Where In The Universe Challenge #114
Here's this week's Where In The Universe Challenge. You know what to do: take a look at this image and…
The Sun is Waking Up: 5 Sunspots Today
Here's something we've not seen in a long while: five sunspots on the Sun at once. Is the Sun finally…
Giant Ultraviolet Rings Found Around Ancient Galaxies
[/caption] Title this 'Zombie Galaxies' or 'Night of the Living Galaxies.' Astronomers have found mysterious, giant loops of ultraviolet light…
Ambitious Survey Spots Stellar Nurseries
[/caption] ESO’s VISTA telescope has begun a new survey of the Magellanic Cloud, and this spectacular image of the Tarantula…
WISE Cryostat is Depleting
[/caption] NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is losing its cool. The spacecraft is running out of the frozen…
Breathtaking Galaxy Amid the Dense Coma Cluster
[/caption] The Coma Cluster is a huge, densely populated cluster, with thousands of galaxies closely bunched together. Amid the bedlam…
Universe Today Welcomes Spacevidcast
You may have noticed a couple of recent posts that included videos from the great folks at Spacevidcast. Universe Today…
Interview with Elon Musk
SpaceX founder, CEO and CTO Elon Musk sat down with the Spacevidcast team for about 20 minutes to talk about…
Former NASA Administrator O’Keefe in Alaska Plane Crash
[/caption] Update: (2:30 pm EDT) Good news: Keith Cowing at NASA Watch reports that according to a family source both…
Historic ISS Spacewalk Unsuccessful, Astronauts To Try Again
Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson battled with a balky ammonia pump on a spacewalk that…