on Thursday (January 14). “With that today we are announcing the next chapter in the path of public private partnership with American companies. To ensure that NASA maintains the capability to resupply the space station from the United States through 2024,” Ellen Ochoa, NASA Space Center Director said. “First Orbital ATK of […]
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has taken the best images yet seen of the dwarf planet Ceres, showing the cratered surface of the planet in great detail. Ceres is a miniature planet beyond Mars believed to be left over from the formation of the solar system. The newly-released images were taken on December 10 at the lowest altitude flown yet by Dawn, just 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the planet’s surface, a NASA statement said. The photos, […]
The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition crew 46-47 visited Red Square and the Yuri Gagarin museum at Star City, Russia on Monday (November 23) to cap off their training ahead of their launch next month. The ISS crew of Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA Astronaut Timothy Kopra, and British Astronaut Timothy Peake lay flowers at the graves of Russian cosmonauts and toured the Kremlin. The men said they were excited to participate in the […]
