U. S., European Space Observatories Identify Stars with Asteroid Belts
Observations with NASA’s Spitzer space telescope and the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory have detected familiar looking asteroid/cometary belts around Vega, a young star and one of the brightest objects in the northern night sky....Free Downloads! Looking Up at Hubble, James Webb Space Telescopes
Here are two celestial stocking stuffers for the mind and for those still shopping – just in time for the holidays and new year! NASA has issued two new e-books, one on the Hubble Space Telescope, the other on the still-to-be-launched, next-generation space...It’s Alive? Active Volcanoes on Venus: Smoking Gun Evidence Possibly Found
The hellish world we know as Venus may sport active volcanoes. Thanks to six years of observations by the European Space Agency’s Venus Express, the orbiter appears to have recorded large changes in the sulphur dioxide content of within that planet’s atmosphere. And...U.S., European Scientists Lend New Accuracy to Greenland, Antarctic Ice Losses
An international alliance of scientists, using a wide array of data gathered by satellites as well as airborne sensors, confirms a 20 year record of ice melt from Antarctica as well as Greenland, findings that suggest significant losses related to global warming that ...Astronaut Commands Rover Over New Space Internet
Using a developmental version of a space Internet, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams commanded a robot on a mock planetary surface in Germany to move forward and take pictures with a laptop aboard the International Space Station. The Oct. 23 exercise was sponsored...NASA Offers Space Station Viewers Email, Text Alerts
Just a few days ago, the U. S. led International Space Station reached a significant milestone: a dozen years of continuous human occupancy. NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko arrived aboard a Soyuz capsule on Nov....Europe Eyes Robotic Lunar Lander
Europe’s Astrium has briefed the major results of its Lunar Lander Phase B1 study, carried out on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). The study has consolidated the mission concept for automatic landing near the Moon’s south pole in 2019 as well as the...Bird’s-eye View Above Mars! Valles Marineris
The spectacular Valles Marineris canyon system on the Red Planet dwarfs in size the U.S. Grand Canyon. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft has been taking image strips of the valley system since 2004. A mosaic view of the geological wonder – using 20...Landing on Titan: A Bouncing Re-play!
Back in January 2005, the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe parachuted onto Saturn’s moon, Titan. Thanks to a detailed analysis over seven years later, researchers have pulled together what happened to the probe at touchdown. The analysis is providing clues as to...Space Talk
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