NASA Orbiter Ready for Mercury Duty
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built and operates the MESSENGER spacecraft and manages this Discovery-class mission for NASA. Credit: NASA/JHU-APL In about a month’s time, NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging –...Alien Worlds Abound, According to NASA’s Kepler Mission Scientists
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has made major new strides in the search for extrasolar planets, producing its first candidates for Earth-sized worlds and the first worlds orbiting within what’s considered the habitable zones of stars, astronomers...Book Review: The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System
The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts; $27.95 (Hardcover); 2010. Readers of all backgrounds will love this book. The volume is beautifully produced,...New Tool for Space Weather Forecasting
When it comes to the Sun, one could recall that line sung by Elvis: “A churning urn of burning funk.” But now space weather forecasters have a new tool to issue a one-to-four day advance warning of high speed streams of solar plasma and Earth-directed coronal mass...Book Review: Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe
Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe by editors Carole Stott, Robert Dinwiddie, David Hughes and Giles Sparrow; Dorling Kindersley(DK) Publishing; New York, New York; $40.00 (hard cover); 2010. Space is big…but so is this large format book. This is a...Students, Citizen Astronomers Make Comet Discoveries
With the help of a prolific Polish astronomy student, the joint NASA and European Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission has detected its 2,000th comet, a pursuit the 15-year-old spacecraft accomplished with the help of dozens of citizen observers from around...Lunar Eclipse Thrills
The full lunar eclipse of Monday night and early Tuesday was spectacular, according to eye witness accounts gathered by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and others. “Was spectacular,” said one witness from the Dominican Republic who participated...NASA to Host Live Web Programming to Accompany Spectacular Lunar Eclipse Late Monday/Early Tuesday
North America is in for a celestial treat late Monday and early Tuesday, Dec. 20-21, as the moon enters a full eclipse. The overnight event starts at 12:29 a.m., EST, which is 5:29 UTC. That’s when the Earth’s shadow begins to fall across the lunar...New Software Tool: Online Exploration of the Sun
See the Sun like never before – and no shades needed! A new software tool is available from the European Space Agency (ESA), allowing online lookers to view the entire library of imagery from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SOHO is a project of...Space Talk
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#NASA's latest class of #astronaut candidates has graduated and is now eligible for missions to the Moon, Mars, and the @Space_Station. The agency is also accepting applications for a new class of astronauts.
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