Astronomy
Carnival Of Space #364
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Joe Latrell at his Photos To Space blog. Click here to read Carnival…
How Do Gravitational Slingshots Work?
Have you ever heard that spacecraft can speed themselves up by performing gravitational slingshot maneuvers? What's involved to get yourself…
Comet Jacques Makes a ‘Questionable’ Appearance
What an awesome photo! Italian amateur astronomer Rolando Ligustri nailed it earlier today using a remote telescope in New Mexico…
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James Webb Space Telescope’s Giant Sunshield Test Unit Unfurled First Time
GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD - The huge Sunshield test unit for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been…
NASA Preps for Nail-biting Comet Flyby of Mars
As Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring inches closer to the Red Planet, NASA's taking steps to protect its fleet of orbiting…
Having Fun with the Equation of Time
If you’re like us, you might’ve looked at a globe of the Earth in elementary school long before the days…
Video: Warp Into A Star Nursery 3,000 Light Years Away
Zoom! This video brings you up close to a region where a bunch of stars are being born. This new…
Mapping Dark Matter 4.5 Billion Light-years Away
The Milky Way measures 100 to 120 thousand light-years across, a distance that defies imagination. But clusters of galaxies, which…
Neck Of Rosetta’s ‘Rubby Duckie’ Comet Shows A Bright Ring
Rosetta's "rubber duckie" comet appears to be wearing a collar! New images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from the spacecraft, which is…
‘Weak’ New Meteor Shower Due To Fragile Comet Dust
While the Camelopardalid shower only produced a few meteors, the lack of flashy disintegrations showed astronomers something new, a new…