The View from 100,000 Feet
I love these student projects that send a camera via a balloon high in the atmosphere to film the view…
Ultimate ISS + Shuttle + Earth Photo Op Coming on May 23 from Soyuz and Paolo Nespoli
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER: Get ready for the ultimate photo op in space - set for the International Space Station…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Small Bangs
[/caption] Most gamma-ray bursts come in two flavors. Firstly, there are long duration bursts which form in dense star-forming regions…
Friday Special: Two Rocket Launches in Less Than Two Hours
It was a busy launch day around the world on Friday. Above, the Ariane 5 rocket carrying the ST-2 and…
New Movie Revives Old Voyager Data of Jupiter’s Clouds
I remember, some time after Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter, of seeing a television show that played a movie of…
Best-Ever Radio Image of Black Hole Jets
[/caption] A new image taken by an array of radio telescopes is the best resolution view ever of particle jets…
Atlantis Rolls to Vehicle Assembly Building with Final Space Shuttle Crew for July 8 Blastoff
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - The end of NASA's shuttle era has begun as pre-launch preparations for the final shuttle…
DARPA Wants Your Ideas for a 100-Year Starship
[/caption] The idea for a 100-year starship has been tossed around recently, and now DARPA the Defense Advanced Research Projects…
Studying Saturn’s Super Storm
[/caption] First seen by amateur astronomers back in December, the powerful seasonal storm that has since bloomed into a planet-wrapping…
GALEX Confirms Nature of Dark Energy
[/caption] From a JPL press release: A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time,…